An updated daily front page of The New York Times as artwork on your wall

Re:An updated daily front page of The New York Times as artw... by simonebrunozzi on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:34PM (#25072255)

A perhaps stupid idea for you: bring newspapers, museums / art galleries together and convince them to fund a company that sells a large display like the one seen in the article to the masses - and instead of just the front page of the NYT, you get, say, a painting, or something else, every few hours.

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Re:An updated daily front page of The New York Times as artw... by pbronez on Friday November 13, 2020 @07:54AM (#25081635)

A large e-ink display for art powered by a subscription could be interesting. I think you’d have to do it as a prestige piece though... think $10k each minimum.

The art would need to be tailored to the medium. You could use a museum/gallery partnership to commission pieces exclusive to the service and optimized for the display. Pieces would rotate out. Perhaps have a gimmick where each piece is displayed on only one device at a time, and once it rotates away from your device it never comes back unless you pay extra for it. Call the whole thing a study in semi-permanence or something.

You’d have to get some high brow endorsements to make this work.

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Re:An updated daily front page of The New York Times as artw... by simonebrunozzi on Friday November 13, 2020 @07:44PM (#25089261)

Convince the MOMA, or a similarly prestigious museum, to offer that to 10,000 members, at 10k a pop. Tax deductible as usual.

Then, convince other 4-5 prestigious museums elsewhere to do the same. Boom, you have 50k display, which means you have a niche, rich market to start from.

Not too impossible, IMHO.

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