Investing in Culture: An Interview With Michael Karnjanaprakorn, Founder of Otis
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Investing in Culture: An Interview With Michael Karnjanaprakorn, Founder of Otis
By encouraging contemporary art museums to experiment with similar value flow curation, we hope to initiate a friendly, positive-sum competition among cultural institutions to connect in deeper ways with the material conditions of art workers and audiences.
Toby Shorin • Curating Value Exchange: Presentation + Q&A with Hito Steyerl
There is something beautiful in that. MSCHF is the rare company where being true to yourself allows you to make a comfortable living. If the MSCHF thesis turns out to be right—if taste becomes the key competitive advantage in an age where creation is cheap—then aren’t taste-based businesses the best possible outcome for the world? All you have to d... See more
Evan Armstrong • The Art of Scaling Taste
Culture industry roles were once much more coherent, the lines of power much more concrete. Figures like Anna Wintour and Rick Rubin gesture at this recent past. They were middle men connecting financial capital (businesses) with cultural capital (artists) to create social capital (cultural institutions). Fashion and literary editors, film and tele
... See moreWe’re so familiar with this polarization, we regard it as if it were an inevitable fact of nature, rather than what it really is: a cultural and commercial failing. Ideally artists should absorb the best qualities of business and vice versa. Rather than seeing such qualities as opposed to what they stand for as artists or business people, they shou
... See moreAlain De Botton • The School of Life: An Emotional Education
When determining whether a cultural object has value, is it best to trust:
Tony Lashley • Curatorial Governance
Companies like Artland (featured below) have started to roll out VR vernissages that cater to novice investors and art collectors. The idea is to try and kickstart communities around specific art styles, regrouping people that do not necessarily have the resources to travel worldwide several times a year to visit art fairs.
Ulysse Laroche • Art Tech
Cultural Institutions Reimagined - Many museums and other cultural institutions have had a rough ride of late. Although their curators and patrons may disagree, so many of them are great examples of Edutainment. What’s more, they’re incredibly well placed to capitialize on Edutainment 3.0. To achieve this two-pronged mission, museums are ... See more