KnownOrigin + Manchester’s Finest drop NFT show at Manchester Art Fair 2021
18 November 2021 • Mark Westall
Disrupting the traditional arts scene, KnownOrigin and Manchester’s Finest will be bringing the first NFT presence at this year’s art fair.
Tag: NFT
American artist David Salle debuts first NFT at his retrospective at the Brant Foundation.
15 November 2021 • Mark Westall
David Salle has debuted his first NFT, titled A Well-Leafed Tree at his retrospective at the Brant Foundation with cultural agency DMINTI.
Tezos to present a unique interactive NFT exhibition at Art Basel Miami Beach.
11 November 2021 • Mark Westall
Tezos will present a unique interactive NFT exhibition at Art Basel Miami Beach Titled Humans + Machines: NFTs and the Ever-Evolving… Read More
Tezos announced as official partner of Art Basel Miami Beach 2021, will unveil NFT experience & speaker series
6 November 2021 • Mark Westall
Tezos, an energy-efficient open-source blockchain, will present an NFT art experience at Art Basel Miami Beach this December, as an official partner… Read More
‘NFT Punk’ Fetches Almost $100,000 At Sotheby’s Auction
13 October 2021 • Mark Westall
The non-fungible token landscape is evolving at a rapid pace, and artwork has quickly established its place at the heart… Read More
Porsche & KÖNIG turn some of the world’s most iconic billboards into GLOBAL GALLERY
9 October 2021 • Mark Westall
Porsche and KÖNIG have turned some of the world’s most iconic billboards into a GLOBAL GALLERY. The NFTs by the artists who are part of GLOBAL GALLERY are now live as open editions
New NFT platform launches featuring works of Katsushika Hokusai in exclusive partnership with British Museum
24 September 2021 • Mark Westall
LaCollection, a new NFT art platform dedicated to museum and institutional collections, launches with an exclusive partnership with the British… Read More
Damien Hirst: The Currency, total market value is approx $500million
13 September 2021 • Mark Westall
The Currency by Damien Hirst is the artist’s first NFT drop. The Currency is a collection of 10,000 NFTs, also… Read More
Bringing new meaning to multi-disciplinary art Tighe-Mearns-Smith with Dr.Death
6 September 2021 • Mark Westall
Tighe-Mearns-Smith are having an outpouring of creativity that just seems to grow and grow – we caught up with them… Read More
SuperRare co-founder Jonathan Perkins gives us the lowdown on the future of SuperRare.
2 September 2021 • Moogz
Moogz, FAD’s digital editor managed to catch some time with Jonathan Perkins SuperRare Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer to find out… Read More
Down the NFT rabbit hole and Blockchain Immorality: An interview with Skye Nicolas
31 August 2021 • Mark Westall
erviewed post-conceptual artist, Skye Nicolas. And with the recent rise in NFTs (non-fungible tokens), it’s not surprising that the New York-based artist has been busy creating innovative digital artworks while firmly establishing himself within the burgeoning NFT community.
New NFT platform presents IRL & virtual exhibition curated by Kenny Schachter
27 August 2021 • Mark Westall
Institut, a new platform for NFTs will present NFTism: No Fear in Trying –curated by Kenny Schachter –physically at Unit London and virtually via Arium…. Read More
Erwin Wurm does first NFT & its a Fat Car *
27 August 2021 • Mark Westall
The artist Erwin Wurn will drop his first NFT at 6pm CEST on August 30th on misa.art the open edition will be available for 24hrs for $999. The NFT named Breath In Breath Out brings his FAT SCULPTURES based on a Porshe to animated life.
Damien Hirst’s ‘The Currency’ has made $26 million+ already.
26 August 2021 • Mark Westall
A statement posted to the Discord server by HENI Analytics about Damien Hirst’s ‘The Currency‘ has broken down its sales… Read More
Damien Hirst’s ‘The Currency’: what we’ll discover when this NFT art project is over
22 July 2021 • Mark Westall
English artist Damien Hirst’s latest project, “The Currency”, is an artwork in two forms. Its physical form is 10,000 unique hand-painted A4 sheets covered in colourful dots. In the same way as paper money, each sheet includes a holographic image of Hirst, a signature, a microdot and – in place of a serial number – a small individual message.
Damien Hirst presents The Currency- 10,000 NFTs on new NFT platform Palm
14 July 2021 • Mark Westall
The Currency is a collection of 10,000 NFTs which correspond to 10,000 unique physical artworks by Damien Hirst, with the NFTs containing high-resolution images of the front and back of each of the 10,000 artworks.
Foundation names Kyt Janae Director of Collector Relations
7 June 2021 • Mark Westall
Foundation has brought on pioneering digital artist and NFT consultant Kyt Janae to fill a newly created role as Director… Read More
Groundbreaking NFT art residency to Launch on the French Riviera
7 June 2021 • Mark Westall
At the Grand-Hotel du Cap-Ferrat on the French Riviera, Present the Future will welcome artists, collectors and art enthusiasts for the… Read More
In 2019, Lans King had an NTAG216 NFC microchip capsule implanted in his left hand
2 June 2021 • Mark Westall
In 2019, artist Lans King had an NTAG216 NFC microchip capsule implanted in his left hand by Jowan Österlund of… Read More
‘RESTORATION: NOW or NEVER,’
25 May 2021 • Mark Westall
SaveArtSpace have announced their very first public art activation in London, UK, ‘RESTORATION: NOW or NEVER,’ co-organized by two independent curators, Anne Verhallen and Daria Borisova with support from Hauser & Wirth.
Olive Allen NFT sale on Foundation proceeds from the sale to benefit World Wildlife Fund.
25 May 2021 • Mark Westall
In a world dominated by male artists and techies, New York-based artist Olive Allen stands out not only for her… Read More
New NFT platform Institut to launch with IRL exhibition curated by Kenny Schachter
24 May 2021 • Mark Westall
Joe Kennedy and Jonny Burt of Unit London to launch Institut a new NFT platform in collaboration with an international consortium of artists and collectors and BTSE a cryptocurrency trading platforms.
Bruce Asbestos ‘I’m actually hoping to be a modern-day Hokusai’
18 May 2021 • Mark Westall
We’ve known Bruce a long time at FAD I think the first time we came across him was when he released 1000 videos on Youtube in 2014 then in 2015 we met him in the flesh at Concrete a bar above the Hayward Gallery
Daata: “That buzz has arrived.”
13 May 2021 • Moogz
Daata have partnered up with Foundation for an inaugural drop of three artists who have been making waves on the web and in the world. For insights into how to grow a digital art entity organically and at scale in alignment with their existing philosophy, FAD’s MOOGZ got in the mix with Daata’s key players: founder David Gryn, Daata Fair organiser Barnie Page and Daata’s tech wiz Josh Hardy.