After a run up earlier this year and a crash back down to earth in late spring, the NFT market went into the stratosphere in mid-summer, and it has gone in some interesting new directions. 1/ “Community” NFTs Whereas “art-centric” NFTs were making the headlines in the springtime wave (eg…

NFTs are a digital incarnation of the collectible certificate that has existed for decades in conceptual art and other movements in contemporary art. As examined previously, the collectible store of value resides in a certificate (now crypto-tokenized), as opposed to the inherently reproducible art object to which a certificate points…

Over the past century, art history surpassed the figurative, representational realm it had occupied for centuries, and evolved towards ever-increasing degrees of abstraction and flatness. This evolution was driven by influences from the late Enlightenment (such as Kant), alongside the invention of photography (itself a bi-product of the Enlightenment) as…

NFT’s are irrefutable digital certificates of authenticity, for digital art objects and other digital collectibles. That these…