'Beeple' Becomes One in Top Three Most Valuable Living Artists After Selling NFT For 70 Million Dollars
3 years, 9 months ago

'Beeple' Becomes One in Top Three Most Valuable Living Artists After Selling NFT For 70 Million Dollars

News 18  

Christie’s says it has auctioned off a digital collage by an artist named Beeple for nearly $70 million, in an unprecedented sale of a digital artwork that fetched more money than physical works by many better known artists. The piece, titled “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days,” sold for $69.4 million in an online auction, “positioning him among the top three most valuable living artists,” Christie’s said via Twitter on Thursday. The sale of the work for $69,346,250 put Beeple in the top three most valuable living artists, Christie’s said in a tweet. I believe we are witnessing the beginning of the next chapter in art history, digital art.” Christie’s did not identify the buyer of the artwork, which consists of 5,000 individual digital pictures stitched together that Beeple created – one each day – since May 2007.

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What is an NFT and how does it work? The ‘bitcoin for art’ explained
3 years ago

What is an NFT and how does it work? The ‘bitcoin for art’ explained

The Independent  

Sign up to our free weekly IndyTech newsletter delivered straight to your inbox Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter Sign up to our free IndyTech newsletter SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. Chris Torres, the artist who first created Nyan Cat, recently ‘minted’ a new GIF of the famous …

Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Is Selling His PC 'Strawberry iMac' – Know All About The Auction
3 years ago

Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Is Selling His PC 'Strawberry iMac' – Know All About The Auction

ABP News  

New Delhi: Jimmy Wales, the creator of Wikipedia's iMac which he used to programme the online reference resource 20 years ago will be put up for auction, along with an NFT memorializing his first edit on the platform, auctioneers said Friday reported AFP. Wales used a Strawberry iMac was "used for development and research at the time of the website's …

Beeple Will Update a New $29M Piece ‘For the Rest of My Life’
54 years, 11 months ago

Beeple Will Update a New $29M Piece ‘For the Rest of My Life’

Wired  

Until about a year ago, artist Mike Winkleman hadn’t sold a print for more than 100 bucks. In March of this year he sold a piece containing the works from his first 5,000 days as an NFT through Christie’s, making it the first pure NFT the auction house had ever sold, and, thanks to that $69 million price tag, the …

Robot artist sells art for Rs 5 crore at auction. Read full story here
3 years, 8 months ago

Robot artist sells art for Rs 5 crore at auction. Read full story here

India Today  

Sophia is a robot of many talents — she speaks, jokes, sings and even makes art. “I envisioned Sophia as a creative artwork herself, that could generate art,” Hanson said in an interview. The digital work that sold for $688,888 is titled “Sophia Instantiation”, and is a 12-second video file which shows Bonaceto’s portrait evolving into Sophia’s digital painting. In …

How two crypto investors spent $70 million on a Beeple piece, securing their place in art history
3 years, 8 months ago

How two crypto investors spent $70 million on a Beeple piece, securing their place in art history

Firstpost  

Vignesh Sundaresan and Anand Venkateswaran describe the nerve-racking final moments of the online auction for a collage of 5,000 images by the artist known as Beeple. “We weren’t sure we won,” said Venkateswaran, describing the nerve-racking final moments of the online auction for a collage of 5,000 images by the artist known as Beeple. “We kept refreshing the page.” The …

Artist Beeple on selling NFT collage for a record $70M: 'People are trying to look for some scam; I don't see it'
3 years, 8 months ago

Artist Beeple on selling NFT collage for a record $70M: 'People are trying to look for some scam; I don't see it'

Firstpost  

Beeple, whose real name is Mike Winkelmann, spoke with AP about his auction result, NFTs and how the crypto art boom is affecting him and other artists who haven’t previously had a way to guarantee exclusive ownership of digital works, which by their nature can normally be freely copied. The Associated Press caught up with Beeple, whose real name is …

What is an NFT, and why does John Cleese want to sell you his for $69.3 million?
3 years, 8 months ago

What is an NFT, and why does John Cleese want to sell you his for $69.3 million?

Salon  

"Monty Python" actor John Cleese wants to sell you the Brooklyn Bridge. That's because an NFT is like a virtual trading card that comes "tagged" with digital proof of authorship and ownership. "Domain names, event tickets, in-game items, even handles on social networks like Twitter or Facebook, are all non-fungible digital assets," Devin Finzer, CEO of the NFT marketplace Open …

Who is MetaKovan, the 'Desi' Singaporean Who Bought Beeple's NFT Artwork Worth $70 Million?
3 years, 9 months ago

Who is MetaKovan, the 'Desi' Singaporean Who Bought Beeple's NFT Artwork Worth $70 Million?

News 18  

The buyer of a landmark artwork by the digital artist Beeple, which sold for almost $70 million, may just be a ?brown munde.? Christie?s, the auction house for the artwork on Friday revealed that the buyer is a leading collector of new technologies who operates under the pseudonym Metakovan. The sale of ?Everydays: the First 5,000 Days?, a virtual mosaic …

Crypto investor buys $70 mn digital artwork
3 years, 9 months ago

Crypto investor buys $70 mn digital artwork

The Hindu  

The buyer of a $70 million digital-only artwork was named on Friday by auction house Christie’s as a crypto asset investor who goes by the pseudonym “Metakovan.” The auction to buy the work by digital artist Beeple was the first ever sale by a major auction house of a piece of digital art that does not exist in physical form. …

As Beeple's digital art piece sells for $70 million, understanding the craze behind NFTs
3 years, 9 months ago

As Beeple's digital art piece sells for $70 million, understanding the craze behind NFTs

Firstpost  

London: A digital art piece, tweaked using cryptocurrency technology to make it one-of-a-kind, sold at auction this week for nearly $70 million. In December, the first extensive auction of his art brought in $3.5 million, an eye-catching amount that was surpassed by this week’s record-shattering sale of his collage Everydays: The First 5,000 Days for nearly $70 million, paid in …

Digital art by Beeple sells for $69.4 million at Christie's amid NFT boom
3 years, 9 months ago

Digital art by Beeple sells for $69.4 million at Christie's amid NFT boom

Firstpost  

London: Christie’s says it has auctioned off a digital collage by an artist named Beeple for nearly $70 million, in an unprecedented sale of a digital artwork that fetched more money than physical works by many better known artists. The piece, titled Everydays: The First 5,000 Days, sold for $69.4 million in an online auction, “positioning him among the top …

Decoding the boom in visual art and NFTs
3 years, 9 months ago

Decoding the boom in visual art and NFTs

Hindustan Times  

On March 11, Christie’s auctioned a JPG file for $69 million, catapulting its creator – digital artist Mike Winkelmann, who goes by the name of Beeple, to instant worldwide fame. The auction house said in a tweet that the first purely digital artwork’s auction places Beeple among the top three most valuable living artists. This digital collage, titled Everydays: The …

Digital artist Beeple $US70m richer as NFT piece becomes first sold by major auction house
3 years, 9 months ago

Digital artist Beeple $US70m richer as NFT piece becomes first sold by major auction house

ABC  

An artist has netted $US70 million from the landmark sale of a digital artwork that does not exist in physical form. Key points: Mike Winkelmann, known as Beeple, has become one of the world's most profitable artists The artwork is in the form of a Non-Fungible Token, which is authenticated by a blockchain This piece of art is the first …

Christie’s Beeple NFT auction: All your questions about the $69 million sale, answered.
54 years, 11 months ago

Christie’s Beeple NFT auction: All your questions about the $69 million sale, answered.

Slate  

Exactly what just sold for $69,346,250 at Christie’s? “People kept hitting me up, saying, ‘Oh, you should check out this NFT thing,’ ” he told the Art Newspaper. Here’s the case Beeple makes: “The NFTs were designed in a way that makes them immediately distinguishable from Instagram and immediately distinguishable as a collectible,” he told Decrypt. At any rate, Christie’s …

$69 million for digital art? The NFT craze explained
3 years, 9 months ago

$69 million for digital art? The NFT craze explained

LA Times  

Before there was Beeple, there was William Shatner. Known as NFTs, such tokens have taken off in recent weeks in what’s either an ecologically destructive speculative bubble or a promising new funding model for art and media, depending on whom you ask. The NFT file doesn’t contain the digital piece of art, or the video clip, or the Shatner card …

How NFTs are fueling a digital art boom
3 years, 9 months ago

How NFTs are fueling a digital art boom

CNN  

Editor’s Note: This article was updated following the auction of Beeple’s “Everydays: The First 5000 days,” which sold for $69.3 million. But until now, people hadn’t figured out a good way to collect digital art – and NFTs allow you to do that,” Cock Foster said on a video call, adding that buying tokens is easier and “a lot more …

Bids for first ever digital-only artwork at Christie’s hit $3m
3 years, 9 months ago

Bids for first ever digital-only artwork at Christie’s hit $3m

The Telegraph  

Christie's foray into the world of digital art arrives as the format sees a rapid rise in popularity, with buyers paying huge sums for artworks known as non-fungible tokens. Even though, the artist Beeple, real name Mike Winkelmann, only began making NFTs in October 2020, he has since become synonymous with this new genre of crypto art. The NFT he …

In a first, Christie’s to sell Beeple's digital artwork and accept payment in cryptocurrency
3 years, 9 months ago

In a first, Christie’s to sell Beeple's digital artwork and accept payment in cryptocurrency

Firstpost  

By Josie Thaddeus-Johns Mike Winkelmann never used to call himself an artist. On Thursday, a two-week-long online auction of a composite of the first 5,000 days of the project will begin at Christie’s, which says it’s the auction house’s first sale of a solely digital artwork. Likewise, someone could easily make a digital copy of Beeple’s Everydays — The First …

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