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Minted

Season 26 Episode 8

An insider’s look at the rise and fall of the NFT (non-fungible token) phenomenon and how technology transformed the traditional art world, for better and worse. Featuring verité footage and candid interviews with groundbreaking artists—like Beeple, Latasha Alcindor, and Loish— at the center of this phenomenon, Minted delves into the complex world of the $40 billion NFT digital art market.

Aired: 01/05/25
Extras
Interwoven stories cover life in the city of Dallas, Texas.
Digital artists gaining global fame after embracing NFTs face a reckoning as it crashes around them.
After 13 years, a Lakota man returns to his reservation to reconnect with his family and culture.
L.A.'s Christina Catherine Martinez is a bewitching hybrid of standup, clown and performance artist.
Legendary Atlanta comic Ian Aber takes the stage with jokes about growing up queer in the South.
Called "too much" her whole life, Austin's Lea’h Sampson now embraces her true self in her standup.
Haitian-born, Brooklyn-based comic Tanael Joachim mines comedy from being a fish out of water.
A veteran uses hand-carved battlefield crosses to reconnect with families of fallen, fellow Marines.
The powerful story of an enslaved woman who sued and won her family’s freedom in 1832.
How America's first Chinese woman was exhibited and exploited as a circus oddity in 1830s New York.