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How to Avoid Common Artist Website Mistakes

There are quite a few aspects that make an artist's website look unprofessional, making potential customers wary. Both amateur and professional artists need to do their best to present themselves professionally online so customers can understand why they should hire your artistic services. If you've ever created a website about your career or creative work,…

French artist Christian Boltanski in front of his installation “Monumenta 2010” event, on January 12, 2010 at the “Grand Palais” in Paris. (PIERRE VERDY / AFP) | Image source: fuzzyskunk.com

Memory and Mortality: Christian Boltanski

“You can tell the truth more truthfully than with the truth itself.” - Christian Boltanski Christian Boltanski, an artist who most often incorporated concepts of memory, chance, and loss in his art, passed away this summer on Wednesday, August 11th. The gallery that represented him, Marian Goodman, has announced his death without a note about…

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Guide to Finding the Right Agent or Website for Your Art

There is a saying — the most common money-related mistake artists make is a reluctance to invest in their careers — and it is not too far from the truth. As artists, we are often driven by emotion instead of logic; and that may impact our judgment and certain decisions that may affect our careers…

Best Free Resources for Artists in 2020

Best Free Resources for Artists Are all artists "doomed" to a life of solitude, paying with their social life in exchange for brilliance and creativity? That would be the case according to Ernest Meissonier, an acclaimed and greatly successful 19th-century French Classicist painter and sculptor. In his book entitled The Studios of Paris: The Capital of Art in the Late…

How to Exhibit and Sell Your Artwork

How to Exhibit and Sell Your Artwork Say, you are an emerging artist looking to exhibit and sell your artwork. You've been toiling since art school, spending time, money, and resources on learning and perfecting your craft. Now, it's time to think about art marketing, your branding, and place in artist communities. But as most of us know, making money as an…

How to Promote Your Art and Advance Your Art Career

How to Promote Your Art and Advance Your Art Career As an emerging artist, creating your artwork is only the first step to making a living. You will also need to learn how to promote it so as to launch your career as a professional artist. And based on how the headline-grabbing art world is configured and how inequitable the high-end gallery system is for…

Why the Art Gallery System Is Flawed

Why the Art Gallery System Is Flawed Determining the economics of today's art gallery system in the Western World can be quite difficult for the uninitiated. It's crucial to remember that most, if not all, primary art sales take place in art galleries. When we talk about primary art sales, we refer to art being sold directly by the artist and not…

What is Public Domain Art?

What is Public Domain Art?In February 2020, the Smithsonian launched an unprecedented 2.8 million digital items into the public domain, allowing anyone to reuse and share the assets without needing to ask for permission. The Smithsonian Open Access offers people the opportunity to explore millions of 2D and 3D images and data, including still images, text, audio recordings, and…

Stories of Bathers in Art – Art and Nude Series: Part.3 There is nothing in all the world more beautiful or significant of the laws of the universe than the nude human body. - Robert Henri While many associate the naked body and exposure of flesh with erotica, the depiction of nude bathers in art shows us that the naked human form can be portrayed without…