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More From the Special Section: Museums, galleries and auction houses are opening their doors wider than ever to new artists, new concepts and new traditions.īeeple’s work has a brash, in-your-face appeal, like a political sketch cartoon set in a dystopian video game.A Cultural Correction: After removing all references to Columbus from its collections the Denver Art Museum has embraced a new exhibition on Latin American art.And the La Brea Tar Pits & Museum is working to engage visitors about the realities of climate change. New and Old : In California, museums are celebrating and embracing Latino and Chicano art and artists.A Tribute to Black Artists: Four museums across the country are featuring exhibitions this fall that recognize the work of African and African American artists, signaling a change in attitude - and priorities.Bigger and Better : While the Covid-19 pandemic forced museums to close for months, cut staff and reduce expenses, several of them have nevertheless moved forward on ambitious renovations or new buildings.He’s amassed a huge following (nearly two million on Instagram, 200,000 on Twitter) with his apocalyptic, warped aesthetic leading to commissions from brands such as Louis Vuitton, whose Spring 2019 collection was emblazoned with his images. Though he was a newcomer to both fine art and crypto-art, his “Everydays” project, now 13 years in, has become popular online. “I don’t know anything about the traditional art world,” said Beeple, a computer science graduate, who only began researching NFTs in mid-October. NFTs make it possible to collect digital artworks in a similar way to paintings, sculptures or conceptual artwork. To take one example, anyone could duct tape a banana to the wall, but it wouldn’t be Maurizio Cattelan’s “ Comedian.” Likewise, someone could easily make a digital copy of Beeple’s “Everydays - The First 5000 Days,” but even though the content would be exactly the same, they wouldn’t own the artwork itself without blockchain verification. It makes digital artworks unique, and therefore, sellable.Īlthough it’s the first time that Christie’s will sell a purely virtual work, the art world is familiar with this genre of sale. NFTs cleverly respond to the art world’s need for authentication and provenance in an increasingly digital world, permanently linking a digital file to its creator. An NFT can take any form, but for Beeple, it usually consists of an image or video file, sometimes with a physical object attached, verified with a digital signature on a blockchain. It will also be the first time that Christie’s will accept payment in the cryptocurrency Ether.īeeple is selling these works as NFTs - nonfungible tokens - digital collectibles that use blockchain technology as authentication. On Thursday, a two-week-long online auction of a composite of the first 5,000 days of the project will begin at Christie’s, which says it’s the auction house’s first sale of a solely digital artwork.

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He started with pen and paper but now mostly uses computer software such as the program Cinema 4D.

The digital artist, who goes by Beeple, has created a drawing every single day for the last 13 years. It was only the second time he had put his art on sale. In December, he auctioned off multiple editions of three digital artworks, each priced at $969, and 21 unique works, most of which sold for about $100,000 each. But that was before he made $3.5 million in a single weekend from selling his artworks. Mike Winkelmann never used to call himself an artist.

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