Posts Tagged ‘artists’
Calling all shamans
Evidently no one's losing their sense of wry humour over at the Canada Council for the Arts. The image on the cover of their just-released 2010 grant deadline calendar is a work by Adrian Stimson called Shaman Extermination Sunrise 2, photographed by Happy Grove.
Séraphine, Poor Mad Artist
The myths that underlie what Hans Abbing calls "the exceptional economy of the arts" are periodically reinforced by reality and when they are it is not unlikely that those rule-proving exceptions will be noticed, even celebrated, as if to say to unbelievers, "See, I told you so."Thus we have such ideas as: that art is situated so dangerously close [...]
Brenda Goldstein’s Taking Care of My Future…
... and I'm glad she is. Brenda Goldstein got the brilliant idea of asking a financial planner to help her figure out what her art career is doing and has published the wonderfully frank and informative results in the latest issue of Fuse Magazine . As you might imagine, it's not a pretty picture, but one that fits the vast majority of artists. [...]
AA Bronson appointed to the Order of Canada
One hardly knows where to begin in considering the import/meaning of the Order of Canada. You think on the one hand that it must be an honour reserved for conventional people deeply tied to the mainstream, yet there are also within its ranks many people who represent contrary, non-mainstream values. You have to think about the implications but in [...]
Tanya Mars caught in the act!
Congratulations to our friend and colleague Tanya Mars on winning the Governor General’s Awards in Visual and Media Arts. Within the artist-run milieu Tanya’s energy and wit as an artist helped to forge, and continues to shape, contemporary art practice in Canada. Of particular importance to us was her enormous, tireless work editing [...]
Coming from a good place – the book you walk into – Toronto collage party
I was fortunate enough to be able to participate for a few hours this past week in a collage party at the Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at the University of Toronto (March 9 - 12, 2008). The primary thing about this collage party is that it comes from a good place, a giving, non-judgmental place. There’s the generosity of the gallery, which [...]
Why Are Artists Poor? 2
Hans Abbing’s book Why Are Artists Poor? should be assigned reading for every art student because it talks about the place of art and the artist in society in practical ways, from the viewpoint of the economist, somewhat objective, from ten stories up as Abbing puts it. Abbing, who is both a visual artist and an economist, gives us a view we in [...]
Why Are Artists Poor? 2
Hans Abbing's book Why Are Artists Poor? should be assigned reading for every art student because it talks about the place of art and the artist in society in practical ways, from the viewpoint of the economist, somewhat objective, from ten stories up as Abbing puts it. Abbing, who is both a visual artist and an economist, gives us a view we in [...]
NY Art Book Fair
The value of participating in a book fair isn’t easily translated into economic terms. Book sales are generally limited. That said, it is remarkable how people tend to find exactly the book they need to find. More than once somebody stopped at our table at the NY Art Book Fair, Sept 28-30th, 2007, and latched onto exactly the book that dealt [...]
Vera Frenkel in Museums After Modernism
Many artists and people working in other, non-museum, or alternate-type organizations are suspicious of museums with their business-like hierarchies, authoritative institutional character, big budgets, fundraising galas, etc. And in fact, we don’t share much in common with them. We don’t collect art and therefor neither carry the [...]
