The Art World and the World Wide Web
In 2012, the art world is wired. Websites, once a novelty, then a craze, are now de rigueur for all galleries intent on doing real business. This high-tech stuff is not just confined to an external website either. Internally, galleries rely on a sophisticated array of management software to track inventory and sales records. (To read more about gallery-management systems, see page 109.) Like the rest of the world at large, the art world is firmly implanted in the Information Age.
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