EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS | Rare Digital Artwork A digital collage called "Everydays The First Five Thousand Days" by the artist Beeple sold for almost $70 million by Christie's in an online auction Thursday. if (getCookie(cookieNames[i]).length) { Christies, however, says Beeples work still qualifies as a non-fungible token. (Winkelmann said he plans to buy carbon offset for all his NFTs going forward so that their impact is a net positive.). callback: function() { Everydays - The First 5000 Days khng phi l mt file JPG thng thng, n bao gm mt b cc hnh nh Beeple to ra mi . } As a subscriber, you have 10 gift articles to give each month. McCoy approves of another aspect of Christies argument, too. They sold a JPEG. $modal.find('.form-row').hide(); var SignupForm = { Musa Mayer, Learn More, South Carolina graphic designer and motion artist Mike Winkelmann, better known as Beeple, has been creating a new artwork and posting it online for the world to enjoy - not missing a single day for the past 5,000 straight days. The price was five times the previous record for a CryptoPunk, set last month. } The execution of the sale also crystallized the awkwardness of attempting to integrate the radical potential of NFTs with centuries-old market structures. early that afternoon to call attention to what she saw as unusual behavior in the life cycle of Beeples headline-snatching token. }; But since Christies facilitated the auction and payment off-chain, the remaining steps in the NFT sale took place manually. Everydays: the First 5000 Days is a mosaic of every image that artist Mike Winkelmann, who goes by the name Beeple, has made since 2013. Beeple's Everydays - The First 5,000 Days obliterated records and expectations when it sold at Christie's for a hallucinatory $69.3 million on March 11.. $('body').append(signup); timeout: 10000 To find out if you are eligible for an Artnet News Pro group subscription, $modal.css({ I feel bad for art.. //hide form fields and show thank-you message Subscribe to Follow Beeple and this Auction, EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS, 2021 by Beeple. Organized in loose chronological order, zooming in on individual pieces reveals abstract, fantastical, grotesque, and absurd pictures, alongside current events and deeply personal moments. Everydays: The First 5000 Days is a digital artwork (21,069 by 21,069 pixels), a collage of 5000 pictures made by the artist Beeple (Mike Winkelmann). But the piece, billed as the first purely digital work with a unique NFT (non-fungible token) to be sold by a major auction house, also cracked open a contentious debate about what, exactly, qualifies as an NFT, why those characteristics matter, and how much bearing they have on the pandemonium suddenly dominating the market for contemporary art and so much else. It is the first fully-digital set of art pieces protected with a unique non-fungible . Beeple's artwork is rich with not-so-subtle symbolism, making predictions of tomorrow, based on today's truths. var name = prefix + cname + "="; But for many in the analogue art trade, the possibility of making significant sums from inventory with no physical presence remains a mesmerizing prospect. Tim Schneider, + '