23 July 2002

updated: Some places to buy your art online BritArt.com: paintings, prints etc by the famous (the Peters Blake and Howson), people who should be (Lee, Patsourakis, Ramage) and unknowns. Recommended. Customer service is excellent; but let down by difficult navigation. Score: A- Eyestorm: expensive, glossy site (browser alert!), bankrupt?, with expensive, glossy prints and photos. Highlights: Francis, Sugimoto, Ed Ruscha prints and Michael Light NASA photos sadly sold out. Score: C+ Next Monet: mostly representational (pictures of things) by unknowns. Score: D Counter Editions: prints by biggish contemporary names. Score: A for content, C for breadth. Art 4 Sale: Very broad in scope, but a little messy. Score: none yet Axis Arts: multi-faceted search (nice), hidden behind a consumer data barrier (not so). Score: none yet Sotheby's (on eBay): Probably comprehensive, but possibly a cost-effective route to up/mid-market art. bitforms: NY gallery that celebrates "the nexus of art and technology, bitforms is devoted exclusively to digital and digitally influenced art". But you can't find out how much something costs until you've put it in your basket. Highlights: Reas, Rozin and Wattenberg. See more of Reas here, and at Proce55ing. and a place to look for nutty art things. 4:06:44 PM     comments