InformArt Magazine

Over the last year, InformArt has been enriching our content and data through our web-based version -- informartmag.com -- and, as we approach our website's first anniversary, we are making choices that will hopefully bring you, our readers, the information you want in the most efficient manner. The print magazine you are holding in your hand has s... hifted a bit: more pages about the art and the artists and fewer pages listing art prices. How are we doing this without sacrificing information? We are making the Winter issue live up to its name as the "Annual Resource Issue. Beginning with the Winter 2001 issue that came out this past January, each Annual Resource Issue will list all the art titles that traded in the relevant period, in other words, all the current prices. Subsequent issues during that calendar year will list only those titles with prices differing from the Resource Issue price. This issue (Spring 2001) lists all current prices except those that have not changed since the Resource Issue. The Summer issue will list all current prices except those that have not changed since the Resource Issue. The Fall issue will list all current prices except those that have not changed since the Resource Issue. Therefore, by using the Annual Resource Issue with whatever the current issue may be, you will have all the current InformArt prices, just like always. There are several reasons for our moving in this direction. The number of art price listings has ballooned over the years. Our first issue back in January 1990 had about 8,800 titles; the Winter 2001 issue had more than 25,000, with the gray pages threatening to overpower the colorful story pages. A printed-and-mailed publication is not as efficient at getting data into people's hands as the Internet, where data can be stored, updated, and added to, apparently forever. On our website, one can access all the data collected since that first issue over a decade ago, and it's available any time day or night (24/7 in webtalk). On the website we list our entire ...Read More