After the Art World, Part 2

Brian Droitcour argues that some NFT art works largely outside the art world, where legitimacy comes from digital visibility and algorithmic legibility rather than institutional endorsement. Jill Magid's Out-Game Flowers (2023) arranges flowers collected from games such as Super Mario Bros. and World of Warcraft into bouquets that treat in-game power-ups as precedents for NFTs. Shezad Dawood's Sea of Redemption (2023) invites collectors to redeem, burn and trade NFTs in exchange for new ones, while Parker Ito and Xanthrax's Profile Pictures (2025) breaks Raphael's Pope Julius II and other paintings into modular traits.