Beeple’s robotic dogs turn heads at Art Basel

This week, at Art Basel in Miami, Beeple revealed a new installation called “Regular Animals.” The installation sends semi-autonomous robotic humanoids wearing silicone masks of figures like Andy Warhol, Pablo Picasso, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, and Mark Zuckerberg wandering through the fair. 

These robots don’t stand still: they snap photos of visitors and then print (out of their rear ends) small artworks in the style of whose mask they wear. Some prints are tied to NFTs, allowing buyers to own verified digital versions of the physical prints.

As described by Whitewall, the piece invites visitors to think about how technology, identity, and memory intersect. By giving robots “agency,” Beeple encourages viewers to reflect on who is shaping what we see now. 

Ana Maria Caballero presents ‘In Record Time’ at Art Basel Miami

Ana María Caballero's new project, In Record Time, comes to Art Basel this week. The project, commissioned by Art Basel and OpenSea, commemorates the launch of Zero 10, the fair’s new digital sector. At the heart of the collection is Training Data, a poem in which Caballero situates a historic moment within her own story.

Caballero invited various artists to hand-annotate Training Data, engaging in an act of analog generativity—the notion that readers and writers construct each other in an endlessly procreative exchange. The coexistence of analog marginalia and digital presentation reflects how memory is presently archived, through experience and code.

Listen to Ana read the poem live here: https://vimeo.com/1142568783.

Decentraland Music Festival brings stream-native performances to its virtual world

A virtual mosh pit is forming again inside Decentraland, where the 2025 Decentraland Music Festival is underway with four days of browser-based concerts, digital fashion drops, and creator-built stages running Dec. 3 to 6.

This year’s performers include livestream percussion creator OfficeDrummer, along with Vlouue, electronic producer Sarah Coponat, and others.

Attendees can roam the virtual grounds collecting falling digital “Wearables,” snag gifts in themed plazas, and explore more than a dozen custom worlds shaped by online communities.

Brand-created “Party Pads” also dot the virtual grounds, including build-outs from fashion collective HAPE, the art group Psychedelics Anonymous, aKIDcalledBEAST, music collective MusicaW3, creative studio Newtro Arts, and digital broadcaster RAD TV.

Organizers are highlighting one tentpole moment: OfficeDrummer’s live set on Friday, Dec. 5 at 11 p.m. UTC, which is positioned as a showcase for how real-time performance works inside a virtual environment.

A festival guide and the full lineup are available on Decentraland’s official site.

Pudgy Penguins expands toy line and lands NHL partnership

Pudgy Penguins, the NFT-born penguin franchise, is growing its lineup of physical toys. The brand is teaming up with Schleich, the well-known maker of hand-painted animal figurines, to release a new line that will debut at the major toy fair Spielwarenmesse on Jan. 27, according to The Toy Book.

CEO Luca Netz said fans who know the brand’s characters can soon collect physical versions of those figures as part of a broader push into global retail.

Meanwhile, Art Basel Miami also brought a wave of new Pudgy collaborations that span Be@rBrick designer toys, PEZ dispensers, Care Bears vinyl figures, Shashibo magnetic puzzle cubes, and apparel with Miami artist OMI. 

The brand’s presence extended into an Its Sugar store takeover and a new partnership with the National Hockey League, which will spotlight Pudgy Penguins during the 2026 NHL Winter Classic, presented by Discover. 

Uniswap links Revolut to make paying for crypto more direct

Uniswap Labs has announced that it’s connected its web app and wallet to Revolut, a Europe-based finance app with millions of users, so people in 28 countries can pay for crypto inside Uniswap using a Revolut balance or debit card instead of moving money between multiple services.

Revolut, which many users treat like a mobile checking account, currently supports more than a dozen national currencies and can be used to buy tokens such as ETH, USDC, and POL, the core digital coins that people use to trade and to pay for NFTs on networks like Ethereum and Polygon.

According to the announcement, Uniswap users can now tap “Buy,” pick a token, enter an amount, and select Revolut, which processes the payment and sends crypto to the wallet with no added fee.

CryptoPunks arrive at NODE in Palo Alto

NODE, the Palo Alto-based art space, will open Jan. 23 with “10,000,” a full presentation of the CryptoPunks collection by Larva Labs founders Matt Hall and John Watkinson. 

The show will run the entire set of 10,000 Punks as a live system that updates in real time and treats the marketplace activity around each Punk as part of the artwork itself. 

The exhibition will also include installations that explain how the collection’s code, traits, and visuals work together inside a networked environment designed for public participation.

The opening weekend will coincide with SF Art Week and the FOG Design and Art Fair, and NODE plans guided tours, talks with Larva Labs, and gatherings for collectors throughout the Jan. 23 to 25 schedule.

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