Investor, writer, and art collector Adam Lindemann chats with Kevin about his early social life with icons such as Andy Warhol and the modern traditional art world. Here, Adam shares his exciting perspectives on the similarities and differences between traditional and NFT art, and shares the details of his gallery's Chromie Squiggles exhibition.
SELECTED LINKS FROM THE EPISODE
- Connect with Adam Lindemann: Website | Twitter | Instagram
- Snowfro: Chromie Squiggles Exhibition | Venus Over Manhattan
- Chromie Squiggle by Snowfro | Art Blocks
- Flamingo DAO – What You Should Know About Decentralized Autonomous Organizations With Priyanka Desai And Aaron Wright | Modern Finance
- Art Blocks - Generative NFT Art with Erick Snowfro | PROOF
- Inside The Factory: The Studio Where Andy Warhol Worked | ArtLife
- Nine Jackies by Andy Warhol | Whitney Museum of American Art
- Celebration by Jeff Koons | Guy Hepner New York City
- A Miami Beach Conference United Art and Tech A-Listers to Make the Case for Blockchain — And Ended as an Allegory of Market Mayhem | Artnet News
- CryptoPunks – The NFTs That Started It All. Their Origin Story and Future Plans | Modern Finance
- The Meebits | Larva Labs
- The Bored Ape Yacht Club
- Collecting Contemporary by Adam Lindemann | Amazon
- Collecting Design by Adam Lindemann | Amazon
- Bored Ape Yacht Club Surpasses Cryptopunks | HYPEBEAST
- The Truth About Salvador Dali's Politics | Grunge
- Autoglyphs | Larva Labs
- Guernica by Pablo Picasso | Museo Reina Sofía
- Marilyn Diptych by Andy Warhol | Tate
- Double Elvis by Andy Warhol | MoMA
- Particle: Fractionalizing Banksy with NFTs | PROOF
- NFT IP Rights: Why Bored Apes Can Appear in Music Videos | Protocol
- Rocket Factory by Tom Sachs
- Lucien Smith Drops First NFT Collection ‘Seeds’ | ARTnews.com
- What Is NFT Staking and How Does It Work? | Binance Academy
- Non-Fungible Intelligence | Altered State Machine
- "I'm Excited to Announce..." | Kevin Rose, Twitter
- When NFTs Invade an Art Town | The New Yorker
- Why is Art Blocks in Marfa? by Druid | Medium
- Judd Foundation
- De Gustibus Non Est Disputandum | Latin Is Simple
- Mind/Mirror by Jasper Johns | Whitney Museum of American Art
- Deadheads | Subcultures and Sociology
- SuperRare: Curated NFT Marketplace and the Game-Changing $RARE Governance Token | PROOF
- Human One by Beeple | Christie's
- DEAFBEEF and the Craft of Generative Art | Modern Finance
- Banksy: Genius or Vandal? Exhibition | Los Angeles
NOTES
- Who is Adam Lindemann? [00:50]
- How did Adam get involved in the NYC art world during the wild Warhol years, and how did his collecting instincts evolve over time? [02:22]
- What's happened since Adam first dipped his toes in the NFT world. [04:57]
- How does Adam separate the wheat from the chaff when he's looking for NFTs to add to his collection? [05:31]
- Does the current state of the NFT world compare to any other period in art history, or is this entirely unchartered territory? Adam offers his thoughts on the transfer of IP that's happening with the purchase of some NFTs -- such as Bored Apes. [11:21]
- What determines the fluctuating value of an art piece or project? [15:26]
- What could Tom Sachs' Rocket Factory launch mean for NFTs? [17:27]
- In Adam's estimation, what will Lucien Smith's Seeds project need to really take off? [20:43]
- Kevin's take on the experimental nature of the 2022 NFT landscape. [21:43]
- Kevin and Adam can't get enough of those delicious Chromie Squiggles. Adam and the pure, ever-charitable gent Erick Snowfro are even collaborating on an exhibit for them. [23:54]
- How the medium of NFTs is more like music than traditional art. [33:39]
- What compels some hardcore technologists to collect NFTs? [38:13]
- Are NFTs the gateway for tomorrow's traditional art collectors? [39:57]
- Details about the Chromie Squiggles exhibition at Adam's gallery, and predicting the future of the Chromie Squiggles floor. [42:47]
- Parting thoughts. [48:10]
PEOPLE
- Jeff Koons
- Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Richard Prince
- Damien Hirst
- Andy Warhol
- Jacqueline Kennedy
- Erick Snowfro
- Cornelia Guest
- Michael Jackson
- Halston
- Victor Hugo
- Steve Rubell
- Liza Minnelli
- Keith Haring
- Fred Hughes
- Baby Jane Holzer
- Takashi Murakami
- Urs Fischer
- Joseph Lubin
- Pablo Picasso
- Salvador Dalí
- Francisco Franco
- Peter Saul
- Marilyn Monroe
- Elvis Presley
- Banksy
- Tom Sachs
- Lucien Smith
- Cy Twombly
- Brice Marden
- Beeple
- Derek Schloss
- Donald Judd
- John Chamberlain
- Wayne Thiebaud
- Jasper Johns
- XCOPY
- 0xDEAFBEEF
- Cornelius Annor
- Ana Benaroya
- Brad Pitt
- Angelina Jolie