The collectors Peter and Jill Kraus in their apartment with Pope.L's Sunny Day White Power. Speculative buyers are flocking to crypto art while blue-chip collectors are holding back, fearing legal gray areas and copyright issues. Via Peter Krauss via The New York Times.
by Zachary Small
(NYT NEWS SERVICE)
.- A handful of auctions this month testing the appetite for a type of investment known as NFTs seemed likely to prolong the nascent fad for ownership of works that exist only in the digital world. Missing from those transactions, however, were the blue-chip collectors who typically drive the art markets sales. Industry experts have observed a growing wedge between a new generation of digital speculators and an older school of art collectors who say their concerns about the quality, ownership and authenticity of NFTs have gone unresolved, even as their fears of legal challenges grow. More than a dozen collectors interviewed for this article said that NFTs raise copyright and other issues that sellers and buyers have not fully thought through. Absolutely none of my clients are buying NFTs, said Lisa Schiff, an art adviser in New York. I have people curious, but we are waiting to let the dust settle first. NFTs, or nonfungible tokens, have taken off in music, a ... More