24 HOURS OF ART: Friday Highlights
Digital Art Headlines, Market Highlights, and Analysis from 10/10 - 10/11
NB Finds a Black Hole
On this day, Noah Bolanowski (NB) goes down a fascinating rabbit hole.
While studying 20+ Tumblr variants of a ‘BLACK HOLE’ XCOPY artwork, one in particular stands out. An April 11, 2018 post and 100 edition artwork contain a functional Coinbase payment link!
After a swift $15 (yes, XCOPY artworks were once $15), NB receives a confirmation email for a one-way transaction, with no artwork or NFT on the other side.
If your first thought is that NB must be upset, you’d be wrong. He describes his discovery “super excited high” to Jediwolf, starting a movement of others forming the ‘ReceiptDAO’ and sending $15 to a now lost payment gateway. Into the metaphorical black hole.
7 Figure Autoglyphs?
Michael Bouhanna says “7 figures in!” hours prior to the close of Sotheby’s ‘Algorithmic Primitivism: Autoglyphs’, a sealed auction for 7 Seedphrase Autoglyphs by Larva Labs. No further information is provided.
What was the final tally? Was it enough to officially move the lot? We await final confirmation…
Christie’s Ascension
‘Ascend’ by Ryan Koopmans and Alice Wexell auctions for £44,100 ($57,450) at Christie’s live Post-War & Contemporary Art Day Sale. The dynamic day/night Bitcoin Ordinals artwork is accompanied by a physical print.
Via Ryan Koopmans:
“Thank you to all of the bidders, The Christie’s team and Sebastian Sanchez for having us in this iconic auction, and to Inscribing Atlantis for working with us to make this dynamic inscription come to life!”
Two Aunties to Antxx
Not one, but two Niceaunties 1/1 artworks are headed to the collection of Antxx24 via Fellowship. They sell for 5.05 ETH each and 10.10 ETH total:
‘Auntlantis: A Plastic Vacation’: 5.05 ETH
‘Camelot, 2024’: 5.05 ETH
Notable Pepe Update
The October 50 artist Notable Pepe show goes on!
Two Live:
‘PEPECUT’ by Seerlight: 100/100 minted
‘Happy Place’ by Socmplxd: 76/100 minted
Two Incoming:
‘FRIEDPEPE’ by Jake Fried
‘NOTABLECOINMEME’ by (dank) a d m i n
Collection: Highlights
‘COPE SALADA’ /250 (122 minted thus far on Highlight/Shape) by XCOPY: 10 sales for 36.56 ETH, list: 3.73 ETH
‘Terraforms’ /9,911 by Mathcastles: 8 sales for 4.84 ETH, list: 0.57 ETH
ClickCreate - ‘Carnaval em São Luiz’ by BEISSÚ, curated by Pravijn: 95 editions mint out at 0.02969 ETH each
LIVE (Avant Arte) - ‘THE TREE OF KNOWLEGE’ Prints by Beeple
LIVE (Feral File) - ‘Patterns of Flow’
LIVE (Highlight on Shape) - ‘Noodlz’ by Harvey Rayner: 335/500 minted thus far
LIVE (SHILLR) - S3 Core Pass & Collector Pass
LIVE (Verse x SOLOS) - ‘Security’ by SHL0MS
INCOMING (LISA) - ‘Personas’ by Victor Mosquera: Public Phase
INCOMING (The Memes by 6529) - ‘post_apoXkalypse_summer.jPG’ by Zigor
1/1: Highlights
‘Where My Vans Go #108’ by Drift: 3.81 WETH to NFTButler_d50f
‘content sponge’ (July 2021) by die with the most likes: 11,111 XTZ | ~$7,306 USD to brad
‘fuckable punk #1’ (August 2021) by die with the most likes: 8,888 XTZ | ~$5,844 USD
‘[ W I N T A G E ] 9 8’ (April 2021) by CheeseTalk: 1 ETH to guppynft
‘Echoes of The Silenced’ by jivinci: 0.7 ETH to omz
‘** A fading dream **’ by r0yart: 0.5 ETH to pobedeen
‘Arma-dillo’ by Katerine Escobar: 0.26 ETH to zadock
LIVE (Asprey Studio) - ‘You Could Suffer in Heaven’ by Defaced: 25k USD bid from Blondie23LMD
LIVE (Foundation) - ‘Baton Roue’ by Corentin Penloup: 4 ETH bid, ends Sun
LIVE (SuperRare) - ‘April’s Junction to Tomorrow’ by Botto: 2.69 ETH bid, ends 4:00pm ET
LIVE (Ninfa) - ‘Pendulum III’ by A_Mashiro: 1 ETH bid, ends 2:20pm ET
LIVE (SuperRare) - ‘RED’ by Cowboy Killer: 1 ETH bid, ends Sat 1:00pm ET
1/1/X: Highlights
‘Seedphrase Collection // Pre Claim’ by mmERCH: 8.25 ETH (Hoodie #000) to DANNY
‘Winds of Yawanawa’ /1k by Refik Anadol: 4.47 WETH → 4.798 ETH (same artwork)
‘Chromie Squiggle’ /10k (Art Blocks) by Snowfro: 4.6 ETH & 4.3 WETH
‘Meridian’ /1k (Art Blocks) by Matt DesLauriers: 2.1 & 2.0011 WETH
‘Strands of Solitude’ /400 by William Mapan: 0.66 ETH
‘Funhouse Mirror’ /100 (Fellowship) by Charlie Engman: 0.55 ETH to pridesai
‘Fragments of an Infinite Field’ /1,024 (Art Blocks) by Monica Rizzolli: 0.4202, 0.42 & 0.4 WETH
Edition: Highlights
‘SAINT_LESS (Fire)’ /200 (NFTBoxes) by XCOPY: 1.69 WETH
‘Transparent Grit’ /66 (Feral File) by Dmitri Cherniak: 1.23 WETH to Miodozer
‘PROTO-GOUGE’ /99 by XCOPY: 1.19 ETH
‘BANG_BANG’ /249 by XCOPY: 0.9 WETH
‘Station3 Patron’ /931 by Grant Yun: 0.9 ETH
‘MAX PAIN’ /5,514 by XCOPY: 0.7595 & 0.73 ETH, 0.735 WETH
‘LetsWalk’ by DeeKay: 0.44 & 0.398 ETH
Closing Thoughts
Sometimes a story revolving around one-way $15 transactions feels larger than any sales based item. If you think about it, it’s a story of time, the relative speed of XCOPY’s rise from old, defunct $15 artwork links to yesterday’s near $2M sale. It’s a story of lost platforms, the magic of collector fascination, and groups forming around shared passions.
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