Artists

Steve Pikelny

A screenshot of a virtual world, showing the interior of a church with a cross-shaped window opening onto the blue sky. The walls are hung with photographs of religious pamphlets

Collections

The Church of Subway Jesus Pamphlets

Steve Pikleny built a church in the metaverse Voxels to showcase his collection of real-world religious ephemera.

A digital image that looks like a banknote, with guilloche patterns, borders, a denomination of 1, and a serial number, but is too abstract and empty to fully resemble an actual bill.

Criticism

Scam Artist

Is crypto a scam? Is art a scam? Steve Pikelny’s winking answer to both questions is yes, and his work explores what happens when the art and the crypto are one and the same.

Guest editor Shumon Basar offers stories, strategies, and speculations for an era after the end of eras. Predicting the FUturee

A cartoon man stands alone in thought, sandwiched between indistinct photographs of a parking lot and a city at night