To mention the words "digital" and "value" with regard to the art market now is to risk a particularly acerbic eye roll from one's audience; watching the average price of NFTs decline by seventy percent, to the accompaniment of an insistent if not grating Clubhouse chorus, has left many of us weary.
Still, as the art world thunders ahead, bigger stones remain unturned, and many of the changes brought about by COVID and its aftermath have simultaneously become ubiquitous mainstays while remaining largely unassailed in terms of their pragmatic repercussions, their ripples extending quickly and heedlessly across global art.