>>> Art galleries didn't want to be online, and still don't, not the fancy ones. That's not how they sell. By 2000, selling art online was no less enterprising

>>> Art galleries didn't want to be online, and still don't, not the fancy ones. That's not how they sell. By 2000, selling art online was no less enterprising than selling books or pet food online. PG was just half a decade or so early to the party. By that time, artnet.com was a well-funded and subscribed sales price database. Christie's auction house would feature it's first online only bidding. Art Review magazine was digitizing its entire archive. Major museums were beginning to discuss in earnest how to preserve software based works in their permanent collections. And the Whitney would feature an online exhibit of curated Net Art in its Artport website. It's rather interesting to imagine a parallel universe, where PG's AI insights could have culminated in him becoming a major conceptual digital artist. Flash forward to 2020, and online viewing rooms have replaced in-person art fairs. Distributed ledgers are employed for fraud protection. Rare digital is "important". And questions around authorship in AI-generated works are entering the mainstream. Beeple: A Visionary Digital Artist at the Forefront of NFTs https://www.christies.com/features/Monumental-collage-by-Beeple-is-first-purely-digital-artwork-NFT-to-come-to-auction-11510-7.aspx https://www.christies.com/features/Monumental-collage-by-Bee...