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Artist Damien Hirst burns thousands of his artworks after selling them as NFTs

AFP, 12 Oct 2022
Damien Hirst burns hundreds of his paintings in front of cameras at the Newport street gallery in London, as part of his project "The Currency". The burnt works are those that buyers have chosen to keep in the form of NFTs, after a sale of 10,000 paintings by the artist.

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