Cool Websites / Art Bitch

December 17, 2011 | Cool Websites | by Art Bitch |

Want to share your project and network with thousands of other like-minded creatives and artists? Well, this is exactly what Art Bitch does. With a local and international audience of 6000 plus people interacting on Facebook daily, sharing, talking, liking, we’re off to a good start. Oh, and this is expected to grow. In a super way. Hit the Like button and share your project. It’s that easy.

Cool Websites / MurmurART

January 30, 2009 | Cool Websites | by Francis Andrews |

We featured online contemporary art gallery MurmurART recently and thought it was time to catch up with co-founder Donald Eastwood and ask him how someone like Damien Hirst can get £95.7 million for a bunch of pickled animals and stubbed out cigarettes: ‘It’s funny that pricing of art is always treated with much more suspicion than the pricing of other art forms. When you buy a painting, you are buying a one-off, original artistic creation, plus the cost of the materials used to make it. It’s not like buying a book or a song on iTunes, because they are just reproductions of a moment of artistic creation. When you pay 79p for Britney’s new single, you are in fact agreeing to a price for that piece of “artistic” creation that is 79p multiplied by the several million people that will buy it, and you are only getting a reproduction of a song that should, but probably won’t, be better heard live. Now frankly, why aren’t people asking how someone can sell meaningless lyrics and a banal tune for several million pounds?’ Read more

New Events / MurmurART

December 20, 2008 | New Events | by Francis Andrews |

I went to a concert earlier this week performed by musicians who had spent years in training, many at some of the UK’s most prestigious music colleges, but now, given the fierce competition they face, rarely perform any more. Many are forced into completely unrelated jobs. Luckily, his regular hour-long session at a church in London gives them the opportunity to play to crowds and remind them of why they grafted so hard to achieve those skills. It reminded me of this website which provides a bit of a refuge and a sign of hope for new artists, photographers and sculptors. The basic idea is to give emerging talent a platform on which to both exhibit and sell their work and, on the flipside, engages a wider audience in contemporary art. In such a competitive field, too much good material inevitably goes unnoticed and the artist, for all their potential, quits the game. So these platforms are wholly necessary. In May, they’ll host online exhibitions of work selected by both established and emerging curators. Read more

New Trends / Stupid Krap!

June 19, 2008 | New Trends | by Jo Spurling |

With online ‘art-for-sale’ websites popping faster than magic mushrooms come mother’s day (or so I am told, ah-herm), it can be hard to pick the gold from the garrrr. To make it nice and simple for you, I can guarantee you’ll like what you see at Stupid Krap! Read more