Saatchi Whoops

Due to what it terms The Showdown Fiasco, Saatchi Online has changed the rules for its Showdown art competition, which it regards as "an important experiment in Social Curation". Here are the changes: 1. Community Voting - Select Top 300 Artworks, 2. Jury selects 30 Artworks, 3. Community Voting - selects final artwork from Jury, 4. NO more URLs to be displayed, artists cannot link to their matchup, 5. NO promotion of matchups (no more spam). The painting is Michael Gillespie's delicate Bluebonnets (detail).