Investing in Culture: An Interview With Michael Karnjanaprakorn, Founder of Otis

how can we combine top down critical narratives and curation in what we think is an important art movement together with access to emerging artists and opportunities in a way that there is real investment value, precisely because they're undiscovered. And so our thinking there is to really try to create the MoMA for generative art by pairing some o... See more

Gone are the days of needing to be blessed by a particular art critic or granted a degree from a particular art school. Sure, “signal” from particular collectors and marketing by the artist still drives value, but the equal opportunity across the globe for any talented artist to “mint” a piece of work on a particular marketplace and be discovered i... See more

“We’ve always had this idea of music being mass-market,” says 3LAU. “It’s always been, ‘we need to get this music to the most amount of people.’ The art world has never been that way. It’s the opposite mindset: Who can afford this really expensive piece of work that I’ve spent hours and hours creating? [Hornby] is an expert at his craft, and indust... See more

And this is exactly why I supported SuperRare’s efforts to blow up its traditional venture capital structure in favor of a more human approach.

Unlike with consumer products, a curation business’s brand can be a durable moat.

“How do you exhibit that? Does that create a new economy for artists? Does that require new governance structures between the institution and the artists exhibiting that work? How do we show people how exciting this is?”