John Menick

Launched several months ago by Adam Simon and Art in General, the Fine Art Adoption Network allows artists to put up their works for “adoption,” i.e. give their artworks, for free, to individuals who make a case that they will take the best care of the pieces. Ideally, the Web site would:

…Engage people who may never have thought of themselves as art collectors. By putting more art into more homes, we hope to increase and diversify the population of art owners, re-imagining the ways in which art can be experienced and shared.

Currently, artists can sign up by invitation only, but possible collectors (meaning you) can sign up for free.

Friend and video artist Shelly Silver just launched her new project, desiredescape.net. As the site explains:

Do you need to escape? Your house, family, relationship, job, city, country, universe? This is a website where we can share our strategies about why we need to escape, how we plan to escape and where we hope to escape to. Have you successfully escaped? We’d really like to hear about that too. To submit a story go to login to register and get a user name. Or go directly to submit and just start typing.

(Image from desiredescape.net, submitted by “Sarah.” )