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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 nineteen-twenties, along with admiration from writers like E. E. Cummings and Gilbert Seldes, who pra...

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. ©Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. 'Proteus', 2012. Installed in St Moritz, 2021. Photographed ...

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 wanted to see who you are. He had… this security in himself.” Bacon lingered longest, she...