By Angela Ukomadu and Estelle Shirbon LAGOS (Reuters) – A Nigerian gentleman has released a venture called “Looty” to reclaim African artifacts stolen by European colonisers by building 3-D pictures of them, marketing them as non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and making use of the proceeds to fund younger African artists. Phone […]
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A very little above a calendar year back, Beeple’s Everydays: The Initial 5000 Days sold for $69.3 million, electrifying the art and auction worlds. But even though NFTs definitely made a resounding effects in that instant, Sotheby’s Institute educators and alumni say it’s more precise to assume of the sale as […]
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In 1987, I was fortunate enough to show up at the auction of Vincent Van Gogh’s Vase With Fifteen Sunflowers at Christie’s in London. At the time, the sale price of $39.7 million was staggering. Inflation- modified, that’s $127 million today. Two decades afterwards, in 1989, the Dallas Cowboys had been marketed […]
There are two wrong – but curiously common – ways to approach new technological developments in the arts: automatically reject them, or rush to embrace them. Many instinctively dismiss new modes on the grounds that art needs to be made by proper means. History doesn’t demonstrate that at all: rather, […]
Written by Ben Wedeman, CNNJacqui Palumbo, CNNRome, Italy Rome may perhaps be the eternal town, but its historic artifacts are less than unrelenting assault by the ravages of time, air pollution, acid rain and the sweat and breath of tens of millions of holidaymakers. The Arch of Septimius Severus in […]