Martin Mobarak tried to build hype around his NFT project by destroying a drawing by Frida Kahlo. At best, he made a poor calculation; at worst, he broke the law. Martin Mobarak tried to build hype ...
A Frida Kahlo drawing that might have been worth over $10 million was set ablaze to mint 10,000 non-fungible tokens or NFTs by a Mexican businessman in Miami this week. There’s a minor catch, though: ...
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The drinks were flowing. The mariachi band was playing. The crowd was cheering. A $10 million Frida Kahlo drawing was burning. This was the scene at a July 30 private event at a Miami mansion hosted ...
Here’s a very contemporary art-world brain puzzle: An entrepreneur burns his Frida Kahlo drawing in a scheme to sell NFTs. What’s worse: If it’s a total scam, or if it’s totally real? This is the ...
A Frida Kahlo self-portrait on display at Sotheby’s in 2021. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby's) Depictions of Frida Kahlo appear nearly everywhere in the retail world, from t-shirts ...
“I think one of the biggest ideas that I would put out there is really trying to use and harness this technology to redistribute power—these interlocking systems, whether it’s museums, collectors, ...
Miami art collector and crypto businessman Martin Mobarak claims he burned the original “Fantasmones Siniestros,” a drawing made by Frida Kahlo in 1944, during a party to launch his own NFTs of the ...