A little overwhelming at first, the new artreview.com web site (currently in beta) has some really great features, the potential to pair up emerging artists with known entities (a plus), and to sustain a growing interest in the contemporary, fine and visual arts despite the upcoming American recession (whose effects people are arguing over in the art world).
Like most community sites, it’s a bit overhwleming at first. Kind of a myspace meets art zine meets saatchi gallery – which could be good or bad, I gather. Admittedly, I have a hard enough time maintaining my own web site, so I’ve never used the aforementioned for much in terms of “career” (and have mostly joined things like them and facebook when enough people have harassed me to do so, meening saatchi doesn’t even know my name) but that doesn’t mean it can’t work for you (hell, the Irish Gallery I work with found me on flickr – even tho I mostly use that site for photos of my daughter! And look at my last post on musician Ingrid Michaelson).
The things I like best about the new site are that there are feeds for EVERYTHING, and the blogs, reviews and videos seem to mix up commissions with everyday folks (I believe Paddy Johnson will be doing some NYC writing for them, and looks like Régine Debatty of wemakemoneynotart already has). And the front page had some great content, so I didn’t have to go looking for it when, after sizing it up, I wanted to read something.
I haven’t quite been convinced to sign up yet, but I am not ruling it out either…. Def worth keeping an eye on.
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