Tag Archives: Recession Advice

Is this You?

By sarah | Published: October 13, 2009
A screen shot from when I pretended to log in as a NYFA Applicant. Just thought maybe you should see it, in case you are an artist and don’t like to think about deadlines. A quick link to the application for the rest of you, here. Am toying with the idea of doing a quickie writing workshop sometime [...]
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Free Recession Help — from unlikely source: Citibank

By sarah | Published: October 9, 2009
And not just advice: action. I mean it. I sat with my branch manager, face-to-face, for over an hour (maybe 2?). He put me in touch with guys in Albuquerque who brought down my interest rates, no catches, nothing, and saved me over $110 a month. All of which was his idea. Turns out my branch [...]
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let’s start a new U

By sarah | Published: September 22, 2009
Robert Smith gets it right again in her NYTIMES article on Sept 9: The professionalization and academicization of the art world has been lamented for some years, but lately they have become epidemic. The recent inflated art market has created the illusion that being an artist is a financially viable calling. Meanwhile art schools and universities [...]
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Career Note #1 (Dealers with Money)

By sarah | Published: September 13, 2009
At the risk of sounding like Cher in Clueless, I’m gonna hold forth here in a tone that’s a little patronizing, a little ditzy…but hopefully helpful. Why? Because if more artists regarded other people with careers in the arts (like dealers and curators and critics) as actual humanoids, they’d get farther in their careers. Vice-versa, [...]
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Fine show’s a $teal at Pierogi

By sarah | Published: September 12, 2009
Check out Jane Fine’s show, newly opened at Pierogi.  Paintings on paper (and wood, and canvas)—all strong, worth a look for sure. But wait, there’s more…paper, and more affordable work. Really affordable, actually, at what the artist tells us is around $600 ($680 if framed). C’mon, you know you want one. Bold, graphic. And within reach of those with [...]
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