The Back Room: Crypto Ain’t Dead Yet

Those declines left crypto-whales with far less discretionary income to blow on NFTs, but they didn’t wipe out the species.

The one and only Kenny Schachter beamed back in this week toting his signature bundle of hard reporting and hot gossip from the nexus between the traditional art world and the NFT galaxy.

Among the Big Four mega-galleries , Gagosian has also been the least aggressive at adding new talent recently, signing just seven new artists since 2019.

The buyer who refused to take no for an answer was YiXiao Ding, a young Shanghai-based collector backed by vast family wealth, according to Nate Freeman’s latest coat of Wet Paint.

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