Digital Snippets
Do we really have to pursue the economization of all areas of life? And what does it say about a society that secures the right to a piece of digital art for 1850 euros?
NFTs are a brainchild. They add value to digital marginalia without underpinning it in real terms. With its “Kiss” project, the Belvedere is not opening up the field for art patrons, but rather cheering on speculators hoping for an increase in imaginary value. Such obscene methods of miraculous money multiplication caused the 2008 global financial crisis.
A society is not defined by laws, but by its moral order. One could also call it culture.
What’s wrong with that?
Museums are criticized with the precise regularity of a Swiss watch. For some it costs too much to operate, for others they bring too little. In addition, the number of visitors is declining. This accusation could be heard even long after Corona paralyzed society again and again. Many of the critics know the houses and what they have to offer at best from the outside.
Now the Belvedere in Vienna is using a form of raising money that has long been practiced in the art world. Private, mind you, not subsidized by the state. The Belvedere will take in 18.5 million euros from the sale of 10,000 unique digital copies of Gustav Klimt’s “The Kiss”. What is to be bad about it?
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Source: Nachrichten
