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A living reading list — the manifestos, papers, and essays that shaped crypto art and the culture around it. Curated by the Museum of Crypto Art.
Crypto art2025
The 100-Million-Word Birth of Art DeCC0 Agents
Maxwell Cohen
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Crypto art2025
The Vibe Studio Arrives At Last
Maxwell Cohen
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Crypto art2025
The Endless Ceasefire
Maxwell Cohen
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Crypto art2025
An Exhaustive Reenactment of Matt Kane's Moral Performance
Maxwell Cohen
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Crypto art2023
The Collectors Who'll Kill Crypto Art
Maxwell Cohen
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Crypto2021
The Most Important Scarce Resource is Legitimacy
Vitalik Buterin
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NFTs2021
How to Look at NFTs
ARTnews
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Crypto art2021
History of Crypto Art
Martin Lukas Ostachowski
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NFTs2020
Create Your Own NFT Store with WordPress Plugins
Nino Arteiro
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NFTs2020
The Non-Fungible Token Bible
OpenSea
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Crypto art2019
Art and Blockchain
Amy Whitaker
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NFTs2019
The History of Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
Andrew Steinwold
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Crypto art2019
Crypto Art: A Decentralized View
Franceschet, Colavizza, et al.
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Crypto art2018
What Is CryptoArt?
Artnome
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Politics2017
The Ideology of Cyberspace
V. N. Pervushina; S. N. Khutornoy
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Art2010
Contemporary Art is Post-conceptual Art
Peter Osborne
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Crypto2008
Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System
Satoshi Nakamoto
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Politics2003
Other Worlds Are (already) Possible
Arturo Escobar
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Art1996
David Bowie and Julian Schnabel on "Basquiat" (1996)
David Bowie; Julian Schnabel
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Crypto1993
A Cypherpunk's Manifesto
Eric Hughes
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Crypto1992
The Crypto Anarchist Manifesto
Timothy C. May
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Crypto1991
How to Time-Stamp a Digital Document
Stuart Haber; W. Scott Stornetta
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Art1976
First Infrarealist Manifesto
Roberto Bolaño
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Art1973
This is not a Pipe
Michel Foucault
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Art1969
Art After Philosophy
Joseph Kosuth
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Art1956
Marcel Duchamp interview on Art and Dada (1956)
Marcel Duchamp
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Art1941
The Library of Babel
Jorge Luis Borges
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Art1922
Drop Everything
André Breton
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Art1916
The Dada Manifesto
Hugo Ball
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Art1909
The Futurist Manifesto
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
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Art1895
Poems of Paul Verlaine
Paul Verlaine
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Art1857
The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire
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