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On this episode of Previously Unknown, we present a conversation with Amy Whitaker, Associate Professor at New York University and author — with Nora Burnett Abrams — of The Story of NFTs: Artists, Technology, and Democracy, and Zachary Small, investigative reporter for The New York Times and author of the recently published book Token Supremacy: The Art of Finance, The Finance of Art, and The Great Crypto Crash of 2022. On the occasion of the release of Small’s book, our guests delve into its backstory and key figures, discussing the NFT rise and fall and its impact on artists, collectors, and the art market.

 

 

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Previously Unknown Podcast Episode 9: Token Supremacy - Features - Independent Art Fair

Zachary Small is the chief art reporter for The New York Times and a recipient of the 2024 New York Press Club Award for national entertainment news. Token Supremacy is their first book.

Previously Unknown Podcast Episode 9: Token Supremacy - Features - Independent Art Fair

Photo by Sheiva Rezvani

Amy Whitaker is an associate professor at NYU Steinhardt and the author of four books: Museum Legs, Art Thinking, Economics of Visual Art, and The Story of NFTs (with Nora Burnett Abrams). A longtime blockchain researcher in the arts, she wrote the NFT explainer for the 2022 Art Basel Market Report. Her work on fractional equity in art received the European Academy of Management’s Edith Penrose Award for “trailblazing” research that challenges orthodoxies and has impact. Amy has been an advisor since 2015 to Bitmark, the parent company of Feral File, which sold Refik Anadol’s NFT but she did not work on that project.