This article, made when digital art was in its infancy, details an art piece, meant to protest Jeff Koons, and what Michael Green feels is overpriced art, especially for someone like Koons. He offered to sell these digital recreations for, in honor of Koons’s 58-million-dollar sale, 5800 dollars, with the piece beginning sale at 2000 dollars, and not being sold. His description for the piece includes his reasons for its creation, Koon’s inflated cost, in comparison to his level of work, often having others create the work he sells, in addition to the destruction of the traditional art mediums roots, and his opinion that art will shift much more to a digital format and in particular things like cloud-based museums, and a general shift to purchasing things like GIFS and digital pieces. In addition, he mentions the reason he predicts these shifts are occurring, that being the new disconnection between making a name for oneself, and finding a value in painting, making modern artists not seek that out as much as older ones. In the modern-day, Green’s predictions about a shift to more digital products are realized, as, as countless artists make a living doing digital-based commissions, and in a more recent sense the rise of things like NFTs and digital museums proves that as time goes on, and especially in our much more decentralized age, there is a real market for those things. In addition, with things like the metaverse evolving and growing over time, it will become even more possible to create digital museums and exhibits, alongside interaction and participation in those museums, one of the few downsides of digital art, in comparison to the more physical mediums.
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