Fresh off a $1.7m crypto sale, light sculptor Leo Villareal explains NFTs to my sceptic self

Image caption: One of 1024 generative NFT works made for Leo Villareal’s Cosmic Reef drop. Image courtesy of the artist and Art Blocks. Article by Linda Yablonsky. The Art Newspaper – March 2, 2022.

The artist, famous for lighting up bridges across the Thames, tells me how he created his first NFT drop—which sold out within an hour

Enough already! The daily onslaught of NFT headlines had begun to feel like another plague, and at first, I chose to ignore it. When crypto-creators registered their tokens, I did not see art. Instead, I saw lava lamps. I saw currency trading. A way for people stuck at home by the pandemic to vent through a handy digital outlet. I’ve never had any trouble accepting video, film, photography, performance or books as mediums for art. What was I missing here? I turned to Leo Villareal, the artist who […]

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