Everydays: The First 5000 Days

Everydays: The First 5000 Days is a monumental digital collage by American artist Mike Winkelmann, known professionally as Beeple. The work comprises 5,000 individual images arranged in a grid, each one created as part of a daily art practice that Winkelmann maintained without interruption from May 1, 2007 through January 7, 2021. Spanning nearly fourteen years of creative output, the composite image charts the artist's evolution from simple sketches to increasingly sophisticated digital renderings, touching on themes of technology, politics, popular culture, and dystopian futures.

The work became a cultural landmark when it sold at Christie's on March 11, 2021 for $69.3 million, making it the third most expensive work by a living artist at the time and by far the most expensive NFT ever sold. Minted as a single non-fungible token on the Ethereum blockchain, the sale catapulted both Beeple and the broader NFT art movement into mainstream consciousness. The buyer, Singapore-based cryptocurrency investor Vignesh Sundaresan (known as MetaKovan), acquired the piece through an online-only auction that drew global attention and ignited fierce debate about digital ownership, artistic value, and the future of the art market.