Verse round table: Verse secondary auctions, cultural stickiness and trusting the artist

00:45 - Yeche Lange and Avant Gay recap 

05:40 - Series size and collector focus 

10:00 - Artist trajectories and release mechanics 

13:10 - Art and the Diderot effect 

20:10 - Collecting strategies and high-net-worth individuals 

24:45 - What if every work was soulbound 

28:30 - Cultural stickiness in the face of diluted attention 

33:00 - Collecting as self narrative reinforcement 

35:28 - Christie's digital art department closure 

42:03 - V001: In Real Time 

45:20 - Selecting lots and coordinating the auction 

52:15 - The risk of exposing markets 

56:30 - Rebalancing collections and investing in emerging artists 

59:20 - Dream lots 

01:02:15 - An art-forward approach 

01:07:59 - ACK's piano at Carnegie Hall 

01:11:35 -  Sasha Stiles at MoMa 

01:12:53 - The emergence of different cultural spheres within the space 

01:15:40 - An artist-based curatorial program 

01:24:45 - Narrative, sales and market realities 

01:28:40 - Parker Ito, Hyper-Gamble and community energy 

01:30:29 - Artist highlights 

01:36:06 - Verse rundown 

Elfilter: https://x.com/elfilter_a 

Mike Balzer: https://x.com/pxlshrd 

Alkan Avcioğlu: https://x.com/evergreendazed 

Edward Burtynsky: https://x.com/edwardburtynsky 

evil biscuit: https://x.com/bis__cut 

Pipilotti Rist: https://www.instagram.com/pipilotti_rist_studio 

V001: In Real Time: https://verse.works/exhibitions/v001-in-real-time