[tjwds]

Through friends, I've become a little acquainted with the art industry and how collections happen and get shown in the most general terms.

I feel like Etsy used to be a place where individual creators created things… and now it's mostly used by industry professionals with a specific vibe or aesthetic feel.

Is the thing that distinguishes Art in Res from something like Artsy that you're buying directly from the artist? How do you all plan to deal with, for example, galleries that might want to use or abuse this platform?

[stevekemp]

Etsy used to be full of actual creators, now it is full of drop-shippers who sell premade junk.

There are outliers, but it's not unusual to see art being churned out by factories, or shops full of stuff from AliExpress.