We all know that NFT enthusiasts can get caught up in some questionable stunts. But one blockchain businessman has incurred the ire of the art world — and Mexican authorities — after hosting a gaudy ...

Martin Mobarak tried to build hype around his NFT project by destroying a drawing by Frida Kahlo. At best, he made a poor calculation; at worst, he broke the law. Martin Mobarak tried to build hype ...

A Frida Kahlo drawing that might have been worth over $10 million was set ablaze to mint 10,000 non-fungible tokens or NFTs by a Mexican businessman in Miami this week. There’s a minor catch, though: ...

Miami art collector and crypto businessman Martin Mobarak claims he burned the original “Fantasmones Siniestros,” a drawing made by Frida Kahlo in 1944, during a party to launch his own NFTs of the ...

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The drinks were flowing. The mariachi band was playing. The crowd was cheering. A $10 million Frida Kahlo drawing was burning. This was the scene at a July 30 private event at a Miami mansion hosted ...

Here’s a very contemporary art-world brain puzzle: An entrepreneur burns his Frida Kahlo drawing in a scheme to sell NFTs. What’s worse: If it’s a total scam, or if it’s totally real? This is the ...

Oct. 1 (UPI) --Mexico's national cultural authority has opened an investigation into an art collector who burned an allegedly authentic Frida Kahlo drawing at his Miami home to sell NFTs of the work.

A Frida Kahlo self-portrait on display at Sotheby’s in 2021. (Photo by Tristan Fewings/Getty Images for Sotheby's) Depictions of Frida Kahlo appear nearly everywhere in the retail world, from t-shirts ...