Category Archives: Recession Advice
Pratt Institute: the land that time forgot
Paid a visit to Pratt Institute. It looks much like how I left it upon graduation, complete with this oddity of newfangled technology: the ball point pen machine:
Hey, they’re retractable! And, even better, the ‘card catalogue.’
Granted, the latter is on view in the hallway near the refurbished (well, not so) New Media area (where I was [...]
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buy photos for very little money in….Chelsea
Alan Klotz. My former professor. A real Photo Maven. And, a guy who just happens to have a photography sale every year, same time, same place. 511 W. 25th Street (his gallery).
This is fine art photography, guys. The stuff you invest in for the long term.
Since times are sooo hard right now, I can only [...]
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nyfa says, yes, there’s a Recession, and…
…illustrates it with work by Lawrence Swan, who says, among other things:
The art world, so-called, has been hit by the recession, and that means our ways of thinking about art and making art will change, like it or not. Do you really think that art made to adorn the homes of the rich, or made [...]
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Life Drawing. 101
Giving it the ol’ college try. Again.
5-minute drawing. 1/2 of the whole.
OK, it’s a start. Gotta get much larger paper. So, Nicole (assistant to a super-big artist), if you read this, head’s up. I wanna pick that roll up from your studio soon!
Inventory: Who needs it?
Have been thinking about inventory–you know, gorgeous racks and racks full of works by brand-name artists; the stuff in back rooms of galleries. Inventory lets you know that there’s more than meets the eye in a gallery exhibition. It lets you know there’s at least some kind of relationship with the artist going on.
Consignment. Outright [...]
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Where is this gallery? Guess right, and I might show you there. For real.
OK, so the f-ing misspelling below practically gives it away. Still, take the poll. Let yourself feel superior for a minute. Then ask yourself if I’m not totally on base here.
Results to come!
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Lower East Side Galleries are *urp* better than Williamsburg Galleries. (Did I just say that?!)
A foray last Sunday to Manhattan’s LES yielded, among some truly impressive art (like the show at CANADA, below)…
glimpses of optimistic market ’signs’ that, though hardly Upturn-Prophesy-worthy, deserve mention.
Here, my buddy, Francesco glances over as Rachel Uffner puts away a work we’d just watch her put on hold for the Principal of a blue-chip Chelsea [...]
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“The Sun” in Chapel Hill..
I’m not usually politically minded on this site–but “The Sun” magazine that comes out of Chapel Hill, N.C. has a great interview in it with James Howard Kunstler.
An excerpt:
“I believe we have reached that peak within the last few years, and the collapse of the financial system is more a result of peak oil than [...]
Easy reading
My thought: take a book from the street, that you simply just find, and walk around with it for the day.
…helps me catch up on contemporary fiction.
Then, another idea: de-accession all those free catalogs I get for being an art critic.
I left this one at Pierogi’s Boiler location in W’burg, a while back. I figure, [...]
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Tina Brown and Sir Harold Evans say digital world good for journalism (?!)