Tokenised kitsch: OpenSea’s top 50 NFT collections and MoMA’s first two NFTs

Reilly Smethurst, Orestis Papageorgiou, Ben Egliston, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust , University of Luxembourg, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Sydney, New South Wales

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies

Published online on October 10, 2025

Abstract

Convergence, Ahead of Print.
Blockchain-tokenised media is kitsch. We examined OpenSea’s top 50 collections of non-fungible tokens (NFTs) as well as the first two NFTs acquired by New York’s Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). We concomitantly developed two concepts: oppositional kitsch, ...