The intersection of art and NFTs keeps getting weirder. Painter Damien Hirst has joined other artists and burned 1,000 of his pieces this week, all in the name of non-fungible tokens.
The destruction of the original work to seemingly transfer its “value” to its NFT is an even trickier question for artists of other mediums.
Never mind that the NFTs sold for a bargain compared to what his original artwork typically goes for, according to
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