Ladies and gentleman, the weekend. I’m
Carolina A. Miranda, arts and design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, with the week’s essential culture news and art historical dog paintings.
You down with NFT?
A single living artist. A major auction house. A sale that represented “a bold challenge to an entrenched system of representation by prominent art dealers.”
I’m not talking about last months’s auction at
Christie’s, in which the artist known as
Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) sold a digital collage linked to an
NFT token for a brain-blasting $69.3 million. (Though I’ll get to that in a minute.) Go back, instead, to the fall of 2008, when Lehman Bros. was disintegrating, the Dow was in freefall and Young British Artist