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    The first Augmented Reality exhibition in the gardens of 6 countries around the world

    News from the digital and NFT world – 6 JULY 2021

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

    The first Augmented Reality exhibition in the gardens of 6 countries around the world

    This autumn, a group of works by the likes of Ai Weiwei and El Anatsui will be exhibited in botanical gardens around the world on the occasion of the Seeing the Invisible exhibition, promoted by the Outset Contemporary Art Fund and the Jerusalem Botanical Gardens.

    The particularity? These are augmented reality works, which can be viewed through a specially created app.

    The artwork will be positioned among the local flora of more than a dozen gardens in six countries, including the Royal Botanic Garden in Edinburgh, the Kirstenbosch National Botanical Garden in South Africa and the Massachusetts Horticultural Society. curator of the exhibition, said that “the idea would be to break down the binary between what is often considered natural and what is considered digital”, adding that “coming out of the pandemic when outdoor experiences and nature have taken on a new meaning and gravity in our lives, this exhibition represents a new way for people to interact with art and nature at the same time. “

    The explosive drop of Cai Guo Qiang with TR Lab

    News from the digital and NFT world – 6 JULY 2021

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    The explosive drop of Cai Guo Qiang with TR Lab

    The countdown to a new iconic auction has begun. This is a sale organized specifically for the debut of the TR Lab, platform, which for the occasion collaborated with the artist Cai Guo-Qiang, famous for creating his works through the use of explosives.

    Transient Eternity — 101 Ignitions of Gunpowder Paintings is the name of the NFT created by Cai, on sale starting July 14 for only 48 hours and visible until August 14, 2021.

    The corpus is made up of 100 moments of ignition of gunpowder, the artist’s favorite artistic medium, which together form a single NFT, while the 101st moment will be created separately as an additional NFT.

    The income generated by the auction will be donated to two realities: the first half will be donated to the Rockbund Art Museum, on the occasion of its tenth anniversary, to favor its development both from a museum point of view and as regards research on the digital art, the other half will go to the Cai Foundation, in support of the Cai Fellowship Program of the Asian Cultural Council (ACC), which funds young Chinese artists studying in the United States.

    DotPigeon for sale at Christie’s

    News from the digital and NFT world – 5 JULY 2021

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    DotPigeon for sale at Christie’s

    The famous auction house Christie’s has announced the second edition of the Trespassing auction, online from 9 to 22 July, a sale focused on the influence of graffiti in contemporary art.

    Curated by Ronnie K. Pirovino, the auction features works by artists such as KAWS, Banksy and Invader as well as Jonas Wood, George Condo and Allison Zuckerman.

    For the first time this year’s sale also includes some crypto artists, including Mad Dog Jones, Victor Mosquera, Fvckrender and the Italian crypto artist DotPigeon.

    “We are thrilled to introduce Trespassing again this summer, as the sale is a truly multi-category collaborative effort with tremendous energy,” said Lindsay Griffith, Head of Print and Multiples in New York. “We hope to capture once again the interest of buyers globally with this mix of well-known and emerging artists “.

    Pace Gallery creates its own NFT platform

    News from the digital and NFT world – 5 JULY 2021

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    Lucas Samaras, “Gestures and Constructions”, courtesy of Pace Gallery

    The Pace Gallery next September will launch its own platform through which it will sell NFT works by its artists.

    The goal, says gallery president Marc Glimcher, is not to compete with existing marketplaces like Nifty Gateway and OpenSea, but to control how gallery art is presented.

    In addition, the platform will monitor the market prices of the artists presented. Coinciding with the launch of the NFT platform this fall, the gallery will also present a series of NFTs by artist Lucas Samaras, drawn from his digital print archive.

    The popular Reddit network sells NFTs on OpenSea

    News from the digital and NFT world – 2 JULY 2021

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    Recently, the well-known website Reddit declared that it would officially enter the NFT game.

    This big event was announced by Peter Yang, Reddit Product Lead, who unveiled the first NFTs minted on June 17, designed as cartoon avatars and modeled after the Reddit logo.

    Nicknamed CryptoSnoos, to date there are 3 NFT avatars on sale: Original Block, Helium and Snoopermatic, all available on the OpenSea platform and divided into three categories: “Legendary”, or “one of a kind”, “Rare”, which refers to an “extremely limited edition”, and “Epico”, also known as a “limited edition”.

    Reddit’s goal would therefore be to establish itself in a market that shows no signs of stopping. So what will be the next news in the Crypto world?

    Twitter enters the NFT world

    News from the digital and NFT world – 2 JULY 2021

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    Twitter enters the NFT world

    Twitter also announced its debut in the Crypto universe.

    However, the initial approach chosen by the social network differs from what has been seen so far: Twitter has in fact declared that it wants to give as many as 140 tweets – a number that corresponds to the original character limit – to users who leave a comment under the relative official tweet. at the news of the initiative.

    The NFTs of the tweets are divided into 7 different illustrations, so a good 20 copies for each and each illustration refers to the world of Twitter, including the logo and the character limit.

    This giveaway was organized in collaboration with the famous Rarible marketplace, where the Crypto works with their history are present, including any sales made by the lucky users who received the NFTs.

    Bianca Posterli, Head of Social Marketing and Twitter Campaigns, said, “The NFT conversation started on Twitter and it’s huge. This drop is our gift to NFT Twitter to celebrate that conversation and help make it even more accessible. “

    Katy Perry launches her first NFTs

    News from the digital and NFT world – 2 JULY 2021

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    Katy Perry launches her first NFTs

    After the debut in the Crypto world by several celebrities, it is now the turn of pop star Katy Perry! The singer recently announced the launch of her first NFTs created in collaboration with Theta Network, a video distribution network designed by the Theta Labs streaming platform.

    The first crypto works will be part of the Play collection, designed with the aim of celebrating the artist’s new residence in Las Vegas, at the new hotel Resorts World..

    “I am both excited and curious to launch my first NFTs by the end of the year with Theta Network. This is a new, unique opportunity to connect with my fans around the world, even if they are not with me in Vegas. I can’t wait to dive with the Theta team on all the creative, exciting and memorable pieces, so my fans can have a special moment of my residency that will be both a digital collector’s item and an IRL experience ”said Katy Perry.

    NFTs will be available starting December 2021, but pre-registration is possible at Katy.ThetaDrop.com.

    Justin Sun wins Warhol’s NFT artwork for $ 2.8 million

    News from the digital and NFT world – 1 JULY 2021

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    Justin Sun wins Warhol’s NFT artwork for $ 2.8 million

    Tron collector and founder Justin Sun was awarded Warhol’s NFT “Three Self-Portraits” for a staggering $ 2.8 million during the “Genesis” auction of the new Binance NFT platform.

    For Binance this is a great start as the auction takes place at a time when the NFT industry is facing a severe slowdown.

    Sun also launched its JUST NFT fund – basically an NFT platform that will mint some of the best artists in the world and their digital artwork on the blockchain.

    FEWOCiOUS sells at Christie’s for over $ 2 million

    News from the digital and NFT world – 1 JULY 2021

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

    FEWOCiOUS sells at Christie’s for over $ 2 million

    “Hello, i’m Victor (FEWOCiOUS) and This Is My Life” is the Christie’s NY online auction that closed yesterday and which presented five new NFT pieces and physical paintings by FEWOCiOUS, which he told through NFT works and physical each for his years of age and artistic growth, from 14 to 18 years.

    The sale made a grand total of $ 2,162,500.

    Each digital lot was paired with an original painting along with a collection of new and never-minted scribbles of drawings, notes and journal notes, selected from the artist’s personal collections and sold based on the number of years of age they had been. completed (14 for 14 years, 15 for 15 years etc.)

    Upon request, FEWOCiOUS will then personally deliver the physical painting along with the prints of the pieces from its archive in a personalized suitcase to the collector who won the lot, to remind you how he carried his works around before becoming the established artist he is today.

    Kenny Schachter will curate the first NFT exhibition of the Institut platform

    News from the digital and NFT world – 1 JULY 2021

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    Megan Ellen MacDonald’s “Little Death” NFT. COURTESY INSTITUT

    Kenny Schachter will curate the first NFT exhibition of the Institut platform

    The Unit London gallery in London, specializing in digital art, asked the artist, art dealer and journalist Kenny Schachter to curate the first NFT exhibition for the Institut sales platform, launched some time ago by the same gallery.

    The physical exhibition brings together 100 artists from both the traditional and digital world, including Miao Ying, Olive Allen, and IX Shells, who recently became the best-selling female artist in NFT with her work “Dreaming at Dusk”, sold for 500 ETH, about $ 2 million.

    Institut will also produce limited edition physical prints of books and sculptures. “We also have some drops of physical edition works planned,” said gallery director Joe Kennedy. And Kennedy continues: “IX Shells has created a new painting, which we are turning into a 12 or 15 color silk screen edition. She has animated an image so that this incredible painting is macabre. She already has a digital component inside. some of the artists on display are digital natives and others are more traditional painters. “