Pretty much apropos of nothing, Kriston Capps, senior editor at Architect magazine and prominent art world Twitterer, took to the social media platform last night to shake a fist at the website Babes at the Museum, a years-old Sartorialist-style site that regulates its ogling to arts institutions, and women. Read More
Art and tech bloggers nearly lost it last month when the first piece of “Vine art” sold at the Moving Image Art Fair, and now they have something else to get excited about. Starting today, Rhizome and Tumblr are accepting project proposals for their new Internet Art Grant, an award that will underwrite the production of three winning entries. (The size of each grant will depend on the proposal, and Tumblr declined to say how much money they will be willing to offer.) The jury, which includes Massimiliano Gioni, associate director and director of exhibitions at the New Museum, artists Laurie Anderson and Jon Rafman, and Christopher Price a.k.a. Topherchris, Tumblr’s editorial director, will choose commissions based on their innovation and feasibility. Read More
Last Friday, the high-profile art startup Artsy changed its primary URL from Art.sy to Artsy.net, prompted by tensions in the Middle East and a 36-hour site outage Wednesday. Read More
By now you’ve probably already heard that you may now Google anyone in the world and, through the search engine, find the degree to which they are removed from the actor Kevin Bacon. Read More
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the U.S. company that decides what new domains can be added to the Internet, revealed yesterday the full list of new domain address endings, which include–as alternatives to the usual .com suffix–.porn, .sex, .diy and .art. Several of these so-called generic top-level domains have received many applicants. Read More
This morning on CBS’s Early Show, Charlie Rose led a spirited interview with Amit Sood, founder of the Google Art Project, which essentially works like Google Books for art, displaying “30,000 works of art from over 150 collections in 40 countries.” Read More
Online art site Paddle 8 has secured $4 million in funding in a round led by Founder Collective’s David Frankel, who will join the company’s board. Read More
Art world start-ups Artlog and Grey Area will soon move into a spiffy new office space in SoHo, nestled between Silicon Alley and the Chelsea/Lower East Side gallery scenes. The news of the new offices was first reported by a Business Insider day-in-the-life profile of co-founder Manish Vora (described by the site as the “Young Man [who] Quit His Wall Street Job on a Mission to Change the Art World,” an upgrade from a previous story that called him the “Guy [who] Left Wall Street to Launch an Art Industry Startup“), but the deal was not yet final. Read More
A new day, a new development from New York’s burgeoning online art-dealing scene! Paddle 8 announced today that it will partner with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art to sell a series of prints as a fund-raiser for the museum. Read More
