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    Prisma Art Prize. The new edition of the art prize for artists

    Selections are open for the ninth edition of Prisma Art Prize, the art award that supports the originality and creativity of artists from all over the world. Art 

    Art Rights is pleased to support Prisma Art Prize, an art award created to promote emerging visual artists and painters. As the name suggests, the prize is intended to be like a Prism that refracts all possible outcomes of the painting process.

    At the base of the project, there is the inclusiveness and the constant research and enhancement of artists from different educational and cultural backgrounds. Prisma Art Prize is open to everyone, regardless of age, nationality and gender.

    Prisma Art Prize is a quarterly prize organized with the aim of creating a space for visual artists to share their work with hundreds of colleagues and professionals from around the world. 

    Each year there are €2,000 in prize money, over €3,000 in services from our partners Biafarin, Art Rights and Vivivacolors, interviews and publications and an online gallery where the works will be displayed forever.

    For all artists who sign up for Prisma Art Prize is available immediately 1 MONTH free subscription to the Art Rights platform for the management and certification of artworks.

    In addition, the artists will have the opportunity to be included in the prize’s catalogue, distributed in digital and printed form, as well as to be exhibited in the collective exhibition of the Prisma Art Prize that will be held in the prestigious Contemporary Cluster gallery of Palazzo Brancaccio in Rome, one of the most innovative institutions in the capital and on the international scene.

    Prisma Art Prize, under the artistic direction of Marco Crispano and the curatorship of Domenico De Chirico, has a jury of professionals, with the aim of giving space and visibility to established and emerging artists and to give a boost to the career of the selected artists.

    Registration open until February 4, 2022: https://www.prismaartprize.com/submit/

    To consult the Announcement: https://www.prismaartprize.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/BANDO-PAP-9-IT.pdf 

    Christie’s and OpenSea together for an on-chain NFT auction

    News from the digital and NFT world – 25 NOVEMBER 2021

    Every day Art Rights Magazine selects the best news from the digital art world to stay up to date!

    Christie’s and OpenSea together for an on-chain NFT auction

    Christie’s is getting closer and closer to the Crypto world. In fact, the news of the collaboration with the OpenSea marketplace, in view of its first on-chain auction of NFT to be held on the site of the well-known platform, is recent.

    As reported in the auction house’s Tweet, the event is scheduled to open between December 1 and 3, with the actual public opening for bidding from December 4 to 7

    The Christie’s x OpenSea NFT auction is curated by Noah Davis – Christie’s specialist and head of digital – nft now and curator Ronnie Pirovino, and features collectibles and new artworks from the likes of Alpha Centauri Kid, Andre Oshea, Baeige, Blake Kathryn, DotPigeon, FriendsWithYou, FVCKRENDER, Krista Kim, Mad Dog Jones, Tom Sachs and WhIsBe.

    Some of the works up for auction will also be exhibited at Art Basel Miami

    My hope is that this is the beginning of a new era for NFT sales at Christie’s, where this amazing technology can be used to its full potential and help bring even the most traditional contemporary art collectors into Web 3,” said Noah Davis.

    Alexander Bercow, Head of Art Partnerships at OpenSea, added: “Christie’s is a world-renowned art and luxury company that has shaped this industry for centuries. The opportunity to bring their legacy and curatorial expertise to OpenSea’s platform was obviously extremely exciting for us. We are thrilled to share these highly coveted and inspiring works of art and collectibles with enthusiasts around the world.

    Photo Credits: ‘Forever’ by Mad Dog Jones via OpenSea

    COLDIE for The NFT MAGAZINE: the great OG artist on the second collectible cover

    COLDIE for The NFT MAGAZINE: the great OG artist on the second collectible cover

    Chosen by the community of The NFT Magazine Readers Club, the second issue is ready for the next drop on December 2nd with Coldie on the cover.

    It is only a few hours ago that the protagonist of the cover #02 of The NFT Magazine was announced, the first magazine to read and collect in Ethereum, sold out in a few hours from its launch: after HACKATAO, it is the turn of the great OG artist COLDIE.

    Coldie – among the crypto artists most appreciated by collectors – was chosen by the Readers Club, the community of readers of the magazine who, thanks to the collection of the first issue of the magazine, have the right to vote on the topics proposed for the magazine and on the choice of the cover artist.

    The great success of the first issue, which sold out last November 2, and dedicated to NFT Artists, guaranteed the necessary attention to a project that aims to bring innovation in the publishing field and more information on the crypto world.

    Who is Coldie? 

    Coldie is an award-winning mixed media artist whose stereoscopic 3D art has been featured in national juried art exhibitions, major cryptocurrency events, and live auctions.

    His blockchain themed artwork including the ‘Decentral Eyes’ portrait series gives a personalized visual representation of the disruptive industry. Buyers of his 3D art can redeem a free pair of 3D glasses from the artist for 3D depth experience

    The main work of the cover of The NFT Magazine is “Warren Buffett – Decentral Eyes – Variant 04” emblematic of his artistic research.

    #2 ISSUE THE NFT MAGAZINE: THE NFT COLLECTIBLES

    The magazine team also unveiled the theme that will be at the center of this second issue, whose drop is set for December 2 at 6pm; these are the Collectibles, digital collectible objects of any nature: cards, weareable, fan tokens and much more.

    Among the rankings will be presented the analyzes of the 25 most famous collectible projects and still growing strongly on the market today, important interviews with the major players and gatekeepers without forgetting the insights on gas fees, collection management tools and much more.

    HOW TO BUY THE #02 ISSUE OF THE NFT MAGAZINE

    For this new drop, the number of NFTs rises to 700 with distribution and sale at different times marked by priority access to the whitelist of holders who are part of the Readers Club, readers who have purchased the first issue of The NFT Magazine, followed by the pre-sale for the community present on Discord and Telegram and subsequently the public drop.

    Starting price for all 0.05ETH, different gas fees, but with the possibility of buying also in FIAT currency such as euros and dollars directly from the thenftmag.io website thenftmag.io

    Unsold copies will also be burned to ensure the rarity of the NFTs.

    The appointment for the drop is therefore for 2 December at 6 pm on OpenSea.

    Sotheby’s prepares to sell Banksy in ETH

    News from the digital and NFT world – 11 NOVEMBER 2021

    Every day, Art Rights Magazine selects the best news from the world of digital art, to stay up to date!

    Sotheby’s prepares to sell Banksy in ETH

    On November 18, during the Sotheby’s New York The Now Evening auction, two iconic paintings by the famous artist Banksy will be sold in ETH.

    Trolley Hunters, estimated between 5 and 7 million dollars and Love is in the Air, estimated between 4 and 6 million dollars, are ready to be contested with offers in Ethereum cryptocurrency with the direction of the auctioneer Oliver Barker, accompanied by numerous masterpieces made in the last 20 years by the likes of Yoshitomo Nara and Mark Bradford.

    The announcement was made on Twitter by Sotheby’s Metaverse, a platform dedicated to crypto collectors that offers a selection of NFTs by the specialists of the well-known auction house and which recently inaugurated its business with the Natively Digital 1.2: The Collectors which involved 19 collectors and 53 NFT works.

    What will be the next news in the Crypto world?

    Photo Credits: “Trolley Hunters” by Banksy via Sotheby’s

    CharityStars opens up to the world of NFTs for charity

    CharityStars opens up to the world of NFTs for charity

    After selling a digital work for $ 63,000, the charity platform opens a new section dedicated to NFTs

    The European online charity fundraising platform CharityStars has recently entered the NFT market.

    C”CharityStars has always been a keen observer of everything that, thanks to technological innovation, can help expand our possibilities of offering our partners new ways of fundraising to support their charitable projects.” – explains Domenico Gravagno, Chief Executive Officer of CharityStars.

    The new section, dedicated to the works of the most important NFT artists, was born after having auctioned a digital work for 63,000 dollars.

    This is Rebirth # 19/100, by the American graphic designer and digital artist Beeple, best known for having sold his work Everydays: The First 5000 Days, auctioned by Christie’s for 69.3 million dollars in March. 2021.

    His work sold by CharityStars is part of “BEEPLE: SPRING / SUMMER COLLECTION 2021”: a release of eleven works available in multiple editions, some even in 100 copies.

    Part of the proceeds from the sale were donated to Adopt The Arts: a US non-profit association founded by Matt Sorum, former drummer of Guns N ‘Roses and Velvet Revolver, Abby Berman, entrepreneur and activist, and actress Jane Lynch , following substantial cuts in funding for arts and music education in elementary schools in Los Angeles.

    After this first success, CharityStars is ready to bet on NFTs again.

    Among the next lots, the NFT is part of Damien Hirst’s The Currency project – the # 1243 Say Hello to everybody – which starts with an auction base of € 25,000; or the Bored Ape Kennel Club # 5737 with a starting price of € 15,000 and which is part of the successful Bored Ape series of bored monkeys by Yuga Labs.

    Photo Credits:”REBIRTH” 19/100 NFT by Beeple, courtesy of CharityStars

    Beeple returns to Christie’s and sells a work for $ 28,985,000

    News from the digital and NFT world – 10 NOVEMBER 2021

    Every day, Art Rights Magazine selects the best news from the world of digital art, to stay up to date!

    Beeple returns to Christie’s and sells a work for $ 28,985,000

    Christie’s 21st Century evening auction recently concluded, during which the hybrid artwork by well-known digital artist Beeple was sold for $ 28,985,000, exceeding the estimated estimate of $ 15 million.

    HUMAN ONE is a video-sculpture between physical and digital in the shape of a monolithic prism, where on each side there are LED screens that reproduce films of a lone astronaut walking in an extraterrestrial environment strewn with oversized Pop icons in true Beeple style .

    The artist will maintain a solid contact with the work and the collector: for the rest of his life, in fact, he will be able to adjust and modify the videos transmitted by the screens of the work, to comment on world events in real time.

    “The design of HUMAN ONE allows the video in both the physical object and its NFT to be remotely and seamlessly edited from the blockchain, allowing the message and meaning of this piece to continue to evolve beyond the course of my life. Beeple said.

    What will be the next surprises of the Crypto universe?

    Photo Credits: Courtesy of Christie’s

    Sales of NFT artworks in 2021 reach $ 3.5 billion

    News from the digital and NFT world – 28 OCTOBER 2021

    Every day, Art Rights Magazine selects the best news from the world of digital art, to stay up to date!

    Le venditeSales of NFT artworks in 2021 reach $ 3.5 billion

    According to the Hiscox Online Art Trade Report 2021, in partnership with ArtTactic, NFT sales have so far reached around $ 3.5 billion in the first three quarters of this year.

    The report shows that online art sales reached $ 6.8 billion in the first half of 2021 and could reach $ 13.5 billion by the end of this year.

    It also shows ann extremely volatile market, in fact in September NFT sales fell by 69%. The report identifies a change of focus in the purchase: at the beginning of this year, NFT sales focused on works by individual artists, but now the inclination is for collectibles such as Bored Apes Yacht Club.

    Furthermore, the sale of NFTs by large auction houses, such as Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Phillips, has also been advantageous for the market, as four of the top ten NFT prices to date have been achieved precisely at auctions organized by these large institutions, effectively validating the Non Fungible Tokens.

    IArt galleries that have diversified their sales by dedicating themselves to NFTs are also growing this year: among these the Konig Gallery, which has promoted successful sales linked to the works of great artists such as Refik Anadol.

    “Although NFT art may be perceived by critics as mundane, the combination of uniqueness, ownership, gamification and storytelling is fueling sales and speculation among a new generation of collectors and investors,” the report states “Art and NFT are here to stay. “.

    Photo Credits: Fred Eversley, Untitled (parabolic lens), (1969)

    The NFT Magazine: Hackatao will be the first artists of the collectible cover

    The NFT Magazine: gli Hackatao saranno i priThe NFT Magazine: Hackatao will be the first artists of the collectible cover

    The contents of the first magazine to be collected in Ethereum have also been announced: the first drop is scheduled for November 2nd

    No one would have ever expected it, yet the great publishing project The NFT Magazine announced just a few weeks ago is enjoying great success all over the world.

    In view of the first drop, scheduled for next November 2nd, the first 150 places reserved for the whitelist at a special price have already been sold out.

    Now a new announcement: HACKATAO will be the protagonists of the first collectible cover, but there is still mystery about which will be the protagonist work

    Who are the Hackatao?

    Born in Milan in 2007, the duo takes their first steps in the Italian market through a pop-surrealist style, reminiscent of the works of Murakami and Warhol.

    The protagonists of their works are the Podmork, totemic creatures that are at the center of their artistic production.

    In 2018 the digital turning point: their first work in NFT “Girl Next Door”, a gif minted and dropped on SuperRare, took off as a real rise for the Italian duo.

    Today Hackatao has an extraordinary success story behind: not only sales of more than 27 million dollars but also collaborations with auction houses of the caliber of Christie’s and Sotheby’s.

    For them, Crypto Art is an opportunity to do something new and change the paradigm that has so far characterized the traditional art market.

    The contents of the Magazine

    The contents that readers will find inside the magazine have also been revealed: not only an exclusive interview with Hackatao themselves, but also a detailed analysis of market trends and platforms; a Top 20 of the best Crypto Artists of the moment with their sales figures, the NFT projects of the Bluechip artists, the Top Crypto Female Artists and more

    The first drop of the Magazine will also have a limited edition of only 500 copies, which will be on sale for a limited time of only one week.

    Unsold copies will also be burned to ensure the rarity of the editions.

    And you, are you ready to collect the NFT Magazine?

    DISCOVER HERE THE #01 ISSUE

    Denied the authenticity of a Van Gogh’s artwork

    Denied the authenticity of a Van Gogh’s artwork

    On 7 September, the owner of the painting “Auvers, 1890”, the American collector Stuart Pivar, sued the New York Supreme Court for $ 300 million against the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam.

    Pivar, known for having founded the New York Academy of Art together with Andy Warhol in 1979, would argue that the Dutch museum ruled on the authenticity of the work solely on the basis of photographic documentation, refusing to view it in more detail.

    The work at the center of the legal matter is “Auvers” dated to 1890 with signature on the back, and would be the only square-shaped canvas attributed to Vincent van Gogh.

    It was thought that this canvas was dispersed until Pivar found it in an auction organized by private individuals but which, according to the collector, did not come from the artistic environment and whose identity he did not want to reveal.

    Stuart Pivar with the artwork “Auvers, 1890” Courtesy of The New York Post

    The report released by researchers at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam claims the work is a fake.
    The document reconstructs the museum’s decision starting from the study of a stamp on the back of the canvas, attributable to Jonas Netter. The famous 20th century collector, however, was not known for possessing works by Van Gogh as well.

    Another track followed by the museum concerns the presence of other swastika stamps, but judged suspicious and unjustified. According to the report of the Jonas Netter museum, he was indeed in Paris during the German occupation and was of Jewish origin, but he had got rid of most of the works in his collection well before the Second World War, thus escaping confiscations. Nazis.

    The report provided by the museum’s research team also claims that the handwritten “Vincent” signature on the canvas is of an unusual brown ink. The artist’s signature appears today in brown, but according to experts Van Gogh used to use a black ink that then faded over time to a brown hue.

    To these considerations, further considerations have been added that concern however the view of Auvers represented in the canvas owned by Pivar.
    The square work proposes a shot of the landscape from above that would only be possible to have by helicopter, unlikely in Van Gogh’s time.

    All that remains is to wait for the verdict of the Supreme Court to find out how this affair will turn out.

    Photo Credits: Courtesy of Van Gogh Museum

    The NFT collection by Snoop Dogg

    News from the digital and NFT world – 21 OCTOBER 2021

    Every day, Art Rights Magazine selects the best news from the world of digital art, to stay up to date!

    The NFT collection by Snoop Dogg

    The star rapper Snoop Dogg has recently revealed that he is the face behind the Twitter character Cozomo de ‘Medici, a collector of Crypto Arte and a famous name in the panorama of the social platform.

    Snoop Dogg then admitted to owning a $ 17 million NFT collection, consisting of numerous works including 9 CryptoPunk – one of them worth around $ 4.6 million -, a PEPELISA and several “Spaghetti Snoops”.

    This is not surprising, since the artist comes from a family that has been a patron of art for several years and now Snoop has the goal of seeing more and more of his collection grow.

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