Artist Damien Hirst burns own art after NFT owners choose digital over option of physical form
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The artist was dressed in silver metallic boiler-suit trousers and matching fire safety gloves as he collected each piece and burned it in a contained fire box.Image source,Newport Street Gallery said 4,851 buyers chose the NFTs, which means that many physical artworks will be burned London's Newport Street Gallery said 5,149 buyers opted for the original artworks while 4,851 chose the NFTs.
"The value of art, digital or physical, which is hard to define at the best of times will not be lost; it will be transferred to the NFT as soon as they are burnt." He picked up the Turner Prize in 1995 and his work has sold for millions, but he is also one of Britain's most controversial artists.
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