The New York Times calls the Walker Art Center's new online project Intangibles "a shop that peddles evanescence," though at least some of what the shop is getting up to is what Count Franz von Walsegg might have quaintly called "a commission."
Composer Nico Muhly will sell original ringtone compositions—music that plays when someone calls your cell phone—for $150 each via Intangibles, which the Times calls "a conceptual pop-up art store" opening online this coming Thursday under the joint auspices of the Minneapolis art center's gift shop and its design department.
The shop's wares, generally, will be custom-created artworks—all of which will take performative or digitally documented, rather than physical, form—by world-class artists. Among the other artists involved are Minnesotan photographer Alec Soth, who's selling Snapchat photos at just $100 for a package of 25; and L.A. performance artist Martine Syms, who will leave you a voicemail for $10.
Soth is currently exhibiting selections from a new body of work called Songbook at the Weinstein Art Gallery in Minneapolis, as well as at other venues worldwide; read my story about that project on the Local Current blog.
Photo via Nico Muhly on Facebook
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