Get it together, Artpace
Posted by ben on 03 Feb 2007 at 01:10 pm | Tagged as: art paparazzi, net.art
Let me start off this post by saying I’m grateful for all the things Artpace does for San Antonio, from the potlucks to the rooftop parties, but someone has to call them out on this one. When I heard that Jesse Amado was showing at Fine Silver, I thought “That’s strange; isn’t he showing at the Hudson Showroom? Isn’t it a bit of a faux pas for San Antonio’s two most reputable galleries to show the same artist at the same time?” So I decided to do a little fact-checking, only to find that the repo men have come to collect Artpace’s web site:
The Google cache of the site turned up the information I was after: yes, Jesse Amado is opening a show at Artpace on February 8 and Fine Silver on February 9. And I’m sure there’s a reasonable explanation for that. But the real mystery of the weekend emerges: Who killed the Artpace website?
I too ran up against an Artpace online no-show last week; their site had been running really slow before this, and I know they’re working to get it back online. As someone who’s encountered pretty much every problem you can with having a website, I am sympathetic (but for every hour down you lose a week of good traffic)!
Yeah, I actually really feel bad for them. I’m sure this isn’t their fault — their web host seems to have screwed up royally. And, judging by the amount of time it has been down, they probably don’t have usable backups. Now that I think about it, it sucks for all of us, because the Artpace archives were a pretty good resource.
At least they weren’t directly depending on the site for revenue.