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Earring-hook type with ball pendant and paste setting, Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greek and Roman Art

The Cesnola Collection, Purchased by subscription, 1874–76 Size: Other: ¼ × ¼ × 13/16 in. (0.7 × 0.6 × 2.1 cm) Medium: Gold, glass paste

Anna Barlow “Softening Solace” 2016 ​ “​I am fascinated by the way we eat food, especially by the rituals around celebration or indulgent treats that have developed; the way they are assembled, displayed and then eaten. I am also interested in how food tells a story of the people and place it’s in.” - Barlow

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Kohiki sake cup, Tsujimura Shirō, 20th century, Minneapolis Institute of Art: Japanese and Korean Art

sake cup; small foot; dish-shaped, with sides slightly flattened; grey bottom; white and brown glaze Size: 1 11/16 x 3 3/16 x 2 13/16 in. (4.29 x 8.1 x 7.14 cm) Medium: Glazed ceramic

Arthur Percy

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Fibula, 7th century B.C., Metropolitan Museum of Art: Greek and Roman Art

Purchase, 1896 Size: Other: 2 15/16 in. (7.5 cm) Medium: Bronze

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/04/nfts-werent-supposed-end-like/618488/

by Anil Dash

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The only thing we’d wanted to do was ensure that artists could make some money and have control over their work. Back in May 2014, I was paired up with the artist Kevin McCoy at Seven on Seven, an annual event in New York City designed to spark new ideas by connecting technologists and artists. I wasn’t sure which one I was supposed to be; McCoy and his wife, Jennifer, were already renowned for their collaborative digital art, and he was better at coding than I was.

At the time, I was working as a consultant to auction houses and media companies—a role that had me obsessively thinking about the provenance, ownership, distribution, and control of artworks. Seven on Seven was modeled after tech-industry hackathons, in which people stay up all night to create a working prototype that they then show to an audience. This was around the peak of Tumblr culture, when a raucous, wildly inspiring community of millions of artists and fans was sharing images and videos completely devoid of attribution, compensation, or context. As it turned out, some of the McCoys’ works were among those being widely “reblogged” by Tumblr users. And Kevin had been thinking a lot about the potential of the then-nascent blockchain—essentially an indelible ledger of digital transactions—to offer artists a way to support and protect their creations.