Christie's £50m NFT Milestone - Senior Curator Mark Godfrey Quits Tate
Christie’s £50m NFT Milestone Digital Art Collecting Comes Of Age Update: Metakovan, the founder of ‘crypto-exclusive fund’ Metapurse, has been identified as the buyer of Beeple’s $69.3m. NFTDigital art has an established history dating back to the 1960s. But the ease of duplication traditionally made it near-impossible to assign provenance and value to the medium. On March 11, 2021, Christie’s concluded its single lot online sale of Beeple’s Everydays: The First 5000 Days, achieving $69,346,250 and setting the third-highest price a living artist at auction in a watershed moment ...
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