{"id":39634,"date":"2021-03-26T13:02:58","date_gmt":"2021-03-26T11:02:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/?p=39634"},"modified":"2025-08-30T10:39:22","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T07:39:22","slug":"hermitage-to-host-nft-art-exhibition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/hermitage-to-host-nft-art-exhibition\/","title":{"rendered":"Hermitage to host NFT art exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The State Hermitage Museum is preparing an exhibition of artworks created in NFT format. The museum&#8217;s press service <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hermitagemuseum.org\/wps\/portal\/hermitage\/news\/news-item\/news\/2021\/news_63_21\/?lng=ru-\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The exhibition will run under the Hermitage 20\/21 project until the end of 2021. It is being developed by the museum&#8217;s Department of Contemporary Art.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>\u201cThe project will be the first in Russia to explore NFT-token art and its use in the artistic sphere,\u201d the Hermitage said.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The project&#8217;s strategic partner will be the Aksenov Family Foundation.<\/p>\n<p>Descendants of renowned artists have also taken an interest in NFTs. The grandson of the Russian avant-garde master Vladimir Baranov-Rossine put ten of his paintings up for digital auction on Mintable along with their corresponding NFTs, <a href=\"https:\/\/decrypt.co\/62878\/this-96-year-old-russian-futurist-painting-now-comes-with-its-own-nft\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Decrypt<\/a> reports.<\/p>\n<p>The most notable is the 1925 work <a href=\"https:\/\/mintable.app\/drops\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Abstract Composition<\/a>. Its price is currently $13,450.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">1\/3 \u2014 As part of the historic <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/fVNFVRBqb2\">https:\/\/t.co\/fVNFVRBqb2<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/NFT?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#NFT<\/a> sale happening right now on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcuban?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mcuban<\/a>-backed <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mintable_app?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@mintable_app<\/a>, we will be inviting the winner of the main auction to meet the family of the artist to discuss the collection and discover the archive. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iXYkR2pQUl\">pic.twitter.com\/iXYkR2pQUl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Wladimir Baranoff-Rossine (@wladimirbr) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wladimirbr\/status\/1374960162612502529?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Mintable backs billionaire Mark Cuban.<\/p>\n<p>The marketplace will send the auction winner the insured Baranov-Rossine painting and the NFT proving ownership of the artwork. The buyer will also have the opportunity to meet the artist&#8217;s family, who were contemporaries of Wassily Kandinsky and Marc Chagall.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about NFTs in ForkLog&#8217;s card:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-embedded-content\" data-secret=\"s5DDDnK1tY\"><p><a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/what-are-nfts\">What is NFT?<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-embedded-content\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts\" security=\"restricted\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden;\" title=\"\u00abWhat is NFT?\u00bb \u2014 ForkLog\" src=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/cryptorium\/chto-takoe-nft\/embed#?secret=YVF0ITMHxd#?secret=s5DDDnK1tY\" data-secret=\"s5DDDnK1tY\" width=\"500\" height=\"282\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In March, digital artist Mike Winkelmann, known by the pseudonym Beeple, sold the work Everydays: The First 5000 Days <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/beeples-nft-sells-at-christies-for-69-3-million\">for $69.3 million<\/a>. The painting is a collage of thousands of works by the artist published on the Internet since 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Later, another Winkelmann work, Ocean Front, in NFT form was purchased <a href=\"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/news\/beeple-sells-new-nft-painting-for-6-million\">for $6 million<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Follow ForkLog&#8217;s Bitcoin news on our <a href=\"https:\/\/telegram.me\/forklog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Telegram<\/a> \u2014 cryptocurrency news, prices and analysis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State Hermitage Museum is preparing an exhibition of artworks created in NFT format.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":39635,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"select":"1","news_style_id":"1","cryptorium_level":"","_short_excerpt_text":"","creation_source":"","_metatest_mainpost_news_update":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[1331,1213,1848],"class_list":["post-39634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-and-analysis","tag-culture-and-art","tag-nft","tag-saint-petersburg"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"views":"12","promo_type":"1","layout_type":"1","short_excerpt":"","is_update":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39634"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39634\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39636,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39634\/revisions\/39636"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forklog.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}