Remember the non-fungible token (NFT) digital artwork that auction house Christie’s sold for more than $69 million?
Mike Winkelmann of North Fond du Lac, known professionally as Beeple, created that artwork, a digital collage called “Everydays: The First 5,000 Days.” NFT means that Christie’s winning bidder owns the original, authenticated digital artwork that Winklemann created.
But for the rest of us, there’s a new consolation prize: “Beeple: Everydays, the First 5000 Days,” a new art book from Abrams’ Cernunnos publishing house. It is listed at $65, a few orders of magnitude less than the singular NFT.
“Everydays” is a project that Winkelmann started in 2007: He created a new work of art every day, and posted it online. The digital NFT is a collage of all 5,000 images. The new book also collects all 5,000 images, a significant number of them in sizes larger than the cell phone screen-sized versions many people saw online.
