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Over the last 60 years, Visa has built a collection of historic commerce artifacts – from early paper credit cards to the zip-zap machine. Today, as we enter a new era of NFT-commerce, Visa welcomes CryptoPunk #7610 to our collection. https://t.co/XoPFfwxUiu
The Visa colossus recently purchased an NFT titled CryptoPunk # 7610 created by Larva Labs for about $ 150,000, thus becoming part of the Crypto world.
The work represents a punk woman with a crest, lipstick and green eyeshadow and is part of the “CryptoPunks” series consisting of about 10,000 pieces, already sold on various occasions by auction houses such as Christie’s and Sotheby’s.
Cuy Sheffield, head of cryptocurrency at Visa and collector of NFT, said that “the excitement for this project is not so much about the single Punk, but about the CryptoPunk collection as a whole and what it represents: the beginning of a new chapter for digital commerce. This is just the beginning. We look forward to continuing to build our NFT collection and to support the diverse group of artists and creators working in this space ”.
Sheffield is a proponent of the Crypto market and believes that “for NFT trading to become mainstream, NFTs should be as easy to purchase as traditional e-commerce experiences where consumers can leverage their existing Visa cards at checkout instead of having to buy. first a cryptocurrency. “
“Dante Plus 700”: una mostra e un concorso ce“Dante Plus 700”: an exhibition and a competition celebrate the Sommo Poeta
Until 5 September at the Oriani Library in Ravenna the works of “Dante Plus 700“, an exhibition dedicated to the face of Dante Alighieri with the participation of 150 artists are on display.
Since 2017 in Ravenna, the city that houses the remains of the great poet, Marco Miccoli, curator of the Bonobolabo space, has created the collective exhibition “Dante Plus: One, no one and a hundred thousand faces”, where a group of artists, including illustrators, cartoonists and street artists try every year to reinterpret the figure of the poet, giving him a new identity each time.
This year’s initiative will be presented by a video created by Miccoli himself – with illustrations and animations by Daris Nardini, filming by Andrea Giminiani and music by Alessio Ruscelli – in which Dante will come out of the Kobra mural and walk through the streets of the center to get to the library, right in front of the poster of the exhibition designed by the Van Orton Design brothers.
“It’s a small personal milestone because it all started in a simple and spontaneous way, involving first the artist No Curves in 2014 and then the Brazilian street artist Eduardo Kobra at the entrance of the Filippo Mordani elementary school – says Marco Miccoli – This year there will be 150 different artists, each with their own reinterpretation, there will also be illustrators of past editions who may want to update their work, plus about thirty new faces such as Emiliano Ponzi, Tanino Liberatore and the great Moebius. In addition, a national competition on Dante’s face was also held which allowed the first nine arrivals to access the collective exhibition.”
The exhibition will also see the use of new and different technologies such as augmented reality through the free ARIA mobile application, in collaboration with the Alkanoids animation studio or the 3D printing company Wasp which created a large sculpture of the poet.
Finally, collaborations are also important, especially the one with Art Rights, partner of the national competition “Sketch your Dante”, aimed at artists and illustrators with the consequent inauguration of a virtual gallery on Lieu.city, the first Italian VR social network for events of art online.
News from the digital and NFT world – 23 August 2021
Every day, Art Rights Magazine selects the best news from the world of digital art, to stay up to date!
Christie’s presents No Time Like Present, an exclusively online auction with the first NFT sale in Asia offered by an international auction house.
This sale is set to set another milestone in the history of Crypto Arte, which opens offers from 17 to 28 September.
BAYC by Yuga Labs, Courtesy of Christie’s
Highlights of the sale will include a group of very rare CryptoPunks created by Larva Labs, as well as Yuga Labs ‘Bored Ape Yacht Club (BAYC) and Larva Labs’ latest creation “Meebits”.
LARVA LABS (EST. 2005) CryptoPunk 9997. Courtesy of Christie’s
This auction also marks the first time that BAYC and Meebits will be offered outside of any NFT trading platform.
Christie’s pioneered the inauguration of NFT in the global auction market and is engaging with auctions and unprecedented collaborations to lead this entirely new category of collecting with $ 93.2 million in sales in the last year alone.
Christie’s was the first international auction house to sell an NFT of a purely digital work of art, hosting Beeple artist Beeple’s groundbreaking online sale “Everydays” which reached $ 69 million and set the record for the work. most expensive ever sold online.
This was followed by Larva Labs ‘iconic Cryptopunks sales of $ 17 million and FEWOCiOUS’ digital artwork which totaled $ 2.16 million.
According to the latest data, Christie’s presence in the NFT market has attracted a younger and newer audience to its site: 73% of NFT sales subscribers are new collectors, with an average age of 38 (13 years younger than at the average age of customers in other sales) who then showed their interest in purchasing works by blue chip artists.
NFT: Sardegna devastata dagli incendi, arriva in aiuto la crypto arte
Antonio Marras, Mahmood, Hackatao among the artists involved.
Crypto Arte supports Sardinia, which in these days suffers considerable damage due to the fires that have started causing over 1,500 displaced people, more than 20,000 hectares destroyed and repercussions for the next 15 years.
HFor this reason the cultural association The AB Factory, with the precious participation of Antonio Marras, of the Italian duo HACKATAO among the most famous crypto artists in the world, the singer Mahmood with his collection of NFTs linked to the Ghettolimpo album together with many other artists international, have made their digital works available to support the island hit by the violent fire.
This is the first NFT fundraiser sold in these hours on the Digital Art Rights platform with 100% of the proceeds destined for the island.
On the digital.artrights.me platform, you can purchase a selection of NFT (Non Fungible Token) – digital works to be collected, each attributable to a digital certificate that ensures their absolute uniqueness – or make a free donation via PayPal or cryptocurrencies.
Among the prestigious Italian and international contemporary artists who have donated their own work to show closeness to the island hit by the fires is Antonio Marras.
For the first time, the fashion designer from Alghero enters the world of NFT (Non Fungible Token) with a triptych of works and his little sheep “Lussu”, whose name is inspired by the writer and politician Emilio Lussu and the Municipality of Santu Lussurgiu, which becomes an icon of this artistic awareness campaign with a “flock” of 500 digital works to color Sardinia.
“Fire, what to do? Torture, tear, break down, pity, scream in pain? Or fight, help, collaborate and above all prevent? – says Antonio Marras – I cry for those who have lost everything, I cry for the creatures burned but together we struggle to be reborn ”.
Among the many artists who have joined the project: Federico Cecchin, Andrea Crespi, Alberto Maria Colombo, Noah D’Alessandro, Emanuele Dascanio, Simon Dee, Simone Fugazzotto, Andrea Gola, Mahmood, ManuInvisible, Giovanni Motta, Renzo Nucara, Paola Pinna, Pongo 3D, Caterina Quartana, Marco Rea, Alessandro Risuleo, WAARP and many others.
On the Digital Art Rights platform, it is possible to purchase works in NFT through cryptocurrencies, but also fiat currency with the aim of allowing everyone to make their contribution; moreover, unique works are available such as “Re-United” by Marco Réa or “Rage” by Alessandro Risuleo.
Auctions are also underway with the works of crypto artists such as the Podmork of the HACKATAO duo with a reserve price and a time limit until 31 August; or even “D3st1ny” by Giovanni Motta starring his Jonny Boy and a time limited to the next six days.
For each donation made it is not only possible to receive the NFT work on your MetaMask wallet, but a discount is guaranteed to be used on the brand new Phygi.io platform which offers the unique opportunity to transform your NFTs into physical and wearable objects.
the initiative was carried out on the Digital Art Rights platform with the support of prestigious partners and professionals who immediately took action in favor of the island such as Art Rights, Phygi.io, Artuu Magazine, The Cryptonomist, DeFi Today, The Swiss Blockchain Consortium and Marco Rubino of Musebbi.
I hope that Art can revive and bring colors to where everything is now black! – says Andrea Concas CEO and Founder Art Rights – We want Art to be present in this tragic moment, even the most innovative “.
New York rock band Blondie and famous Crypto Art duo Hackatao are collaborating on the creation of an animated NFT series called Hack the Borders.
The collection of digital works wants to pay homage to one of the greatest art pioneers of all time, Andy Warhol.
“Andy Warhol was an artistic inspiration for us for his use of colors and his distinctive way of making art accessible to all. For Hack the Borders, we chose to release the project on August 6th, which is not only Andy’s birthday, but also S. of Hackatao’s. We felt it was a perfect way to pay homage to his genius” stated Hackatao.
The NFTs will be released on August 6, 2021 on the Nifty Gateway platform, one of the most popular marketplaces in existence.
The Whitworth Art Gallery creates NFT of a work by William Blake
The WhitworthArt Gallery in Manchester in collaboration with the Vastari Labs platform is ready to launch the first NFT series.
This is a 50-piece collection of the digital version of The Ancient of Days, the famous work of William Blake.
The proceeds from the sales will be donated to a fund for “socially useful projects” based on local communities: “In a time of great social and economic instability, the gallery is entering the emerging and chaotic world of NFT to test alternative financing models. of social practice, “says the museum.
Crypto Art’s works are the tip of a larger research project titled Economics the Blockbuster, which will culminate in the exhibition scheduled for summer 2023.
— Steve Jobs' Job Application (1973) Auction (@SJJA_Auction) July 21, 2021
The NFT of Steve Jobs’ first job application is up for auction
Steve Jobs’s first job application, after being auctioned last March for $ 222,400, is back on sale until July 28 in both its physical version and a new NFT version.
Bids for the physical version will be collected by the auction company Snoofa, while the NFT version can be purchased on the Rarible marketplace using the ETH cryptocurrency. Currently, the highest bid for the paper document is $ 1000, while the digital counterpart has been offered $ 546.
It is not known which company the candidacy was addressed to: the then 18-year-old Steve Jobs, probably still unaware of what the future would hold for him, was looking for a job – perhaps as an electronics technician or designer – after leaving Reed College in Portland, Oregon.
Although the document is to all intents and purposes “a piece of paper”, Jobs’ candidacy marks a turning point and a crucial moment for the entire history of contemporary technology.
A guide to everything you need to know about collecting fine art prints and multiples
What is a lithograph? What distinguishes an original from a copy? Which are the most important authors to collect in the field of graphic art?
Here are some tips to follow if you want to get into the world of fine art prints and multiples!
First, it is necessary to understand what a print is: a print is defined as any work of art made in several stages, created through a mechanical process of transferring from one type of medium to another. There are many different types of prints, but the four best-known techniques are: etching, lithography, screen printing and woodcut.
A print is a work of art: they are not simple copies of an original, but are the result of the collaboration between an artist and a team of printers, highly specialized figures. The works are produced in a limited number and are called “editions”.
Editions are signed and numbered with an edition number, typically written with a fraction (e.g. 1/4): the number on the right of the bar indicates the total number of prints made, while the figure on the left is the number of the single print. C
Moreover, most of the prints on the market are generally signed, even though this is not always the case. Artists such as Andy Warhol or Pablo Picasso, for example, signed some of their prints with a stamp, while Richard Diebenkorn and Lucian Freud signed them with their initials: this, however, does not give the work a lower market value.
Collecting prints can depend on a variety of reasons: you can build up a collection dedicated to the same author to see the stylistic and subject evolutions and the growth of the artist’s skills as a printer over the course of his career; or, a print can be an excellent starting point to start putting together a larger collection without having to pay astronomical sums of money.
Next, print preservation is crucial.
Here are three key tips to follow to best care for these delicate works of art:
– if a print has bright colors, do not hang it in direct sunlight;
– make sure that the print is kept away from any source of moisture;
– do not cut the sheet to try to fit it into a smaller frame: framing a print is a very important step and for this reason it is necessary to turn to professional framers who know how to enhance and protect the work in the best possible way.
To better manage information about your collection of art multiples there is Art Rights, a platform that encompasses the best services for the management and certification of artworks – physical and digital – with Blockchain technology.
And you, are you ready to start your own collection of multiples?
Christie’s Art and Tech Summit: NFTs and Beyond 2021
The fourth Christie’s summit dedicated to the Art and Technology took place, and after Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence and Mixed Reality takes stock of NFT Non Fungible Tokens.
The poster of the event – screen from Zoom Live of Christie’s
Christie’s auction house, four months after its “baptism” of Crypto Art with the incredible sale for $69 million of the work “Everydays – The First 5000 Days” created by digital artist Beeple, born Mike Winkelmann, inaugurates “Art and Tech Summit: NFTs and Beyond“, the first live and virtual event to take stock of what has happened and what will happen in the near future for the art world with an increasingly digital perspective.
#christiesarttech2021 summit kicks off with @justinsuntron remarking “I believe in the next 10-20 years the most valuable artworks will not just be Picasso and Monet- classic artists – but will also belong to the artists familiar with NFTs and AI and new technologies.” pic.twitter.com/Md5Gjhpefu
At the start of the conference, which was attended by countless key players in the Crypto and NFT worlds, the speech of Justin Sun early investor in cryptocurrencies, founder of the TRON platform, collector and creator of the first NFT fund that aims to register major artworks of great artists in NFT on the Blockchain, made his position clear right away: “I believe that in the next 10-20 years, the most valuable works of art will not only be Picasso and Monet, classic artists, but will also belong to artists who are familiar with NFT, artificial intelligence and new technologies.“
Ronnie Pirovino- Curator – screen from Zoom Live of Christie’s
Panelists included artist Mad-Dog Jones, collector Ronnie Pirovino – curator of Christie’s ongoing auction till July 22 titled “Trespassing” – and former Major League Baseball champion Micah Johnson, who launched his career as a crypto artist.
Mad Dog Jones – Artist – screen from Zoom Live of Christie’s
For Mad Dog Jones, in the top ten best-selling NFT artists in the world, there’s no doubt: “NFTs have given us the opportunity to make the kind of art we want to make and not just the art we have to make.“
Johnson agrees: “We create oil paintings, acrylics, watercolors – now we have digital. It’s 2021. Sooner or later, the word ‘NFT’ will no longer be trendy, but it will be part of our lives and we’ll all use it.“
Matt Hall – Founder, Larva Labs – screen from Zoom Live of Christie’s
The introduction panel was followed by a dense and intense dialogue entitled “The New World: Creating, Collecting and Curating NFTs,” which featured speakers Jehan Chu Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Kenetic Capital, Matt Hall Co-Founder of Larva Labs who created the celebrated and very expensive CryptoPunks characters and now the Meebits, as well as appearances by Adam Levine President, Director, and CEO of the Toledo Museum of Art, and Sarah Odenkirk Partner at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams, and Sheppard LLP.
It’s Chu who confirms from the get-go that “NFT is not an object: it’s an access point, a platform” for artists and creatives to a digital world, which for some is becoming more important than the real thing, but that doesn’t mean it can’t find a point of connection with physicality.
Adam Levine – Director of Toledo Museum of Art- screen from Zoom Live of Christie’s
Adam Levine of the Toledo Museum of Art isalso convinced of this, but in his opinion the institutions are not yet ready to welcome this new art, which is instead experiencing a moment “under the spotlight” by collectors, who, according to Director Levine, will be those who will primarily be able to support with their donations the boosting and musealization of NFT.
Jason Pollack – Senior Vice President and General Counsel, Americas at Christie’s – screen from Zoom Live of Christie’s
This has already happened a few days ago for the ICA Miami, which acquired NFT CryptoPunk 5293, the first work of Crypto Art to become part of a museum collection, thanks to the donation of Eduardo Burillo, member of the ICA Miami Trustee.
Devang Thakkar – Digital Advisor – screen from Zoom Live of Christie’s
An important point of the conversation, however, is highlighted by Sarah Odenkirk Partner at Cowan, DeBaets, Abrahams, and Sheppard LLP, who confirms that even though there is this great attention from collectors and institutions towards Crypto Art and NFT there is still much to be done, especially in terms of artistic validation and mediation through critics, art curators and scholars who will have to undertake research and analysis on what to all intents and purposes is imposing itself on the art scene as a new art movement.
Lexy Schmertz – Senior Director, Strategic Partnerships, Christie’s – screen from Zoom Live of Christie’s
He also adds that the mediating role, in recent months, has been played by auction houses such as Christie’s that have in fact validated the world of NFT in the eyes of the most skeptical operators of the traditional physical art world.
Megan Doyle – Cataloguer, Christie’s – screen from Zoom Live of Christie’s
It is precisely the auction houses that are taking on the role of gatekeepers for the first Crypto Art market, selecting, thanks to collaborations and the implementation within their staff of Digital Specialists, the artists who are actually validated in their entry into the canonical market.
Among the panels, there is no shortage of attention towards the most diverse applications of NFT and Blockchain to the world of creativity, but not only, such as fashion and music.
Silvio Micali – founder Algorand – screen from Zoom Live of Christie’s
Among the most interesting speakers to take stock of the application of Blockchain and NFTs the Italian computer scientist Silvio Micali, professor at MIT Massachusetts Institute of Technology, winner of the prestigious Turing Prize and founder of Algorand, blockchain infrastructure that offers interoperability and the ability to manage the volume of transactions needed by Defi, financial institutions and governments.
Micali explained and refuted the “Blockchain Trilemma,” theorized by Vitalik Buterin, founder of the Ethereum Blockchain, that a Blockchain cannot be simultaneously secure, scalable, and decentralized, so there must be tradeoffs. Bitcoin itself is controlled by only three consortia of miners. That means there are only three decision-making powers.
But is a system that is controlled by three entities, considered decentralized?
Prof. Micali thus conducted research to find an answer to this question and create another protocol proving that “the trilemma is false”.
Briefly: “The Algorand chain grows through a series of ever-changing ‘committees’ of users. Each committee consists of a thousand randomly and independently chosen users. Each committee member spreads a single short, easy-to-compute message over the network. Then another committee is elected through a secure, individual cryptographic lottery. Not even a user with the computational capacity of an entire nation would be able to increase their chance of winning. So the committees change at random each time.”
In fact, Algorand becomes secure, scalable and truly decentralized.
At the conclusion of Christie’s fourth summit dedicated to the dialogue between Art and Technology around NFTs, it is the artist Refik Anadol, pioneer of a new aesthetic based on Machine Learning, who takes stock of what will be the future of the digital in its relationship with art: “I believe that NFTs are a fantastic canvas for the imagination“.
Lehmann Maupin Gallery accepts payments in cryptocurrencies thanks to GEMINI
The world of art is getting closer and closer to the crypto one and there are many initiatives that prove it.
After several years, auction houses have begun to accept payments in cryptocurrencies for the purchase of NFT works and, later, also physical ones.
The choice was made to increase the customer base, in particular of the generation of Millennial collectors, more easily exposed to a diversification of their assets which also includes a strong interest in the crypto world.
This is an insight that is depopulating within the big art galleries: recently, Pace Gallery announced the launch of a new NFT sales platform for their gallery’s artist roaster, followed by the fresh announcement of yesterday of the Lehmann Maupin Gallery, which confirms that it has started a partnership with Gemini, a platform created by the techno-twins Tyler and Cameron Winklevoss, to make payment in cryptocurrencies possible.
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