Javier Arrés debuts his most complex Visual Toys to date as NFTs in homage to the great Thelonious Monk and his groundbreaking vision of jazz.
In the simplest terms, pricing artwork follows the laws of supply and demand, and that holds true for an NFT as much as it does a 200-year-old oil painting.
So what are NFTs without snidely replying, “non-fungible token"? What is a non-fungible token?A digital certificate of authenticity on a public ledger proving that the holder owns a one-of-a-kind digital (and sometimes physical) asset.What is digital scarcity?Control over the abundance and existence of digital assets or resources. The record of ownership is generated by an … Continue reading What are NFTs?
Global football star Zlatan Ibrahimović (IBRA) will drop another NFT collection following the success of his first NFT project. The Swedish football icon will release The Laws of Adrenaline II: An NFT Collection on MakersPlace on May 12, 2022 at 9 AM (PST) / 6 PM (CET). The Laws of Adrenaline II: An NFT Collection, … Continue reading The Laws of Adrenaline II: An NFT Collection by Zlatan Ibrahimović (IBRA)
Jonathan Monaghan is an award-winning visual artist who works across a range of media, such as prints, sculpture, and animation, to produce otherworldly objects and narratives. This month, Monaghan will participate in his second NFT drop on MakersPlace featuring works from his ongoing Tetramorphs series. The Tetramorphs collection is an ominous foretelling of the future … Continue reading Tetramorphs II by Jonathan Monaghan
Nigerian artist Alli Hahmmed aka Xeus Imagery has found a home for his latest series of fictional portraits, New Gods, at MakersPlace.
Montreal-based 3D artist Fvckrender, has cemented himself as one of the most successful artists in Canada and as a web3 artist to reckon with. His wide-ranging work of alien jewels, humanoid lovers, futuristic landscapes, and macro shots of unknown elements barely scratches the surface. BROKEN_BEAUTY// by Fvckrender Much like Beeple, Fvckrender has made the daily … Continue reading Artist Spotlight: Fvckrender
While the NFT space has proven to be quite open and welcoming to diverse audiences, women-led projects have experienced headwinds that others have not.
With the birth of an era in art that feels wholly new, it’s easy to focus on and glorify the aesthetics and artist practices that are now, for the first time, gaining notoriety as legitimate fine art. But the risk presented by a metaverse-centric stance is losing track of the art that freezes the real … Continue reading Photography NFT Spotlight: The IRL Around Us
May is National Photography Month, and MakersPlace is ready to celebrate those artists who’ve captured our history, culture, joys, and sorrows. Photography is a time machine that freezes and distills moments into pure gesture and emotion. Photographs — when candid, truthful, and heartfelt — are our best window into the lives and experiences of others. … Continue reading Celebrating National Photography Month