by Maxwell Cohen From Our Collection is a monthly essay series featuring analysis of the pieces in the Museum of Crypto Art’s Genesis Collection. All essays originally published on the MOCA Forum, where we invite you in to read, explore, and comment on our 240+ crypto art essays. Date Minted…

With 75 pieces highlighting artists from underrepresented communities around the world, The DaïmAlYad Collection redefines the Museum of Crypto Art’s Mission — In February of 2023, the Museum of Crypto Art received the largest single donation in our organization’s history. In partnership with our benefactor, Daïm Aggot-Hönsch, MOCA is proud to announce The DaïmAlYad Collection, the first-ever expansion of our Permanent Collection and one which reorients the Museum’s overall direction. Mr. …

Examining MakingIt 24/7, a Crypto Art Collective as Grounded in the Past as it is the Future — By Maxwell Cohen Imagine the cro-magnon artist, dutifully wiping a finger through some concoction of berry juices and mud, tracing lines on the sweeping red walls of a sandstone cave. The magic of sudden understanding sets down upon our prehistoric creative as one half-circle collides with another. No, not collides…

by Maxwell Cohen From Our Collection is a monthly essay series featuring analysis of the pieces in the Museum of Crypto Art’s Genesis Collection. All essays originally published on the MOCA Forum, where we invite you in to read, explore, and comment on our 240+ crypto art essays. Date Minted…

OONA and Lori Baldwin’s “Milking the Artist” Provides Crypto Art Some Much Needed Nourishment — By Maxwell Cohen I. The Context We’re certainly an arrogant art movement, aren’t we? We uniformly preach crypto art’s importance. As a new paradigm for artists. As an unprecedented aesthetic movement. As the next big thing. We’re striking fear into the traditional art world, all the Van Gogh and Picasso collectors, because who…

And Helps us Do the Same (an Essay in III Parts) — By Maxwell Cohen Part I: Old Memories I remember my childhood as orange. Or blue. And I best remember autumn: crisp air and the smell of leaf mold, baking spices, bakery-scented candles. Also, eating winter snow whilst waiting at the bus stop. Tulip planters on the porch in May. Or perhaps they were peonies…

Claire Silver Discusses a Few of Her Works — The following is the condensed and lightly-edited transcription of a conversation between Claire Silver (@ClaireSilver12) and Maxwell Cohen (@cohenthewriter) recorded in November 2022. Cohen: I was hoping we could go through a few of your works, and I’d love to know: Is there a story behind them, is there something…

CohentheWriter Interviews the AI Art Virtuoso — By Maxwell Cohen What else can I say about Claire Silver that others (and others and others) haven’t already? Few artists will throughout their lifetimes become as synonymous with an art movement as Ms. Silver has with AI Artistry throughout just the past few years. Today, her pink-haired Cryptopunk is…

-the M○C△ team Towards Decentralizing M○C△ A Museum can both preserve or challenge the status quo, positioning themselves as a force for gatekeeping or for truth-seeking, all their decisions collectively demonstrating the core values they hold. A Museum’s art collection, its educational content, written essays, membership strategy, and curated exhibitions are all political…