What Is the Meaning of All This Money?
A series about the ever-more-chaotic future of finance.
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Someday, there may be a Francis Bacon of NFTs.
Who knew that one-point perspective would produce the sensual receding spaces of Raphael?
In effect, these were the first photographs negative impressions.
This is the way that art turns tools and media into poetry.
Already, much ofthe art world has decried NFTsas inherently worthless and inane.
They complain that NFTs are immaterial and dont really exist.
Robert Rauschenberg erased a de Kooning drawing, called it art, and sold it.
All this art, like an NFT, removes the iconicity of touch, tactility, familiar expressiveness.
Yet all these objects still have what Kant called aesthetic feeling.
Well see what aesthetic potential NFTs have.
For now, most NFTs seem to have taken less time to make than they do to look at.
Art finds a way to occupy almost any material and alight in any tool.
With NFTs my motto is what it always is: Art first; all else will follow.
