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Buying NFTs is the public equivalent of wiping your -ss with money. Not sure how to feel morally neutral about it.
How many poor people were harmed because of NFTs? In fact, it seemed to transfer a great deal of wealth to an artist who was formerly of modest means.
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If property can be rightfully inherited, either the descendants of whatever Pharaoh/other ancient Egyptian or the successor state of ancient Egypt are the rightful owners of what was taken from them. If your property may end up in a foreign museum millennia after you die, why even bother working?
Your argument relies on a number of premises that are not necessarily true. First of all "Rightful inheritance" is a matter of human law not natural law. Whatever state or laws existed surrounding inheritance clearly do not exist anymore for artifacts more than a few hundred years old. It is absurd to say property rights of states existing thousands of years ago apply today. You won't find any courts arguing that. Ab…
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Your argument relies on a number of premises that are not necessarily true. First of all "Rightful inheritance" is a matter of human law not natural law. Whatever state or laws existed surrounding inheritance clearly do not exist anymore for artifacts more than a few hundred years old. It is absurd to say property rights of states existing thousands of years ago apply today. You won't find any courts arguing that. Ab…
Okay, I should stop using sarcasm on the internet. You're completely right.
Thanks for the reminder that not everyone has gone nuts.
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> Part of what makes the Louvre or other museums special is being in a beautiful and decorated historically important space. This is true in theory, in practice you will meet arrogant and unhelpful museum guides, tons upon tons of people not respecting all the basic rules (no flash, be relatively quite, etc) and a labyrinthine place which can give you anxiety if you are just visiting one day and want to see as much a…
Well said; awesome username!
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It's because that one is a copy of the original (still old, but ~100 years posterior to Da Vinci's). According to https://www.pop.culture.gouv.fr/notice/mnr/MNR00265 its last known owner was Friedrich Welz, an Austrian gallery owner, so the work must have come to Paris postwar to figure out whether it needed to be restituted to a previous owner. The original Joconde is https://collections.louvre.fr/en/ark:/53355/cl01…
And here's a good accounting of the Mona Lisa's journey in hiding during WW2, and the existence of the other copies. https://www.artcuriouspodcast.com/artcuriouspodcast/1 It's underwhelming in real life, very small, dimly lit, under thick glass, teeming with tourists. Online art is a great endeavor but there's no context for art without the space in which it lives, and in this I think the Musée d'Orsay is the better…
Interesting - I tend to think of context in terms of things like social, cultural, or historical context rather than the physical space.
Potentially online museums and galleries can provide a lot more historical context than a physical museums could, not only by providing supporting information but also by including many works that would not necessarily be located in the same physical museums.
But I'm intrigued by the physical space issue - perhaps using 3D graphics, VR, and AR could help virtual gallery attendees to gain a better spacial understanding of the work as well as how it is displayed in the physical museum.
In terms of current social, cultural, and historical context, I think virtual galleries can certainly present works in the context of current culture and recent history, and I also wonder if there are effective ways to provide a shared experience of visiting a gallery with other people, including people that you know as well as random members of the public, much as you might have in a physical gallery or museum.
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Or an "Awesome list" on GitHub. https://github.com/topics/awesome
Thought of the same, if no one else beats me i'll get started on this in a few hours
https://github.com/sofixa/awesome-museums-online
Tomorrow/early next week I'll throw in the boilerplate ( contributing.md, PR template, and see about organisation/generation/TOC/etc.) and then i'll start adding the mentions from this thread and others i know of.
Once it's decent and ready for wide contributions, i'll post on HN, Reddit and co.
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That explains why original signed artworks are valuable, not really why NFTs are valuable after all if I wanted to buy a Jack Dorsey signature tweet for two million dollars or a Beeple collage for 70 million I'm sure Beeple would have gladly put it on a usb stick, signed me a card, printed it billboard sized and driven it to my house while taking me out for a steak dinner It's absolutely nebulous what the 'digital' p…
I tend to view the NFT craze as just that, a craze. It started as a massive and intriguing stunt that spread far and wide because of how absurd it all seems. It’s the perfect storm of “I don’t get this at all” combined with “you just don’t understand how revolutionary this is”. You also have the appeal of “why don’t I just make a few of these NFT things and make some money too?” Additionally, I’ve read that the suppo…
I hope to explore via VR soon. That's the only way I can spend as much time as I'd like to spend in the Louvre (besides packing up and moving to Paris and getting a job as a guard in the museum)