There’s a great article about the Williamston Theater in Michigan…we’ve distilled some of it here and would like to know your thoughts. Where art is concerned, there are (very) generally two groups of people: the artistes and the ‘regular’ people. “Some artists assume that they know what ‘the common man’ likes, and dismiss their interests [...]
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How artists make a living (A UK perspective)
“How does the average artist make a living? If you’re Damien Hirst, of course, you need only flog a couple of sharks in formaldehyde; if you’re Tracey Emin, an unmade bed will do. If you’re an actor, a well-publicised turn as Hamlet and near-omnipresence in the Christmas TV schedules, a la David Tennant, would keep the [...]
Paper Gives Peace
From The Curator. “In a city where buildings seem to change as often as fashion, the shop is one example of attention to detail designed to last. The inside shelves and stairwell are handmade by a craftsman from Nagano. There are papers of many sizes, colors, and textures gathered from across Japan. Often traveling extensively [...]
Art on Taxis
NYTimes.com “Those moving advertisements atop taxis generally deliver not-so-subtle messages, like which airlines to fly or movies to see, who makes the sexiest blue jeans or the coolest sunglasses. High art they most certainly are not. But for the month of January, Show Media, a Las Vegas company that owns about half the cones adorning [...]
Sundance – Art Over Commerce?
NYTimes.com Sundance, under new leadership, is trying to tilt risky. The programmers of the Sundance Film Festival on Wednesday announced a schedule of competition films that at least in their view, reflect no particular current in independent cinema except one: the artier the better. “We really tried to hunker down and make some hard decisions,” said [...]
The Art World Goes Local
From Bloomfield Hills, Mich., to Turin, Italy, contemporary-art collectors are passing on works by international art stars and skipping far-flung art fairs and auctions. This year, they’re buying local. In Detroit, major collector and steel company executive Gary Wasserman says he’s stopped buying works by England’s Anish Kapoor and China’s Yue Minjun so he can [...]
Online selling ideas
For artists interested in pushing their art in the cyber world, here are two great sites to consider: 20 x 200 (limited editions × low prices) + the internet = art for everyone “As we see it, there are a lot of people out there who want to sell their art and a lot of [...]
Shopdropped Art?
Art+Culture (artandculture.com) “Imagine you’re at the supermarket, one weekday afternoon, sometime after work, absent-mindedly pushing your trolley down the aisles for a bit of grocery shopping. You trundle down the neon-lit canyons of brightly coloured packaging – cereals, soda, toilet paper – and as you pass by the canned goods something catches your eye. Among [...]
Selling art in a weak economy…(pt 5)
ArtBusiness.com Suggestions for expanding your markets: * Get involved with galleries or dealers who do art fairs, preferably those who already have established profiles in Europe, Asia, and other healthy and expanding markets where art fairs take place. But even dealers and galleries making first forays into new markets are good to get involved with. [...]
Selling art in a weak economy…(pt 4)
ArtBusiness.com Expanding Markets “Thanks in large part to the Internet and art fairs, art markets have steadily progressed from local and regional to national and international. The global nature of today’s art trade allows artists to present themselves and their art to far more markets than ever before, with minimal investments and efforts on their [...]
