- Prescription for a Healthy Art Scene
Not for the first time, I’m going to let Art Fag City do the heavy lifting on this post while I try to get some real work done. They’ve been a bit busy this week too, but made up for reduced content with a lovely smorgasbord of links today, including a dip into the SFMOMA […]
- Professional Practice Postscript: On the spending and making of money
A lot of things about the explosion of debate around Vantage Art Projects’ Gatekeepers call continue to bother me. The tone of the discussion often ignored its own rationality in favour of kneejerk name-calling, and the lessons learned seem to be selective. Case in point: Vantage did show concern enough to revise the terms of […]
- Gatekeepers, Copyright and Curatorial Quandries
While there have been numerous developments as a consequence of Diana Poulsen’s criticism of Vantage Art Projects, I have been content to let Diana report those updates on her own follow-up post. Even at the expense of much dramatic name-calling and editorializing of certain actionable phrases, the value of the dialogue is clearly demonstrated in […]
- Professional Practice Bonus Feature (with props to Diana Poulsen)
Further to my ranting last Friday about the meanest basics of submitting one’s work to galleries and granting bodies, I’ve been wondering whether there might be a place on this blog for further anecdotes on career development for artists. While I’m still undecided on that count, I still can’t resist sharing another snarling pearl of […]
- Professional Practice Primer
One of the consequences of sitting on two Boards of Directors for Hamilton’s artist-run sector - and consequently, on two Programming Committees - is that I invariably end up spending a lot of time looking at artists’ application packages for everything from exhibitions to commissions to OAC Exhibition Assistance Grants. Just this week alone, I […]
- Excerpt: An age of austerity for the arts
A side-effect of my recent love affair with Adrian Searle’s Private Views has been an expanded interest in the other cultural podcasts offered by The Guardian’s website. While the critical heft doesn’t quite compete with CBC’s Ideas (a long-standing favourite of mine), the series of recordings from the 2009 Cambridge Festival of Ideas have been […]
- Time, and where it goes
I’m not one for New Year’s Resolutions - happy enough with my weight, like my bad habits exactly where they are - but this remains a reflective time of year well suited to self-scrutiny.
One of the more useful books I read this past year was Jackie Battenfield’s indispensably practical The Artist’s Guide: How To […]
- “Its four in the morning, the end of December.”
While last minute knitting, baking and painting prevented me from saying so any sooner, I do hope everyone had a fun and happy holiday, and that the hangover fades in plenty of time to ring in 2010.
Twenty-two Veghs vs. Cheese Santa. I think Santa lost.
While I’m typically slack at posting this time of year, […]
- Writing in the snow
Despite this blog’s title, neither of the two links I’m about to throw out here have anything to do with writing your name in the snow by urinating, so if you’re looking for that, you’ll have to try somewhere else.
But if you’re any sort of writer, and especially the sort of writer toiling away north […]
- The most wonderful time of the year
I apologize for the lack of hardcore art action on this blog lately, as life in the wake of grant applications and launching towards Christmas has left me busy as a… well.
Stephanie Vegh, Age of Enlightenment (Rome: The Final Goal), 2009. Watercolour pencil on extracted book pages.
And while the idea of flying off to Rome […]
