Los Angeles County Museum of Art is set for a substantial expansion of its digital holdings, not through a single purchase but through a collective pledge from its own supporters. A group called the LACMA Digital Leaders, made up of digital artists and entrepreneurs, has voted to give the museum more than 200 works of digital art from their personal collections, delivered over the next several years rather than all at once.

The range of the promised gift is deliberately wide. It includes historical work by Harold Cohen and Vera Molnar, two pioneers whose practices helped establish computer-based art, alongside contemporary work by Refik Anadol and Nancy Baker Cahill, both listed as visiting artists of the Digital Leaders group. That span, from early experiments with code and drawing machines to current large-scale and immersive practices, gives the museum material to show digital art as a continuing history rather than a recent novelty.

The gift also includes work from the Bored Ape Yacht Club project by Yuga Labs, whose chief executive Michael Figge is himself a LACMA Digital Leader. Including a faded NFT-era project alongside established names is a curatorial gamble: it preserves a much-discussed chapter of digital collecting even as its market moment has cooled. No opening display date or exhibition plan was given in the bulletin item, so the immediate news is the commitment itself and the breadth of the artists involved.