~oh oh . . . artnet is down !!

BREAKING NEWS !!

READ ALL ABOUT IT: ARTNET TO CEASE PUBLICATION . . .


WALTER ROBINSON, the founding editor of artnet.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH, JUNE 16, 2010. at the opening of ‘ONE HUNDRED ARTISTS ONE HUNDRED T SHIRTS’, DANIEL SILVERSTEIN GALLERY CHELSEA, NYC.


CHARLIE FINCH, long time art world wag and the MOST entertaining contributor to artnet, pretty much since its founding, in 1996.
His archive seems to start up – as ‘ROYAL FLUSH’ – in 1997.
PHOTO: NANCY SMITH, JUNE 26, 2012. at the opening of ‘A WAYS A WAY’ at HALF GALLERY, LOWER EAST SIDE, NYC.

note: NANCY SMITH, that’s me – the founding scribe/photog of artloversnewyork, the page you are currently looking at !! – was a contributor to artnet from 2004 to 2006, where my photos were posted in a self-generated report in the PEOPLE SECTION – under the byline: ‘ART LOVERS NEW YORK – PHOTOS BY NANCY SMITH’.

MY reports can still be found in the artnet magazine PEOPLE: ARCHIVES / scroll down to 2006, 2005, 2004.

FUN FACTS:

1. it was CHARLIE FINCH who gave me my big break at artnet – by getting Walter to post my first-ever published photos – on his Fall 2002 – TRACY EMIN article . . .
see: CHARLIE FINCH – ‘EMINENT DOMAIN’.
to this day, still one of his best – and funniest scribbles !!

2. from there it was all ‘uphill’ – as Walter took me on, without pay – the typical artnet m.o. – the glory was worth all the hard work !! – to contribute to his ‘party pix’ on the magazine. Walter gets the dubious credit of labeling my take on the art scene as: ‘artloversnewyork’. a name that I have not been able – to shake since.

SEE YOU AROUND – AT THE NEXT HOT OPENING – GUYS !!