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The Collectors Who’ll Kill Crypto Art (A Teaser)

August 9, 2024

How to Snuff Them Out, How to Stand in Their Way A Teaser for an Essay About Crypto Art Collectors by Maxwell Cohen This is a teaser for the third of a series of four essays written on crypto art collectorship through the Summer and Fall of 2023. These essays were based on 18 interviews conducted in […]

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M○C△ Sh☺w N☺tes

February 18, 2024

A Dissection of M○C△’s Visual Language by Anubis3100 A Note on MOCA Sh☺w N☺tes The importance of artistic foundations and institutions, new and old, is built on cultural integration. To me, this seems to be a never-changing fact. That integration emerges via validation from either the artists, the market, tastemakers, curators, institutions, or from sheer societal impact. […]

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Preserving Art and Culture: The Imperative of Decentralized Storage

February 11, 2024

A Breakdown of M○C△’s Partnership with Filecoin from our Friends at the Filecoin Foundation Before I let you at this brilliantly informative breakdown of M○C△’s own partnership with Filecoin, assembled with love by the Filecoin Foundation, I wanted to briefly mention that the “dynamic application around the immutable data [M○C△] preserves on Filecoin akin to the […]

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A Flood

November 26, 2023

The Fourth and Final of Four Short Stories Written About the Four Different Ways Four Anonymous Collectors Came to Crypto Art By Maxwell Cohen These stories were based on 18 interviews conducted in April and May 2023. While not every collector interviewed appears here, their collective insight heavily influenced the direction and creation of these essays. If […]

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A Bookstore

November 19, 2023

The Third of Four Short Stories Written About the Four Different Ways Four Anonymous Collectors Came to Crypto Art By Maxwell Cohen These stories were based on 18 interviews conducted in April and May 2023. While not every collector interviewed appears here, their collective insight heavily influenced the direction and creation of these essays. If you like […]

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A Pumpkin

November 12, 2023

The Second of Four Short Stories Written About the Four Different Ways Four Anonymous Collectors Came to Crypto Art By Maxwell Cohen These stories were based on 18 interviews conducted in April and May 2023. While not every collector interviewed appears here, their collective insight heavily influenced the direction and creation of these essays. If you like […]

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Everyone Digging Our Own Wells, Part 1: A Fire

November 5, 2023

Four Short Stories Written About the Four Different Ways Four Anonymous Collectors Came to Crypto Art By Maxwell Cohen These stories were based on 18 interviews conducted in April and May 2023. While not every collector interviewed appears here, their collective insight heavily influenced the direction and creation of these essays. If you like this content and […]

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The Collectors Who’ll Kill Crypto Art (An Essay)

September 8, 2023

How to Snuff Them Out, How to Stand in Their Way An Essay About Crypto Art Collectors by Maxwell Cohen This is the third of a series of five essays written on crypto art collectorship through the Summer and Fall of 2023. These essays were based on 18 interviews conducted in April and May 2023. While not […]

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Online but Always In-Person

August 4, 2023

Personal Connections Might Be the Lifeblood that Fuels Crypto Art Collecting An Essay About Crypto Art Collectors by Maxwell Cohen This is the second of a series of five essays written on crypto art collectorship through the Summer and Fall of 2023. These essays were based on 18 interviews conducted in April and May 2023. While […]

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Where Have All the Good Collectors Gone? (or, There Never Was a Lambo)

July 28, 2023

An Essay About Crypto Art Collectors by Maxwell Cohen This is the first of a series of five essays written on crypto art collectorship through the Summer and Fall of 2023. These essays were based on 18 interviews conducted in April and May 2023. While not every collector interviewed appears in every essay, their collective insight […]

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From Our Collection: Hawkward’s “Sokka the Parrotlet”

July 21, 2023

by Maxwell Cohen From Our Collection is a monthly essay series featuring analysis of the pieces in the Museum of Crypto Art’s Genesis Collection. All essays were originally published on the MOCA Forum, where we invite you in to read, explore, and comment on these 240+ crypto art analyses. “Sokka the Parrotlet” (2021), by Hawkward. In […]

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The M○C△ Fundraiser: Our Inspirations and Our Visions

June 11, 2023

Future Goals from Your M○C△ Team Dear Friends and Patrons of the Museum of Crypto Art, It’s cliché to emphasize the importance of community in crypto art, but after many months of bear market conditions, that importance has recrystallized with renewed clarity. Clichés, after all, are almost always rooted in truth. And in this moment — with artists struggling, […]