How Kovett works.

Kovett has three account types:

• Collector — for anyone who wants to discover, save, follow, and document the art they live with.
• Artist — for artists who want to share work and connect with collectors. Artists can also maintain a personal collection.
• Gallery — for galleries representing artists and listing available works.

You pick your account type when you sign up. All three roles can browse, kovett, and follow.

Check your spam folder first. If it’s not there, sign in and click the Please verify your email address banner at the top of the page — that takes you to a page where you can resend the verification email. Verification links expire in 72 hours.

On the sign-in page, click Forgot password? and enter your email. We’ll send a reset link that expires after a few hours.

Open the avatar menu in the top-right and pick Edit Profile. You’ll find your account settings there, including links to change your email (which requires a confirmation email) or password.

To Kovett a work or artist is to save it — the way you might bookmark something you can’t stop thinking about. Kovetting an artwork keeps a thumbnail on your dashboard. Kovetting an artist means their works appear in your By Kovetted Artists feed and influence your Curated for You recommendations.

Kovetting is private to you in the sense that no one else sees a list of your kovetts, but the artist or work knows it has been kovetted (we display a count once it passes a threshold).

Kollecting is different from kovetting. Kollecting an artwork means it has entered your private collection — you own it. Click I Kollect’d this on an artwork to claim ownership.

Because ownership matters, the claim isn’t automatic. The artist (if their profile has been claimed) is asked to confirm that the sale or transfer happened. Once they verify, the work is added to your collection with a verified provenance event.

The button is hidden in a few cases:

• The work has already been kollected by someone else.
• You’ve already kollected it (or have a pending claim).
• The artist’s profile hasn’t been claimed yet, so there’s no one to verify the sale.
• You are the artist of the work.

Click My Dashboard in the nav. You’ll see your recent kovetts (works you’ve saved and works by artists you follow) and a link into your private collection.

Sometimes an artist profile already exists on Kovett before you arrive — uploaded by a gallery, a collector, or our ingestion. If you find your profile, click Claim this profile on the artist page. You’ll submit a brief verification request. We review claims and email you when the decision is made.

Once your profile is claimed, you’ll see an Add Artwork action from your dashboard. Required fields are title, year, medium, and dimensions. Editions and pricing are optional. You can mark a work as unique — the edition field is hidden when that’s checked.

When a collector clicks I Kollect’d this, you receive a verification request on your dashboard. You can approve or decline it. Approving creates a verified provenance event for the work and adds it to the collector’s private collection.

The verification page never shows the price — only the artwork, the parties, and the date.

Yes. If a gallery or collector attributes a work to your profile and you don’t recognize it, your dashboard will show a pending attribution request. You can confirm or reject it. Rejected attributions remove the work from your public profile.

From your gallery dashboard, use the inventory tools to add a work. You can attach an existing artist on Kovett or create a new artist profile if they don’t have one yet. Set the status (available, reserved, sold, on hold, not for sale) and an optional price or purchase link.

A gallery validation request is the gallery equivalent of an artist verification: an artist or collector links a work to your gallery and asks you to confirm it. The two types are:

• Sale — the gallery confirms it sold the work.
• Exhibition — the gallery confirms it has shown or holds the work.

Confirmed sale validations cause the artwork detail page to show “Sold by Gallery”.

When you mark a work as Price on request, the listed price is hidden publicly and the purchase-link field is hidden in the form. Interested collectors can still reach you through the artwork page.

Only you. Sensitive details — price paid, purchase location, insurance and appraisal values, invoice references, seller details, condition notes, and acquisition date — are visible only to the owning user. They never appear in search, public pages, or aggregate statistics.

No. Artwork on Kovett may not be used to train, develop, or support AI models, machine-learning systems, image-generation tools, or similar technologies. Automated scraping for AI purposes is prohibited. Read the full statement on our Privacy & Artwork Ownership page.

Title, artist, year, medium, dimensions, edition (if applicable), description, public images, and the gallery relationships (uploaded-by and confirmed-sold-by). When a work has been kollected, the page shows that fact — not who collected it.

• All — the latest works added to Kovett.
• By Kovetted Artists — works by artists you’ve kovetted.
• Curated for You — recommendations based on works and artists you’ve kovetted, with diversity built in.

That message appears when you haven’t kovetted enough works for us to build a personal taste signal yet. We show what’s popular site-wide instead. Kovett a few works (or artists) and the feed will start to adapt.

Email [email protected] with a link to the page or work in question and a brief description of the issue. We respond to rights claims as a priority.

We’d like to hear it. Email [email protected]. Kovett is built around what collectors, artists, and galleries actually need.