This week: NFTs or Non-Fungible Tokens. What are they? Are they a fad or do they represent the future of the art market? We talk to two people in the world of crypto commodities about the explosion of NFTs on the art market. We hear from the artist Beeple, whose piece Everydays: The First 5000 Days is the first standalone NFT work of art to be sold at auction, and to Jason Bailey, the founder of the analytical database artnome.
And for this episode’s Work of the Week, the artist Doug Aitken talks about the minimalist composer Terry Riley’s 1968 piece You’re No Good, and how art is truly multi-disciplinary. Aitken is currently showing new works he created during the quarantine at Regen Projects in Los Angeles.
Terry Riley performing in Doug Aitken's Altered Earth Installation in Arles, France (2012) Courtesy of Doug Aitken Workshop
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