24 HOURS OF ART: Friday Highlights
Digital Art Headlines, Market Highlights, and Analysis from 5/16 - 5/17
Meridian News
‘Meridian’ /1k by Matt DesLauriers x Art Blocks continues an active week with 8.25 WETH Newsprint Style and 3.75 WETH Procedural Style sales. Collection list is 4.44 ETH.
Collection: Highlights
Terraforms /9,911 by Mathcastles: 11.47 ETH volume, list: 0.92 ETH
alignDRAW /2,709 (Fellowship) by Elman Mansimov: 11.34 ETH volume, list: 1.8 ETH
chatFUKR /1k by Harvey Rayner: 0.375 BTC volume, list: 0.006 BTC
Artists in Residence (AOTM) Concludes: Nap by Goyong - 70 mints for 2.94 ETH, The Court of Public Opinion by Rebecca Rose - 33 mints for 1.38 ETH, the illusion of heaven by Amaan Jahangir: 24 mints for 1 ETH
LIVE (Fellowship) - DUCK by Rachel Maclean: 10/20 artworks sell for 7.17 ETH total, remaining 10 are available
LIVE (Mass) - Mass by James Bloom: 228/300 minted, public phase today
LIVE (Transient Labs) - Be More Based: 15 artist memetic open editions close today
INCOMING (Art Blocks x Vertu) - Opuntia by Jake Rockland
INCOMING (Christie’s) - Post-War and Contemporary Art Day Sale including Hands of Time by DeeKay
INCOMING (Colonna Contemporary x FND) - Longform: Scars by Crow
INCOMING (The Memes by 6529) - Chad Pepe by Trystan
1/1: Highlights
WTF (Apr 2020 SR) by Tommy: 17 ETH to cottaste (?)
Lava by Goyong: 2.75 ETH to vvd.eth
Curbside by Socmplxd: 1.69 ETH to CodeMedici
Anonymous Punk by Jivinci: 1.5 ETH to basileus
Pressing On by Crow: 1.5 ETH to FlannelCapital
Scars by Crow: 1.5 ETH to FlannelCapital
Ah more, infinitely more by Matt Kane: 1.369 ETH to roadweb.eth
Pew - 43 by Joice Loo: 23.46 SOL
Bolt - 27 by Joice Loo: 22.5 SOL to DaFomoOne
An Innocent Man by Rebecca Rose: 1.1 ETH to genco.eth
Trial of the Century by Rebecca Rose: 1.05 ETH
Agony by Thomas Stokes III: 1 ETH to colborn
tragedy by Amaan Jahangir: 1 ETH to fantasticmrfox.eth
Love has many Arms by Shortcut: 23.5k RARE | $2.8k USD
Red Truck #23 (Apr 2023 FND) by Alejandro Cartagena: 0.75 ETH
Not the Red Room by Lisa Fogarty: 0.5 ETH to Kettle
LIVE (ANONS) - ANON #8 by Matt Kane: 4.2 ETH bid, ends Sat 3:38am EST
LIVE (SuperRare) - Dawn's Echo on Miniature Coast by Botto: 1.69 ETH bid, ends 4:00pm EST
LIVE (ANONS) - from my ribb’d breast by Matt Kane: 1.369 ETH bid, ends Sat 3:38am EST
LIVE (ANONS) - soldiers’ joys by Matt Kane: 1.36 ETH bid, ends Sat 3:38am EST
1/1/X: Highlights
Anticyclone /800 (Art Blocks) by William Mapan: 3.06 ETH
The Golden Ratio /420 by Harto x Vivid: 0.121 BTC
Memories of Qilin /1,024 (Art Blocks) by Emily Xie: 2.3 WETH to assembly-hotwallet.eth
Ordinal Shards /100 by Billy Restey: 0.055 BTC
Human Unreadable /400 (Art Blocks) by Operator: 1.19 & 1.15 ETH to NIFTIES
REWORLD /500 (Fellowship) by Roope Rainisto: 1.15 ETH & 0.8 WETH
Metropolis /901 (Art Blocks) by Mpkoz: 1 & 0.85 WETH, 0.37 & 0.37 ETH
The Currency /2,011 by Damien Hirst: 0.76 & 0.75 WETH
Cargo /999 (Art Blocks) by Kim Asendorf: 0.74 ETH to NXF-D
cox13J5pm424Kn #1 /42 (Verse) by qubibi: $2,000 to Valent
Edition: Highlights
Voxelglyph /235 by Larva Labs x Fingerprints DAO: 2.5 WETH
Proof of Origin - Picture of the Planets /50 (PROOF) by Matt Kane: 1.5 WETH
eventual self portrait /51 by Alpha Centauri Kid: 1 WETH to ElectricToad
CYPRESS /55 (Noble Gallery) by Grant Yun: 0.46 WETH → 0.96 ETH (same edition)
Station3 Patron /1k: 0.74 ETH
SIDEWAYZ /420 by XCOPY: 0.57 & 0.53 WETH
ALL YOUR BITCOIN /332 (The Memes by 6529) by 6529er: 0.55 WETH to Randy66
OBLIVION /500 by XCOPY: 0.53 WETH
A Cube /2,501 by Pak: 0.5 ETH
MAX PAIN /5,878 by XCOPY: 0.49 ETH to nftBagsy_eth
The Grail /50 (PROOF) by Craig Mullins: 0.49 ETH
SeizeJPGs /1k (The Memes by 6529) by 6529er: 0.28 WETH
Green /16 by Six N. Five: $750 to space_sprockets
Closing Thoughts
1/1 art is having a nice moment. Socmplxd and Ninfa complete an 8 artwork Parallax sellout, Rachel Maclean and Fellowship have sold 10 thus far, AOTM sells 6 across 3 strong Artists in Residence, Matt Kane’s ANONs are all sold or live (thanks to Roadweb), Crow sells 2 prior to his show going live, and there are plenty more to look at (Jivinci, Loo, Shortcut, Stokes III, Fogarty, etc). All of which leads us into another Botto Friday.
TL;DR - it’s nice to see. My bias is to look at 1/1 health as the most stable indicator of where the digital art market truly stands. Outside of isolated artists and events, it’s the slowest to follow trends.
(Note: While I felt compelled to list it because… blockchain… the 1/1 ‘WTF’ 17 ETH sale seems too questionable to lean into barring new information)
On the other side of the spectrum, accessible editions are strong as well! AOTM Artists in Residence had 3, Transient Labs closes their memetic Base release with 15 artists today, and mainstays The Memes by 6529 and ClickCreate continue to deliver.
Apart from the above, it’s an intriguing Friday. DeeKay goes live at Christie’s and James Bloom approaches a sellout we’ll certainly be talking more about here. Enjoy!