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These Horror Movie Children Keep Us Up At Night
13.9.2024
Much like terrifying alien births, creepy children are a horror movie staple. There’s something about the juxtaposition between their tiny innocence and their menacing actions that is very unsettling—whether they are possessed by something supernatural or just born that way. Read more
Controversial Artist Damien Hirst Accused Of Backdating 1,000 Paintings In NFT Project
24.5.2024
English artist Damian Hirst is under increased scrutiny this week following claims he backdated more than 1,000 pieces of art from his NFT project “The Currency,” The Guardian reported Wednesday. The allegations come just two months after Hirst was accused of misrepresenting the dates of several...
The Jackson Pollock Studio Splatters Beyond the Physical, Releases Digital Art Collection
12.7.2023
Beyond the Edge, inspired by the famed artists’ former workspace, features digitized Pollock works that come with a physical counterpart
Damien Hirst Burns $10 Million Live as Part of NFT Project
13.10.2022
English artist and art collector Damien Hirst completed his year-long non-fungible token (NFT) project by starting the burn of $10 million worth of his physical artwork.
Hirst burned a part of the unclaimed physical artworks at his London gallery this Thursday during a live stream.
Asked how...
Damien Hirst burns $10M in art: Nifty Newsletter, Oct 5–11
12.10.2022
Racing league Formula One is positioning its brand in Web3 as it files trademark applications for "F1" covering crypto and NFTs
Damien Hirst livestreams the burning of $10M in art for NFT project
12.10.2022
"The Currency" is the name given to Hirst's NFT project which examines the value of digital art versus physical art
Comedian Bill Murray’s Wallet Hacked for $186K Worth of Ethereum After NFT Charity Auction
3.9.2022
American actor and comedian Bill Murray saw 119.2 ethereum drained from his wallet on September 1, 2022, after Murray held a non-fungible token (NFT) charity auction. Statistics show that most of the tokens and NFTs in Murray’s wallet have been moved, and roughly $556 in token value remains....
Ambitious Shonen Jump Game Teams You Up With Heroes From Spy x Family, Kaiju No. 8, More
22.8.2022
If you haven’t noticed, 2022 has far and away become the year of media conglomerates capitalizing on ownership of disparate properties. You can see it clearly in the realm of video games like MultiVersus and the final boss of wacky crossovers, Fortnite. Not to be left out, popular manga publisher...
Up in smoke: Artist Damien Hirst to burn 4,851 paintings in NFT project
28.7.2022
Almost half of the buyers of Hirst’s “The Currency” collection wanted to keep the NFT version
Physical Art Narrowly Wins Over NFTs in Damien Hirst’s Experiment
27.7.2022
With the deadline for UK art superstar Damien Hirst’s The Currency NFT burn expired today, artwork owners were forced to answer a paramount question: do they wish to burn their NFT in exchange for the artist’s corresponding original work on paper, or keep the token? As it turns out, slightly more...
NFTs Winning Damien Hirst’s Art Experiment So Far as Over 2,000 Tokens Burned
14.7.2022
As the deadline for Damien Hirst’s The Currency NFT burn is approaching, more and more owners proceed to burn their NFT in exchange for corresponding original work on paper. However, NFTs still seem to be winning this art experiment.
At the time of writing, a total of 2,111 NFTs have been burned...
Kojima Productions Threatens Legal Action Over 'Assassin' Photo
11.7.2022
Last week a racist joke originating from a shitty corner of the internet got quickly out of hand, and before long French politicians and Greek news channels—among others—were erroneously reporting that an old photograph of legendary game designer Hideo Kojima was actually a photo of Tetsuya...
Hideo Kojima Misidentified As Shinzo Abe Assassin By News Channel, Politicians
8.7.2022
Earlier today, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe was shockingly assassinated. Then the internet did its usual shitty thing of making bad jokes out of current events, and that eventually led to a news station in Greece misidentifying famous game developer Hideo Kojima as the assassin. Read...
Nifty News: Damien Hirst airdrops NFTs, AMC teams up with Spider-Man, 3D NFTs on ICP
29.11.2021
AMC Entertainment and renowned NFT artist Damien Hirst are airdropping NFTs to fans and collectors
Damien Hirst’s NFT Art Project: What We’ll Discover When It's Over
25.7.2021
Paul Dylan-Ennis, Lecturer/Assistant Professor in Management Information Systems, University College Dublin.
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English artist Damien Hirst’s latest project, “The Currency”, is an artwork in two forms. Its physical form is 10,000 unique hand-painted A4 sheets covered in colorful dots. In...
Damien Hirst's ‘Currency’ NFT drop more than 6X oversubscribed
22.7.2021
Collectors will now have to seek out Damien Hirst’s NFTs on secondary markets after the drop was oversubscribed by more than six times
Cointelegraph Exclusive: Artist Damien Hirst says NFTs are like 'the invention of paper'
16.7.2021
According to the British artist, NFTs are changing the world, but not always in the get-rich-quick way many media outlets report
Damien Hirst Starts USD 20M Experiment - NFT vs. Paper
14.7.2021
Damien Hirst’s The Currency. Continuing his dive into the realm of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), UK superstar artist Damien Hirst has created a collection of 10,000 art pieces that come with accompanying digital artwork. Eventually, their owners will have to decide, however, whether they want to keep...
Indie-Penance Day: A Retrospective
5.7.2021
Of course, by now Indie-Penance Day has become such an institution in the games industry since its inception this morning, that people are starting to get nostalgic about the whole thing. To meet that need, here are ten indie games you likely haven’t seen before that evoke eras of gaming past.Read...
Goldman Sachs Leverages Crypto Management Firm Galaxy Digital to Swap Bitcoin Futures
19.6.2021
Galaxy Digital’s co-president Damien Vanderwilt announced today that his firm has partnered with Goldman Sachs to help provide bitcoin futures products. The partnership marks one of the first occasions where an American multinational investment bank has partnered with a crypto asset service...