Art


Finance

Sotheby’s NFT Auction With Artist Pak and Nifty Gateway Brings In $16.8M

Sotheby's first NFT auction fetched a total of $16,825,999.

Sotheby's

Markets

Rare CryptoPunk NFTs Will be Auctioned by Christie's Next Month

All nine CryptoPunks are from mints below 1,000, meaning they began in the earliest days of the company's digital collectible creations.

CryptoPunk NFTs

Markets

Sotheby's Plans Its First NFT Auction With Artist Pak and Nifty Gateway

The top auction house said its first auction of NFTs created by anonymous artist Pak “scrutinizes our understanding of value.”

An example of Pak's art that will go on sale next week.

Finance

These Black Artists Say NFTs Help Them Monetize Their Work

NFTs are opening the typically exclusive art world to artists from diverse backgrounds, and are helping those artists monetize their work.

Vakseen's "His Royal Airness"

Finance

Tron's Justin Sun Wins $6M Beeple in 'Green' NFT Auction

CarbonDrop, the three-day NFT auction, raised a total of $6.66 million for the Open Earth Foundation.

A screenshot of Beeple's "OCEAN FRONT"

Finance

Even NYC's Highfalutin Guggenheim Museum Is Looking at NFTs, Job Posting Suggests

A call for MBA interns asks: "How will blockchain and crypto currency [sic] change how a museum defines its collection strategy?"

New York's Guggenheim Museum

Markets

Avant-Garde Painting to Be Sold With NFT-Backed Proof of Provenance

The sale of the Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine work will take place on the Mark Cuban-backed NFT marketplace Mintable.

Abstract Composition, Mintable Auction crop

Markets

Performers' Dance Moves Turned Into Animated NFTs for Games and Apps

Signature moves of dancers can be purchased by fans and used as NFT-based "emotes."

Dance-based "emote" in the game "AlterVerse: Disruption."

Finance

Sotheby's Moves Into 'New World' of Digital Art and NFTs

"There's a lot here that's really exciting and, we think, has staying power," said CEO Charles Stewart.

Auction

Markets

Investor Discovers Beeple NFT Purchased for $969 Now Worth $300K

The NFT is now being offered for sale at $1.7 million.

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