Five Years In: 20x200 and the Growth of Online Art Galleries | Wired Design. A collection of prints from 20×200. Photo: Courtesy of 20×200 Five years ago yesterday, Jen Bekman founded 20×200 on the belief that everyone should be able to collect art, and that the internet could help them do so. While neither the oldest nor the biggest place to buy prints online (art.com has been peddling prints for over a decade), her curated site, along with several other upstarts, represent a rapidly changing attitude and approach towards how art is marketed, bought and sold, a domain that Bekman says has lagged behind in its adoption of online retailing.
“Art as a business category remains one of the few industries that has largely been undisrupted by technology,” says Bekman. “Now, a lot more people are comfortable both collecting art in general and also collecting art online, because of what we’ve done over the last several years.” But 20×200 is far from alone. Art on Etsy is a little different than 20×200; it’s not curated. Mille Fleurs, Brea Sounders’ first print on 20×200. A Truly Magnificent Collection of Sand Sculptures. Literatura versus tráfico en Melbourne / Literature versus traffic in Melbourne. Image Fred Kroh. El pasado mes de junio, nos trasladamos a Melbourne para llevar a cabo una gran instalación, la más grande hasta ahora para nosotros, dentro del festival Light in Winter. La temática elegida por el festival para este año ha sido “la lectura”, por lo que nos pidieron que lleváramos a cabo Literature vs Traffic, una pieza que ya habíamos instalado en New York de forma subversiva y que nos ofrecían la oportunidad de ampliar y hacer crecer durante un mes.
Hasta la otra punta del mundo nos fuimos, pasando del soleado verano madrileño a un suave y lluvioso invierno, con la romántica intención de convertir la moderna y fría arquitectura de Federation Square, en un espacio acogedor, humano e íntimo, que invitara a lectura y al recogimiento. ¿El fin de esta pieza? La noche final, el río desbordado de libros, fue ofrecido a los visitantes que se tomaron su tiempo eligiendo entre los miles instalados los más interesantes para llevarse a casa. Fotos de Gustavo Sanabria. Art Project, powered by Google. :: La Semana del Arte Bs. As. 2011 ::
London Gallery to Host First Instagram Exhibit. Instagram, the fun mobile app that lets users create stunning retro-looking photos with ease, is moving to the world of high art. From 22-23 October, London's East Gallery at Brick Lane will be hosting the first ever UK exhibit of Instagram photos. Dubbed "My World Shared", the exhibit is organized by the London branch of Instagrammers, a community of Instagram users who offers tips and techniques and organizes "photowalks" and other social events for their users. The exhibit will host photos from 30 participants. As explained on the official website, the idea behind the project is "to record in images our world around us, our lives, our outlook, our views, and share that view with the rest of the world. " Instagram has been growing like a weed in the last year or so: in August, the service celebrated its 150 millionth photo, just nine months after the iPhone application first landed in the App Store.
RESONANCE. Street Art. Banksy. Smarthistory: a multimedia web-book about art and art history. Guggenheim libera de forma gratuita 65 libros de arte moderno en su web. Si os apasiona el arte moderno y vibráis con solo oír el nombre Guggenheim, atentos a la noticia, pues hay 65 libros de arte moderno publicados de forma gratuita en su web. Solo tenéis que acceder a su colección y seleccionar el título que deseáis consultar, existiendo un lector en línea que os ayuda a pasar las páginas sin necesidad de bajar el documento. Alexander Calder, Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon, Gustav Klimt & Egon Schiele, y Kandinsky son algunos de los protagonistas de esta lista que nos ayudarán a entender mejor sus trabajos y disfrutar de grandes obras de arte., Link: 65 libros de arte moderno | Vía openculture.