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The first Non-Fungible Token (NFT) artwork to be sold at a major auction has closed at nearly $70M.

Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs) seem to be the new gold rush in the cryptocurrency world today as digital artists continue to cash out from their works. [...]

Save this story for later. The poet Monica Youn has long found inspiration in pop culture, probing its pleasures and possibilities for subversive verse. Her 2010 collection “Ignatz,” a finalist for the National Book Award, turned the madcap energies and mysterious syntax of George Herriman’s famed comic strip “Krazy Kat” into a lyric investigation of desire. “Krazy Kat,” of course, has long been seen as literary, earning adaptations across mediums, including a jazz ballet in the n...

Art on ice: Damien Hirst’s St Moritz lockdown project The Monk, 2014. Installation image of Lake St Moritz, 2021. Photographed by Felix Friedmann. ©Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. Temple, 2008. Installed in St Moritz, 2021. Photographed by Felix Friedmann. ©Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. Mental Escapology at the Protestant Church, 2021. Photographed by Felix Friedmann. ©Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. Mental Escapology at the Forum Paracelsus, 2021. Photographed by Felix Friedmann. Â�...

Sun 17 Jan 2021 02.00 EST A year before his death in 1992, Francis Bacon quietly slipped into the Prado in Madrid, discreetly followed by its deputy director, Manuela Mena. There, he spent 90 minutes alone with its collection of Velázquez (it was a Monday, and the museum was closed). What did Mena make of Bacon, who was then 81, and in the habit of using shoe polish to colour his hair? “I’ve never seen somebody so gentle,” she said. “He looked you straight in the eye. He ...

Francis Bacon in his studio, 1967 Credit: Ian Berry/Magnum Photos It was dark outside but, in the lamplit tobacco clouds of the Colony Room Club in Soho, the proprietor Ian Board, his great swollen nose flushed with anger, had hopped down from his barstool perch by the door and was shouting at Francis Bacon with cries like a dog’s bark, his voice rough as a cheese-grater. Grabbing an umbrella from the back of the stool, he began to belabour the world’s foremost artist about the shoulders as...

Banksy: Girl with Balloon, shredding just after the hammer came down in 2018 Credit: Instagram/@banksy As we enter 2021, it seems a good time to assess the previous decade. From a long-range perspective the high points might be: the resounding recovery from the 2008 banking crash; the virtually continuous growth in prices for modern and contemporary art; or, more recently, the market’s adaptation to the erosion of the physical experience of art during the pandemic. Closer inspection reveals g...

Natural History series—animal corpses preserved in formaldehyde—and a photorealist painting titled Surgical Tools for Caesarean will go on show in the neoclassical space. Kaleidoscope Paintings, which reference “the spiritual symbolism of the butterfly” according to Hirst’s website, will be shown in the Protestant church in the town centre. Unseen works from the 1990s Spot (Pharmaceutical) Paintings series, daubed with random irregularly shaped spots, will also be exhibited. The ...