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State of the Art: Auction House Sells Glass Negs As NFTs, Tells Buyers To "Smash" Originals

By David Schonauer   Wednesday February 9, 2022


What’s history, when compared with the beauty of an NFT?

A New Zealand auction house recently sold two historically significant glass plate negatives as non-fungible tokens and encouraged the buyers to destroy the originals, in order to make their purchase “permanently digital.”

The negatives in question feature the artist Charles …


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