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Technology · 2021

NFT Art Boom

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Works dated 2018–2024

Beeple's $69 million Christie's sale briefly created a speculative digital art market, reopening questions about scarcity, ownership, and provenance that the internet had dissolved. The subsequent crash was equally instructive: it exposed art-as-financial-instrument at its most naked.

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NFT Art Boom (2021) · Ellsworth