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All Eyes on Art: Upcoming Collections to Watch the Week of December 17

BY Steven Miller

December 17, 2024

When you consider just how quickly things move in the metaverse, it’s a wonder that anyone can keep up with all the news and product launches, let alone the constant influx of incredible artwork. 

All things considered, it raises an important question: how can you efficiently discover the best upcoming art collections?

For the answer, look no further! I’ve scoured the metaverse to uncover the drops you simply can’t afford to overlook so you can focus on elevating your collection instead of endlessly scrolling through X and Discord.

In this week’s curated Collector’s Digest, I’ll give you a leg up in your search for the premier works debuting on Bitcoin Ordinals, Ethereum, and Solana. Here’s what to look out for this week.


🟧 Vortex [Special Editions] by @bright_lightart

〰️ 📅 Closing Date: Monday, December 16th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: VIVID Gallery

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 6

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Blind Auction [CLOSED]

〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.005 BTC

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Ella’s latest release debuts VIVID’s 3-Phase Curated Drop Mechanic – beginning with a Long-Form Public Drop, followed by a Series of 6 Special Edition Collabs (this Listing), and a Chef D’œuvre Masterwork as the Grand Finale. For the Special Editions – each inscribed on Uncommon Sats – Ella has collaborated with @Satoshis_Mom, @ol1y_art, @0xdiid, @DocT___, @mrc_arte, and @serc1n.

🟧 Leviathan – Hues by @wage_du

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 16th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 100

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.00125 BTC

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Cornes’ “Leviathan” Series is a remarkable vertical composition of a hundred inscriptions that unite to form a single, massive Generative Structure. Volatile and dynamic like its home on Bitcoin, each unique series ebbs and flows between states of calm and violence that will evolve as new blocks are confirmed onchain.

🟧 Logos Operators by @exit_operator

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 16th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 990

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public

〰️ 💰 Price: Free

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Inspired by Satoshi Nakamoto’s vision, Logos Operators are the gateway to an ecosystem creating parallel societies. Each Ordinal serves as the pseudonymous identity of its earliest members.

🟧 Angel Wings by @timmboslice_

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 16th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma Prints

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 8 Editions

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.004 BTC

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: “Angel Wings” is the 2024 Australian Geographic Aerial Nature Photographer of the Year recipient – currently on display at museums worldwide. At the time of this publication, the Original 1/1 is also available to collectors for 0.1 BTC on Gamma.

🟧 Eternal Garden by @rosbeldev

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 16th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma Collections

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 444

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0002 BTC

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: This piece was created using only pure JavaScript. Before starting, the artist posited the question: is it really necessary to write a lot of code or have a complex algorithm to generate a visually pleasing image? The images are inspired by the “scribbles” style, meaning the strokes don’t follow strict logic. Despite its simplicity, the code only takes up 2.47 KB and 3,126 characters.

🟧 BELIEVE by @joey_mono

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 16th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma Prints

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 10 Editions

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.00025 BTC

🟧 Geometry by @ladebw

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 16th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma Collections

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 50

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.00035 BTC

🟪 Box Light Studies [Sculpture] by @zachlieberman

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 16th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Art Blocks Curated

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public

〰️ 💰 Price: $8,000

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: An investigation into light, color, and geometry. As an artist who works with code and produces sketches on a daily basis, Lieberman has come to realize that he has just a few topics he deeply cares about, and one of those is light. He tries to produce images with a sense of illumination, where it feels like color, rhythm, and form are explored through that illumination, and he feels like he’s captured some essence of what he sees in the world. He loves to sketch, and this project is a view into his studies with light. “Box Light Studies” is the 3rd of 3 Curated Releases to debut as part of Art Blocks Curated’s “Poetics of the Infinite” exhibition.

🟪 AM by @andrea_ciulu

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 16th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Flamingo DAO

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 500

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 24H Noper AL @ 12m ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 24H General AL @ 12pm ET [12/17]

〰️ 💰 Price: Free + Fees

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: AM is a deep exploration of the liminal nature of the night as a condition of the spirit where we are finally left alone with our true selves. It is a symbolic place that is disappearing from our planet, awash in artificial light. The title is a play on the word AM, which can be read both as “Anti Meridian” or as a verb, a statement of existence. This is the 2nd of 3 Releases in Flamingo DAO’s “Flamingo Flutter” series for 2024.

🟪 Lenses [SoulBound Claim Token] by @material_work

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 16th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Material Protocol Arts

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 512

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Private Sale [SOLD OUT]

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.2 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The team is hand-selecting their collectors in an attempt to build a strong group who appreciate the art and want to hold it long term, not just flip it and dump it. If a collector is interested and the team feels it’s a good fit, the collector will be offered a link that entitles them to mint an invitation, which will only be live for 48 Hours. At a date to be announced after the sale is complete, the collection will be opened for claiming.

🟪 Uncommon Heritage by @endless_mazin

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 16th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse Works

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1

〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Reserve Auction @ 1pm ET

〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: This is the 2nd of 8 Unique Works in Mazin’s “Phantasmagoria” Collection. The series blends AI, generative art, data-bending and glitch techniques to craft a purely digital universe.

🟪 TLx Legacy by @TransientLabs

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 16th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Transient Labs [Base]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint

〰️ 🎛️ Format: 7-Day Allowlist Sale

〰️ 💰 Price: Free + Fees

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: If you hold any Transient Labs TLx Collection, go get your hands on these Limited Edition drops from @0xdgb, @dave_krugman, and @EAWharton. 0xdgb’s “Unwanted Cameras”, Dave Krugman’s “Fearless”, and Eddie Wharton’s “TLx Galaxy” are available this holiday season as Tokens of Gratitude for collectors.

🟪 Pixel Fragments by @YanissBeni

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 16th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Magic Eden [Apechain]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 1,000

〰️ 🎛️ Format: 12-Day Public Sale

〰️ 💰 Price: 5 APE

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: A collection of 1,000 exclusive digital artifacts, meticulously crafted from the rarest pixel metals, engineered to support the foundational architecture of APECHAIN and forged from unprecedented virtual materials like Gold, Titanium, and Cobalt, which enhance the cohesion and strength of the data fabric, uniting innovation with resilience.

🟧 Ape In by @hafftka

〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, December 17th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma Prints

〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint

〰️ 🎛️ Format: 69H Timed Edition @ 12am ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.000069 BTC

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Coming to market in celebration of their 71st Birthday, Hafftka’s “Ape In” is one part self portrait and one part a portrait of some of his friends. The work is also Hafftka’s reflection on the reality that Trad Art and Digital Art are not all too different. At the time of this publication, the Original 1/1 is also available to collectors for 0.18 BTC on Gamma.

🟧 Hashed by @theezy350

〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, December 17th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Magic Eden

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 256

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: GTD AL @ 10am ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: FCFS AL @ 12pm ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 2pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0019 BTC

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: A collection of abstract mining rigs, inspired by the old-school plugboards of cipher machines. The goal of the series is to create a mempool-like experience, where the art grows and reflects the Bitcoin network it’s inscribed on. The design – which takes only 4,042 Lines of Code – evolves with Bitcoin, with connections re-arranging into a unique pattern for each new block.

🟪 Seam and Gusset and Band by @rebeccarosenft

〰️ 📅 Closing Date: Tuesday, December 17th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Christie’s Next Wave

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Reserve Auction

〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.5 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Inspired by Thomas Hood’s 19th century poem Song of the Shirt, “Seam and Gusset and Band” addresses the use of child labor in the fashion industry through a contemporary lens. The piece is minted on Transient Labs’ 7160 Contract and includes three aspect ratios that are fine tuned to most displays (16:9 / 9:16 / 1:1).

🟪 Box Light Studies by @zachlieberman

〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, December 17th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Art Blocks Curated

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 100

〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Ranked Auction @ 12pm ET

〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.05 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: An investigation into light, color, and geometry. As an artist who works with code and produces sketches on a daily basis, Lieberman has come to realize that he has just a few topics he deeply cares about, and one of those is light. He tries to produce images with a sense of illumination, where it feels like color, rhythm, and form are explored through that illumination, and he feels like he’s captured some essence of what he sees in the world. He loves to sketch, and this project is a view into his studies with light. “Box Light Studies” is the 3rd of 3 Curated Releases to debut as part of Art Blocks Curated’s “Poetics of the Infinite” exhibition.

🟪 Catastrophic Forgetting by @emikusano

〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, December 17th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse x TENDER

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 25

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Private Sales [Now Open]

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 15m Individual Auctions @ 1pm ET

〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: $300

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The collection takes its name from the neural network phenomena where AI systems lose existing information while learning new data – and the series similarly explores the memory loss that humans experience in our information-saturated world. Today, even historically significant events quickly disappear from public attention, let alone the countless new cultural and visual references that we witness minute-to-minute, and that inevitably escape our memory. Artworks sold before December 16, 2024 come with an archival pigment print on Hahnemuhle Photo Rag Baryta paper, 12.9 x 23 in. signed on Verso. Each corresponding token represents the ownership over the unique original print, to be claimed by the token holder, with shipping at additional cost. 

🟪 42069 by @ScrillaVentura

〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, December 17th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: AOTM

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 25

〰️ 🎛️ Format: 48H Auction @ 12pm ET

〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.169 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: A cutting-edge music and art project that pushes the boundaries of collaboration between human creativity and AI. Each track blends AI-generated compositions, sometimes with human loops, post-production, and a few contributions from select emcees. The series will debut 3 New Artworks every Tuesday from October 29th through Mid-December using the 48-Hour Auction Format.

🟧 Filthy Fiat – Warren Buffett by @Coldie

〰️ 📅 Closing Date: Wednesday, December 18th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma x Christie’s

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Reserve Auction

〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: $10,000

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: For his first Filthy Fiat physical release, Coldie presents an experimental piece of Living Art that is magnetic, and fully customizable. The Auction will close December 18th and will include both the Physical Artwork as well as the 1/1 Recursive Ordinal.

🟪 Ronin | 浪人 by @RichardNadler1

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, December 18th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: gm Studio

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 128

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 24H Ranked Auction @ 11am ET

〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: TBA

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: “Ronin 浪人” invites viewers to explore the delicate tension between past and present, tradition and modernity. Each piece features a modern samurai clad in reimagined and vibrant o-yoroi armor, symbolising the fusion of ancient warrior spirit and contemporary color and design. Set against idyllic landscapes teeming with life, the samurai stand not as relics of a war-torn past, but as guardians of beauty and tranquility.

🟪 Cosmicodes by @insighbart

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, December 18th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Art Blocks Studio

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 128

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 12pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.03 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: “Cosmicodes“ is a collaboration between Insigħt, a trio of generative quantum artists, and Leonardo Petrucci (@Leon_Hard86), an artist captivated by the mysteries of outer space. The project draws inspiration from iron meteorites, specifically the striking geometries found in their slices – known as Widmanstatten patterns. These textures are formed in outer space through catastrophic cosmic explosions and are shaped over millions of years under slow cooling conditions.

🟪 The Black Box by @9dccxyz

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, December 18th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: OpenSea [Base]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 2,750 Boxes

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 12pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.069 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: A gateway to exclusive 9dcc products, unique digital experiences, and rewards. Each box includes a mystery piece from 9dcc Collection-01 Apparel, ITERATION-04 (9dcc’s Unreleased LE Collectible), a Treasure Chest of Network Points, 21 OP Tokens, OpenSea XP (if you’re into that sort of thing), and one big surprise… one box contains a CryptoPunk.

🟧 Code of Culture by @orkhan_art

〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, December 19th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma x Inscribr

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 512

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: HolyMath Whales + Frens @ TBA

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: HolyMath Holders + Collabs @ TBA

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ TBA

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.00256 BTC

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The first fully on-chain realtime AI-driven generative art project on Ordinals, inspired by cultural codices. The work reimagines the weaving of patterns into carpets from memory, passed down through generations. 

🟧 The Gamma Winter Pass

〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, December 19th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma

〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 15m Summer Pass AL #1 @ 12pm ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 15m Summer Pass AL #2 @ 12am ET [12/20]

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.00088 BTC

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 15m Active Collector AL @ 12pm ET [12/20]

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0012 BTC

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: With cover artwork by @0xFar, the Gamma Winter Pass continues the legacy created by Gamma Summer Pass, which delivered six months of exclusive opportunities to holders. The Winter Pass will include a surprise airdrop by a leading Bitcoin Artist, 3 Exclusive Releases all priced with accessible entries at ~$20 each, surprise releases, another limited edition Gamma Blind Box, 0% Marketplace Trading Fees on Gamma, and GTD Allowlist Spots for several exciting projects coming in the first half of 2025.

🟪 TABCORP Labs [Allowlist] by @TaborRobak

〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, December 19th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse Works

〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Timed Edition for Eligible Collectors

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.1 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: For months, TABCORP Enterprises has refined its newest creation: the Materializer – an enigmatic device poised to reshape the cultural landscape. Though no official confirmation has surfaced, whispers from within the corporation suggest TABCORP’s aim is to preserve art by destroying the so-called Broken Printers. In a bold move in its bid to safeguard creative expression, TABCORP will invite collectors to incinerate their Broken Printers. For every three BPs fed to the flames, the Materializer promises to conjure a dazzling, futuristic realm – each more lavish, more extraordinary, and more mind-bending than any that came before. Please note that this process involves manual work from the artist and may take some time. There will also be a series of “Printer Packs” which will be sold via Ranked Auction (with a 0.2 ETH Reserve) on January 17th, 2025, including 1 Mint Pass and 3 Broken Printers which can be redeemed or kept.

🟪 distraKted by @motiondesign_01

〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, December 19th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse Works

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 24

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: TBA @ 1pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: TBA

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: A written language is a complex tissage of signs and symbols. A conventional system of coherent patterns with which one seeks to express meaningful actions, ideas, thoughts and feelings. What happens though when one loses the capacity to decipher these visual constructs?

🟪 X-Y-Z by @andreasgysin

〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, December 19th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Flamingo DAO

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 500

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 24H Noper AL @ 12pm ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: General AL @ 12pm ET [12/20]

〰️ 💰 Price: Free + Fees

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: X-Y-Z is a study of the built-in typeface found in vintage scientific vector displays from HP. These displays were famously used for special effects in the Hollywood movie “War Games.” In the film’s military control center, all the screens displayed animated vector graphics. These graphics were produced using the HP X-Y vector displays, then colorized, combined, and projected on the screen. This is the 3rd of 3 Releases in Flamingo DAO’s “Flamingo Flutter” series for 2024.

🟪 Wobble by @pastelles

〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, December 19th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Highlight [Base]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 300

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ 12pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.015 ETH

🟫 SILK(fx) by @lammetje_nl

〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, December 19th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Tezos]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 256

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ 11am ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 9 TEZ

Silk captures the elegance that mirrors the smoothness of flowing fabric. The layered textures evoke the softness of silk, while the shimmering hues radiate a delicate translucence. Utilizing alpha channels and blending modes, light and color merge seamlessly.

🟪 BITFRAMES by @mattdesl

〰️ 📅 Closing Date: Friday, December 20th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Highlight

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 10,000

〰️ 🎛️ Format: 4-Week Timed Edition

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.01 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The Timed Edition, which will be open until 5pm on the 20th, is going to direct 100% of the proceeds toward the production of a generative art history documentary. Alongside the crowdfund, a ‘32-Bit Edition’ has been curated by DesLauriers, with the first 16 tokens distributed via weekly random raffle while the remaining 16 will be given to the crowdfund’s top contributors.


Thanks for checking out All Eyes on Art! I curate this comprehensive yet selective digest of upcoming collections to keep you informed week in and week out. If you’d like to see more color in your X feed, I share a 30-Day Outlook version of this Collector’s Digest every Monday and my Discover Art series every Thursday.

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