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Warhol 'Blue' Marilyn Monroe Portrait Up For Auction For Estimated Record $200 Million
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Andy Warhol's “Shot Sage Blue Marilyn” could become the most expensive 20th-century artwork to ever sell at auction. -
A token sale: Christie’s to auction its first blockchain-backed digital-only artwork
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This reexamination of art in light of blockchain has also been happening in Australia. In 2019, Baden Pailthorpe and I worked with the Bitfwd community to curate a project called Blocumenta, which brought together local artists, designers and hackers to examine how blockchain could affect the arts, culture and heritage in the Asia-Pacific. -
NFT art: the bizarre world where burning a Banksy can make it more valuable
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Cryptopunks are the oldest NFTs and it’s the data about them – their “metadata” – such as their longevity on the blockchain, that is desired. You have to look past the art and look at the medium to get what is going on. -
The Hiroshima Panels are a remarkable artistic exploration of trauma
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Art undoubtedly has the power to explore trauma. As University of Queensland academics Névine El Nossery and Amy L Hubbell have argued, art transmits trauma’s unspeakability. The power of art, they say, is to “transform and render pain.” -
Alexandre Cabanel, analized by Obelisk Magazine
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In some ways it’s easy to dismiss the work of the Academic artists—it was dogmatic, formal, incredibly prescriptive, and tailored to an isolated aristocracy. But you've got to hand it to Cabanel, even in the last decade of his life he explored new styles and pushed his skill to new heights, delving into obscure historical scenarios through the newly popular lens of Orientalism, exploring the apocryphal story of Sarah and Tobit in Prayer, the roman historian Livy’s account of Lucretia and Sextus Tarquin, the brutal and confusing tragedy of Phaedra haunted by the memory of the stepson she conspired to murder, and perhaps most spectacular and grim, Cleopatra testing poisons on Condemned Prisoners, where the suicidal queen stoically measures which poisons kill most painlessly.
