As I write this I’m sitting in my new house, which, thus far, has nearly bare walls, so I was excited to notice that a new community site ArtFlock — devoted to buying and selling art online — just launched. Actually, after a bit of reading on the site’s blog, I discovered that ArtFlock is the new name for Artists Online which has been around for a while.

Using ArtFlock, artists can display and sell their art, and visitors can browse through collections and artists, as well as search for specific artists or types of art. Since ArtFlock is not just a marketplace but also a gallery of sorts there’s a handy button at the top of the page that can limit results to show only works that are for sale.

ArtFlock has most of the interactions you’d expect from a social networking site in this day and age including user ratings, tag browsing, favorites (called My Gallery) and more. Interestingly the site doesn’t have a “similar artists” features, something the site’s blog says is a deliberate choice.