If you’re an art critic, it helps to feel that something is at stake in what you’re writing about. It sharpens the pencil, so to speak. When reading the criticism of Ben Davis, the feeling of stakes is ever-present—the sense that art and its aims, concerns, and debates are not frivolous but core, nested within the broader sweep of human affairs like a thinking heart. This is why for a long time I’ve considered Ben to be the best, most consistently interesting art critic anywhere. I’ve also ...
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If you’re an art critic, it helps to feel that something is at stake in what you’re writing about. It sharpens the pencil, so to speak. When reading the criticism of Ben Davis, the feeling of stakes is ever-present—the sense that art and its aims, concerns, and debates are not frivolous but core, nested within the broader sweep of human affairs like a thinking heart. This is why for a long time I’ve considered Ben to be the best, most consistently interesting art critic anywhere. I’ve also ...
Metalabel's Yancey Strickler on Building a Post-Crypto Haven for Artists
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8 months ago
Metalabel's Yancey Strickler on Building a Post-Crypto Haven for Artists
A few years ago, the Kickstarter-cofounder and creative entrepreneur Yancey Strickler went down the crypto rabbit hole. In his brilliant 2019 essay “The Dark Forest Theory of the Internet,” he had articulated his realization that the social web had become a hunting ground for extractive tech companies that preyed on your time, attention, privacy, agency, and money. If artists wanted to escape their clutches and build sustainable careers on their own terms, they needed to hide out in pri...
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If you’re an art critic, it helps to feel that something is at stake in what you’re writing about. It sharpens the pencil, so to speak. When reading the criticism of Ben Davis, the feeling of stakes is ever-present—the sense that art and its aims, concerns, and debates are not frivolous but core, nested within the broader sweep of human affairs like a thinking heart. This is why for a long time I’ve considered Ben to be the best, most consistently interesting art critic anywhere. I’ve also ...
