24 Hours of Art: July 11, 2025
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Double Politics

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'POLITICS IS BULLSHIT' /100 by Beeple sees two sales of the same edition.

Edition #30 first sells for $140,000 USDC from Odious_Vault to an anonymous collector via Gondi before reselling for 60 WETH.

The artwork was originally released in October 2020 with Nifty Gateway for $1 USD each, as part of Beeple's 'GENESIS COLLECTION'.

Also selling is an edition of 'THE 5000 DAY SELECTS' /105 by Beeple for 10.99 ETH.

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Singular Reputation

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'Check 6661' by Jack Butcher and Visualize Value is acquired for 20 WETH by OperaMagna-fsft.

It is 1 of 73 Single Checks currently in the 'Checks - VV Originals' collection.
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'Reputation Risk' 1/1, also by Jack Butcher and Visualize Value, sells for 8.88 ETH to spacecowboy_nft, but with a significant twist.

Each of the auction's 23 bidders received a new unique 1/1 turning the "No Reserve" text of the original into the bid amount they denominated.

Via Jack Butcher:
"Each piece in the 'No Reserve' collection represents both an economic transaction and an artistic statement about what someone thought the moment was worth."
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Now for the twist. In the end, the winning bid of 8.88 ETH is fully returned to collector spacecowboy_nft.

Read more about the artwork here in 'No Reserve, No Refunds'.
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Squiggles Surge

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'Chromie Squiggle' /10k by Snowfro sees 12 sales for 49.56 ETH (avg: 4.13 ETH), pushing collection list to 4.49 ETH.

Nine are acquired by a new anonymous wallet containing only the Squiggles and three 'CryptoPunks' by Larva Labs.

Day Zero 'Chromie Squiggle #581' is acquired for 4.445 ETH by superbored_vault.

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Collection: Highlights

Wabi-Sabi Syntax #28 by Ilan Derech

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  • Primary (Fellowship) - 'Wabi-Sabi Syntax | 侘寂構文' 1/1/88 by Ilan Derech: Completes sellout (headlined yesterday) at 42.54 ETH total, secondary: 3 sales for 1.3 ETH total, list: 0.45 ETH
  • Primary (The Memes by 6529) -  'Crypto Atlas' by Hugo Faz: 310 minted at 0.06529 ETH each
  • Primary (The Second-Guess | Objkt) - 'Triggernometry' 1/1/13 by Mario Klingemann: 9 sales for 13.5k XTZ (1.5k XTZ each)
  • 'Opepen Edition' by Jack Butcher | Visualize Value: 47 sales for 23.77 ETH, high sale: 'Zoopepen, Set 071, Ed. 10' by zoopepen:3 ETH to AustinGrierVault, collection list: 0.23 ETH
  • 'MAX PAIN' by XCOPY: 10 sales for 5.98 ETH, list: 0.61 ETH
  • LIVE (Avant Arte) - 'daydreamer' by Claire Silver: Ranked auction for print + 1/1/40 'in this house' artwork, closes at 12:00pm ET
  • LIVE (Sotheby's) - 'Contemporary Discoveries': 23 Artist Lots with high bids for 'CryptoPunk #6425' at $70k USD and 'INNERSPACE' /2 by Beeple at $22k USD, ends Tues, July 15th

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*Incoming Notables


Friday, July 11th:

'Seize The Future' by David Fairs with The Memes by 6529: Up to 331 editions available at 0.06529 ETH each

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1/1: Highlights

ENTERTAINING_OUTCOME by Darkfarms | Duchess of Pepulême by Alpha Centauri Kid

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1/1/X: Highlights

Fidenza #797 by Tyler Hobbs | Star-Crossed by Alpha Centauri Kid

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  • 'Fidenza' /999 (Art Blocks) by Tyler Hobbs: $63,500 USDC to punksotc, brokered by Oliver Morris via Gondi
  • 'Warothys' /25 (Avant Arte) by Alpha Centauri Kid: 13.5 ETH ('Star-Crossed')
  • 'Masks of Luci' /613 by Sam Spratt: 6.1 WETH
  • 'Meridian' /1k (Art Blocks) by Matt DesLauriers: 4.8 WETH to Gazzinho
  • 'Winds of Yawanawa' /1k by Refik Anadol: 3.2 WETH to CoolShitTrading
  • 'DATALAND — BIOME LUMINA' /1k by Refik Anadol: 3.15 & 3.11 WETH
  • 'Archetype' /600 (Art Blocks) by Kjetil Golid: 2.5 WETH
  • 'ICXN' /500 (Art Blocks Engine) by XCOPY: 2.01 WETH
  • 'GeoMetric Pepes' /101 by Batz: 1.76 & 1.75 WETH (same artwork)
  • 'Realiti' /186 by Atay Ilgun: 1.5 & 1.25 ETH
  • 'Anticyclone' /800 (Art Blocks) by William Mapan: 1.3 WETH to Mikavirt
  • 'Unigrids' /421 by Zeblocks: 1.2 ETH
  • 'Interwoven' /100 by Emily Xie: 1.1 & 1.07 ETH
  • 'nameless dread' /669 by die with the most likes: 0.84 ETH to owliowl
  • 'alignDRAW' /2,709 (Fellowship) by Elman Mansimov: 0.832 WETH to The_anonymous_unknow

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Edition: Highlights

Target Audience by Tony Babel

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  • LIVE (Manifold) - 'Target Audience' by Tony Babel: 13/15 editions minted at 0.55 ETH each
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RD Report

The Summer art market stays hot!

Eyes are on Claire Silver today with Avant Arte as the ranked auction counts down.

I spent yesterday evening at the Toledo Museum of Art. They have outdone themselves. This Exhibition is a stunner. I'll be sharing footage from it today. In the words of Museum Director Adam Levine during a spirited speech, "this is art".
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Today Reported:
Sales thresholds of 4 ETH+ Collection, 0.4 ETH+ 1/1, 0.8 ETH+ 1/1/X, and 0.4 ETH+ Edition

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Under Threshold...

...but interesting to me is '⊣⊏⋄⋑ ✨' by Jesperish selling for 1,500 XTZ | $853 USD on the secondary market. The 1/1 work was originally minted in March of 2022.


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The DAM Show: Catch Up

The DAM Show welcomed Operator and Hivemind on Wednesday to talk through the big news of their X-ray Machine acquisition, as well as their Toledo Museum of Art Exhibition. I especially enjoyed diving into their origin stories, reflecting on where ambitions began.

Watch the recording here.
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2025 Subscriber Corner

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Yesterday's ART:

HYPNOS ART.

The 190th design of 2025 highlights artists Karborn, Derech, Hafftka, and Marcelo Soria-Rodriguez. Watch the full animation here.

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