When galleries close, artists’ lives and careers may suffer
“I have the reputation of being pretty loyal to my artists, regardless of whether they sell or not,” said Andrea Rosen, a Manhattan gallery owner who specializes in mid-career artists. Still, earlier...
View ArticleProtecting Artwork in the Event of a Disaster
If people chose where to live based on the likelihood of natural disasters, few would choose to settle the earthquake-prone West Coast or the hurricane-plagued Gulf Coast and Carolinas. However,...
View ArticleGet it in Writing
Don’t get Harriete Estel Berman started on the subject of artists having contracts with the galleries that represent their work. The San Mateo, California sculptor doesn’t converse on the subject; she...
View ArticleMoral Rights Case: Trinity Church in Manhattan
There is much to be learned from instances in which an artist wins a moral rights lawsuit involving the Visual Artists Rights Act. That piece of federal law, enacted in 1990 as an amendment to the U.S....
View ArticleDo you own the work you create in your college program?
Going to college (for art students and everyone else) is an opportunity to be exposed to a wide range of ideas, academic and practical pursuits, but by enrolling in a college both the student and the...
View ArticleVictory for Percent-for-Art
A U.S. district court in San Francisco turned back a challenge from a bay area Building Industry Association to Oakland’s recently enacted amendment to its Percent-for-Art statute that requires...
View ArticleThefts at Art Sales & Festivals
Unzipping her booth tent the second morning of an arts fair, mixed-media artist Patricia Hecker of Bloomington, Indiana knew that someone had been there the night before. Her artwork was OK, but a...
View ArticleArtists Who Tie the Knot
During her five years of marriage to sculptor William King, the now 90 year-old painter Lois Dodd said that she “got to do all the womanly stuff…I always thought Bill’s work was great, so I was happy...
View ArticleHow to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself without Selling...
Early on in the newly released seventh edition of her How to Survive and Prosper as an Artist: Selling Yourself without Selling Your Soul (Allworth Press), Caroll Michels notes that artists may spend...
View ArticleOrganizing Your Career in the Cloud
On any given day, Carrie Seid, a sculptor and mixed-media artist in Tucson, Arizona, has a couple dozen works that are “out,” meaning unsold but not in her studio. Some are consigned to commercial art...
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