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NFTs Get the Last Word at Ashmolean’s ‘Money Talks’ Exhibition

Cryptocurrency and NFTs get the last word in a new art exhibition at Oxford’s Ashmolean—Britain's first public museum, founded in the 1670s. The museum’s ‘Money Talks: Art, Society and Power’ exhibition is about “using art as a lens for the social history of money, but also how art and money come together in different ways,” its curator Dr. Shailendra Bhandare explained. It’s fitting, then, that the exhibition closes with examples of how digital assets are reframing the intersection of art and m...