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"Nigerian art creators are leveraging the art world's shift to the digital world through NFTs. And they are increasing their net worth while they're at it, despite a government crackdown on cryptocurrency.

Non-fungible tokens, known as NFTs, are pieces of digital content linked to the blockchain, a digital database for cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin and ethereum.

While cryptocurrencies are fungible, which means they can be replaced and exchanged for the same unit in value -- like trading one ethereum for another -- NFTs cannot be mutually interchanged, and no two NFTs are the same, giving them scarcity value (,,,)"   "        (Lido em: CNN 2021-06-25)

“EPITáFIO”

 

“Aqui jaz o Sol

Que criou a aurora

E deu luz ao dia

E apascentou a tarde

 

O mágico pastor

De mãos luminosas

Que fecundou as rosas

E as despetalou.

 

Aqui jaz o Sol

O andrógino meigo

E violento, que

 

Possuiu a forma

De todas as mulheres

E morreu no mar.”

 

VINICIUS DE MORAES

(Vinicio de Moraes, Livro de Sonetos, Companhia das Letras, São Paulo, 2008)

“Caravaggio's The Supper at Emmaus features a snag in a wicker basket that mirrors an underground Christian emblem, writes Kelly Grovier.

“Sometimes a flaw isn't a flaw at all but a flourish – a stroke of genius. Take, for example, the tiny fray in the weave of the wicker basket that teeters on the edge of the table at the centre of Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio's early 17th-Century masterpiece The Supper at Emmaus, among the greatest treasures in the rich collection of the UK's National Gallery. Though countless eyes have marvelled at the mysterious drama unfolding in the shadowy interior of the inn in which the recently resurrected Christ has just revealed his true identity to a pair of dumbstruck disciples, the significance of an almost imperceptible imperfection has gone unnoticed in the four centuries since the painting was commissioned by the Italian nobleman Ciriaco Mattei in 1601. A loose twig, sticking out from the plait of the woven fruit bowl, is a dainty defect from which the work's truest meaning can be unravelled. Alone among the countless symbols that punctuate the religious painting, this delicately described detail – half in shade, half in light – transforms Caravaggio's celebrated canvas from a mere illustration of scripture scene into something active and daring – a spiritual challenge whose stakes could not be higher. (...)” (Lido em: BBCNews 2021-06-18)

“'Queerness isn't a western concept': Adeju Thompson is bringing genderless Nigerian fashion to the world (...)” (Lido em: CNNNEWS 2021-06-18)