I waited until the last week to see “Colorado Modernism, 1930-1970” at the Foothills Art Center and now I’m kicking myself. It’s a show I would like to see again and it closes tomorrow. The curator did a first-rate job selecting and installing the work. So, here’s my warning: visit exhibits when they first come […]
Catch Exhibits When They First Open Read
Take time to read the story of this exhibit, one artist (Marie Watt), and a very special blanket. The artist involved the community in the creation of her conceptual piece for the Adrich Contemporary Art Museum, making it all the more powerful and landing her a great feature in the New York Times! Does it
Involving Community in Your Exhibits Read
I was listening to my usual NPR this morning when it hit me: They are engaging their listeners more and more–just as museums are doing and just as I ask artists to do with viewers in my exhibits and self-promotion classes. NPR Morning Edition has the "Storycorps" and "In This I Believe," where any old
You are ready to contact an art consultant when you have a good-sized body of work of consistent quality and style. It’s not so different from approaching a gallery.
Finding and Contacting Art Consultants Read
I got this email from a very concerned Harriete Estel Berman. I’m sharing it here in hopes that those deeply interested in this topic will figure out the math involved! She writes: Using the jury system 1,2, 4, 5, is not more effective! In fact, it is more inaccurate than 1,2,3,4. Artists just don’t understand
Fuzzy math involved in jurying your art? 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
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.
Submit a Winning Exhibit Application Read
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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