The Story of NFTs: Artists, Technology, and Democracy

Founded in 1949, ABRAMS was the first company in the United States to specialise in publishing art and illustrated books. The company continues to publish critically acclaimed and bestselling works, creating and distributing brilliantly-designed books with the highest production values under several imprints, one of which is Abrams Noterie: a gift and stationery imprint that collaborates with carefully selected authors, artists and brands to make gift-worthy paper goods that are true to the original hand, useful and inspiring.

Amy Whitaker is a long-standing blockchain and NFT researcher in the arts and faculty member at New York University. She is the author of Museum Legs, Art Thinking, and Economics of Visual Art.

Founded in 1945 in Florence, Mondadori Electa, part of the Mondadori Group, publishes art titles, exhibition catalogues, fiction, children's books and illustrated volumes on subjects ranging from reportage to fashion, photography, design, music, cinema and travel.

Nora Burnett Abrams is the Mark G. Falcone Director of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver and a curator who holds a PhD in art history from the Institute of Fine Arts at New York University.

An imprint of Rizzoli New York launched in January 2018, Rizzoli Electa is dedicated to Rizzoli's museum and exhibitions publishing in collaboration with leading Italian book publisher and sister company Mondadori Electa.

Rizzoli New York joined such prestigious American institutions as Tiffany’s, Saks, and Cartier when it first opened the Rizzoli Bookstore on Fifth Avenue in 1964. In the following years, its landmark building in New York became the center for the company’s national expansion, adding new bookstores throughout the country and, a decade later, establishing an eminent publishing house renowned today for high-quality, illustrated books.

Rizzoli New York began its publishing operation in 1974 and has become a leader in the fashion, interior design, culinary, art, architecture, and photography fields. Rizzoli’s Universe Publishing imprint was added in 1990, marking Rizzoli’s entrée into the pop-culture worlds of humor, beauty, sports, performing arts, and gay and alternative lifestyles, as well as a highly successful calendar program. In 2011, Rizzoli established Ex Libris, an imprint dedicated to publishing up-market literary fiction and nonfiction with a transatlantic character. Starting in January 2018, Rizzoli produces its museum and exhibitions publishing under the new imprint Rizzoli Electa, in collaboration with leading Italian book publisher and sister company Mondadori Electa.