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Tina Rivers Ryan on NFTs Two frames from Chris Torres’s Nyan Cat, 2011, GIF. ON THE AFTERNOON of February 19—immediately after the classic internet meme known as Nyan Cat was auctioned for almost $600,000—digital art abruptly entered the most recent, and perhaps most heated, of its many hype cycles. In the weeks that followed, media outlets from PBS NewsHour to Saturday Night Live reiterated the story of record-breaking prices fueled by an enigmatic technology called the blockchain, which is a system used by techno-libertarians and anarcho-cap...

“It’s a crazy amount, but it also does kind of make sense,” Mike Winkelmann, the digital artist known as Beeple, said on Wednesday, referring to the sixty-nine million dollars that he received, in March, for some of his own work. If Winkelmann sounded like he was still processing the figure, so was his audience: he was speaking at the third installment of The New Yorker Live, an online event series held exclusively for subscribers to the magazine. In the clip above, you can view highlights of the evening’s discussion, “How Memes Become Money,” a consideration of ...

Woman, Blue (2021). Photo courtesy of Salon 94, New York. Each week, we search for the most exciting and thought-provoking shows, screenings, and events. In light of the global health crisis, we are currently highlighting events in person and digitally, as well as in-person exhibitions open in the New York area. See our picks from around the world below. (Times are all EST unless otherwise noted.)   Installation view of “Raul Mourão Empty Head” at Nara Roesler. Photo by Charles Roussel. This show marks the artist’s first solo outing at Nara Roesler’s main New York space in Chelsea,...

Add to your calendar: Beeple (Mike Winkelmann) is a graphic designer and an artist. He is best known for his series “Everydays,” a long-running project in which he creates and shares online a new piece of digital art each day. In March, the auction house Christie’s sold a collection of them titled “Everydays: The First 5000 Days” as an N.F.T. (non-fungible token), for sixty-nine million dollars. Kyle Chayka recently wrote for Anil Dash is a blogger, artist, ethical technologist, and the C.E.O. of Glitch, a site that helps its users create Web applications. He frequently writes abou...

BY MICHAEL CHAIKEN |  REPUBLICAN-AMERICAN On April 21, 2016, singer Prince died tragically of an accidental fentanyl overdose. The Mark Twain House and Museum will commemorate the five-year anniversary of his death on April 21, 2021 with a virtual presentation by author Neal Karlen, who was a friend of Prince. Prince is the subject of a new book, ‘This Thing Called Life: Prince’s Odyssey. On and Off the Record’ by the singer’s friend Neal Karlen. Associated Press Karlen wrote a book about the pop music wunderkind, “This Thing Called Life: Prince’s Odyssey, On and Off the Record....