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.

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 [...]

As blur Group gets more of a following we increasingly get asked why what we are doing is important. It is both a fundamental and complex question to answer. I have spent the last ten years building large communities and marketplaces on the Web – consumer facing, business facing and some that mash both up. [...]