Illustrator and artist Sarira Merikhi makes two kinds of lithographs — the deeply sardonic and the romantically witty.

Brand appropriation artist Teji launched the Phunk Force One token on August 19, marking his third permissionless collaboration with a major brand and pushing the boundaries of guerilla art and “web3” creativity.

Usually I write a long piece about an artist. But I am trying something new today. I am pointing you to a thread I wrote recently on Twitter about Piv’s homage to Joseph Albers. You can visit that and get a good run down of an amazing project. If you want context, read below:

There’s something about art that convinces us to explore it. You know you are looking at a piece of art when you have to stop and think about what you are looking at, and when that thinking draws you magnetically to want to know more. My earliest experience with the power that art has over us in this way was when I took my mother to a museum in Raleigh, North Carolina.

A developer-artist named Dovetail has come out with a new NFT series called Moon Lake. I thought I would explore what this series is about, but I warn you: Dovetail has purposely made something that is almost impossible to see clearly, unless you are using a specific browser.

CORRECTION: On July 22, I corrected the context around the statements made by Michael Hirsch about dupe sweeping and made them more accurate. The dupe sweeping was not implemented in the Cryptomarcs contract by Hirsch directly. The dupe sweeping elements and the conversation had with Middlemarch were in the context of Hirsch’s earlier creation of a template that can be used by anyone using the Indelible Labs contract to create their own smart contract. Such was the case in the creation of the Cryptomarcs contract. The questions that come out of it are not to do with Hirsch’s use of it, but of the implementation of ANY code in the “real world.”

This was the first DaoBao Auction Paddle I made, and it was the first one to be purchased on OpenSea. I don’t know who bought it. I know the wallet address of the person who bought it. I don’t know why they bought it. I only know why I made it. I’ll get to that in a minute.

Loie Hollowell is a Northern California painter who now lives and works in New York City. Her mother was a Burner who traveled to Burning Man nearly every year. Hollowell tagged along, and in doing so, grew up witnessing parades of colour and light in barren spaces throbbing with electric and sensual vibrations.

Tens of thousands of years of art history focus on one thing, IMO — delineating what is real and deciding who is allowed to dictate that and express it.