art market
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Taylor Swift and the Duct Taped Banana
–Taylor Swift is better than that music… and let me tell you: Taylor Swift is very bad! And that’s how it ended my introduction of John Cage to my 13yo kid. We started the conversation talking about modern art and it raised up the work “Comedian” AKA the Duct Taped Banana from Maurizio Cattelan. He…
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What is the meaning of an artwork?
Is this a serious question? Are you really want to know the “meaning”? Are you prepared to carry the weight of that? Many artists and art critics recommend not even ask this question because it’s a way of confessing your ignorance about art and life in general but is it a valid question at all?…
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Marketing 101 for Artists
OK, let me try to explain what I am doing now with my Instagram account and other social networks. My ultimate goal would be being represented by two or three galleries across North America and Europe, basically I have been working only with 33 contemporary and PoetsArtists in Chicago and in the last three years…
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Art Submissions
I’ve just clicked the submit button. It’s the 21st time on this year, 3 submissions per month, one every 10 days. Results? Nothing, niente, nada, in the best cases it’s just a rejection letter, in half of the submissions I didn’t receive anything, sometimes I found out the results on social media. I haven’t been…
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How to sell your Art on Instagram
Last year she was a starving artist working as a waitress and living from tips in a moldy basement and now she’s a successful artist with more than a million followers and showing her work in the main galleries of New York, London and Hong Kong, her work has been auctioned for more than a…
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Murder at Tiktok Street
Last year, popular local artist, Jane Doe, had it all: a growing TikTok following, a successful art business, and a bright future. But when one of her videos is flagged and removed by the platform, her account is shadowbanned, and her following stagnates. Frustrated and resentful, Jane becomes increasingly vocal in her criticism of the…
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Secrets of my technique
Every week I started a new paragraph that supposedly will be in my blog, but I never finish, actually I barely start. So, in this small paragraphs I talk about why I paint, art fairs, drawing techniques and an endless chain of other stuff, but why I never finish them?I’m trying to generate ideas about…
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The Naming of Artworks
One of the first songs in the musical Cats from Lloyd Webber is about the Naming of Cats, a difficult matter indeed. Right now, I have a difficult time trying to name a work of art and I remembered that poem of T S Eliot that Lloyd Weber took for his musical, I’m going to…
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Art collectors and Art scammers
I receive a letter, it was a very suspicious letter about my art and I want to share it with you, here it is, including names: Johnson Moore <johnsonmre4222@gmail.com> My name is Johnson Moore, from Washington, DC city I have been on the lookout for some artworks lately in regards to I and my wife’s anniversary…
Carlos Fentanes 