Robert Adams says earn
Part of the difficulty in trying to be both an artist and a businessperson is this: You make a picture because you have seen something beyond price; then you are to turn and assign to your record of it...
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What about the argument that selling photos so cheaply will condition buyers against normal gallery prices? Answer A) That’s a good argument. It’s probably correct. Answer B) These prints are so...
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As the art market becomes increasingly liquid, investors are willing to pay more for art: an asset class which used to be very hard to sell is now much easier to turn into cash. That makes it more...
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Collect!
Collect, the Berkeley Art Center’s annual fundraising auction, is happening today. It’s an auction, so what I can I say, but I did donate a photograph to it and feel like I should mention it, not the...
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le roi est mort / vive le roi
I recently saw the above while clicking through my own photostream on Flickr. Another user in Utata also collected a few screenshots of the types of ads that are displayed: I discovered this belatedly...
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real elves
Oh no. Santa’s real workshop: the town in China that makes the world’s Christmas decorations Our yuletide myth-making might like to imagine that Christmas is made by rosy-cheeked elves hammering away...
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Speculative Propositions
Stephanie Syjuco runs a Tumblr called Speculative Propositions, which is a collection of many of her accepted and rejected project proposals, including her successful Guggenheim app. It is one of the...
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For the 1%: Hollywood Agency Announces Plans to Represent Visual Artists United Talent Agency, the Beverly Hills-based talent agency known for representing actors like Johnny Depp, Angelina Jolie, and...
View ArticleRe: whining about the art world
I’ve started doing some sniffing around on local collectives and land trusts. I’ll share what I find as it resolves into view more, but for now, an addendum to the student debt situation: the prospect...
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People are very willing to talk radical. But, with artists, I find that the conversation has this inevitable drift, where we start out talking about structural and political problems, and pretty soon...
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