24 HOURS OF ART: Monday Highlights
Digital Art Headlines, Market Highlights, and Analysis from 10/20 - 10/21
Hivemind Alpha
‘Piano Blossoms’ by Alpha Centauri Kid with Avant Arte closes 5 auctions for 107.63 ETH ($290,400) total.
News breaks that all 5 are won by the same collector, Hivemind’s Digital Culture Fund.
“It’s extraordinary that all 5 pieces ended up in the same collection. I’m honestly speechless… I’m infinitely thankful for their belief in my journey as an artist.” says ACK.
Via Hivemind Founder Matt Zhang:
“We have been following ack’s art and career for quite some time now. For works to enter Hivemind Digital Culture Fund, we always take an extremely rigorous, thoughtful and curated approach. That means we research carefully, collect slowly, but when we are ready, we want to be all in…
we also sensed this collection represents something new in his creating process and an evolving chapter in the artist’s career. The collection resonates with us deeply emotionally, and we believe will also attract a wide audience in the traditional art space in the years to come.”
Attention now shifts to a final stage of the Alpha Centauri Kid and Avant Arte release.
24 bids have already met the 1.25 ETH reserve for ‘Tempted in the Garden’, a 30 edition physical + digital. High bid is 5 ETH. The ranked auction concludes Wednesday at 2:00pm ET.
Don’t Feed The Birds
“birds” says ripcache.
His on-chain ‘remote control’ collection swiftly sells out its second edition of 64 - ‘birds’ - for 0.42069 ETH each and 26.92 ETH total. 13 secondary sales are in for 6.21 ETH (avg: 0.48 ETH) with current list at 0.569 ETH.
Via APOLLO:
“There are only a handful of artists who can sell out a FCFS edition in 18 minutes.
Study ripcache.”
Happy Anniversary Luci!
“Three years ago today I released the first Chapter of Luci…
I'm truly looking forward to sharing the next Chapter of Luci with everyone soon. This story began sad but hopeful--looking for answers alone. It continues against the cosmic dread it was founded on, now deep in the evolving , chaotic, beautiful, and uncomfortable state of being, connected to this absurd human network, together. Players are all invited.”
Artist Sam Spratt reflects on three years, thanking Cozomo, Anchor Drops and FEWOCiOUS, who collected the first three Luci artworks.
The 256 edition ‘Player’ responds with two sales of 9 ETH & 8.333 WETH, with its current list at 10 ETH.
Beeple Bull
There are no days off for Beeple editions, with two more secondary sales:
‘BULL RUN’ #2/271: 12.25 ETH
‘Beeple Everydays - Raw’ /100: 11.5 ETH
First Year Finale
“A movie consists of a huge amount of creative choices. What happens when the AI makes all of these choices?”
'StoryGEN1' by Roope Rainisto sees 6 artworks close for 5.227 ETH total with Fellowship. ‘Man Tends The Controls Of The Chernobyl Nuclear Plant And Causes A Nuclear Meltdown And Is Rather Nonchalant About It’ sets the Exhibition high at 1.5 ETH to delronde.
Fellowship’s celebration marking the first year of their DAILY program now comes down to its final Exhibition: 'SORA (Super ORganic Aunties)' by Niceaunties. Four artwork auctions conclude at 1:00pm ET:
‘Auntea Boba’: 1.5 ETH current bid
‘Auntiebody’: 1.5 ETH current bid
‘Aunties Eggs’: 1.2 ETH current bid
‘Goddess’: 1.5 ETH current bid
Collection: Highlights
LIVE (Iconic x MoA+L) - ‘COMPLETION: FRAGMENTS’ by Sasha Stiles
LIVE (SHILLR) - ‘A Comfy Place’ by Daniel Koeth (79/111 minted) and ‘Self Reflection’ by Hayden Clay (87/111 minted)
LIVE (Sotheby’s) - ‘Exorbitant Stage: Botto’: Reserves are met on all 3 Genesis Period artworks (70k and 70k for 1/1s, 10k for edition)
INCOMING (Art Blocks Curated) - ‘Bokeh digital works’ by mpkoz
INCOMING (Notable Pepes) - Archan Nair & LOVEBEING
INCOMING (The Memes by 6529) - ‘Meta(morphosis)’ by Ahad
1/1: Highlights
‘The Dreams We Had As Children’ by Killian Moore: 0.5 ETH to scamart
‘The Feminine Principle of Decentralization’ by Miss Al Simpson: 0.45 ETH to clod2
‘Opalescent Illusion’ by George Boya x Souline: 0.4 ETH to FlyingBeagle
‘flowers and vegetables, modified by ascii elements.’ by enigmatriz: 0.35 ETH to gvg
‘XGUERNICA’ by ApolloDoge: 0.33275 ETH
1/1/X: Highlights
‘Winds of Yawanawa’ /1k by Refik Anadol: 4.64 ETH & 4.14 WETH
‘Chromie Squiggle’ /10k (Art Blocks) by Snowfro: 4.2 ETH, 2.854 & 2.8 WETH
‘COPE SALADA’ /250 by XCOPY: 2.69 ETH
‘Life In West America’ /500 (BrainDrops) by Roope Rainisto: 1.75 ETH to NMWvault
‘Genesis’ /500 (BrainDrops) by Claire Silver: 1.59 ETH to blur
‘alignDRAW’ /2,709 (Fellowship) by Elman Mansimov: 1.45, 1.45, 1.44 & 1.374 ETH (same collector)
‘beef brothko’ /666 by die with the most likes: 0.85 WETH to VincentVanDough
‘Sky Squiggles’ /100 by quantized: 0.0315, 0.03 & 0.029 BTC
‘Cargo’ /999 (Art Blocks) by Kim Asendorf: 0.8 ETH to assembly-hotwallet.eth
‘The Currency’ /2,047 by Damien Hirst: 0.6899, 0.689 & 0.689 WETH, 0.68 ETH
‘Terraforms’ /9,911 by Mathcastles: 0.65, 0.6 & 0.555 ETH
‘podGANs’ /1,024 (BrainDrops) by Pindar Van Arman: 0.649 ETH to blur
‘The Empresses’ /928 by Damien Hirst: 0.54, 0.5 & 0.4 ETH, 0.35 WETH
‘AI Art is Not Art’ /500 by Claire Silver: 0.4, 0.38, 0.379 & 0.3789 ETH to Bob_Loukas
Edition: Highlights
‘SIDEWAYZ’ /391 by XCOPY: 0.82 WETH to ImMilton
‘CRAWLER’ /256 by XCOPY: 0.8031 WETH to NFTButler_MP1
‘MAX PAIN’ /5,502 by XCOPY: 0.8 & 0.75 ETH
‘The Flipper’ /99 by Pak: 0.69 ETH to atrealGatsby
‘PROOF Collective’ /1k by PROOF: 0.68 WETH to arsenal88
‘Station3 Patron’ /931 by Grant Yun: 0.65 WETH
‘Five Cubes’ by Pak: 0.6 ETH, 0.45 & 0.4 WETH
‘A Cube’ by Pak: 0.49 ETH to atrealGatsby
‘LetsWalk’ by DeeKay: 0.3549 ETH to ilyakazakov
‘Schools & Apartments’ /329 by Grant Yun: 0.34 WETH to NFT_Hound_Dog_Rec
‘The Socially Umpired Animals’ /365 (The Memes by 6529) by Botto: 0.325 WETH to MVYMain
Closing Thoughts
How’s that for a Sunday?
‘Piano Blossoms’ is invigorating. While the primary art market has had its moments, price targets and quantities have been deliberately conservative. Recently for example, ‘COPE SALADA’ by XCOPY at 0.33 ETH each and ‘DeePle’ by DeeKay at 0.08 ETH (plus accessories).
Due to Alpha Centauri Kid releasing in auction format (including the currently live ranked auction), it promised to be a true pulse check. When all is said and done, it is now likely to clear 150 ETH, a massive success by any measure.
Interestingly, another pulse check is upon us! Mpkoz is live today in ranked auction with Art Blocks for his 1/1/300 Bokeh digital artworks. Stay tuned.