Book Review: ‘Internet_Art,’ by Omar Kholeif; ‘The Story of NFTs,’ by Amy Whitaker and Nora Burnett Abrams
Frida Kahlo and Damien Hirst Uploaded to the cloud and then incinerated.From Lynn Hirschman-Leeson’s alter-ego movies to Celia Hempton’s recent work laptop size canvas Desperate Omar Kholeif based on a DM from a man INTERNET_ART (Phaidon, $39.95) Explore how our cyber reality has shaped creative consumption since the 1960s. In Koleif’s story, alienation from the self is the new crisis of art.
As with everything online, you cannot own a truly non-fungible token. The digital images that have sold millions of dollars at Sotheby’s are available for anyone to download for free.of THE STORY OF NFTS (Rizzoli Electa and MCA Denver, Paperback, $32.50), Amy Whitaker, and Nora Barnett Abrams hope this new form of commerce will allow artists to earn fairer royalties while also allowing collectors to buy directly into shares of their work. The world of cigar-chewing art has been democratized. However, the book’s hopes that blockchain technology will help African nations recover looted antiquities or strengthen fragile democracies by recording the ownership history of NFTs is not the next. sounds like joke.
Blockchained names, like patrons kneeling at the altarpiece Frida Kahlo NFT It shows more bragging rights to images than piety to decentralized markets. I can’t wait to see his Kholeif sequel 20 years later. That’s when his Sackler Wing for All, such a public-owned ego trap, gave the artist a whole new vista of techno-his utopian satire.
Walker Mims’ art and culture writings have appeared in The Times, The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, and others.
