NFT art auction house Portion buys virtual estate in Decentraland for $1.2 million
Yep, we’re gonna hit you with that metaverse word again… Portion, a global blockchain-based auction house has just made a big move into it – buying up a large plot of prime virtual land for roughly US$1.2 million.
The New York-headquartered, high-end physical and digital collectibles auctioneer recently acquired a digitised slice of real estate in ...
Re-writing Rodin
Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) crafted his image as carefully as his work. The great self-mythologiser cast himself as a solitary, brooding genius and liked to be photographed chipping away at marble figures with a chisel. The irony, of course, is that Rodin worked mainly in terracotta — other people handled the plaster work, the casting, patinating, ...
