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All Eyes on Art: Upcoming Collections to Watch the Week of December 4

BY Steven Miller •

December 04, 2024

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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.

🟧 dreemers by @ccovvrr

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 2nd

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma Prints

〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Timed Edition

〰️ 💰 Price: Free

🟧 Alchemist by @ekavibes

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 2nd

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma Prints

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 8

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.001 BTC

🟧 Discrete Continuous by @Waterflowing0

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 2nd

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma Prints

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 32

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.00032 BTC

🟧 01 – The Magician by @PtiteAngele

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 2nd

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma Prints

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 30

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0006 BTC

🟧 Degits by @ladebw

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 2nd

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma Collection

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 128

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0005 BTC

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Degits is based-code generative art, where digits combine with letters and characters to create a stunning visual effect, using symmetry applied with noise. This algorithm is tiny but based on the random functions that can produce zillion of unique outputs.

🟧 Bloody Bullrun by @terakiart

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 2nd

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma Collection

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 10

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0002 BTC

🟧 For Love by @Emilmto

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 2nd

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma Originals

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.005 BTC

🟧 Do You Also See It by @Emilmto

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 2nd

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma Originals

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0025 BTC

🟪 INK [Fragrances] by @pointline_

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 2nd

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Art Blocks Curated

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 6

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ 12pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: $1,000 USD

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The Fragrances Collection contains six fragrances, each uniquely embodies its corresponding generative artwork, produced at the time of purchase from the algorithm, resulting in a handcrafted, exclusive formula. The bottle itself, also handcrafted, serves as a container but stands as an independent object. A drop of crystal ink. The work speaks to the bold insistence on leaving a trace, a mark that knows it will fade, yet persists. A poetic contradiction lies in each stroke: the pursuit of permanence in a world destined to vanish. “INK” is the 1st of 3 Curated Releases to debut as part of Art Blocks Curated’s “Poetics of the Infinite” exhibition.

🟪 fun with pumps by @Jacobtheape

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 2nd

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare Series

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 3

〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Reserve Auctions

〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 1 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Jacob the Ape’s latest release brings Art and Degeneracy together in ways most have never seen before. The three works – “red candles”, “ripper”, and “green candle” – are all for sale individually while simultaneously introducing a unique fungible component where the works have been tokenized on Pump(dot)fun. For my money, I’d just buy the original artwork, but that’s just Art Advice, so DYOR + remember it’s NFA.

🟪 Glitched by @Gingerpotter_21

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 2nd

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare Series

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 4

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale

〰️ 💰 Price: 1 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The new series of works from Potter include “Petals”, “Digital Windows”, “Overthinker”, and “Loading…”.

🟪 KIDD-0 – RISE. RESIST. REPEAT. by @henrydaubrez

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 2nd

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.666 ETH

🟪 BLACK OP by @Hans4488

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 2nd

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.15 ETH

🟪 NO WAY OUT by @SkiluxDesigns

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 2nd

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1

〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Reserve Auction

〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 3 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The piece includes a Physical Canvas Print, measuring 30cm by 40cm.

🟪 Inner Wizard by @MultiPlatinumHD

〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, December 2nd

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Private Sale

〰️ 💰 Price: Open to Offers

🟧 Filthy Fiat – Warren Buffett by @Coldie

〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, December 3rd

〰️ 🚀 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 run from December 3rd through December 18th and will include both the Physical Artwork as well as the 1/1 Recursive Ordinal.

🟪 INK by @pointline_

〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, December 3rd

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Art Blocks Curated

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 100

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

〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.05 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The collection speaks to the bold insistence on leaving a trace, a mark that knows it will fade, yet persists. A poetic contradiction lies in each stroke: the pursuit of permanence in a world destined to vanish. Whether in blue or black, in pencil or rust, each line reflects fragments of human experience – perhaps figures, animals, or letters – yet none of it is real; it is only experiences, biases, dreams, and demons. Rather than rely on the slow decay of ink, paper, or perhaps one day pixels, we lean on what is within our control: memory, boundless, infinite, and ours alone. Velitchkova draws from the simplicity of Picasso’s single-line figures, Chillida’s sculptural weight, Kline’s expressive brushwork, and Basquiat’s chaotic yet precise gestures. Yet it seeks neither homage nor critique, it merely stands as a mirror, reflecting our insistent need to matter. “INK” is the 1st of 3 Curated Releases to debut as part of Art Blocks Curated’s “Poetics of the Infinite” exhibition.

🟪 Exposures by @robdixon

〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, December 3rd

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: MakersPlace x gmDAO

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 100

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 2H Presale @ 11am ET 

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 1pm ET 

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.1 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The ‘Exposures’ series shows people navigating wild and vibrant abstract worlds, yet somehow trapped and distracted. Each scene is inhabited by transparent characters posed, exposed, and juxtaposed. The scenes are rendered as paintings of a sort, snapshots of modern or classical figures reacting to each other and their surroundings. The attitudes of the characters’ limbs or torsos often match the angles around them as they try to blend in. The collection will be driven by 100 artist-curated hashes, chosen for composition and impact, that explore the full range of the series. The final artworks have a faux brush-stroke look, as if someone was painting en plein air in a virtual world, blurring the boundaries between digital and physical. Even so, the code is fully on-chain and the works render live. Check out Radix’s forthcoming collection at the inaugural Miami Digital Art Fair at BeyBey Miami on December 3rd.

🟪 42069 by @ScrillaVentura

〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, December 3rd

〰️ 🚀 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.

🟪 xovarnaq by @zolfaqqari

〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, December 3rd

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Base]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined 3/3

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Timed Edition @ 11:30am ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.001 ETH

🟪 Echoes of Frida: Sutura by @JimenaBuenaVida

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, December 4th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Ezel [Arbitrum]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of ?

〰️ 🎛️ Format: 72H Timed Edition @ 9am ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.008 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Inspired by Frida Kahlo’s legacy, “Sutura” embodies love, resilience, connection, and transformation—stitching blocks of beauty + passion from her life experiences and the profound symbolism of her journey. Released in partnership with Frida Kahlo’s family, this is the first of three groundbreaking art series, celebrating Kahlo’s enduring influence through modern generative art.

🟪 Material Histories by @emilyxxie

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, December 4th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse x TENDER

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 6

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 1pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: TBA

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: A series of unique works that embody Xie’s focus on texture and abstracted mythological motifs, bringing them together for the first time with tactile, handmade embroidery. The work unites computational artistry and textile-based artisanship, two fields that have been a consistent theme within Xie’s work. Each piece represents one of the six elements between eastern and western cultures: earth, wood, metal, fire, water, and air. This distillation of nature into form is uniquely evocative of ancient stories around the elements, bringing a sense of strength and lore to each artwork fed by Xie’s native abstraction. The Collection will be exhibited at the Untitled Art Fair with TENDER during Art Basel Miami.

🟪 Security by @SHL0MS

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, December 4th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse Solos

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of TBA

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 5pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.054 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Slated to take place during Art Basel Miami, the next iteration in a series of performance artworks orchestrated by the artist, shl0ms. Keep an eye out for VAN SOLO, as performances will take place between 12pm and 6pm Local Time Thursday through Saturday in Miami. The 1st Location will be the corner of 12th Street and Collins Avenue on December 4th from 5pm to 8pm Local Time.

🟪 Faultlines by @_0_0_0_9_

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, December 4th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse x TENDER

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 4

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 1pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: TBA

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The collection places characters amongst artifacts of mass transit, ocean platforms, and power grids – each proxies for the forces that keep society moving. Each work in the series balances precarious moments of impending collapse – a symbol for the uncertainty of today’s daily existence – with undertones of resilience and transformation. This tension between growth and destruction, order and chaos, are central to the conflicting nature of contemporary life – highlighting the underlying vulnerabilities of our dependence on a systematized world. Each digital will be accompanied by a physical print.

🟪 Pixel Rug Drawing by @travess

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, December 4th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse x TENDER

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 5

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 1pm ET

🟪 Glitched Horizons by @nix_eth

〰️ 💰 Price: TBA

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, December 4th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Blever [Apechain]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 80 Editions

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Holder AL @ 9am ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Blever Pass AL @ 9:30am ET

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 10am ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 4 APE

🟪 Verge by @buuralkaevli

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, December 4th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Highlight [Base]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 300

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 12pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.025 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Emblematic of a decisive period in the artist’s life, “Verge” brings attention to what is real or what is abstract, what is true or what is false.

🟪 Fragments of Reality by @Raiser_Art

〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, December 4th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Foundation [Base]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 772

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 10:45am ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.39 ETH

🟪 EVENT by @BernarVenetArt

〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, December 5th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Sotheby’s

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 500

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Dutch Auction @ 2pm ET

〰️ 💰 Starting Price: 5 ETH

〰️ 💰 Resting Price: 1 ETH

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Bernar Venet is a contemporary art legend, and has been using mathematics and randomness since the 1960’s. Venet’s first long-form generative art collection – created in collaboration with @dotjiwa – combines sculpture with algorithmic techniques to create a unique experience that reflects the artist’s ongoing journey through code and creativity. Blending his sculptural expertise with scientific and mathematical elements, he creates generative pieces that reinterpret his iconic “collapsed angles.”

🟪 64 Bits of Sunlight [Limited Edition] by @tylerxhobbs

〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, December 5th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Iconic Moments

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 400

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Presale @ 8am ET (12/5)

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 8am ET (12/6)

〰️ 💰 Price: $900

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: For the first time, ICONIC proudly collaborates with Art Basel and acclaimed generative artist Tyler Hobbs to introduce an exclusive Art Basel Miami Beach 2024 Print. This bespoke series features 400 unique, limited-edition prints from Hobbs’ latest generative algorithm “64 Bits of Sunlight”, making each print truly one of a kind. Only 400 prints will ever be made available, each hand-signed and numbered by Tyler Hobbs. Owners of this Limited Edition will enjoy exclusive VIP access to the next Art Basel Limited Edition print release. A Collector’s Edition Print of the work will also be available for $150 as an Open Edition, but will be of one specific output from the algorithm that will not be signed or numbered. A limited supply of both the Collector’s Edition poster and the Limited Edition prints will be available to purchase on-site at The Art Basel Shop’s three retail locations during the fair.

🟪 Love Letter to LA by @_0_0_0_9_

〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, December 5th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse x TENDER

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 26

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 1pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: TBA

🟪 where awe fades by @robscalera

〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, December 5th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Base]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined 12/19

〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Timed Edition @ 11am ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0025 ETH

🟥 Art Charity Auction Presented by @Leap_xyz 

〰️ 📅 Date: Friday, December 6th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Magic Eden

〰️ 🧮 Supply: Multiple Artworks on BTC, ETH + SOL

〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Auction @ 2pm ET

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Leap’s Charity Auction will take place in sync with an IRL Event in Miami from 2pm to 5pm ET on the 6th. Over 35+ Artists and Projects have contributed artworks for the auction, with 100% of the proceeds going directly to St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Your participation helps make a meaningful difference, and together, we can change lives through the power of art.

🟫 garden by @fukudayouichi

〰️ 📅 Date: Friday, December 6th

〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Tezos]

〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 17

〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ 10pm ET

〰️ 💰 Price: 3 TEZ

〰️ ℹ️ More Info: A reinterpretation of 16th and 17th century Japanese barrier paintings, which are decorative paintings on the walls, sliding doors and screens of temples and private residences, and played a role in the decoration of traditional Japanese interiors which were used to entertain guests, demonstrate the owner’s taste and cultural sophistication, and serve as a catalyst for dialogue.

🟪 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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