Berman Jerry Nowlin Jr., creator of “Undead Apes” NFTs, has been found guilty of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering by a Florida jury. Nowlin and his co-creator made nearly $400,000 from the scheme, which piggybacked off the success of their previous collections to mislead investors.
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Since its sale at Christie’s in 2017, Leonardo’s Salvator Mundi has been the subject of ongoing debate and questions. In 2021, curators at the Prado announced their doubts over the attribution in their exhibition catalogue for ‘Leonardo and the copy of the Mona Lisa. New Approaches to the artist’s studio practices’. In 2019, the Louvre controversially pulled the painting from their Leonardo da Vinci exhibition.
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The Jackson Pollock Studio and Web3 platform Iconic have released a collection of NFTs titled “Beyond the Edge: The Jackson Pollock Studio Collection”, which includes NFTs of four cropped sections from Jackson Pollock’s studio floor.
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A New York court has dismissed a case over an artist’s right to “the world’s first NFT” (non-fungible token), which sold for $1.5 million (£1.2 million) at Sotheby’s in 2021. It represents the first legal case in the US to examine how blockchain technology affects the ownership of digital art.
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On 28 February, the Christie’s 20th/21st Century: London Evening Sale offered Fidenza #724, a digital pigment print on paper which was sold accompanied by a NFT by the artist and software engineer Tyler Hobbs. Christie’s described the work as “channelling inspiration from art history and nature into innovative computer code.” The work exceeded its pre-sale estimate of £200,000-300,000, selling for £365,000. This sale is the latest in what seems to be a resurgence in the NFT and digital art market.
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Innovation in the virtual world, increasingly known to many as the metaverse, is constantly evolving.
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The family of Swedish abstract artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) have criticized a digital drop of NFTs based on the artist’s series Paintings for the Temple (1906-1915). The NFTs were produced by Stolpe Publishing, Acute Art and Pharrell Williams’ company GODA (Gallery of Digital Assets), not by the Hilma af Klint Foundation who owns the original paintings.
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Damien Hirst is setting fire to almost £10 million worth of his own artwork after selling non-fungible token (NFT) versions of the pieces. The notorious artist revealed that the process of burning his physical art “feels good, better than I expected.”
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NFT.NYC, the international NFT (non-fungible tokens) industry conference, has kicked off in New York this week. There were more than 30 categories at the second annual NFT Awards in areas including visual arts, gaming and fashion.
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A new NFT project was released earlier in May which seeks to find an alternative form of restitution of African looted art. The project, titled ‘Looty’, plans to (legally) make NFTs of artifacts known to have been looted from Africa and sell them, with 20% of the proceeds going to a fund to provide a young African artist with a grant.
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