Opinion
Christie's, NFTs and Beeple: Speculative bubble or the future of art?
By Hunter Parkhill | April 15, 2021On March 11, 2021, the oldest auction house in the world anointed a new mega-artist, Beeple (a.k.a. Mike Winkelmann), a digital artist famous for his dystopian political cartoons. Christie’s sold Beeple’s work through a non-fungible token, or NFT, for a closing bid of $69.9 million. This makes Beeple ...