Art and Culture

A 3,500-year-old clay tablet purchased by the Hobby Lobby arts and crafts chain for $1.6 million has been forfeited to the United States.

“Anything that looks good and feels good” is art, Damien Hirst told CNBC on Wednesday. “It doesn’t have to be in a gallery.”

With the Tokyo 2020 Olympics around the corner “California Live” takes a deep dive into Japanese culture at Tortoise General Store. Started by a husband and wife that moved from Japan, the store celebrates Japanese artisans guided with a philosophy of leading slow and steady lives.

AMC Networks has settled a lengthy legal dispute with filmmaker Frank Darabont and the Creative Artists Agency for $200 million over “The Walking Dead.”

“Hamilton” received a $30 million grant from the government’s program for shuttered businesses and could receive up to $20 million more.

The Small Business Administration’s Shuttered Venue Operators Grant program got off to a glitchy start, and applicants say there continue to be problems.

Jin Xing’s private dance company was able to resume national touring last year, the celebrity told Tania Bryer as part of the CNBC Evolve Global Summit.

British computer scientist and inventor Tim Berners-Lee is auctioning the original code for the World Wide Web as a nonfungible token.

Sales of digital collectibles known as non-fungible tokens have fallen dramatically in recent weeks.

The sports card is the first to show 19-year-old Babe Ruth as a minor league pitcher and available via a sports collectible IPO.

With two major events in the same weekend, the international arts scene signaled it has no intention of letting yet another year get canceled by Covid.  

It is a great time to use growing power to get paid directly as a creator and cut out the internet gatekeepers, says the CEO of Patreon.

Ten years after Mark Haines passed away, CNBC honored him by auctioning an NFT of his historic market call at the depths of the Great Recession. 

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said Wednesday that Broadway theaters will reopen just after Labor Day at full capacity.

Gary Vaynerchuk is launching an NFT art collection, “VeeFriends,” a series of character drawings for purchase using the ethereum blockchain cryptocurrency.

Sotheby’s is partnering with Coinbase to accept bitcoin and ether as payment options in an upcoming auction of a Banksy painting.

Beeple, real name Mike Winkelmann, told CNBC he believes nonfungible tokens will eventually be “looked at as a true alternate asset class.”

The expected value of the Jean-Michel Basquiat painting is a sign that the art market is flush with cash, and lofty prices are enticing sellers.

NFTs, or nonfungible tokens, are a type of digital asset designed to represent ownership of rare virtual items.

A video clip created by digital artist Beeple was flipped for a record $6.6 million last week.