Artory Looks Back at 2021

We all expected 2021 to be a better year than the last, and though we continue to adjust to new ways of working and spending time together, the Artory team is grateful to reflect on a year of progress and innovation.

Artory Partners With Algorand

Artory leverages Algorand as a blockchain infrastructure for its art registry and tokenization platform. Algorand is an innovative technology that overcomes barriers created by other blockchains. Learn more about Artory and Algorand in this article.

Highlighting Artory Partners

By registering on Artory, Partners gain the unprecedented ability to leverage the blockchain for their art businesses. In this article, we highlight a selection of galleries that we are proud to include in our ever-growing partner network.

A Unique Use Case for Blockchain: Preserving Our Stories

This week, Artory finalized their collaboration with DYKWTCA, a unique project to secure artworks’ information and the stories that inspired them on the blockchain. As the project comes to an end, Artory asks: how can blockchain be used to preserve our shared history?

Artory Partners With ArtDiscovery

Artory is happy to announce our partnership with ArtDiscovery. The new partnership aims to bring a new level of security and trust to scientific analysis within the art market.

Artory Featured in Barron’s

Artory was featured in the recent article “Restarting the Art Market“, published by Barron’s. In the article, Abby Schutz describes the unique aspects of the art market and how they’ve been affected by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Artory Collaborates with Art Basel and UBS Art Market Report

NEW YORK – For its fourth edition, the annual Art Basel and UBS Global Art Market Report has once again partnered with Artory to give the art world its first comprehensive look at the art market’s performance over the past year.

Artory Featured in the 2020 TEFAF Report to Discuss Blockchain and Art Patronage

Nanne Dekking, founder and CEO of Artory, describes the potential of provenance and transaction tracking using blockchain for art.

Artory CEO, Nanne Dekking Guest Curates for ArtMoney

Artory was happy to be featured in Art Money’s Viewing Room. This week Nanne Dekking, our Founder and CEO, was chosen as a guest curator to highlight a selection of artworks and artists from just a few of the thousands of galleries represented on ArtMoney. Both Artory and Art Money are also members of Art Innovators Alliance.

Art Market Guru Interviews Artory Founder and CEO, Nanne Dekking 

Artory was happy to have our Founder and CEO, Nanne Dekking, featured in Art Market Guru to discuss how our platform will become an invaluable asset for the art market.

Artory Partners with Contemporary and Digital Art Fair (CADAF) and Vastari in Miami

In November, we announced the transformative collaboration between Artory and Winston Art Group. Now we are excited to communicate yet another partnership with the Contemporary and Digital Art Fair (CADAF) that offered blockchain-secured certificates of authenticity to collectors who bought at CADAF Miami, free of charge. This partnership helps to create confidence for new collectors in the growing digital art market.

Artory and Winston Art Group Announce Unprecedented Partnership

Artory and Winston Art Group are pleased to announce a transformative collaboration that will introduce a new generation of art buyers to established experts at no cost.

Artory Celebrates the Registration of Cryptographically Signed Artworks at Faurschou Foundation New York

Artory, the art world’s leading blockchain-secured digital art Registry, grows its unprecedented verification system by enabling artists to cryptographically sign their artworks as proof of authenticity, creating a permanent record of their artwork for future generations.

The Deloitte Art & Finance Report 2019 Features Artory

The Deloitte Art & Finance Report 2019 Features Artory as a Main Contributor to Discuss Blockchain and the Art Market

Artory Announces Partnerships in Digital Art

Artory, the art world’s leading blockchain-secured digital art registry, announced today that it will partner with digital art galleries and leaders in pioneering digital art, as well as with the largest fair for digital art, the Contemporary and Digital Art Fair (CADAF), to register art sales on the blockchain.

Where Art and Technology Intersect: The Contemporary and Digital Art Fair

In the midst of May auction previews and art fairs, Artory was thrilled to sponsor and attend the Contemporary And Digital Art Fair (CADAF), the first fair of its kind, at Lightbox NYC.

The Future of Blockchain in Art

Disruptor Daily featured Nanne Dekking as one of six experts in the art and blockchain space to discuss what the future holds.

Artory Raises $7.3M in Series A Funding

Artory, the art world’s leading blockchain-secured digital art Registry, announced that it successfully raised $7.3 million in its Series A funding round. The Series A funding solidifies Artory as the industry leader in its field and marks a watershed moment for technology companies at the intersection of art and blockchain reaching the next level in terms of long-term growth potential and sustained development.

Observer’s Q&A with Nanne Dekking

On the heels of being named in Observer’s Arts Power 50: The Changemakers Shaping the Art World in 2019, Nanne Dekking speaks to Sissi Cao about his career trajectory in the art world, the reception of Artory within the art world, the shifts in the art market, and how Artory is pushing impartiality and transparency.

Artory Partners with Arius Technology

Artory has partnered with Arius Technology, a Vancouver-based data acquisition and analysis platform specializing in high-resolution 3D scans of museum paintings. For the first time ever, by adding 3D scan data about the physical conditions of artworks, alongside transaction data and typical provenance records, to the blockchain, the partners will collaborate to improve market transparency.

Artory Registers the First Work by David Hockney on Blockchain

Realizing more than £37 million at auction, David Hockney’s Henry Geldzahler and Christopher Scott (1969) is the first work by the artist to be registered on the blockchain in the Artory Registry. The work comes from Hockney’s Double Portraits series of monumental paintings and has been likened to Italian quattrocento Annunciation triptychs.

Artory Acquires Leading Art Database, Auction Club

Artory recently announced its acquisition of the leading art price database, Auction Club. Auction Club has been used for two years as one of the main data providers in the Art Basel + UBS report written by Dr. Clare McAndrews from Art Economics. According to The Art Newspaper, Margaret Carrigan sees the value of the acquisition of Auction Club by Artory, especially in how it will make 4,000 international auction house sale records public.

Artory Positioned as a Leader in Blockchain Technology

Following the $318M auction of the Barney A. Ebsworth Collection at Christie’s New York in November 2018, Artory is positioned as the leading solution to bring trust to the art market, according to this article in AlleyWatch.

Is Blockchain The Right Solution For Auction Houses?

Today, Elena Zavelev, the Founder & CEO of New Art Academy, and a contributor at Forbes.com, published her take on whether blockchain will become a solution for auction houses and the art market in the future.

The Hammer Falls on the First Major Blockchain-Based Auction

Last week, Christie’s broke several world auction records during the Evening and Day Sales of the Ebsworth Collection. These records include the $91M sale of “Chop Suey” by Edward Hopper, and a total auction total of over $317M.

The Artory Registry is Live!

We are thrilled to announce that the Artory Registry is now live! Register your art and objects for free or search our free Price Database of millions of artworks.

Is Art Blockchain’s Killer App?

In his recent Artnome article, “Is Art Blockchain’s Killer App?,” Jason Bailey interviewed several innovators in the art space, including Artory Founder & CEO, Nanne Dekking to bring attention to the “strongest signs of momentum in the adoption of blockchain for the world of art.”

Blockchain: Hot stuff or hot air?

In this article in The Art Newspaper, Georgina Adam looks at the players in the art market who are using blockchain technology, including Artory.

Thank you, Christie’s and Vastari!

A thank you note from Nanne Dekking, Artory’s Founder and CEO

Blockchain: The Holy Grail?

Nanne Dekking presents at The Frick Museum on the Use of Immutable Records for Provenance and Art Historical Data

Artory Founder and CEO, Nanne Dekking, joins panel at Talking Galleries

Artory Founder & CEO, Nanne Dekking, in The Financial Times

2018 is off to a great start with Artory’s inclusion in an article in The Financial Times.