20.280 Guardian on ArtReview on Google

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         Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 07:35:57 +0100
         From: lachance_at_chass.utoronto.ca
         Subject: Guardian on ArtReview on Google

Willard,

The following is a delectable tale or food [eye-candy] for thought.

As with menu planning, listing is an art.

Good list placement is sometimes at the tail end (in a print publication
where scrolling doesn't matter but scanning or eye-balling does). The item
that appears 100th on a list of 100 is in a priveleged position. See the
following.

The Guardian 14.10.06 in a story by Esther Addley reports on ArtReview's
annual listing of the 100 most powerful people in the contemporary art
scene:

<quote>
The most surprising inclusion on this list, at number 100, is the search
engine Google. Mr Welch [[editor of ArtReview]] insisted it was not a
joke. "Manny of the curators we speak to have mentioned the potential of
[the photo-sharing site] Flickr as a viable exhibition area =AD that in a
few years from now they'll be curating online to millions of viewers. And
while we quickly concluded that Flickr has a way to go yet, it did make us
realise how much we rely on Google for our art information. In a strange
way, the number of hits an artist, curator or even a dealer gets can
legitimise him in the same way it can anyone else."
</quote>
Received on Wed Oct 25 2006 - 03:33:37 EDT