The Grand Tour: Rubens at large in the streets of London: This summer, the Grand Tour turns the streets of London into a giant art gallery by hanging life-size replicas of paintings from the National Gallery all across the centre of town. The accompanying website provides a printable map (including a selection of ‘mini-tours’) along with audio downloads and further information about the paintings. They even opened a "photo...

Everything gets recuperated: Duchamp and Banksy: Last week I got quite uneasy because last.fm was rumoured to being sold to Viacom. This has not happened until now, so I might have jumped to conclusions too quickly. But in our capitalist system it's a sad truth that, given enough time, everything gets recuperated. In many cases ironically enough by the system it tends to criticise.Take for instance the artist Marcel Duchamp...

Online communities and selling opportunities for artists: A few weeks ago, I reported about Humble Voice , an online community for artists to present their work. Here are a few more arts communities that have recently launched, or received extra funding to pursue their mission. First Sistino , offering artists the opportunity to sell high-quality prints of their works. Sistino has been created by Art.com . Then there is Imagekind , by "Curious Office Pa...

Humble Voice, a community of artists: Humble Voice is a new community for artists (and art lovers). Not unlike Myspace, it offers the possibility for artists to create profiles. Photography, art, films, writing and music may then be added to this profile and shared with the community. Additional features include calendars to track local readings, art shows, band performances and community events. Each artist community homepage contains featured artists, each day's top listened to/viewed/read...