For a while there I had an artist listing on artnet, the “art world online” and a tracker of market trends in the arts. However, I’ve faded into obscurity, seemingly because artnet only store something like 50k artists in their database, and I guess I’m just not big enough to run with the pack!
Still, an article on artnet mentioning my work is something to rave about, no? More important than my mention in the article, it is really just a fine piece of writing by Ben Davis and I think really does justice to the Flux Factory living-collaborative environment, and understands the space quite well (while the following quote might be seen as a smack on the face, I think it more a really really fair assessment):
I haven’t always loved everything they’ve done; sometimes it has seemed too precious, or only partially thought through.
But read the article for yourself. Like I say it’s lovely, well-written, good images, and I’m thankful.
(this makes me think I need a ‘press’ type of section. Actually I need to re-think the whole frickin’ scheme around here! Bleh – blooooooooogs!)
Just saw your post and want to give you some feedback. Your article was a magazine article and one should be always able to find it through search box on the top of the site.
To have artist home page that is easily found in Google an artist either needs to have a public auction record or a gallery that is a client of artnet through our gallery network. Typically these pages generate a first page position in Google.
artnet lists currently over 180,000 artists and has auction records for 3,5 million works of art.
Best,
Boris
Boris,
so cool! thanks for the comment.
Ahhh I better understand now! I thought I saw one of those pages for my name with the little graph icon next to the name – if only for a second! 180k is a lot of database!
cheerio, Nick