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Can Cryptocurrency Change The Art World?

By Abel Cervantes

The new trend has arrived: the world of personal finance is appearing on our cell phones with increasing frequency. When I open my Instagram or Facebook account, I immediately see posts about Bitcoin and all kinds of cryptocurrencies: Don’t live in the world of the past relying on government currencies—those posts seem to say—take a look at the new digitized world! Since the advent of neoliberalism in the early 1980s, the word speculation has been ringing in our ears more often than it should. But we are probably entering perhaps more dangerous territory.

April 8, 2021

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News, Trends in Art

WePresent: The New Art Project by WeTransfer

WeTransfer was launched in 2009 as an online platform to send digital files around the world. If you have use it service, you would probably remember some famous quotes from artists, artists or activist appering in its home page. But who could imagine they would bet for contemporary art? Even better, how comercial has became contemporary art to be a businees option for an online company? Read more

April 5, 2021

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The Art Market has its Worst Downturn in 2020

By Sybaris Collection

A few days ago Art Basel and USB released their annual report where they confirmed what we all suspected: the art market had a significant decline in 2020. In fact, their numbers are very similar to those of 2009. In 2020 the art market reported 50,000 million dollars, when last year they were around 64,000 million dollars.

April 1, 2021

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A Bestiary of The Anthropocene

When we hear talk about Anthropocene, one might think about a science fiction scenario from the future. However, it defines Earth’s most recent geologic time period as being human-influenced, or anthropogenic, based on overwhelming global evidence that atmospheric, geologic, hydrologic, biospheric and other earth system processes are now altered by humans. In short, Anthorpocen is a present we are sharing now with new realities and species as described by the new Bestiary of the Anthropocene.

March 29, 2021

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News, Trends in Art

Everydays: The First 5000 Days. The First Digital Artwork sold by $69 million

Christie’s has sold its first digital artwork and its third most expensive in its history behind two artworks by Jeff Koons and David Hockney.

March 22, 2021

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Artists, News

Lacaton & Vassal Win the Pritzker Prize

By Sybaris Collection

The renewal in the arts has begun. If the Pritzker Prize had looked with sympathy to those architects who care about ecology (Shigeru Ban, 2014) or social architecture (Alejandro Aravena, 2016), this year the award went to a couple who understood that aesthetics did not a priority when constructing a building.

March 18, 2021

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Can Cryptocurrency Change The Art World?

WePresent: The New Art Project by WeTransfer

The Art Market has its Worst Downturn in 2020

A Bestiary of The Anthropocene

Everydays: The First 5000 Days. The First Digital Artwork sold by $69 million

Lacaton & Vassal Win the Pritzker Prize

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