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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.
🟪 Sotheby’s Digital Art Day Sale
〰️ 📅 Date: August 15th – August 22nd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Sotheby’s
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public Auction [Now Open!]
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The latest contemporary curated auction from Sotheby’s brings together 60 grails from prominent series and individual creators. The Sale’s Highlights include Incomplete Control #92 by Tyler Hobbs, Burning Hearts by Otherworld, MOTHER OF EVOLUTION by Beeple x Madonna, Reflection on Mechanical Creativity by Pindar Van Arman, A Big Band and All That Jazz by Helena Sarin x Dmitri Cherniak, 2% of disorder in co-operation #14 by Vera Molnar, All Out of Fucks to .GIF by ROBNESS, Rainy Days by Defaced, and Final Exit by Artifishal as well as a number of Fidenzas, CryptoPunks, Chromie Squiggles, Meridians, Sail-o-Bots, Opepens, and more.
🟪 Minimals by VivianeG
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, August 19th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Foundation
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 100 Unique 1/1 Works
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.01 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: 6 Traits including skies, balloons, trees and characters with 15 rares available including 3 animated pieces.
🟪 Passive Observer by Amadon
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, August 19th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: LG Art Lab
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1
〰️ 🎛️ Format: 7 Day Public [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 10 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Amadon’s 1/1 piece explores digital disconnection and the global news cycle, capturing how unfolding events create spectators but don’t always compel action. This debut release from LG Art Lab is curated by nft now.
🟪 looking up by kolahon
〰️ 📅 Date: Monday, August 19th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Foundation
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Reserve Auction [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.35 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Kolahon’s looking up presents a delicate interplay between the celestial and the earthly, capturing a moment of serene introspection. The figure, with ethereal white hair flowing down, is bathed in soft, muted tones that evoke a dreamlike atmosphere.
🟧 BitSplits by chainvirus
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, August 20th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 2,222
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 3H Early Access @ 11am ET
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 2H GTD Allowlist @ 2pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.00042 BTC
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: FCFS Allowlist @ 4pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.00042 BTC
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 5pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0005 BTC
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: ChainVirus’ latest collection is a tribute to the legends of abstract expressionism that explores raw human emotions, blending simple forms with chaotic colors, splits, and glitches to create chaos within simplicity. During the 3-Hour Early Access Claim Window, holders can free claim 1 BitSplit for every 1 Analog held, 1 BitSplit for every 2 Breakouts held, and 1 BitSplit for every 3 Glitchmarks held. Following the drop, BitSplits will be subject to a series of burns, exclusive mints, competitions, raffles, and more.
🟧 Solace by Reece Swanepoel
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, August 20th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 15 Prints
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 2pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 20,000 Sats
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The release of Solace marks Reece’s Genesis Drop on Ordinals. The collection is curated by @thiskittyisgood.
🟧 GL1TCH PACK: Drop 10 by spellamin
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, August 20th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: 72H Open Edition @ 2pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: ~$21
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The piece is one of the three final works that will be part of GL1TCH PACK: Season 1 by Glitch Codes. GL1TCH PACK is a series of artist collabs on BTC created using the GL1TCH C0DES, a suite of CC0 generative art inscriptions that can be used in recursive artworks.
🟪 MOONN O))) by jrdsctt
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, August 20th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: MakersPlace
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 10 Unique 1/1s
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Timed Auctions @ 1pm ET
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0.2 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: jrdsctt’s new MOONN O))) – presented by @jmarinaro220 – meditates on artistic evolution and personal reinvention, combining digital abstraction and bold color palettes with contrast and movement. 4 of the works will be Animated, and will include Still Versions as collector rewards via the TL-7160 Token Standard.
🟪 The End of History by Mowgly Lee
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, August 20th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Fellowship AI
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 80
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ 1pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: By Enquiry
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The End of History, inspired by Francis Fukuyama’s “The End of History and the Last Man,” explores the complexities of our contemporary world through a collection of short video pieces, ranging from social and political commentary to abstract fantasy.
🟪 vaporCity by James Mendenhall
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, August 20th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: OpenSea [Base]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 420
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ 4:20pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0025 ETH
🟫 Glyphtikles by @Kusamehewa1
〰️ 📅 Date: Tuesday, August 20th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Tezos]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 256
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 12pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.5 TEZ
🟧 BRUTAL EDGE by FAR + Harto
〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, August 21st
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Timed Edition @ 4:20pm ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.0009 BTC
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: BRUTAL EDGE by Harto and FAR is a digital artwork that explores the intersection of virtual and physical realms, leveraging the concepts of ready-made and Swarming. Inspired by Brutalism, Mysticism, and Geometry and utilizing code, p5.js, three.js, GLSL, and the Ordinals protocol, this project creates evolving digital art collections where collectors actively shape the collection’s trajectory. This mint will only be open for 4 Hours and 20 Minutes. To collect, keep a watchful eye on gamma(dot)io/ordinals/collections/brutal-edge.
🟪 DOM2 by Leander Herzog x Milian Mori
〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, August 21st
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Base]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: Determined Post-Mint
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ Time TBA
〰️ 💰 Price: TBA
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Released in partnership with Refraction DAO, DOM2 is based on a collaborative process that started in 2021, and is a follow up to DOM1, published in 2023 with fxhash + HEK museum in basel. The animation you see in DOM2 is an interaction of two generative systems running in the browser, in real time: visuals by Leander Herzog and audio synthesis by Milian Mori. When you collect 15 editions of DOM2, you can redeem them for a special (and limited) artist-curated DOM2 physical from the artists themselves.
🟪 Tokyo Punks | YOKAI by Sabet
〰️ 📅 Date: Wednesday, August 21st
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Magic Eden [Base]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 3,333
〰️ 🎛️ Format: Public @ Time TBA
〰️ 💰 Price: $19
🟪 100×100 VOID [Mint Pass] by Scerbo
〰️ 📅 Date: Thursday, August 22nd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse x Nguyen Wahed
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 21
〰️ 🎛️ Format: 24H Ranked Auction @ 1pm ET
〰️ 💰 Reserve Price: 0 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: As a Ranked Auction, winning bidders only pay the lowest winning bid amount. This mint pass allows the holder to mint an artwork from 100×100 VOID. The claiming window opens on Aug 23, 7pm BST and closes Aug 28, 7pm BST. Should you fail to claim, your piece will be randomly allocated to you.
🟪 100×100 VOID by Scerbo
〰️ 📅 Date: Friday, August 23rd
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Verse x Nguyen Wahed
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 21
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Pass Redemption @ 2pm ET
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: The 5-Day Claiming Window opens on Aug 23, 7pm BST and closes Aug 28, 7pm BST. Should you fail to claim, your piece will be randomly allocated to you.
🟫 Uncle Run Fun Park: Ferris Wheel by Uncle Run
〰️ 📅 Date: Saturday, August 24th
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: fx(hash) [Tezos]
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 99
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public @ 3am ET
〰️ 💰 Price: 1 TEZ
🟧 The Astronomer’s Daughter by POSTWOOK
〰️ 📅 Closing Date: N/A
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Counterfeit Culture
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 100
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.018 BTC
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: Postwook’s forthcoming collection, The Astronomer’s Daughter, is a tribute to her father that interprets satellite data from rare sat block times to create unique timepieces of outer space in her signature style. By using a 15 year retrospective starting from the beginning of Bitcoin, Natasha found the exact rare sats needed to find the dates needed to tell the story of what happened in outer space the day of each handpicked sat. There is no other chain where Natasha could have used rare sat block times and recursion to make this collection come to life – which makes it evident that this collection MUST live on Bitcoin. To collect, visit theastronomersdaughter.io.
🟪 Machine in the Ghost by diid
〰️ 📅 Closing Date: N/A
〰️ 🚀 Launchpad: Vertu Fine Art
〰️ 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 512
〰️ 🎛️ Phase: Public [Now Open!]
〰️ 💰 Price: 0.1 ETH
〰️ ℹ️ More Info: 0xDiid’s Machine in the Ghost honors the legacy of early computer art pioneers by reviving Compressionism and adapting it for the blockchain era. By blending traditional art forms with cutting-edge technology, the Artist makes a powerful statement and creates an immutable, on-chain impact. Their work raises the bar for code art while compelling serious art patrons to collect from this potentially timeless collection.
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.
