MoMAmental
History is made.
Refik Anadol’s Unsupervised enters The Museum of Modern Art’s permanent collection via donation by RFC Collection (Pablo Fraile & Desiree Casoni) and 1OF1 (Ryan Zurrer).
Ian Cheng’s 3FACE is donated by Outland Art and together with Unsupervised become the first tokenized artworks to enter the MoMA.
Pablo spotlights his journey with Refik Anadol and Beeple shares enthusiasm.
Tailwinds
Unsupervised — Machine Hallucinations — MoMA Dreams /716 sees flurry of 11 sales for 20.25 ETH.
Winds of Yawanawa /1k by Refik Anadol reveal continues with artworks 101-300. Collection sees 17 sales for 103 ETH, unrevealed floor: 6.9 ETH, revealed floor: 7.1 ETH. Next 200 artworks today.
The Doomed
The Doomed /100 - XCOPY’s KnownOrigin genesis minted in October, 2018 with the description “Tech won’t save us.” - sells for 21.5 ETH to Benji.
REACHBACK /34 - Nifty Gateway March, 2022 mint - sells for 10 ETH. MAX PAIN /7,394 sees 4 sales for 1.237 ETH, Anonymoux sweeps 3.
Headlines
Frieze London opens with Digital Muses Asprey Studio event, Asprey posts: “Digital Art is the most important artistic medium of our generation.”
nft now announces brand evolution to now media.
Collection: Highlights
Terraforms /9,911 by Mathcastles: 26 sales for 37.93 ETH, floor: 1.38 ETH
Empaths /200 by Adamtastic: mints out 200 editions on Rarible for 4.12 ETH
INCOMING (NG) - For the love of JPEG by Ykha Amelz: 6:30pm EDT
1/1: Highlights
Learning Nature (b31,2127,10) by David Young (Nov, 2018 SR mint): 10 ETH to goodtosee
unauthorized-interventions by 0009: 2 ETH to GrandCru89
The Myth of Daedalus and Icarus by 1dontknows: 1.69 ETH to BobbInt_hot
The Village by tkzs: 1.0105 ETH to jwpe
test_your_eye_vision.exe by sluj: 1 ETH to cryptohaskell
Crash In The Light by Tyler Santangelo: 0.5 ETH to humanzero
Lilac Skies by tkzs: 0.5 ETH to spartan_black1
we are the deciders by Kungfuhavestyle: 0.341 ETH to napalm
LIVE (SR) - Siren Song by Jenni Pasanen: 4 ETH bid, ends Thurs 3:43am EDT
LIVE (SR) - I Apologise if This Is My Last Transaction by VSTRVL: 1.69 ETH bid, ends 5:06pm EDT
LIVE (FND) - No Victor No Vanquished/The Last Day of Biafra by Anthony Azekwoh: 1.6 ETH bid, ends Fri 12:10pm EDT
LIVE (FND) - The Vale of Selene (2020) by Ryan Bliss: 1 ETH bid, ends 9:18pm EDT
1/1/X: Highlights
AB Chromie Squiggle /10k by Snowfro: 9.78 & 9.5 ETH
AB Meridian /1k by Matt DesLauriers: 8.99 ETH & 5.9812 WETH
Contractual Obligations /250 by Matt Kane: 6 & 4.29 ETH
BrainDrops Life In West America /500 by Roope Rainisto: 4.5 & 3.35 ETH
AB Memories of Qilin /1,024 by Emily Xie: 4.1 ETH to ABSNFTBUY
AB Fontana /500 by Harvey Rayner | patterndotco: 2 ETH
Damien Hirst - The Currency /1,952: 1.8 WETH to BigSmilesVault
AB JPEG /275 by Jan Robert Leegte: 1.3 & 1.25 ETH
BrainDrops PodGANS /1,024 by Pindar Van Arman: 1.2 ETH to ABSNFTBUY
Pursuit /200 by Per Kristian Stoveland: 1.15 ETH to MILLSDGT
AB Fragments of an Infinite Field /1,024 by Monica Rizzolli: 0.95 WETH to appleman88
AB Edifice /976 by Ben Kovach: 0.9 WETH
AB Nimbuds /400 by Bryan Brinkman: 0.801 WETH
Edition: Highlights
QQL Mint Pass /705 by Tyler Hobbs: 4.8 WETH to MachiBigBrother
Aku Chapter III: Escape /570 by Micah Johnson: $1,950 to leonas
Opepen Edition by Jack Butcher /5 unrevealed: 0.95 ETH
The Memes by 6529 The Socially Umpired Animals /365 by Botto: 0.95 ETH to Ruskin1819
Eroding and Reforming Bust of Rome (One Year) /671 by Daniel Arsham: $1,400 to 33
Welcome to Aku World: Chapter II /706 by Micah Johnson: $595 to sigmajay008
OSF’s GOFL /250: 0.399 ETH to edriver
The Memes by 6529 BOOM /320 by Killer Acid: 0.3888, 0.375 & 0.3745 ETH
The Bitcoin Angel (Open Edition) /4,158 by Trevor Jones: $350 to estate80
Closing Thoughts
Digital art takes a massive step forward permanently into the MoMA.
It’s easy for the thoughts to end there, but don’t sleep on the event at Frieze and nft now smartly positioning itself for a bright future.
Most days XCOPY The Doomed would lead this report, not to mention the additional REACHBACK sale. All of this plus diverse activity across early AI SuperRare, 1/1 works, Art Blocks, and more make this a day to remember.
Listening Material:
Artifex hosted Ayla El-Moussa for her entertaining “In Conversation” series with Grant Yun and die with the most likes. Catch up on the recording here.