EVERYDAYS THE FIRST 5000 DAYS - The Economic Times These works, better known as Everydays, have formed one of the most celebrated bodies of work in the history of digital art. } + '<\/div>' The NFT associated with Everydays: the First 5000 Days, a collage of images from the "Everydays" series, was put up for auction at Christie'son February 25 and sold for $69,400,000 on March 11, 2021. .done(function(data, textStatus, jqXHR) { $('body').on( 'click', '.close-signup', function(){ Coinbase says Apple forced it to remove NFT transfers from its iOS wallet, The new pro football NFT marketplace has a name: NFL All Day, Loot is a viral social network that looks like nothing youve ever seen. submit: function($form, onSuccess) { + '' I really thought it was the right catalyst., The reason I did that sale was in no way shape or form for the money, Rodriguez-Fraile said. In December, he sold a series of works for $3.5 million total. Everydays - The First 5000 Days, by artist Beeple, made history on March 11 by becoming the first virtual Non-Fungible Token (NFT) artwork to to be sold by a major auction house, for a staggering $69.4 million, snowballing from a starting bid of $100.Christie's reported that 22 million people tuned in "for the final moments of the historic sale". o[this.name] = [o[this.name]]; } THE FIRST 5000 DAYS - Beeple - WikiArt.org closedSignupBar: { He addresses a myriad of social contradictions and absurdities, exploring themes like society's concurrent obsession and fear of technology, desire and resentment towards wealth, and of course the political turbulence of the recent years through a grotesque, hypnotizing, digital style. Beeple NFT Sells For $69.3 Million, Becoming Most-Expensive Ever - Forbes Everydays: the First 5000 Days - Wikipedia Will we be offering more NFT artworks? To start with, zoom in on the digital collage, and you'll find that Everydays, which sold for a record $69.3 million at Christie's, is comprised of 5,000 individual images that Beeple created. The technology thus attempts to bridge the gap normally bridged by personal reputation and/or objective credentials in numerous fields. Details surrounding the sale of "Everydays" raise questions about what NFTs areand why the art market values them. Untitled by Jean-Michel Basquiat. It was the third-highest price paid for a Basquiat work; the highest price was recorded in 2017, when one of Basquiats coveted large-scale skull paintings sold for $110.5 millionat Sothebys. Everydays: the First 5000 Days is a digital work of art created by Mike Winkelmann, known professionally as Beeple. I do view this as the next chapter of art history.. Had the sale taken place on-chain, the smart contract would have automatically conveyed ownership of the token to Metakovan moments after the full amount had been sent to Beeple. + '