We first put up the website, and had a few sites in addition to ArtCal, in August of last year. We’ve now reached over 40 sites with over 400,000 unique visitors and 1 million page views each month. Here is the official launch press release.
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Culture Pundits – official launch
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Linkage – art and technology edition
Hanna Fushihara Aron, Self Portrait
- For my fellow nerds in the audience, here is the link to my new tech blog I’m using to comment on the technologies I work with.
- Little Cakes is closing for now, and tomorrow (Sunday) is the last day to see them in this location. Brent Burket gives us an excellent tribute on the ArtCal Zine.
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Be careful when buying a domain on Dotster
Yesterday, I used Dotster to buy a domain name for a new art gallery client. Their name is an Polynesian name shared with a certain beach in the Pacific, and has no hint of a porn connection, as far as I know. This is a screen grab of what Dotster put up as a placeholder page. I recommend pairNIC in the future.
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303 Gallery – protecting its artists from the internet
Maureen Gallace at 303 Gallery (The Armory Show 2006)
Maureen Gallace at 303 Gallery (The Armory Show 2006)
Due to our previous coverage of “photography not allowed” policies, blogger and artist Mark Barry forwarded an email he just received from 303 Gallery regarding 2 images on Flickr from his set from the 2006 Armory Show. The photos were taken during the press preview.
From: Simon Greenberg
Date: May 7, 2008 10:06:33 AM EDT
To: mark@markbarryportfolio.com
Subject: Maureen Gallace image – flickrhello mark –
this is simon at 303 gallery. i noticed you had an image of Maureen
Gallace’s work up on your flickr page – please be aware that 303 Gallery
owns the copyright to the work and all public display of images, including
web content. if you could kindly remove this image from your page, it would
be most appreciated.best
simonThis is one of the more infuriating things I have seen from an art gallery lately. Do the gallery’s artists know that they’re spending this kind of time trolling the web and harassing bloggers? It hardly seems like a good use of resources.
Related:
- A quote from Lisa Spellman, the owner of 303, on her apprecation of appropriationist art
- Mark’s blog post on the 2006 Armory (but the images are only on flickr)
- Edward Winkleman post on galleries and photography — don’t miss the comments
[The two photos above are the ones referred to in the email.]
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Updated: more blogs on the subject
- C-Monster
- Libby and Roberta’s artblog
- Heart As Arena is brilliantly subtle
- Chris Ashley provides (admittedly needed) color correction for the images above
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ArtCat’s first bilingual site
My college French got a bit of a workout with ArtCat’s latest client: the New Galerie de France. It’s our first client in Paris, and the first one with a bilingual site. We now have clients in New York, Chicago, London, Paris, and Berlin. Los Angeles should happen soon, but nothing is live yet.
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Your moment of “oh my”
The latest press release from the Brooklyn Museum, titled “THE BROOKLYN MUSEUM ANNOUNCES THE INCLUSION OF AN EXCLUSIVE LOUIS VUITTON STORE WITHIN THE RETROSPECTIVE OF JAPANESE ARTIST TAKASHI MURAKAMI” contains this interesting tidbit in the fourth paragraph (their bold not mine):
The Louis Vuitton store at the Brooklyn Museum will be located in a 550-square-foot gallery within the retrospective on the fifth floor of the Morris A. and Meyer Schapiro Wing for the duration of the exhibition. Louis Vuitton has fully underwritten the construction of the store and will be responsible for its staffing and operation. A selection of Monogram Multicolor bags and small leather goods will be available for sale for the duration of the © MURAKAMI exhibition. Styles for sale include the Alma, Speedy, Ursula, Beverly, Rita, Eugénie, and Alexandra. Just as the MOCA store presented a number of limited-edition Monogram canvasses revisited by Takashi Murakami, the Brooklyn store will also offer a new version of these “Editioned Canvasses,” signed by the artist and sold as exclusive art products. The new version, called Monogramouflage, is an exciting new pattern created by Takashi Murakami for Louis Vuitton, and gives viewers a glimpse of a bright new product line that will be launched at the Brooklyn Museum Louis Vuitton store on June 1 before being sold in selected Louis Vuitton stores worldwide. Louis Vuitton plans to donate a portion of the revenues generated at the Louis Vuitton store within the Brooklyn Museum on the evening of the Gala to the Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation.
The foundation’s website may be found here.
Update: I just read more about what the foundation does:
The Federal Enforcement Homeland Security Foundation (FEHSF) is a non-profit corporation formed to assist Federal Agents and law enforcement officials through supporting their families with emergency funding, financial assistance and community outreach. In particular, FEHSF provides monetary support to families of Agents and officers who are seriously injured or killed on duty protecting the nationÂ’s citizens or enforcing our laws. Additionally, FEHSF supports those Agents or Agents’ families during times of personal difficulties.
Frankly, I should think our federal government should provide these resources rather than expect private fundraising to take care of these people and their families. Perhaps we should stop cutting taxes for the people that can afford Louis Vuitton bags so that the feds can afford it?
Note: The press release is not online. I received it via email.
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New ArtCal launched
We’re still working on a few features and tweaking the design, but the new ArtCal, with design by Michael Mandiberg, went live today. Check it out.
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Culture Pundits – an ad network for art bloggers
In March I mentioned that I was looking into this, and I wanted to let people know that we now have a website:
and the ability to buy or sell ads on ArtCal plus 9 blogs so far. For ArtCal, it’s only for the banner ad at the top, or a 125×125 button under the left nav. The ad network software isn’t really set up to manage something like the gallery ads on the right at the moment.
I’m sure some of my readers are interested in buying an ad, or signing up as a blogger/publisher. There is a signup link if you wish to serve ads on your site. You also will have the advantage of seeing some of your posts show up on the home page of the newly redesigned ArtCal which launches this month.
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Art and real estate
James pointed out an ad for 650 Sixth Ave in this’ weekend’s New York Times real estate magazine. The website for this new apartment building has a slide show which combines images of the apartments with works of artists represented by Jack Shainman Gallery.
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ArtCal newsletter breaks 1000
The weekly ArtCal just went out to 1000 subscribers!
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