The Latest Sign That Beeple Has Truly Arrived: An Exhibit at an Italian Art Museum
Beeple, the upstart digital artist who launched the global craze for nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, among art’s most powerful brokers a year ago, will make his museum debut later this month—the ultimate sign of art-world acceptance.
On April 24, the Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art in Turin, Italy, will include the artist’s first sculpture, “HUMAN ONE,” in Expressions with Fractures, a sweeping survey exhibition about the ways new technologies and social ills affect the human experience. ...
Ms. Christov-Bakargiev said she’s arranging Beeple’s piece at one end of a nearly 500-foot-long wing in the 18th-century Baroque castle that now comprises the museum. Facing it on the other end will be Francis Bacon’s 1956-1957 “Study for Portrait IX,” a hunter-green portrait of an anguished man with no hands, dressed in a suit but seemingly trapped within the chalky white outlines of a cage. ...
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