Hope, Distributed, Part 2

Hope, Distributed, Part 2

In lieu of exclusively associating the recent NFT craze with the bloated, attention-grabbing Beeple sale at Christie’s and the subsequent mainstreaming of the digital token by those eager to capitalize, consider instead, that NFTs, existed long before and will exist long after because they solve an important problem in collections and museums, digital scarcity.

Hope Distributed, Part 1

Hope Distributed, Part 1

For this next series, I want to identify a few key ways, by no means an exhaustive list, that blockchain technology can – and I believe eventually will – change how we interact with art and artifact collections.

The Third Party 2: Venue Screening

The Third Party 2: Venue Screening

Pre-screening a venue will become an increasingly important action to outsource to a local third party to not only better understand the conditions of the exhibition and storage spaces but also to get a general sense of the personnel that will handle your loan and installation.

The Third Party 1: The Bookend Courier

The Third Party 1: The Bookend Courier

Depending on insurance, object value, condition, and/or indemnity requirements, hiring third party supervisors to serve as a bookend couriers* may improve care, prove more economical than airfare/hotel/per diem required for traditional couriers, and radically reduce the carbon footprints.