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[Link] More Than 80% of NFTs Created for Free on OpenSea Are Fraud or Spam, Company Says
Read: 30/1/2022 www.vice.com
As the NFT market has exploded, so has the amount of theft and fraud associated with it. Artists are by now familiar with the experience of finding, like in a horror movie, their own art staring back at them in OpenSea's digital gallery, being hawked by an anonymous stranger.
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[Link] How a Far-Right Philosopher Ended Up Shooting Porn
Read: 6/11/2021 www.vice.com
Van Rooijen is part of KIRAC (Keeping It Real Art Critics), a controversial art collective based in Amsterdam. KIRAC rose to fame in the Netherlands through videos where they confront artists and their artwork, usually to expose what they see as a pervasive superficiality in the art world.
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[Link] People Have Spent More than $1 Million on NFT 'Girlfriends'
Read: 25/10/2021 www.vice.com
Good news: you can now buy a girlfriend on the blockchain. Bull Market Girlfriends, a recently-launched NFT collection, come in a wide variety of genres—you can buy a Beauty Queen Girlfriend, a Devilish Girlfriend, a Good Girl Girlfriend or even an Alien Girlfriend.
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[Link] How quirky, 'bogan' NFT art is helping rebuild koala numbers
Read: 19/10/2021 www.abc.net.au
Rhys Dale has been fascinated by the sporadic peaks and troughs in the value of cryptocurrency since he started investing in 2017.
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[Link] Museum Starts OnlyFans Account After Its TikTok Is Banned for Posting Nudes
Read: 19/10/2021 www.vice.com
The so-called “Vienna Laid Bare” initiative was launched by Vienna’s tourism board late last week along with its OnlyFans account. As of writing subscribers can receive a complimentary Vienna City Card, or a ticket for one of the museums featured on the account.
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[Link] Artist Steals $84,000 From Modern Art Museum, Calls It Conceptual Art
Read: 29/9/2021 www.vice.com
The Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in northern Denmark originally commissioned Haaning to recreate two of his earlier works as part of its “Work It Out” exhibition.
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[Link] Someone Bought a 'Banksy' NFT for $340K, But It's Fake
Read: 31/8/2021 www.vice.com
The market for online status surrounding non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, is expanding at dizzying speeds, and absolutely nothing is normal.
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[Link] National Gallery hands $3 million in looted art back to India
Read: 29/7/2021 www.smh.com.au
The National Gallery of Australia is set to finally purge its collection of artworks associated with disgraced art dealer Subhash Kapoor with the return of 14 objects worth $3 million to the Indian government.
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[Link] This house has been torn down, but thanks to NFTs you can buy a digital piece of it
Read: 28/6/2021 www.abc.net.au
An ordinary brick home decked to the eaves in colour and light as part of a cutting-edge art installation has been torn down, but collectors can still buy a digital piece of it online.
[Link] The world's first publicly traded person - Marketplace
Read: 18/4/2021 www.marketplace.org
A few months ago Mike Merrill, a freelance creative producer in advertising, saw a job opening that piqued his interest. Should he put in an application?
[Link] Portrait Of A Digital Weapon
Read: 16/4/2021 hackaday.com
Over the years, artists have been creating art depicting weapons of mass destruction, war and human conflict. But the weapons of war, and the theatres of operation are changing in the 21st century.
[Link] Boy Scouts Will Sell Nearly 60 Norman Rockwell Works to Pay Sex-Abuse Claims
Read: 3/3/2021 www.nytimes.com
The Boy Scouts of America, which is facing more than 82,000 sex-abuse claims, said in a court filing that it would establish a settlement fund of at least $300 million.