Slopfest #95 · 2021 · Vienna
Five Thousand Days of Content
An artist made one picture a day for 5,000 days and sold the collage for $69 million. Vindication.
#95Filed under "Q" for "quality". We never look there.
Museum status: Insured for more than the building it is kept in.
- Venue
- Belvedere, a respectful distance from the Klimt
- Attendance
- 66,500
- Fun fact
- 5,000 doodles, 1 token, 0 bids
What happened
The committee found its own archive of 5,000 daily doodles, drawn by Hermine Pospischil in the margins of the minutes between 1927 and 1987, and minted them as one NFT. It did not sell for $69 million. It did not sell. It remains the festival's most valuable asset, on paper and on the blockchain and nowhere else.
“The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.”
Elsewhere in 2021
Beeple's 'Everydays: The First 5000 Days', a collage of daily digital artworks, sells as an NFT at Christie's for $69.3 million.
Tip: use ← and → to flip through the archive.