cwilich wendi murdoch dasha zhukova website artsy.net artsy is a free online platform designed to connect users to art. 1 artsy s search engine and database draw connections and map relationships among works of art. 1 led by carter cleveland computer science graduate from princeton 2 and sebastian cwilich former executive of christie s and haunch of venison director . 3 artsy aims to make all the world s art accessible to anyone with an internet connection . 4 artsy is backed by a group of investors including eric schmidt wendi murdoch dasha zhukova joshua kushner thrive capital peter thiel jack dorsey jim breyer keith rabois david tisch chris dixon charlie cheever dave morin and david kidder . 5 6 john elderfield former chief curator at new york s museum of modern art serves as artsy s senior advisor and larry gagosian and marc glimcher president of pace gallery are advisors . 7 contents 1 history 2 website and app 3 the art genome project 4 financial 5 reception 6 references 7 external links history edit carter cleveland founded artsy during his senior year at princeton university and worked on the site from his dorm room . 8 cleveland s goal for artsy is for the site to be the place where every single user in the world goes to discover art online . 9 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 10 a year later the team demo d artsy at the beyeler foundation at art basel june 15 2011 . 11 12 website and app edit as of july 2016 update artsy s website has over 600 000 users . artsy currently features over 400 000 works on its site and more than half are for sale . those for sale on artsy range in price from 150 to 3 million . 13 14 artsy s gallery partners pay artsy a sales commission that averages 3 % of the sales price . 15 artsy also partners with over 600 museums and institutions and 60 international art fairs who also publish work on the site . the art genome project edit main article the art genome project artsy is powered by the art genome project an ongoing study of the characteristics that distinguish and connect works of art. 16 a collaboration between art historians and engineers the art genome project draws upon art historical scholarship and artificial intelligence to assign values to artwork based on over 1211 characteristics or genes . 17 18 these genes ranges from color to content private of personal space to period to technique documentary photography to group portrait . 17 18 the art genome project aims to help users uncover works of art based on personal taste and preference to facilitate education and discovery of art. 16 17 18 matthew israel serves as the director of the art genome project . financial edit artsy initially raised around 160 000 in seed funding . 5 in november 2010 artsy raised an additional 1.25 million in funding in an investment round led by joshua kushner 5 and in november of the following year raised 6 million series a from peter thiel thrive capital wendi murdoch and dasha zhukova . 19 reception edit 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 . 20 criticism around the art genome project centers on its classification system which rubs some artists the wrong way . i don t think what i am doing has anything to do with cindy sherman says british artist jonathan smith after being told the site links his work to hers via a staged photography gene . that sounds like something a programmer would think of . also there s the issue of whether art can be properly represented on the web . there is something sensual about a visual object that doesn t translate online says new york city based collector niel frankel . 21 numerous publications including wired 22 the new york observer vogue 23 and the wall street journal 24 have written articles on artsy . carter cleveland was listed in blouinartinfo s the 30 and under crowd the art world s most influential young figures of 2012 . 25 artsy received the rookie disruptor award in 2010 and was listed in forbes names you need to know in 2011 . 26 references edit a b chad hanna james . the power of suggestion . blouinartinfo . retrieved february 3 2011 . miller michael . point click collect art.sy brings the art world online again . new york observer . retrieved 2011 06 14 . sebastian cwilich executive profile & biography businessweek . www.bloomberg.com . retrieved 2016 07 25 . childs mary may 6 2016 . art collecting young money old masters . financial times . retrieved 25 july 2016 . a b c schonfeld erick november 24 2010 . art.sy raises 1.25 million from schmidt murdoch dorsey and super artsy angels . techcrunch . retrieved 31 august 2012 . frommer dan november 11 2010 . eric schmidt wendi murdoch and other huge names are betting on art.sy to shake up the art market . business insider . retrieved 31 august 2012 . wolfe alexandra march april 2012 . buying art on the internet . departures . retrieved 31 august 2012 . allison chelsea november 28 2011 . new deal art.sy s innovative online take on contemporary art sales . vogue . retrieved 31 august 2012 . wallis stephen june july 2011 . who is art.sy . art in america . yahoo disrupts techcrunch . yahoo . may 26 2010 . dasha zhukova s art.sy site launches to celeb packed crowd . artinfo . june 15 2011 . mufti shahan november 23 2011 . art.sy s genome predicts what paintings you will like . wired . retrieved 31 august 2012 . goel vindu 2015 10 28 . purchasing fine art is increasingly just a click away . the new york times . issn 0362 4331 . retrieved 2016 07 25 . hamilton anita may 25 2012 . fine art for everyone five cutting edge sites for collectors and newbies alike . time . boucher brian 2012 07 23 . assessing art.sy the art world s pandora goes beta . art in america . retrieved 4 september 2012 . a b de leon don michael acelar march 29 2012 . the most comprehensive online art database maps connections between works . psfk . retrieved 31 august 2012 . a b c wolfe alexandra march april 2012 . buying art on the interner . departures . retrieved 31 august 2012 . a b c jeffries adrianne march 23 2012 . a peek at art.sy s much anticipated beta . betabeat . schonfeld erick november 3 2011 . art.sy raises 6 million series a from peter thiel thrive capital wendi murdoch and dasha zhukova . techcrunch . retrieved 31 august 2012 . mufti shahan november 23 2011 . art.sy s genome predicts what paintings you will like . wired . retrieved 2 september 2012 . hamilton anita june 4 2012 . works for me . time . retrieved 31 august 2012 . 6 14 11 7 50pm . point click collect art.sy brings the art world online again . observer . retrieved 2012 10 05 . allison chelsea . new deal art.sy s innovative online take on contemporary art sales culture . vogue . retrieved 2012 10 05 . gamerman ellen 2011 01 14 . from the vip art fair to art.sy the art gallery goes digital wsj.com . online.wsj.com . retrieved 2012 10 05 . the 30 and under crowd the art world s most influential young figures . blouinartinfo . june 26 2012 . laneri raque 2010 11 11 . names you need to know in 2011 art.sy . forbes . retrieved 31 august 2012 . external links edit official website open source the art genome project retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title artsy website & oldid 731571776 categories online cataloguesonline databaseshidden categories articles containing potentially dated statements from july 2016all articles containing potentially dated statements navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store 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