All Eyes on Art: Upcoming Collections to Watch the Week of May 20

May 21, 2024

When you consider just how quickly things move in the metaverse, it’s a wonder that anyone can keep up with all the news and product launches, let alone the constant influx of incredible artwork. 

All things considered, it raises an important question: how can you efficiently discover the best upcoming art collections?

For the answer, look no further! I’ve scoured the metaverse to uncover the drops you simply can’t afford to overlook so you can focus on elevating your collection instead of endlessly scrolling through X and Discord.

In this week’s curated Collector’s Digest, I’ll give you a leg up in your search for the premier works debuting on Bitcoin Ordinals, Ethereum, and Solana. Here’s what to look out for this week.

Art Minting This Week

[TITLE TBA] by [REDACTED]

〰 📅 Date: Tuesday, May 21st

〰 🚀 Launchpad: Gamma

〰 🧮 Supply: [REDACTED] 

〰 🎛 Format: [REDACTED] @ 2pm ET

〰 💰 Price: [REDACTED] 

〰 ℹ More Info: While info is hush-hush at the moment, I have it on good authority that there’s a big new collection dropping on Gamma at 2 pm ET that will benefit a great cause. This will be one of a few special announcements shared on X by both the mystery artist and the Gamma account.

Vacation [PRESALE] by Roope Rainisto

〰 📅 Date: Tuesday, May 21st

〰 🚀 Platform: Verse Solos

〰 🧮 Supply: 370 (Reserved)

〰 🎛 Format: 4H Holders AL @ 9am ET

〰 💰 Price: 0.45 ETH

〰 ℹ More Info: Vacation foregrounds the use of AI, showcasing its artificiality rather than concealing it. By blurring the boundaries between real and unreal: authentic and fake, Rainisto hopes that new technologies will foster skepticism and criticality, interrogating the idea of the photograph as an objective source of truth. During the Vacation [PRESALE] phase, collectors of his Life in West America and Reworld series will be able to mint from two pools – one that is randomized and one that will allow collectors to select a piece of their choosing. Collectors will be able to mint 1 Vacation for every LIWA or Reworld they hold at the time of the snapshot (scheduled for Friday, May 17th @ 4pm BST).

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The Abyssal Unseen [PRESALE] by Boldtron

〰 📅 Date: Tuesday, May 21st

〰 🚀 Platform: Fellowship AI

〰 🧮 Supply: 1,000

〰 🎛 Format: 48H Presale @ 1pm ET

〰 💰 Price: 0.4 ETH (for Hatchlings)

〰 💰 Price: 0.15 ETH (for Families)

〰 ℹ More Info: During the [PRESALE] window, collectors will be able to collect from 100 “Hatchlings” and 36 “Families.” Any remaining Hatchlings will be sold via an English auction on Thursday, May 23rd, and the remaining “Families” will be sold via a Dutch auction on Friday, May 24th. AlignDRAW Collectors will receive a 50% discount through a rebate following the auction’s conclusion.

Misbah by Melissa Wiederrecht

〰 📅 Date: Tuesday, May 21st

〰 🚀 Platform: Art Blocks Studio

〰 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 55

〰 🎛 Format: Public @ 1pm ET

〰 💰 Price: 0.05 ETH

〰 ℹ More Info: For the first release on Art Blocks Studio, Melissa Wiederrecht is debuting Misbah – a lantern in the darkness, a beacon of hope and optimism, a declaration of determination. It is a celebration of what is good and hopeful in the world. An insistence on persistence, on doing the next right thing.

Endless Ballad by Reva Fan

〰 📅 Date: Tuesday, May 21st

〰 🚀 Platform: Highlight [Base]

〰 🧮 Supply: Unlimited

〰 🎛 Format: Open Edition @ 10am ET

〰 💰 Price: Free

Rising High II by Peter Halley

〰 📅 Date: Tuesday, May 21st

〰 🚀 Launchpad: Avant Arte

〰 🧮 Supply: 40

〰 🎛 Format: Public Sale @ 9am ET

〰 💰 Price: $4,373 to $5,051

〰 ℹ More Info: Peter Halley’s instantly recognizable work features fluorescent hues, rectilinear forms, and industrial materials that come together in compositions inspired by the rigid structures of society. Once assembled, the layers create an intricate, 3-dimensional surface. The print will arrive with a CoA, but no digital twin.

FUSION by Billy Restey x Gabe Weis

〰 📅 Date: Wednesday, May 22nd

〰 🚀 Launchpad: Magic Eden

〰 🧮 Supply: 3,333

〰 🎛 Phase: GTD for Collectors @ 12pm ET

〰 🎛 Phase: Community AL @ 1pm ET

〰 🎛 Phase: Public @ Time TBA

〰 💰 Price: 0.002 BTC

〰 ℹ More Info: FUSION is a collaborative, experimental art collection from the ingenious minds of Billy Restey and Gabe Weis. Each piece is generated from recursive fractions of 14 of Gabe’s paintings, using the new Ordinals endpoints run through Billy’s latest algorithm. Those who meet the following holder criteria will receive allocations to the Guaranteed AL phase: Ordinal Shard (x1), Cypherglyphs (x1), SatPack (x1), Obsidian (x1), Metablocks (x2), BitBlocks (x3), and REORGs (x10). The collection will be distributed through a Guaranteed AL, FCFS AL, and a Public Mint. Following the Magic Eden sale, all collectors who purchase a mint pass will participate in Phase 2, where they’ll inscribe on demand with Ordinals Bot, similar to how BitBlocks was launched.

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The Bitcoin Movement by Lucho Poletti

〰 📅 Date: Wednesday, May 22nd

〰 🚀 Launchpad: Nifty Gateway

〰 🧮 Supply [Uprising]: 21

〰 🧮 Supply [Forward]: 21

〰 🎛 Format: Ranked Auctions @ 6pm ET

〰 💰 Starting Price: 0 ETH [No Reserve]

〰 🧮 Supply [Revolution]: 21

〰 🎛 Format: Collector’s Raffle @ 6pm ET (5/23)

〰 💰 Price: Free

〰 ℹ More Info: The Bitcoin Movement is a collection of narrative pieces that captures the zeitgeist of the Bitcoin movement—one that transcends borders and empowers individuals through the promise of a decentralized and transparent financial future.

Vacation [PUNKS] by Roope Rainisto

〰 📅 Date: Wednesday, May 22nd

〰 🚀 Platform: Verse Solos

〰 🧮 Supply: 25

〰 🎛 Format: 24H Ranked Auction @ 1pm ET

〰 💰 Price: 0 ETH (No Reserve)

〰 ℹ More Info: Vacation foregrounds the use of AI, showcasing its artificiality rather than concealing it. By blurring the boundaries between real and unreal: authentic and fake, Rainisto hopes that new technologies will foster skepticism and criticality, interrogating the idea of the photograph as an objective source of truth. During the Vacation [PUNKS] phase, collectors will be able to bid for one of a select group of 25 pieces, which will be awarded to the top 25 bidders.

Sliced in Time by Monokai

〰 📅 Date: Wednesday, May 22nd

〰 🚀 Platform: fx(hash)

〰 🧮 Supply: 256

〰 🎛 Format: Dutch Auction @ 10am EST

〰 💰 Starting Price: 0.048 ETH

〰 💰 Resting Price: 0.02 ETH

Inflection by Artemis

〰 📅 Date: Wednesday, May 22nd

〰 🚀 Launchpad: Tribul Auctions

〰 🧮 Supply: 8

〰 🎛 Format: Ranked Auction @ 1pm ET

〰 💰 Reserve Price: 2.5 ETH

〰 ℹ More Info: Inflection is Artemis’ inaugural plotter release, as well as the curatorial debut of SuzanneNFTs. Collectors who place a winning bid will receive the physical plotter output on archival paper and the 1 of 1 NFT, which is a high-res image of the physical work.

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Jack Prettyman Presents: Floraculture

〰 📅 Date: Wednesday, May 22nd

〰 🚀 Launchpad: Foundation

〰 ℹ More Info: Jack Prettyman’s Floraculture is bringing a stellar lineup of Artists to their 2nd Foundation Exhibition including the likes of Adamtastic, Kyle Hoffman, Opuscula, Wren, Segundo, Mariuscarl Ene, MeldaVNH, Unickate, Nocellcoverage, Odysseyoftheheart, Sierra, WanjiGallery, Stephan Vasement, Taimaz, and Rukmunal Hakim. The exhibition will feature a mix of 1 1 works, Limited Editions, and one Drop (gridHarmonics-underShade by Wren, detailed below) at various price points.

gridHarmonics-underShade by Harmony Wren

〰 📅 Date: Wednesday, May 22nd

〰 🚀 Platform: Foundation

〰 🧮 Supply: 20

〰 🎛 Phase: Presale @ 10am ET

〰 🎛 Phase: Public @ 10:30am ET

〰 💰 Price: 0.027 ETH

MINIMALS by Sabet

〰 📅 Date: Wednesday, May 22nd

〰 🚀 Platform: Rarible [Base]

〰 🧮 Supply: 9,999+ (Max of 15K)

〰 🎛 Phase: Presale @ 11am ET

〰 🎛 Phase: Public @ Time TBA

〰 💰 Price: 0.015 ETH

〰 ℹ More Info: Tokyo Punks holders will receive one free mint for every Tokyo Punk artwork they own.

MONA Claim Drop #7 by Luca Bacilieri

〰 📅 Date: Wednesday, May 22nd

〰 🚀 Platform: Mona [Base]

〰 🧮 Supply: 300

〰 🎛 Format: Open Edition @ 8pm ET

〰 💰 Price: Free

Monuments to Revolution by Marina Uzelac

〰 📅 Date: Wednesday, May 22nd

〰 🚀 Launchpad: Exchange Art

〰 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 9

〰 🎛 Format: Public @ 3am ET

〰 💰 Price: 2 SOL

〰 ℹ More Info: This nine-piece series of analog photographs depicts brutalist antifascist monuments in the Balkans, made in double exposure. After the collapse of Yugoslavia, monuments became unwelcome symbols of the past, and many of them were destroyed during the war in the 1990s. These monumental structures were made to commemorate victims and celebrate battles between Yugoslav partisans against the occupying Nazi forces.

Vacation [PUBLIC] by Roope Rainisto

〰 📅 Date: Thursday, May 23rd

〰 🚀 Platform: Verse Solos

〰 🧮 Supply: 100

〰 🎛 Format: 24H Ranked Auction @ 1pm ET

〰 💰 Price: 0 ETH (No Reserve)

〰 ℹ More Info: Vacation foregrounds the use of AI, showcasing its artificiality rather than concealing it. By blurring the boundaries between real and unreal: authentic and fake, Rainisto hopes that new technologies will foster skepticism and criticality, interrogating the idea of the photograph as an objective source of truth. During the Vacation [PUBLIC] phase, collectors will be able to bid for one of a select group of 100 pieces, which will be awarded to the top 100 bidders.

The Abyssal Unseen [Hatchlings] by Boltron

〰 📅 Date: Thursday, May 23rd

〰 🚀 Platform: Fellowship AI

〰 🧮 Supply: 100

〰 🎛 Format: 24H English Auction @ 1:30pm ET

〰 💰 Starting Price: 0.1 ETH 

〰 ℹ More Info: During the [Hatchlings] auction window, all Hatchlings remaining from the Presale Phase will be sold via an English Auction on Thursday, May 23rd, while the remaining “Families” will be sold via a Dutch Auction on Friday, May 24th. AlignDRAW Collectors will receive a 50% discount by way of a rebate following the auction’s conclusion.

One More Day by Aaron Penne

〰 📅 Date: Thursday, May 23rd

〰 🚀 Platform: Art Blocks Studio

〰 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 50

〰 🎛 Format: Public @ 10am ET

〰 💰 Price: 0.1 ETH

〰 ℹ More Info: This is the 2nd of Art Blocks Studio’s debut collections.

Climbing Through My Brain by CryptoPopPunk

〰 📅 Date: Thursday, May 23rd

〰 🚀 Platform: Braindrops Art

〰 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 500

〰 🎛 Phase: 15m Premint @ 1pm ET

〰 🎛 Phase: Allowlist @ 1:15pm ET

〰 🎛 Phase: Public @ 1:30pm ET

〰 💰 Price: 0.1 ETH

〰 ℹ More Info: Climbing Through My Brain is a post-photography collection that anthropomorphizes our brains, contrasting the million different decisions we can make in the moment with the hard lines and structures of modernity that aren’t always so solid.

Cubist Mutations by Salimar

〰 📅 Date: Thursday, May 23rd

〰 🚀 Platform: Foundation [Base]

〰 🧮 Supply: 250

〰 🎛 Format: Public Mint @ 6pm ET

〰 💰 Price: Free

The Abyssal Unseen [Families] by Boltron

〰 📅 Date: Friday, May 25th

〰 🚀 Platform: Fellowship AI

〰 🧮 Supply: 900

〰 🎛 Format: 45m Dutch Auction @ 2pm ET

〰 💰 Starting Price: 0.5 ETH 

〰 💰 Resting Price: 0.1 ETH 

〰 ℹ More Info: During the [Families] auction window, all Families remaining from the Presale Phase will be sold via a Dutch Auction on Friday, May 24th. AlignDRAW collectors will receive a 50% discount by way of a rebate following the auction’s conclusion.

Derivatives by Genie’s Orkhan

〰 📅 Date: Friday, May 24th

〰 🚀 Platform: Highlight [Base]

〰 🧮 Supply: Determined After 48H

〰 🎛 Format: 48H Timed Edition @ 6am ET

〰 💰 Price: 0.0069 ETH

〰 ℹ More Info: Derivatives is the inaugural drop powered by Orkahan’s Genie. Derivatives is the first stage in Genie’s long journey to democratize ethical generative AI art creation. Trained on the works of other notable artists in the digital art space, the Derivatives GenAI Series will debut on Base in collaboration with @jakejfried, @defacedstudio, and 7 Other iconic artists.

The Medicis by Mutagen Samurai

〰 📅 Date: Friday, May 24th

〰 🚀 Platform: Foundation

〰 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1 of 365

〰 🎛 Phase: Presale @ 9pm ET

〰 🎛 Phase: Public @ 10pm ET

〰 💰 Price: 0.0365 ETH

〰 ℹ More Info: Nuclear Samurai’s latest release is a collection of long-form generative AI portraits of signore Cozomo Medici.

Number by JJ Wang

〰 📅 Date: Saturday, May 25th

〰 🚀 Launchpad: Art Blocks (Drops)

〰 🧮 Supply: 10,001

〰 🎛 Format: Dutch Auction @ 11am ET

〰 💰 Starting Price: 10 ETH

〰 💰 Resting Price: 0.045 ETH

Sea Overlords by @bocagrandiart

〰 📅 Date: Saturday, May 25th

〰 🚀 Launchpad: Exchange Art

〰 🧮 Supply: 1 of 1

〰 🎛 Format: Public Sale (OBO) @ 11:40pm ET

〰 💰 Price: 0.7 SOL

Thanks for checking out All Eyes on Art! I curate this comprehensive yet selective digest of upcoming collections to keep you informed week in and week out. If you’d like to see more color in your X feed, I share a 30-Day Outlook version of this Collector’s Digest every Monday and my Discover Art series every Thursday.

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