Would you read Oliver Twist or Animal Farm over and over? If you’re a fan of Dickens or Orwell, perhaps you would. Would you read blur Group blog posts over and over? Well, we think the more appropriate question would be why wouldn’t you peruse our prose again and again and again…just in case you [...]

The art world is a changing. Slowly, underground yet profoundly. The first 1,000 years of the art market was patron-centric. Call it Art 1.0: The patron – generally the aristocracy or church – owned the artists and ran their lives, wives and commissions. The artist was their decorator, creator and muse.

b-uncut is fast emerging as the worlds leading artist Crowdsourcing platform. The beginning of Art Market 2.0. Here are some examples. Find more photos like this on b-uncut.net

People have been commissioning artists for a thousand years. It is one of the earliest forms of trade. Kings, Queens, Lords then industrialists, pioneers, even pirates took artists in and fed, housed and paid them to make great art. The artist commission is as old as time.

A quiet revolution is under way in the art world. One that few expected and most missed. Because it’s on the Web; called b-uncut. It was started in 2007 by a group of contemporary artists, led by Philip Letts, as a new kind of collective. One without borders. One bound by the Web. They’re vision [...]

The b-uncut Store is doing for the art world what Loudclothing.com does for the music industry (which is why EMI bought them yesterday!). And art lovers are buying in, snapping up the latest contemporary art accessories – t-shirts, posters, coasters, mousepads and more. Here’s a few we like. Go to the b-uncut Store today and [...]

Museum shops at Moma and the Tate do a roaring trade – even in the current climate. People just love having a nifty product with cool art on it. After all who can afford that original Van Gogh these days. The problem is that Museums are hard to get to and only promote dead or [...]

In 2007 a handful of pioneering artists had an idea. They thought that if they could use the Internet to unite and organize artists from around the world then together they could redefine the concept of art market. You see, they understood that world artists had had enough. Enough of making no money. Enough of [...]

blur Group’s crowd of artists at b-uncut keeps breaking new ground. Today it surpassed 10,000 artworks loaded. b-uncut.net, where the artists hang, attracts over 5,500 unique visitors per month and over 40,000 page views making it by far the most ‘active’ artist site on the Web. In the mean time b-uncut.com, aimed at art buyers [...]