"The trend is also clear, real world galleries and auction houses are already partnering with e-commerce platforms....enabling them to reach new clients and markets."
HISCOX Online Art Trade Report 2014
"Premier galleries" with access to exclusive websites have "analytics to see which artists are performing better, and stats which show where in the world audiences comes from"
Forbes
"Christie's has been aggressively developing its internet presence and held 49 online only sales in 2013 - a huge jump compared with seven in 2012 and just one in 2011"
Financial Times
"Billionaire Leon Black's publishing company Phaidon acquired Artspace.com...Phaidon said the deal will increase its access to global art collectors,"
Bloomberg
"Galleries are actively using new online platforms, which have created digital marketplaces, connecting buyers with established galleries and institutions."
TEFAF, Maastricht, The Global Art Market in 2013
A DIGITAL REVOLUTION
Collectors are going online in record number to discover and buy art. They have created the fastest growing and fifth largest market for art and are beginning to transform the art world.
The internet has shifted control of curation in film, music and literature to large technology companies. There are signs of a similar change in the art world.