Nifty Business

There’s a new club in town for all those digitally inclined art enthusiasts: the newly launched MetaArts Club

By Aaina Bhargava

Like most people, Levina Li-Cadman was shocked when Beeple’s The First 5000 Days sold for US$69 million at a Christie’s auction in March last year. “I was floored,” says Li-Cadman. “I just kept thinking: I need to explore this space by buying NFTs and launching NFT-related projects.” She did exactly that by joining forces with digital art collector Frank Smits to open The MetaArts Club (TMAC), a membership-based organisation which seeks to bridge the gap between collectors and digital artists. As the co-founder of arts consultancy Arts-Partners, Li-Cadman has helmed several public art projects in Hong Kong, including the Harbour Arts Sculpture Park in 2018, and the Event Horizon installation by Antony Gormley in 2015. Smits is an avid collector and curator of digital art. He lived in Jakarta for 20 years…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, March 2022

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