Adam Levine: exploring the Toledo Museum of Art, cultural accessibility, platform sustainability, and why Artie is leaving the space

Verse Talks

00:48 - Welcome Adam Levine

01:15 - What sets the Toledo Museum of Art apart

05:22 - Ensuring the community has access to culture

07:20 - The benefit of private funding

10:10 - TMA's digital program

13:25 - The history and founding principles of the museum

21:20 - An emphasis on craft, skill and aesthetic quality

27:10 - Artist studios, manufacturing and industrial process

31:20 - Infinite Images: The Art of Algorithms

33:40 - The Digital Artist-in-Residence Program and community onboarding

43:23 - A focus on innovation and strategy

46:10 - Adam's path to NFTs

49:45 - Repeat visitation as a key performance metric

54:40 - "Integrating art into people's lives"

56:25 - Expanding the audience for digital art

01:03:16 - Verse roundtable

01:07:10 - Cultural accessibility, funding and profitability

01:16:55 - Why Artie is exiting the space

01:24:25 - Release cadence

01:30:57 - The difficulty of finding sustainability as a platform

01:37:20 - A maturation of the space

01:41:30 - The potential for a reshaping of consensus around the blue chips

01:44:55 - Harm van den Dorpel

01:49:23 - Verse rundown

01:50:25 - Artist highlights

01:51:50 - Debriefing on Terence Broad

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