Crypto-Art: BEEPLE

Crypto-Art: BEEPLE

It’s so easy to acquire digital art that many people, even professionals working on corporate design, tend to think of it as ownerless. Or at least valueless. After all, if a file can be infinitely replicated, how can it be owned? But digital art has rights of...
On Getting Indigenous Art the Right Way

On Getting Indigenous Art the Right Way

It wasn’t such a long time ago that colonizers or tourists were buying art from indigenous artists with food, alcohol, or a handful of cash, and then reselling that art for thousands of dollars. Though the Indigenous Art Code was developed in 2007, its implementation...
Mike Duca, Neonmob and Futuristic Art Collecting

Mike Duca, Neonmob and Futuristic Art Collecting

The world is vastly different today than it was fifty, or even fifteen years ago. The rise of technology and the digital age are changing the very basis of the way things work. In the last decade alone, social media sites have skyrocketed into popularity, connecting...
#CultivatorsOfCulture: Chris Messina

#CultivatorsOfCulture: Chris Messina

Chris Messina is a name that has been in the news a lot lately; the web developer is making headlines due to his public (very amicable) exit from Google after nearly four years as one of their most innovative employees. Messina is the creator behind the incredibly...