In the spririt of Web 2.0, the art community now has its MySpace space: MyArtSpace. The stated goal is to create links between artists and allow them to display and sell their works. A rough estimate gives me 1600 galleries active. Not bad!
Marc Gauthier
My Web Space About Art And Its History
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. Le Devoir 400th anniversary Andy Warhol Art art history artprice Bettina Hoffmann BGL Canada Charles Guilbert Chih-Chien Wang contemporary art Cooke-Sasseville Courbet Doyon-Rivest France Giorgia Volpe Gwenael Belanger Isabelle Hayeur Isabelle Laverdière London Loto-Québec Louis-Philippe Eno Louvre Lynne Marsh Manif d'art 4 Manon Labrecque Michel de Broin Montreal Montreal Museum of Fine Arts Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec National Gallery of Canada National Gallery of Quebec Naval Museum of Quebec paris Patrick Bernatchez Quebec City Quebec Gold Reims Serge Murphy Takashi Murakami Tricia Middleton USA Van Gogh Yannick Pouliot
http://www.myartspace.com is a great site. I have a Premium account on there and was contacted by a collector the first week. It is not as large as say http://www.deviantart.com, but the quality of art is much better and I would say that the quality of traffic to the site is better (not millions of 13 year olds flooding to the site each day). I also enjoy the interviews that their editor does. The only downside is that they have not created forums yet so aside from comments and messages the sense of community is sometimes lacking. I think forums are coming though and I read that they are working on group capability kinda like myspace. Considering that they have had jurors from the Tate Modern, Sotheby’s, The National Portrait Gallery, SAIC, New American Paintings and RISD I would say that they even give Saatchi’s site a run for its money. I’m interested in finding out more about the myartspace art scholarships as well, http://www.myartscholarship.com. Do you know anything?