Auction house Christie’s has joined forces with ArtStack, the world’s first art social media platform, to launch the first crowd-sourced auction initiative.This groundbreaking partnership embraces new technologies and the current trend for crowd sourcing to give emerging artists the opportunity to be chosen by the public for inclusion in the upcoming First Open/LDN auction at Christie’s South Kensington on March 26.Artists can submit their work to the online competition via theArtStack.com from January 20 to February 1. The public will vote for the favourite artist and the most popular works will be included in the March 26 sale, with 25% of the proceeds to be donated to the Whitechapel Gallery in London.According to Christies, the works will be selected based upon their “stack” (vote) count and reviewed for submission by a high-profile panel of art world, fashion, and media figures who will select around 10 works for inclusion in the auction.The panel includes Bianca Chu, Head of First Open/LDN, Christie’s; Omar Kholeif, Curator at Whitechapel Gallery, London; James Lindon, Co-Founder of ArtStack; Penny Martin, Editor in Chief of The Gentlewoman magazine; Sarah McCrory, Director of Glasgow International; Dan Stevens, Actor and Booker Prize Judge.Artists and the public can visit https://theartstack.com/exhibition/Christie'sFirstOpen/LDN to submit works and “stack”Follow @UK_ARTINFO
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