"SuperRare Secondary Market" captures the exploding secondary market, mapped for The New York Times Essay "The Art World Usually Works in Secret. Here's a Look Inside"
Each node is an NFT re-sold on SuperRare between April 2018 and April 2021. Artworks are linked to all art owned by the same collector. Colors highlight the art collected by the top 20 collectors, listed in tags and appear as distinguishable clusters with distinct colors. The emergence of a few major clusters captures the rapid consolidation of the NFT marketplace, where a few collectors have purchased an exceptional number of works. Online Companion: art.barabasilab.com/nft/ to see the individual collectors and artists on the map.

Credits: Milán Janosov and Albert-László Barabási