From the Archives: Artageddon at the Distillery Gallery
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In art, as in love, things can get a bit messy when the Internet is involved.
In the old days of aesthetic courtship, the rules were simple: artist toils in obscurity; gallery discovers artist; the Whitney calls and they fall in love at the Empire State Building. Gallerists were the gatekeepers to the art world, and finding an audience meant first finding a curator who thought you had child-bearing hips.
But with a new breed of artists publicizing, exhibiting and selling their work online and elsewhere, the commercial gallery system is set for a jarring realignment, says curator Scott Chasse:
As the tumultuous ...