An abstract conversation about abstract art, how fitting when your guest is the profound OG talent WGMeets. WG is an abstract artist with a whole range of visual styles, and our conversation with WG covers the whole range of abstract topics: Making abstract art, marketing abstract art, the abstract artist's unique fingerprint, finding and staying true to an abstract vision. Rule of thumb: If you have a chance to hear WGMeets riff on what he does best, take it. 

Welcome to the first episode of Current Events with Max and Colborn, where your hosts dive into everything that happened in the world of crypto art, NFTs, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, AI, etc. each week. Up first: Rolling Stone's hit-piece on NFTs, a weeklong celebration of NFTs and blockchain in South Korea, and MoMA's newest crypto art collaboration including a list of participants we can't help but admire. Catch new episodes of Current Events every Tuesday. 

Our first-ever guest, the anonymous performance artist OONA, returns to the podcast to talk about the incredible eruption of blockchain performance art over the course of 2023. OONA's unique insights from years spent creating blockchain-based performance art encompass perspective, provocativeness, creative sales mechanics, and much much more. Visit @museumofcrypto or @madebyoona on Twitter to learn more about "AND" the collaborative performance art exhibition mentioned often in this podcast!

Max is joined by the last and loudest person to flame his writing, the artist Hidden Forces, for a discussion about everything Max has gotten wrong (and other things he's gotten right) in his recent essays about collectorship. Their conversation starts with 20th century art history, hops onto the burden-laden shoulders of crypto art collectors, and ends with a redefining reassessment of crypto art's cultural value. 

This episode is all about MOCA: Who we are, what we're about, and what this unique institution means to Max, to Colborn who founded it, to the entire crypto art ecosystem. It is very personal, and so is our call for your support, which you'll hear all over this episode. Please visit us on Twitter to learn how you can help us survive and thrive into the future.

An all-time MOCA LIVE conversation between Max, Colborn, and Polyannie, the one-of-a-kind crypto art OG, erotic art extraordinaire, porn performer, and mega insightful human. To talk about sex work in crypto art, you have to talk with a sex worker in crypto art. Polyannie brings insight, fire, and in-depth knowhow to a conversation about sex, porn, and sex work that's too often lacking in the space.

Also, please follow this link to learn more about the MOCA Fundraiser: https://app.manifold.xyz/c/moca-fundraiser-2023, or reach out to one of us from the team on Twitter! 

On this week's episode, Colborn and Max are joined by the Druid —one of the space's oldest and most venerated, not to mention unique, collectors— to talk collecting in crypto art's early days, what's changed between then and now, the Druid's famously controversial collecting ethos (the Druid Method), and the many meaningful memories made along the way. 

Not really, or, at least, not me personally, but collectively in crypto art we so certainly are. We go gaga for anonymous influencers, hidden behind Punks and Apes and other PFPs. We spend outrageously to procure artworks by artists who have created, told, and expanded the stories of digital characters to whom they become inextricably linked. From where does that appeal come? 3D artist Nicole Ruggiero joins Max and Colborn to talk digital identities in all their forms, and all the reasons why we love them so. 

Crypto art skews heavily towards visual artists, but what about all the other art forms —music, literature, performance, etc.— which could benefit from blockchain? Nobody would know better than today's guest, Jeremy Stern, founder of musicNFT platform Catalog, and who comes with me on a journey across the music industry, into blockchain nitty-gritty, from the Louvre to Spotify and back. Join us. 

Despite all its idiosyncrasies, the Museum of Crypto Art is still a museum. But what is a museum in the digital age, when divorced from geography, locale, or country? Our artifacts live online, and so do we. Max and Julian Brangold talk about the failures of physical museums to adapt to digital culture, how MOCA is channelling that culture, and the greatest possibilities and questions for a fully-online museum.