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Simon de Pury Found NFTs Very, Very Confusing. So He Gave Himself a Crash Course—and Realized They’re Here to Stay The art-industry veteran weighs in on the gold rush for NFTs, and what it has in common with the Swatch boom of the 80s. April 26, 2021 Simon de Pury, then chairman of Phillips de Pury and Company at a preview the first auction of a historic collection of Swatch watches in Hong Kong in 2011. Photo by Dickson Lee/South China Morning Post via Getty Images. Every month in The Ham...

627 Arushi Chaudhary You’re scrolling through Instagram or browsing Behance when you come across a stunning piece of digitally rendered art. How much would you pay to own it? Strike that. Would you pay for it at all when you could just make it your own with a right click+save or a screengrab? That has been the fate of digital art for as long as it has existed, primarily because of the ease of duplication. But not anymore. Today, digital art creations can be authenticated, verified and auction...

We bought an NFT. Here’s what we learned As headlines about people bidding eye-watering sums on GIFs of Pop Tart cats, the first-ever tweet, a Kings of Leon album and other NFTs piled up over the last several weeks, the CNN Business team decided the best way to understand the craze would be to buy one ourselves. That was easier said than done. It required not one but two wallet apps, a familiarity with a lesser-known denomination of a cryptocurrency and, perhaps most important of all, a disce...

NFTs: Heres what we learned after buying one CNN 3/14/2021 © Courtesy Alex Shell Little Alien, multicolor edition, an NFT artwork by artist Alex Shell. As headlines about people bidding eye-watering sums on GIFs of Pop Tart cats, the first-ever tweet, a Kings of Leon album and other NFTs piled up over the last several weeks, the CNN Business team decided the best way to understand the craze would be to buy one ourselves. That was easier said than done. It required not one but two wallet a...

Chris Torres toggle caption Chris Torres A work called Nyan Cat by Chris Torres sold for $590,000 recently. Its part of growing interest in digital assets, known as nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, that are generating millions of dollars in sales every day. Chris Torres The artist Grimes recently sold a bunch of NFTs for nearly $6 million. An NFT of LeBron James making a historic dunk for the Lakers garnered more than $200,000. The band Kings of Leon is relea...

  / A work called Nyan Cat by Chris Torres sold for $590,000 recently. Its part of growing interest in digital assets, known as nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, that are generating millions of dollars in sales every day. // Chris Torres The artist Grimes recently sold a bunch of NFTs for nearly $6 million. An NFT of LeBron James making a historic dunk for the Lakers garnered more than $200,000. The band Kings of Leon is releasing its new album in the form of an NFT. At the auction house Chri...

I’ve been a professional (but unconventional) artist for over 20 years, dabbling in every kind of art I’ve ever been interested in, including freelance illustration, animation, art direction, film…

HarperVia, 380 pp. On January 31, I received a knock at the door of my Beijing apartment. It was the manager of lease renewals clutching a stack of flyers. “Mr. Zhang, you’re feeling well?” she asked, using my Chinese surname. “No fever yet.” She laughed—foreigners and their comments. “I know you don’t have the illness, but we want everyone to be safe. Here.” She handed me two copies of the flyer, one in Chinese and the other in English. They were written by the Beijing munic...

Last week’s attack on the United States Capitol building will forever be remembered as one of the darkest days in American history. Like most people around the world, rockers and

Moderna to Begin Delivery; London Lockdown Ordered: Virus Update Dec 20 2020, 10:56 AM December 19 2020, 4:09 AM December 20 2020, 10:56 AM (Bloomberg) -- (Bloomberg) -- Prime Minister Boris Johnson imposed a full lockdown on London and large parts of southeast England in a desperate attempt to stop a new strain of coronavirus that is spreading rapidly in the U.K. The nation surpassed 2 million total infections. The newly-approved Moderna vaccine will begin distribution across the U.S. starti...