Wet Paint: NFT Collective Whines Over Cryptopunks Sale, Coveted Young Artist Joins Hauser & Wirth, & More Art-World Gossip
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Nine CryptoPunks at Christie s 21st-century evening sale on May 13, 2021. Courtesy of Christie s.
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NFTs have done one thing that unites disparate parts of the art market: make people rich. Sources said
Sale Date:
Starting next week,
Sotheby’s will host “
Natively Digital” a weeklong online auction foregrounding 28 influential new media artists whose works surface the historical roots and future prospects of NFTs as a medium. Anchoring the sale is
Quantum, a generative digital animation backed by the
first non-fungible token ever minted.
The work’s origin is the 2014 edition of
Rhizome’s “Seven on Seven” conference, where
Kevin McCoy and collaborator
Anil Dash premiered what they then (semi-ironically) called the monetized graphic (or “monegraph”) a digital image time-stamped and registered to its creator on the blockchain, allowing the artist to retain ownership (and be paid appropriately for authorized use) of a file that is otherwise by its nature infinitely replicable.
Wet Paint: Julian Schnabel Is Having a Baby at 70, Market Goes Gaga for Long-Dead Surrealist, & More Juicy Art-World Gossip
What rock star has a secret stash of George Condo paintings? What unlikely U.S. city is being scouted by a mega-gallery? Read on for answers.
May 21, 2021
Julian Schnabel at the LongHouse Reserve Summer benefit in East Hampton, New York. (Photo by Sonia Moskowitz/Getty Images)
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