The Stormtrooper Scandal

BBC Two Wales HD

2:35 AM to 4:05 AM

Thursday 27 June

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Based on the Star Wars universe, Art Wars was a collection of over 1,100 Stormtrooper helmets, bearing customised designs by some of the world's biggest artists, from Jake and Dinos Chapman to Anish Kapoor and Damien Hirst. But the helmets were only available online as NFTs, or non-fungible tokens. This is the story of London art curator Ben Moore and the sale of those controversial helmets