News From the Field | Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction: Hirst, Emin from $12.00

With the recent launch of s[edition], the high-end art market is now accessible to the masses, but not without challenging the very notion of art collecting.
The initiative is the brainchild of Haunch of Venison co-founder Harry Blain and former Saatchi Online CEO Robert Norton, and it creates a platform for the electronic trade of high-resolution [...]

Online Exclusive: The Transmission Project, An End To A Public Initiative

The federally funded Transmission Project—supporters of “low-power radio stations, media arts and technology centers, rural broadband initiatives, media reform policy advocates, and anyone building a strong and diverse public media infrastructure”—has lost its federal funding. Timothy Baker takes a closer look at the organization’s mission and struggles.
[ Online Exclusive: The Transmission Project, An End To [...]

Remembering Chris Hondros

Chris Hondros (March 14, 1970–April 20, 2011), senior staff photographer at Getty Images, died last week in a mortar attack in Misrata, Libya, along with photojournalist and film director Tim Hetherington.
[ Remembering Chris Hondros by Jen Saffron ]
[ Quiet Spectacle, Saffron's interview with Hondros, from Afterimage 35.6 ]