'Melting Memories - C' by Refik Anadol sells for 567,000 HKD ($72,894 USD) at Christie's '21st Century Day Sale'.
Executed in 2018 and originally acquired via Bitforms Gallery in New York, it is an edition of 3 + AP sold via USB in custom collector box.
Fun Fact:
The 68 Lot live Hong Kong auction's high sale is 'Mine Detector' by Yoshitomo Nara for 23,970,000 HKD ($3,081,583 USD). The acrylic on canvas artwork was originally painted in 1993 and acquired from Galerie Humanité, Nagoya in 1995.
'New Teeth 2033' /27 by XCOPY sells for 35 WETH ($63,969 USD) to an anonymous wallet from dan_.
The edition was minted in September, 2018 as one of three "Lost XCOPY" artworks from shuttered platform Digital Objects.
Artwork Description:
"Citizen grows sharks teeth against G-Doc advice. Chews uncomfortably for his remaining years."
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The digital art market went into the archives for today's headlines. Consider this. Both are 2018 artworks. One was distributed on USB. The other was distributed via a now defunct marketplace. Provenance and permanence require maintenance.
Mark your calendars for Monday's The DAM Show at 12:00pm ET via X livestream. We welcome the absolutely infectious Adrian Wilson, Paintbox maestro, and Nat "Superman" Emodi, head of Highlight.
Enjoy your Sunday!
Today Reported:
Sales thresholds of 3 ETH+ Collection, 0.25 ETH+ 1/1, 0.75 ETH+ 1/1/X, and 0.3 ETH+ Edition
Under Threshold...
...but interesting to me is 1/1 artwork 'TIME DOESN'T WAIT' by Cory Van Lew with Transient Labs selling for 0.21 ETH to MoDA.
The for art and vibes only tournament rolls on as mARTch Madness Round One voting is revealed. A few upsets set up fascinating face-offs.
Tournament Refresher:
The North Star is simple. Remove price considerations and simply decide what art you love. The bracket is limited to Collections and Editions, and of course it is impossible to include even close to everything.
Round Two voting is now open here. Have a go!
Credit to 24 Hours of Art Collective member Ryland for spearheading this endeavor and to Deconstruct for sprucing up a dark mode bracket graphic!
ART TOTER.
The 87th design of 2025 is all about ROBNESS, his Ghiblified Toter, and blurring the lines between 3D normalcy and Ghibli.
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