Your Weekly MOCA Round-Up
What's Up In Our World c. October 1st
Our first Wednesday column, a sneak peek at MOCA’s latest long-form essay, and all the crypto art podcasts you can handle.
1. DEAR MOCA Coming This Wednesday
Starting this Wednesday, we’ll be releasing our second weekly Newsletter to go along with this Sunday round-up. On Wednesday’s, expect short-form columns from within and without the MOCA community. Our first such column: “Dear MOCA.” Inspired by Abigail van Buren’s “Dear Abby” columns, the most widely-syndicated column in the world, “Dear MOCA” will feature responses to real questions submitted by you and others around the crypto art world.
Have a crypto artquestion/comment/hot take you’d like to see responded to in print? Submit your thoughts either to hello@museumofcryptoart.com or to our always open Google Form. Feel free to include your name or not, all questions will be released with pseudonyms.
(And if you have strong opinions on these newsletters, feel free to submit them as well).
Coming soon? TBD. Maybe critical analyses of the latest art, maybe some hints at a forthcoming MOCA Style Guide…we’re still working out the kinks, but we want our Wednesday Columns to grow over time.
2. MOCA LIVE: The Most Abstract Afro in Crypto Art (featuring WGMeets)
An abstract conversation about abstract art, how fitting when your guest is the profound OG talent WGMeets. WG is an abstract artist with a whole range of visual styles, and our conversation with WG covers the whole range of abstract topics: Making abstract art, marketing abstract art, the abstract artist's unique fingerprint, finding and staying true to an abstract vision. Rule of thumb: If you have a chance to hear WGMeets riff on what he does best, take it.
3. Current Events with CohentheWriter and Colborn Bell
Welcome to the first episode of Current Events with Max and Colborn, where your hosts dive into every happening in the world of crypto art, NFTs, cryptocurrencies, blockchain, AI, etc. each week. Up first: Rolling Stone's hit-piece on NFTs, a weeklong celebration of NFTs and blockchain in South Korea, and MoMA's newest crypto art collaboration including a list of participants we can't help but admire. Catch new episodes of Current Events every Tuesday.
4. A Sneak Peek of Cohen’s Final Collector Essay
For the last of CohentheWriter’s Essays on Collectorship, he’s going in an admittedly bizarre direction. Throughout the 18 interviews conducted for these essays, one thing was universal: Collectors of crypto art all come from unique backgrounds and possess entirely specific reasons that crypto art collecting appeals to them. To tell these stories in a way which honors the collectors, their headspaces, and their stories, Cohen is currently writing four short stories based on four incredible stories that reveal a certain collector’s soul. It’s an experimental kind of article, to be sure, so stay tuned for the formal announcement and release coming in the next few weeks.
Miss the last 3 essays? Don’t worry, we gotchu:
Where Have All the Good Collectors Gone? (or, There Never Was a Lambo)
The Collectors Who’ll Kill Crypto Art (An Essay)
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That’s all for this week. See ya’ll on Wednesday.
xoxo,
MOCA