Collector Spotlight: Famed Art Collector Adam Lindemann on Bridging Art Worlds

The NFT world has to broadcast to an audience, and that's kind of the main difference ... You're on Discord, you're tweeting, you're doing podcasts, you're in the media, you are reaching an audience. An artwork can just stay in one person's house for a decade and never be seen, locked away. In that way, the NFT world is better.

I don't think CryptoPunks has seen their best days. I truly believe that there's going to be more people excited about that origin project, about that origin story, around them being the first one to, more or less, define the standard, the ERC721 standard, that all NFTs are based on.

I'm a big believer in the Chromie Squiggles ... That classic collector part of me made me feel like, well, you just can't own enough Squiggles.

Not everything that's an NFT is art, but I feel that the Chromie Squiggle is a work of art, particularly since it's completely abstract. It completely uses color, and it's such a simple gesture. It's like an artist's brush stroke.

I feel that I'm at the beginning of a new art world, and this world of NFTs and where technology meets art is the beginning of a whole new generation of art collectors.

My favorite one was the first one, the Chromie Squiggles, because it required the shortest leap of faith for me. I didn't have to, like, go too far to decide if I liked it or not. It was very simple. It was almost like a zen move, like when the zen master claps his hands, boom! And it's like, yes, I got it, and it doesn't need to be more than that.

To me, if I were to write an article today about NFTs, I would be thinking about what does it mean when the floor of the Bored Apes surpasses the Punks?

To me, the NFT world that we're talking about is also a little closer to the world of music in the sense that, to be a great musician, you need to broadcast to a large audience and create a community around you.