William Sarradet and Brandon Zech discuss memorable art happenings from 2021.
“One of the things that we haven’t seen this year, that I really thought we might, is the closing of smaller nonprofits and smaller galleries.”
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The buyers of Beeple’s 59 million dollar NFT are a couple of crypto kazillionaire Metapurse fund financiers who issued a digital coin called B20 selling crypto coin shares of other Beeple works they purchased before they bought “Everydays”, the idea being that once Beeple is the world’s most expensive living artist…..yadda yadda…..This kind of reminds me of Damien Hirst’s cool trick becoming the world’s most expensive living artist with the “sale” of the diamond skull “For the Love of God” and subsequent Sotheby’s 2008 first ever direct to auction sale by an artist, which grossed over 200 million dollars.