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.
🟪 Advertising Humanity by Emi Kusano
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, October 1st
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: LG Art Lab
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Reserve Auction @ Time TBA
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 3 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Inspired by 80s Japanese TV and the bubble-era commercials, the piece questions whether AI can ever capture the meaning of being human.
🟪 Intervals by Martin Grasser
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, October 7th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Bybit Pro Marketplace
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 60
〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Dutch Auction @ 10am ET
〰️ 💰 Starting Price: 7 ETH
〰️ 💰 Resting Price: 0.35 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Grasser’s work captures the split-second intensity of racing, using layered, simplified forms to represent the dynamic, ever-changing nature of each race lap. Bidders will receive an Intervals Selection Pass – the earlier you bid on a Selection Pass, the sooner you can pick your preferred artwork from the collection.
🟪 RB1—RB20 by Martin Grasser
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, October 7th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: AOI
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 1,777
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Airdrop [Complete!]
🟪 Algorithmic Primitivism: Autoglyphs
〰️ 📅 Date: October 7th – October 10th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Sotheby’s Sealed
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 Lot of 7 Works
〰️ 🎛️ Format: 72H Auction @ 2pm ET
〰️ 💰 Estimated Value: $2.5M – $3.5M
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: No Reserve
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Originally created by Larva Labs and collected by @seedphrase, this lot features seven unique types of glyphs from the original 512 Piece collection. “Autoglyphs” are widely regarded as one of the most important works of the 21st century, bridging traditional art forms and the cutting-edge realm of blockchain art.
🟪 Lifters Not Grifters [Eddie Vedder] by Coldie
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, October 7th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Manifold Studio
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 300
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale [Now Available!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.042 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: In his latest addition to the Decentral Eyes series, Coldie has broken the work into an Edition Sale (detailed above) and a 1/1 Animated Portrait that will be sold via a Silent Auction. 100% of the proceeds from both sales will be donated to the Vitalogy Foundation, supporting food insecurity initiatives and the homeless.
🟪 Opus II by Ayla el Moussa
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, October 7th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1
〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Reserve Auction
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 4 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: In their latest release, El-Moussa handcrafts a study of contrasts using faber-castell pencil, watercolor paints, 24k Gold, and premium Silver Cotton Rag paper. Like its predecessor, the piece reveals its symbols and mysteries in layers. The hourglass commands the center of attention among the opposing forces, symbolizing the fragile balance of time while Gold and Silver pigments hint at body and mind, light and dark, sun and moon – a series of opposites in constant dialogue – while the inverted triangles hint at a feminine figure, guiding the viewer through layers of form and abstraction.
🟪 The Home is a Mirage – Bluffs by Kaeli Vanfossen
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, October 7th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1
〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Reserve Auction
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.5 ETH
〰️ 💰 Buy It Now Price: 16,000 $RARE
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: For the 3rd Installment in the artist’s “Abstractia Signatures” Collection, VanFossen shares a visual depiction of their Schrodinger’s cat – a home they never had, that both exists in possibility and does not.
🟪 No Signal by Axstone
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, October 7th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale [Now Available!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 2.8 ETH
🟪 Into the Park by Amals
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, October 7th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Foundation
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1
〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Reserve Auction
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.24 ETH
🟪 Lindy by Modest
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, October 7th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Transient Labs [Shape]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 13
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale [SOLD OUT]
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.169 ETH
🟪 Synthetic Embrace by Leafswan
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, October 7th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Transient Labs [Shape]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 50 Editions
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale [Now Available!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0169 ETH
🟪 Beyond the Horizon by CARTIST OG
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, October 7th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Transient Labs [Shape]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 15 Editions
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale [Now Available!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.01 ETH
🟪 Trading Lessons by Mr. Richi
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, October 7th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Transient Labs [Shape]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale [Now Available!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 1.7 ETH
🟧 The Originals by Solemn
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, October 8th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma
〰️ 🧮 Supply: TBA
〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Dutch Auctions @ 3pm ET
〰️ 💰 Starting Price: 0.021 BTC
〰️ 💰 Resting Price: 0.01 BTC
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: They’re not just copies; they’re numbered prints, much like traditional art. Each one captures a unique essence of the original. Some of these pieces are on rare sats, some cursed, and all are a key part of the artist’s artistic journey. Each piece will be released in a 24 hour descending auction.
🟪 I’m With You by Kevin Esherick
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, October 8th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse x TENDER
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 24
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ 12pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.181 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The unique digital artwork comes with an archival print, and is connected to an NFT on the ethereum blockchain.
🟪 Monday Mass by Amadon
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, October 8th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Highlight [Shape]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Sale [Now Available!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 4.69 ETH
🟪 Collab Cooking 🧑🏽🍳
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, October 8th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Transient Labs [Multichain]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 60 on ETH / 65 on Shape
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 1pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.08 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: A collaborative work from @Adamtastic, Nuclear Samurai, @jhuffizi, @p4ntano, @SaraSBaumann, @blac_ai, Delta Sauce, @aleqth, @WGMeets, @BrutalS81, @tustont, and @HODLFrance. Curated by @0xMLow, each piece in the collection is dynamic based on time.
🟪 The Anatomy of Fracture by Aleksandra Jovanić
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, October 8th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Base]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 200
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ 11am ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.01 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Part of the “DISRUPT” exhibition at Galerie Data (Paris) in October 2024, curated by Gabrielle Debeuret and Olha Pylypenko. The collection focuses on code evolution, language imperfections, disruptions of verbal precision, and embedded ambiguity.
🟪 Portraits of an Enjoyer by Joseph.Pixler
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, October 8th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: OpenSea [Base]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 569
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: MoBA Allowlist @ 9am ET
〰️ 💰 Price: FREE
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 1:20am ET
〰️ 💰 Price: TBA
🟪 THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE by Beeple
〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, October 9th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Avant Arte
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Sale
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 48H Timed Sale @ 1pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: See Below ⬇️
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: With his first generative artwork, Beeple considers the subjective nature of our individual realities, as well as a hypothetical symbiosis between technology and nature. The complete artwork responds in real time to a wealth of information. Exactly how is down to its owner, who is granted a choice between three states. For the official Avant Arte Print release, collectors can purchase “SIGNAL,” “NOISE,” and or “CHOOSE VIOLENCE” individually for $392 Each; or alternatively, you can collect a triptych (1 of Each) for $1,070. For an additional fee, collectors can also have their purchases professionally framed.
🟧 Ariadna by Dario Lanza
〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, October 10th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Magic Eden x VIVID
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1
〰️ 🎛️ Format: 7-Day Auction @ 1pm ET
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.1 BTC
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: For the next Chef D’œuvre, VIVID Gallery is proud to present a generative homage to Greek Artistry and mythological legacy, interwoven with the threads of Ariadne and Penelope from Dario Lanza.
🟧 Ascend by Ryan Koopmans + Alice Wexell
〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, October 10th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Christie’s
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Live Auction @ 10am
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: TBA
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: For the latest installment in “The Wild Within” by Ryan Koopmans + Alice Wexell, “Ascend” depicts the interior architecture of the crumbling Iveria Sanatorium in Tskaltubo, Georgia – built between 1952 and 1962 – which was abandoned and fell into disrepair after the fall of the USSR.
🟪 The Pink Cells by Olivier Bodini
〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, October 10th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: SuperRare
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1
〰️ 🎛️ Format: TBA @ Time TBA
〰️ 💰 Price: TBA
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: A Curated Release that explores the French expression “voir la vie en rose.” Bodini interprets the human desire for happiness in a world fraught with conflict. Using generative algorithms, the work reflects the organic nature of our relationships, with networks of interconnected forms symbolizing the ways we group ideologically, while vibrant colors represent the nuances of these connections.
🟪 Becoming by Florian Zumbrunn
〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, October 10th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Base]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 50
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ 11am ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.08 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Part of the “DISRUPT” exhibition at Galerie Data (Paris) in October 2024, curated by Gabrielle Debeuret and Olha Pylypenko. The work focuses on transformation, where the individual is shaped through the collisions and blending of ideas and realities, where the world collides with new perspectives and redefines itself.
🟪 InFlux: The Ordeal by apocalypse art
〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, October 10th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Apocalypse(dot)art [Shape]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 156
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ Time TBA
〰️ 💰 Price: TBA
🟪 PANOT FLOR AII by Panot
〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, October 10th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Foundation [Base]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 64
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ 4pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.001 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: 64 digital tiles designed to impress upon the importance of responsible AI-use.
🟧 Abstractinals by 8th Project
〰️ 📅 Date: Week of October 7th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 20 Unique 1/1 Works
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Auctions @ Time TBA
〰️ 💰 Price: TBA
🟧 Roses for Ordinals by Okra
〰️ 📅 Date: Week of October 7th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: TBA
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 121
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ Time TBA
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.00042 BTC
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Okra’s 1st Generative Art Collection is interactive, animated, evolving, upgradeable, and customizable by reinscribing.
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.