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Alain Servais on what art is

Dec 15, 2021

Alain Servais started collecting art some 25 years ago – photography, installations, and digital and video art, everything, that is, except painting.

Instead, the Belgian native collects works that are not just about marketing but that touch the viewer or helps to open their minds. Art needs to help us get out of...

Artist Alice Bucknell on the near-future, capitalism, and NFTs

Nov 26, 2021

Alice Bucknell is a North American digital artist based in London. She focuses her work around the topics of architecture, cryptocurrencies, the environment, and capitalism. Bucknell recently showed her piece “Swamp City” in Zurich which was also part of the Venice Biennale for Architecture this...

Noah Davis and the next Beeple NFT sale at Christie's

Oct 29, 2021

Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, made headlines earlier this year by selling a non-fungible token at Christie’s for $69 million. It was the most anyone paid for an NFT, and it catapulted Beeple to one of the best paid artists in the world. Now Christie’s just announced that it’s selling another Beeple...

Johann König on exploring new ways of selling art

Oct 9, 2021

Johann König is one of Germany’s most innovative art dealers at the moment. His eponymous gallery has a spin-off called MISA, which started as a fair in his gallery bringing the primary and the secondary art market together and has grown into an online platform. In the meantime, MISA is the first art market player...

Why Kenny Schachter loves NFTs

Sep 8, 2021

Kenny Schachter is one of the most outspoken figures of the art world. With his monthly column on Artnet he points out the good, the bad, the ugly, and the worse of the art market. Besides writing, he has also been creating digital art for about 30 years, and is now very much into NFTs. So much so, that he’s even...