Context: Views on Crypto and Culture

Blake speaks with The Metropolitan Museum of Art team who recently released Art Links, marking The Met’s first foray onto the blockchain. Art Links is a 12-week game that invites you to connect the dots between seeming disparate art works (whether centuries apart, completely different mediums, etc.) according to different themes, rewarding you in the form of NFT badges and IRL prizes. Blake has played religiously every week, and has learned a tonne!

3 of the project leads are here to talk about the game: Destinee Filmore, Assistant Curator in the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Met, Brett Renfer, The Met's Senior Project Manager for Audience Engagement and Audrey Ou, co-founder and CEO of TRLab.

They dive deep into the project, from how long it took to plan and launch, to the intended audience, to why they chose Base, to the art they included.

Blake also couldn’t resist asking Destinee about if (and when) the Met will collect their first crypto art works.

If you want to get a read on the traditional art world and how they are engaging with NFTs…you can’t really get bigger than this. The Met is the most visited museum in America, and one of the most important cultural institutions in the world.

Art Links: https://artlinks.metmuseum.org/about

TRLab: https://x.com/trlab_

Blake Finucane: https://x.com/blakefinucane

Boys Club Newsletter: https://tooonline.beehiiv.com/