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9 Best Articles in 2021
The Verge
NFTs, explainedThe Verge
8 min read · Mar 3rd
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A lot of the conversation is about NFTs as an evolution of fine art collecting, only with digital art.
In the boring, technical sense that every NFT is a unique token on the blockchain. But while it could be like a van Gogh, where there’s only one definitive actual version, it could also be like a trading card, where there’s 50 or hundreds of numbered copies of the same artwork.
A fool and their money are soon parted, I guess?
hellogiggles.com
Stuck at home? These 12 famous museums offer virtual tours you can take on your couchhellogiggles.com
3 min read · 2020-03-14 · Experience the best museums from London to Seoul in the comfort of your own home.
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The Atlantic
NFTs Are an Art Project Gone AwryThe Atlantic
8 min read · Apr 2nd · When we invented non-fungible tokens, we were trying to protect artists. But tech-world opportunism has struck again.
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finance
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Travel + Leisure
Stuck at Home? These 12 Famous Museums Offer Virtual Tours You Can Take on Your CouchTravel + Leisure
3 min read · 2020-03-13 · Going into a self-quarantine can have many complex issues and complications beyond having enough food and supplies for two weeks. In terms of entertainment, it…
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a16z
NFTs and a Thousand True Fansa16z
6 min read · Feb 27th · Non-fungible tokens offer fundamentally better economics for creators by removing rent-seeking, enabling granular pricing, and reducing customer acquisition costs.
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To be a successful creator you don’t need millions. You don’t need millions of dollars or millions of customers, millions of clients or millions of fans. To make a living as a craftsperson, photographer, musician, designer, author, animator, app maker, entrepreneur, or inventor you need only thousands of true fans.  A true fan is defined as a fan that will buy anything you produce. These diehard fans will drive 200 miles to see you sing; they will buy the hardback and paperback and audible versions of your book; they will purchase your next figurine sight unseen; they will pay for the “best-of” DVD version of your free YouTube channel; they will come to your chef’s table once a month.
On Substack, 1,000 newsletter subscribers paying $10/month nets over $100K/year to the writer.
Creative Bloq
Free online resources for artists and designers stuck at homeCreative Bloq
4 min read · 2020-03-25 · Drawing lessons, software, books and more – the creative community continues to offer amazing support amid virus outbreak.
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Open Culture
The Louvre’s Entire Collection Goes Online: View and Download 480,00 Works of ArtOpen Culture
2 min read · Mar 29th · If you go to Paris, many will advise you, you must go to the Louvre; but then, if you go to Paris, as nearly as many will advise you, you must not go to the Louvre.
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Both recommendations, of course, had a great deal more relevance before the global coronavirus pandemic — at this point in which art- and travel-lovers would gladly endure the infamously tiring crowdedness and size of France’s most famous museum.
“For the first time ever,” says last week’s press release, “the entire Louvre collection is available online,
all of them in search of their rightful owners since their retrieval from a defeated Germany.
GQ Magazine
The Secrets of the World's Greatest Art ThiefGQ Magazine
3 min read · From 2019 · Stéphane Breitwieser robbed nearly 200 museums, amassed a collection of treasures worth more than $1.4 billion, and became perhaps the most prolific art thief in history. And as he reveals to GQ’s Michael Finkel, how Breitwieser managed to do all this is every bit as surprising as why.
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The Cut
Buying Myself BackThe Cut
20+ min read · 2020-09-15 · When does a model own her own image?
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Vulture
Renzo's Revenge: The new Academy Museum has landed — and it's out of this world
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Brain Pickings
Chekhov on the Ultimate Task of Art and How (Not) to Be a WriterBrain Pickings
2 min read · Sep 2nd · On solving problems vs. posing questions.
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“Anyone who says that the artist’s sphere leaves no room for questions, but deals exclusively with answers, has never done any writing or done anything with imagery.”
It is a truism that the questions we ask shape the answers we find. It is, also, a truth.
Anyone who says that the artist’s sphere leaves no room for questions, but deals exclusively with answers, has never done any writing or done anything with imagery.
TIME
Teen Artists Are Making Millions on NFTs. Why?TIME
6 min read · Sep 7th · For young artists, the volatile world of NFTs has been a powerful springboard for nascent careers
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Open Culture
MoMA’s Online Courses Let You Study Modern & Contemporary Art and Earn a CertificateOpen Culture
2 min read · Aug 27th · The labels 'modern art' and 'contemporary art' don't easily pull apart from one another. In a strictly historical sense, the former refers to art produced in the era we call modernity, beginning in…
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The Baffler
Against ArtsploitationThe Baffler
20+ min read · Sep 7th · Somehow, the anti-austerity politics of our work didn’t apply to those of us working at the museum. Behind the New Museum’s veneer of social justice was rampant exploitation.
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The School of Life
The Eyes of LoveThe School of Life
3 min read · Aug 21st · In 1821, the 45-year-old English painter John Constable went out on to Hampstead Heath and did something very loving. He set up his easel and looked closely at an elm tree. He observed the weathering…
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CNN
Remember NFTs? They're back, big timeCNN
3 min read · Sep 5th · Plenty of ink was spilled earlier this year when investors, hobbyists and art enthusiasts started frantically buying up non-fungible tokens, or NFTs, in another crypto world craze.
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City Journal
Art and Artificial IntelligenceCity Journal
~13 min read · Aug 28th · Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel Klara and the Sun explores the continuum between creativity and technology.
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The New York Times
A Vermeer Restoration Reveals a God of DesireThe New York Times
5 min read · Sep 9th · An image of Cupid was covered over in “Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window” for nearly 300 years. Now that he’s back on show, the famous painting looks quite different.
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Brain Pickings
The Blue Horses of Our Destiny: Artist Franz Marc, the Wisdom of Animals, and the Fight of…Brain Pickings
4 min read · Sep 9th · Tragedy and transcendence in the search for the spiritual in nature.
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Vulture
10 Must-See Art Shows to Catch This FallVulture
5 min read · Sep 1st · Jerry Saltz on his most anticipated New York museum shows — from Jasper Johns at the Whitney to the Bronx Museum’s Biennial.
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