Eye Monster by Jad Fair
Two-year old web art and print gallery Artmuse.com, out of Austin has redesigned its website and is making another marketing push, trying out a business model based on providing an “affordable alternative entry to traditional art collecting.” The site offers prices starting at $25, a bevy of real local Austin artists (and others) including Jennifer Chenoweth, Anne Genung, Jon Windham, Caroline Wright and David Leonard, a curated selection of offerings, which, if it’s a little too design-oriented for my taste, is at least somebody’s taste, and most astonishingly, ethical deals for both artists whose works are featured on the site and customers who purchase them!
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Hey Bill,
Just wondering — what do you mean by “apparently ethical deals for both artists whose works are featured on the site and customers who purchase them!”
By “apparently ethical deals” I meant that, as far as I could see, the deals were ethical, which is refreshing and slightly surprising given the number of more-or-less exploitative online art enterprises. I do not mean to imply that the deals are only apparently ethical. I’m removing the word to make my meaning more clear.
Gotcha! Thanks for clearing that up, Bill! 🙂