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Friday, January 27, 2023
HELL YES, the Miami art fairs are just around the corner! As usual, Art Basel Miami Beach–the biggest of the fairs, with 250 of the most affluent international galleries in attendance–will set up shop in the Miami Beach Convention Center from December 3-6. The smaller fairs–Scope Miami, Miami Project, PULSE […]
I have a few upcoming events in Minneapolis, St. Paul, Hartford, and Greensboro that I’d like to tell readers about. I hope you can join me if you are nearby. [Image at top: On view at EBK Gallery in October: Sharon Butler, Cybercave, 2015, oil on canvas, 16 x 20 […]
Last 2014 snap from the studio in LIC. Happy New Year! I recently read an article (thanks to Sharon Louden for bringing my attention to it on Twitter) that suggested the most common mistake artists make is forgetting to thank the people who have helped them. Thus, my first task […]
In the September issue of The Brooklyn Rail, Tamsin Doherty contributed a book review of Living and Sustaining a Creative Life, a book of 40 artists’ essays (one of which I wrote) edited by artist Sharon Louden. The book has been widely praised as a resource for young artists and […]
Without Andrew Ginzel‘s List (on hiatus until September) and Facebook (recently deactivated), I’ve been left on my own to figure out what shows are out there this summer. Recently I’ve begun using NY Art Beat, an iPhone app that lists galleries by neighborhood. Gallery go-ers can review shows, bookmark them, […]
I love spending summers in NYC. For artists who stick around and work in their studios during July and August, NYC is one big art party, featuring a slew of group shows, each with openings, closings and often other events in between. Since list-maker Andrew Ginzel is on hiatus until […]
I went out to Los Angeles last week to participate in an Art and Social Media Symposium at California State University, Long Beach, but I managed to squeeze in some gallery, museum and studio visits as well. [Image at top: Timothy Nolan, Guardian of the Starry Gate, 2014, dye-sublimation print […]
The ten artists in “Smart Painting,” an upcoming exhibition at New Haven’s Artspace Gallery, are an inquisitive group, asking a range of questions, which, at their most basic level, include: What should a painting look like? How should I paint it? What should I paint it on? Beginning with simple […]
In addition to many other projects, artist Sharon Louden spent the last two years editing Living and Sustaining a Creative Life: Essays by 40 Working Artists, published (and peer reviewed) by Intellect Books and distributed by the University of Chicago Press. A labor of love for Louden, the book doesn’t […]
ARTspace, a conference within the College Art Association Annual Conference, is tailored to the interests and needs of studio artists, and, unlike the traditional conference panels, it’s is free and open to the public. Organized by the Services to Artists Committee (I’m a member) ARTspace includes panel discussions, a Media […]
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