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In what is being characterized as a bid “to raise funds for a new laptop,” Robert “Hunter” Biden was reportedly spotted attempting to sell NFTs on the Venice Beach boardwalk in Los Angeles. The son of sitting President Joe Biden was shirtless, making him easy to identify due to his distinctive back tattoo.
“It’s good shit, at a fair price,” said Biden, referring to a blanket set up on the boardwalk. Arranged on the blanket were several SpongeBob Squarepants memes, printed on paper earlier in the day at a local FedEx Kinko’s. When asked to define what an NFT is, Biden gnashed his veneers for a few minutes, before stressing his record of honest business dealings and clarifying that the real NFTs were “in the cloud,” while gesturing vaguely at the clouds overhead.
It was unclear whether Biden had a permit to sell on Venice Beach, but he indicated a willingness to accept alternative forms of currency, including bitcoin, or a seat on the board of a foreign energy company.
In many ways, NFTs represent a great opportunity for the disgraced politician’s son, whose business dealings have been a source of controversy for the better part of a decade. Much like Hunter Biden, NFTs have a rabid cohort of people obsessed with them, despite the fact that they are basically stupid, lack general meaning, and are a hapless product of late-stage capitalism at its worst. Biden claims he is considering endorsement deals to expand his business, but the offers made to him by “big NFT” require him to wear a shirt (and pants), so he has thus far declined.
The work of many of Nepal’s contemporary artists suggests that the distinctions between labels like ancient and modern, or foreign and Nepali, will blur if you shift your point of view.
Sama Alshaibi’s Four Series draws on historical sources, contexts, and techniques to articulate the definitions and exploitations of freedom.
The former curator at Public Art Fund, New York, is joining the Savannah College of Art and Design’s teaching museum on its 10th anniversary.
Popular perceptions of van Gogh are often preoccupied with heart-wrenching accounts of mental illness, but Van Gogh: Self Portraits avoids speculative psychoanalytic readings of one tortured face after another.
A vigorous advocate for the avant-garde, the filmmaker often neglected to promote himself.
The artist has created 10 sculptures for a special one-night-only event on April 29, where attendees will be able to view her work both on and off the stage.
Thomson’s videos conjure up the weird sublimity of internet wormholes, the familiar, swaddling mindlessness of allowing oneself to be swept up in a deluge of content and carried — where?
Does public artwork left in ruin impact community mental health?
Work with a roster of renowned Visiting Artists during an eight-week summer intensive for MECA&D’s MFA in Studio Art.
From Norway to Mexico, street artists paint murals calling to end the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
The court will decide whether the pop artist infringed on the copyrights of photographer Lynn Goldsmith in using her portrait of the singer Prince.
The colleges of Skidmore, Vassar, and Williams struggled to explain the provenance of over 60 thangkas from the Jack Shear Collection.
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, and multimedia artist. She has shown work in New York, Seattle, Columbus and Toledo, OH, and Detroit — including at the Detroit Institute of Arts…. More by Sarah Rose Sharp
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