24 Hours of Art: February 24, 2025

The Aluminatti Expands

'Gazers' /1k by Matt Kane see a sale of Aluminum background trait 'Gazers #710' for 28.5 WETH to DoubleB, in a deal brokered by Eli Scheinman. There are 58 Aluminums in the collection.

Via DoubleB:
"Thrilled to add this aluminum grail from Matt Kane's unique, groundbreaking collection, Gazers. This collection's importance will grow over time and the genius of Matt's 2021 work will be recognized as such."

Via Artie Handz:
"Welcome to the aluminatti"

Overall collection list is now 10.3 ETH.

Fried and Wubbushi Get Physical

Two physical art announcements highlight the day.

'Patchwork Head' by Jake Fried sells for $10,000 USD to MLow, as Fried splits the proceeds with BenZi's Time to Be Happy Gallery to support the Artist Residency Program.

Artist Wubbushi and Collector AP celebrate their "months in the making" art connection over Wubbushi's first physical sold to a collector.

Via Wubbushi:
"Of course, as an artist, this is what we live for."


Collection: Highlights

  • 'Exit Vectors' /500 by KEKE: 6 sales for 5.5 ETH, list: 0.83 ETH
  • 'Opepen Edition' /15.8k by Jack Butcher | Visualize Value: 16 sales for 3.9 ETH, list: 0.12 ETH
  • 'Poptarteds' /2,222 by Alice Gordon: 29 sales for 58 SOL, list: 1.53 SOL
  • LIVE (12 Days of Art) - Collection by Rich Caldwell: Ben Strauss, Josh Pierce, Louis Dazy, Hayden Clay, Lifewithart, A-Mashiro, Tormius, Cal, Sigma, Jonathan Wolfe, Kelly McDermott, WILLARD and R A R E are released (many still live), cydr and Diid incoming today
  • LIVE (Christie's) - 'Augmented Intelligence': 34 Lot auction closes March 5th
  • LIVE (Fellowship) - 'Exit Vectors' by KEKE: 99 English auctions close at 1:00pm ET
  • LIVE (Manifold & Exchange) - 'Memecoins 101' by Bold: ETH edition here and SOL edition here
  • LIVE (Sotheby's) - 'Contemporary Discoveries' Auctions: Lots include Harto, Helena Sarin, Killer Acid, Miss Al Simpson, Niceaunties, POST WOOK, and Sheldrick, closes February 28th
  • LIVE (SuperRare) - 'early GAN' by Max Osiris: 1/1/500 collection of 2019-20 ArtBreeder images

*Incoming Notables

Monday, February 24:
'Bank Runners' by Lucho Poletti with Buildtree: 1,776 unique digital banknotes, collection page live today

Monday, February 24:

'The Victor's Ascent' by mikekarolos with The Memes by 6529: up to 329 editions available at 0.06529 ETH each

Wednesday, February 26:
'ALGORITHMIC EVOLUTION' by Botto with Verse: 22 full algorithms from Botto's study of p5.js, available via 1 day auctions

1/1: Highlights

Patches by JOY

  • 'Patches' (Nov 2020) by JOY: 3.8 to Send-Deal
  • 'The Rests of Me' (Oct 2021 Artifex) by Alotta Money: 3.01 ETH to Metaissance
  • 'the chaos of the universe' by Amaan Jahangir: 1.5 ETH to fantasticmrfox.eth via AOTM Gallery
  • 'inside you' by Valeri Haravets: 0.33 ETH to Lisa Fogarty
  • 'go' by hasdrubal waffle: 0.25 ETH to DagieDee

1/1/X: Highlight

Grifter #186 by XCOPY

  • 'Grifters' /666 by XCOPY: 11.21 WETH & 11.11 WETH -> 11.11 ETH (latter two same artwork)
  • 'Chromie Squiggle' /10k (Art Blocks) by Snowfro: 7 (6 Color Spread Slinky) & 4.31 WETH, 4.68 & 4.5 ETH
  • 'Light Years' /100 by Dmitri Cherniak: 5.51 WETH to NFTButler_s1w1t
  • 'Synthetic Dreams' /1k by Refik Anadol: 2.35 WETH to mogilevs2
  • 'PEGZ' /103 by Matt Furie: 1.99, 1.99, 1.98 & 1.91 BETH
  • 'The Golden Ratio' /420 (Vivid) by Harto: 0.0444 BTC
  • 'The Currency' by Damien Hirst: 1.25, 1.09 & 0.945 WETH
  • 'Mutant Garden Seeder' /513 by Harm van den Dorpel: 1.1 WETH to Vanto
  • 'alignDRAW' /2,709 (Fellowship) by Elman Mansimov: 0.88 BETH, 0.839, 0.811, 0.81 & 0.8 WETH
  • 'Latent Ink' /500 (Fellowship) by Eko33: 0.75 & 0.7463 WETH, 0.51 ETH

Edition: Highlights

Fall by Grant Yun with Avant Arte

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Today Reported:
Sales thresholds of 3 ETH+ Collection, 0.25 ETH+ 1/1, 0.75 ETH+ 1/1/X, and 0.2 ETH+ Edition artworks

Under Threshold...
...but interesting to me is 'Ground Truths' /49 by Sougwen Chung seeing a 0.33 ETH sale.

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