M○C△ WEEKLY 4/21

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Your M○C△ Weekly Round-Up

Crypto Art

• The RedLion Gazette Shutters after 4 Years (RedLion Twitter)

• How Artists Can Navigate The Cult of Crypto and NFTs (RollingStone)

• In Venice, 1OF1 and Collector Ryan Zurrer Introduce Web3 Phenom Sam Spratt to the Art World (ArtNews)

Metaverse

• What Is Bigscreen Beyond, and Is It the Future of VR? (HowToGeek)

• Doctors turn to Apple Vision Pro headset to practice surgery amid cadaver shortage (CoinTelegraph)

• How Mark Zuckerberg is reimagining the classroom (CNNBusiness)

• NASA astronauts train for future space missions with VR metaverse (Coingeek)

AI

• US seeks alliance with Abu Dhabi on artificial intelligence (FinancialTimes)

• AI now surpasses humans in almost all performance benchmarks (NewAtlas)

• Can AI help solve Japan’s labour shortages? (BBC)

• US Air Force stages dogfights with AI-flown fighter jet (DefenseNews)

Finance

• Bitcoin halving could set up cryptocurrency for long-term gains (YahooFinance)

• Bitcoin halving could ‘indirectly’ affect cryptocurrency regulation (CoinTelegraph)

• Kraken Is Buying TradeStation Crypto, Expanding Cryptocurrency Exchange's U.S. Reach (CoinDesk)

• BRICS To Replace US Dollar With Cryptocurrency for Trade (Watcher.Guru)

Potpourri

• Crypto influencer guilty of $110M scheme that shut down Mango Markets (ArsTechnica)

• M○C△ Confessional: I'm Hopelessly In Love with NBATopshot (Me lol)

• Art Bites: You Can Watch a 24/7 Livestream of Andy Warhol’s Grave (ArtNet)

• Bitcoin Runes look to spice up the halving party (Blockworks)

Tweet of the Week

Tweet from Doitbigchicago

Art From M○C△’s Collection

Smackman-4 (2018), by Reinhard Schmid. In Museum of Crypto Art Genesis Collection.

Art in the Wild

Opinions Are Still Divided (2024), from The Revenant by Travis Leroy Southworth. In collection of Moxarra Gonzalez

Traditional Art Banger

The Drinkers (1890), by Vincent van Gogh. 59.4 × 73.4 cm (23 3/8 × 28 7/8 in.) Oil on canvas. Held by Art Institute of Chicago. Created after Honoré Daumier’s, Physiologie du Buveur: Les quatre âges (1862).

Quote of the Week

“Many excellent cooks are spoilt by going into the arts.”

-Paul Gaguin

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