MFABoston's Romance With NFTs: Not Fiscally Tangible, Maybe?
MFABoston’s Romance With NFTs: Not Fiscally Tangible, Maybe?
The other day the hardworking staff received this email from Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts.
Not to get technical about it, but we don’t have a digital collection of NFTs, mostly because they’re the pet rocks of the art world.
But we’re getting ahead of ourselves.
Last year the Boston Globe’s Malcolm Gay reported on the origins of the MFA’s NFT fling.
‘Someone had to move first’: MFA plans sale…
al things considered — when i post my masterpiece #1133
first posted in facebook november 13, 2022
michaelina wautier -- "self-portrait" (ca. 1649)
"we knew nothing about her. as a specialist working in the field, i didn’t know she existed" ... christopher atkins (director of the center for netherlandish art at the museum of fine arts)
"'it’s really pretty amazing,' said atkins, describing how art historians have traditionally focused on male artists from the era. 'how did we miss these things as a field for so long?'" ... malcolm gay
"i wonder if institutions know it is a problem. there is a lot of discussion about women having more exhibitions, so from the outside it seems like we are celebrating women of different ages. but i wonder if institutions realize that there needs to be a lot more work done. maybe they don’t understand how imbalanced it is" ... naima keith (vice president of education and public programs, los angeles county museum of art)
"the explanation that women [are poorly represented because they] have often decided to leave the art world? i don’t believe that for a minute. i think there have been women working hard in the art world forever and if we haven’t seen them, then shame on us" ... brooke davis anderson (director, the museum at the pennsylvania academy of the fine arts)
"i call bullshit on the idea that it takes a while [to see change]. how much more time does it take? if a new generation of art historians and curators have to be resensitized to this then my god, we have amnesia at this point" ... michelle millar fisher, (curator of contemporary decorative arts, museum of fine arts, boston)
"well, first of AL, i probably would fire christopher atkins (the alleged director of the NETHERLANDISH art at the museum of fine arts here in boston) IF he really did not even know that a master from the 'dutch golden age' like wautier even existed" ... al janik
musings on the ones who leave and the ones who stay (part 1)
Ocean Vuong, @blossomfully, Hannah Nelson, Malcolm T. Liepke, Agust D (ft Kim Jong Wan), Ross Gay, Barbara Hamby, Aja Kusick, Arnold Lobel, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Hanya Yanagihara
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street and building has been renamed, every date has been altered. And that process is continuing day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Party is always right."
-- George Orwell, "NIneteen Eighty-Four"
Unethical, dishonest and sinister.
When multiple historians called out the 1619 Project's pervasive historical fraud, known compulsive liar, Nikole Hannah-Jones justified it as "reshaping public memory." That is, it isn't true, but it should be true, and people should believe and insist that it's true.
Dublin Pride has since added some text to their page to handwave the dishonesty. However, anyone using the site and its assets as a historical reference - and why wouldn't they, when it's the official site for Dublin Pride - will be reproducing the images they want them to have, not the ones that are factually accurate. So any news sites that source from their site will be, knowingly or not, perpetuating Dublin Pride's rewrite of their own history.
thinking about neil being so quick to automatic disposition against adults (and people in general). like he doesn't listen to adults around him and is provocative and doesn't take easily to following others' rules and instructions. also thinking about him and how reacts to his father, the way nathan told him to stand up, and lola laughing at his "easy obedience" and the juxtaposition it creates.
this is so fucking funny, trapped in the past on a lifeboat of humanity and Malcolm Reed could not get a partner for the life of him. His vibes are that rancid. I'm so sorry Malcolm, do better.