Artsy (website)

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Artsy
Genre
Founded2 March 2009  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
FounderCarter Cleveland
Headquarters
New York City
,
United States
Key people
  • Mike Steib, CEO
  • Carter Cleveland, founder, and executive chairman
  • Sebastian Cwilich, co-founder and former president and COO
  • Devang Thakkar, former VP of Marketplace and Head of Auctions
  • Wendi Murdoch, co-founder and board director
  • Dasha Zhukova, co-founder and investor
Website www.artsy.net

Artsy, formally known as Art.sy Inc is a New York City based online art brokerage. [1] Its main business is developing and hosting website for numerous galleries as well as selling art for them. [2] It utilizes a search engine and database to draw connections and map relationships among works of art. [3]

Contents

The brokerage was founded by Carter Cleveland, a Princeton University computer science graduate. [4] It is currently led by Jeffrey Yin, who was appointed CEO in June 2024. [5]

History

ARTSY Headquarters (35063018534) ARTSY Headquarters (35063018534).jpg
ARTSY Headquarters (35063018534)

Carter Cleveland, the son of an art historian, [6] founded Artsy during his senior year at Princeton University and worked on the site from his dorm room. [7]  Cleveland's goal was for the site to serve as a place where users could discover art online. [8]   In May 2010, Artsy participated in the New York City conference, TechCrunch Disrupt, where they competed in the Startup Battlefield and received the Yahoo! Rookie Award! [9]   A year later, the team demoed Artsy at the Beyeler Foundation at Art Basel (June 15, 2011). [10] [11]

In November 2011, Artsy closed a round of financing from Eric Schmidt, Wendi Deng Murdoch, Dasha Zhukova, Larry Gagosian, Jim Breyer, Joshua Kushner, Jack Dorsey, Chris Dixon, and Dave Morin. [12]

In 2019, it was reported that in 2018 the data for 1,070,000 accounts were stolen from Artsy. [13] The information included the name, email address, location, IP address and password SHA-512 hashed with a salt. The passwords were not stored in cleartext, but an email from Artsy encouraged users to change their passwords. [14]

Corporate affairs

Financials

Since launching, Artsy has raised a total of $100 million from individuals in the worlds of art, tech, and media. [15] [16] [2]

Products (website and app)

Artsy currently features over 1,000,000 works by 100,000 artists on its site through partnered galleries. [17] [18] As of March 2018, Artsy averaged 2.3 million unique visitors each month. [19]

The Art Genome Project

When Artsy launched in October 2011, its main product was The Art Genome Project — "an ongoing study of the characteristics that distinguish and connect works of art." [20]   A collaboration between art historians and engineers, and led by art historian Matthew Israel, The Art Genome Project drew upon art-historical scholarship and artificial intelligence to assign values to artwork based on eventually as many as 1211 characteristics or "genes." [21] [22]   [23] These categories ranged from color and period to "Technique: Documentary Photography" and "Group Portrait." [21] [22]   The Art Genome Project aimed to help users uncover works of art based on personal taste and preference to facilitate the discovery of art. [20] [21] [22] As of 2020 the AGP was on hold for restructuring.

Reception

According to Wired , Artsy "has the potential to introduce each buyer to a wide range of artists and artworks, all of them related in some way and—this is key—most of them unknown and otherwise inaccessible to any but the most knowledgeable connoisseurs." [11]

Critics of Art.sy label The Art Genome Project forced and artificial and point to the difficulty of representing the full experience of art online. [24]

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