Tuesday, February 9, 2010

20x200 Gallery

When you're looking to adorn the walls of a humble house in the hopes of transforming it into a genuine home, the spectrum of possibilities from the thumbtacked poster of John Belushi making quick work of a bottle of Jack Daniels ($8.49 on Amazon), to a somewhat more sophisticated selection such as Picasso's Dora Maar au Chat ($100 million at Sotheby's), is a wide one indeed. Fortunately, this is the future, and we have the many-splendored thing that is the internet. The great democratizer. And this fact has not gone overlooked by the many fine curators of an ever-increasing number of online galleries dedicated to distributing great art at affordable prices. 20x200, for one, deftly navigates the chasm between mass-produced schlock and inaccessible artifacts by offering high-quality prints of carefully curated pieces in small editions for a song. Or, as they put it: (limited editions x low prices) + the internet = art for everyone. But part of the warm feeling that comes with owning a piece of a limited edition means that not everyone gets to have one. And on the internet things can happen in an awful hurry. New editions at 20x200 go online every Tuesday and Wednesday at 2pm EST, and on occasion will sell out in a matter of minutes. And once they're gone, they're gone for good. Here are few highlights, some of which are probably even still available.

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