How Art Magpie works

One catalogue, ranked for you

Art Magpie watches the stockrooms of Australian galleries and dealers, gathering paintings, prints and works on paper into one place. What you see is ranked for you alone. Change a signal and your whole view reshapes on the spot.

Why a work surfaces

There are three reasons a work is selected for you.

1. 1It hits one of your watch keywords.
2. 2Art Magpie’s own reading rates it significant, whether that’s a notable artist, a rare piece, or a work that stands out from the rest of the stockroom.
3. 3It fits your taste. What you’ve thumbed up before suggests you’d want to see it, even with no term to catch it.

Nothing is hidden except what you exclude or the sources you mute.

It learns as you rate

Thumb up what you’d collect and thumb down what you wouldn’t. A thumb down also hides the work and tells Art Magpie to show fewer like it. Star anything you want to keep an eye on. A star is just a bookmark and doesn’t change your taste.

From your thumbs Art Magpie writes you a short taste brief, a plain-English read on what you collect, and matches new works against it. The more you thumb, the sharper the view. You can read and rewrite the brief on the Taste page any time.

Sleepers

SleeperFlags a work that looks genuinely significant but modestly priced for what it is.