I made a quick trip to Austin with my husband. As a UT art-history alum, it’s kind of like coming home, although I never felt at home in this heat. It’s more fun to come down these days because my dear friend and former museum colleague, Brian, is here working at the new Blanton Museum […]
Blanton Museum of Art–Austin, Texas Read
As I was writing yesterday’s Art Marketing Action newsletter about updating your resume and the blog entry about biographies, it occurred to me that you also need to be keeping track of which works of yours are being shown where and when. In other words, keep a detailed list of what you show in each
Don’t ever assume that someone knows how to take care of your artwork. Two artworks were destroyed in separate accidents, but in the same exhibition, at the Centre Pompidou in Paris–a world-class museum. It’s such a strange and sad story. Read “Make a Conservator Happy.”
Make Sure They Know How to Care for Your Work Read
It’s tough to put together a resume when you’re just beginning. If you find yourself in this situation, follow these two pieces of advice: Start a file labeled “Resume.” Drop into it anything and everything that will one day appear on your resume: honors, awards, teaching, public collections, exhibitions, articles by you, articles about you,
Pat Velte, my Web guru, sent me a link to Bob Parsons’ 16 Rules to Live By. Worth reading. (Thanks, Pat.) Each of the 16 rules is relevant to me, but these are some that stood out: 1. Get and stay out of your comfort zone. I believe that not much happens of any significance
Bob Parson’s 16 Rules to Live By Read
A tip from “Exhibit Your Art,” the e-class that begins next Tuesday . . . Always title your exhibitions. Museum curators love the minutiae of an artist’s career. If you have four untitled exhibits at the same location, how will they, in their writings, distinguish among them? Titled exhibits always look better on resumes than
Artist and freelance curator Kirsty Hall posted a no-holds-barred account of how to submit an application for an art exhibition. Read it closely. Memorize it. Print it out and don’t forget it. Timely, in light of my "Exhibit Your Art" class starting next week.
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Boy, I sure could use your help. I’m writing the “Market” section of my book proposal and trying to find statistics on art supplies. This is what I’m looking for: How much do artists spend each year on art supplies? Or . . . What are the annual sales for art-supply stores? I assume that
“If you want to make it as an artist, go to every gallery opening that you’re invited to. Get there at the beginning and stay until the end.” –Ivan Karp (OK Harris Gallery, NYC) as quoted in Richard Polsky, I Bought Andy Warhol (p. 134)
Oh, what I would give for a ticket to London right now! I’ve been reading about “Rebels and Martyrs: The Image of the Artist in the 19th Century,” an exhibit at the National Gallery in London through Aug. 28. Alan Riding begins his New York Times review with this: “When exactly did artists decide that
The Image of the Artist: Cliches and Expectations Read
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