Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) have taken the art world by storm in the past year, with headline-grabbing multi-million dollar sales propelling NFT creators like Beeple into the ranks of the world’s highest-paid artists. Venerable auction houses like Christie’s and Sotheby’s have seized on the opportunity, hosting sales of NFT collections like CryptoPunks and Bored Apes.
All of that raises a conundrum: how do you display this digital-only art once you’ve bought it? How do you present something as intangible as a digital file in a real-world setting? And what’s the best way to showcase an NFT of an animated GIF?
Art galleries are wrestling with this question, as their existing customers from the traditional art world begin to dip their toes in the NFT waters.
Decrypt recently visited two London galleries that have taken very different approaches to how to present NFTs.
First up, Decrypt headed to London’s ritzy Mayfair district, where the House of Fine Art’s Portrait of an Era exhibition s
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