Art
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 2: Massimo de Carlo Gallery, Milan, London, Hong Kong
I wrote a DM in Instagram. Me: Hello, your feed news is wonderful, plenty of great art and great artists. Congratulations! I really enjoy your Instagram.I wonder how do you select your artists? Is there a way to submit on your website or a collective exhibition for new artists? Do you charge a fee?Thanks in…
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Fifty ways not to approach to an art gallery.
Yes, you read well, maybe I do not know how to approach to a gallery to show my work but I’m an expert in failing at that. I have so many experiences in being rejected by a gallery that I can write a book about it. Why it’s so difficult to show my work in…
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To porn or not to porn
Not long time ago Facebook put a warning to a friend’s wall because he posted “inadequate content”. I remember that his account was freeze for 24 hours or so and they ask him no to publish “inadequate content” again, if so, he will be banned from Facebook. Facebook refers to “Inadequate content” to that that won’t complain…
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Virtual Realtor Art Gallery
<a I was thinking that art galleries were funded by the sale of works of art, that artist and promotion were an important part of that sale. A healthy business in which everybody wins: The artist because his work is known by the public, the collector because they have a wide variety of product to…
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Bargain Books
Last week I visited the bookstore and I found a bargain almost impossible to refuse: a beautiful lobster cookbook: over 100 beautifully illustrated pages with all kinds of recipes about lobster: lobster lasagna, lobster clam chowder, lobster thermidor … exquisite photographs and just for CDN $ 2.00 (about USD$ 2.00). We had it in my…
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I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory’
“I don’t know what you mean by ‘glory,’ ” Alice said. Humpty Dumpty smiled contemptuously. “Of course you don’t—till I tell you. I meant ‘there’s a nice knock-down argument for you!’ ” “But ‘glory’ doesn’t mean ‘a nice knock-down argument’,” Alice objected. “When I use a word,” Humpty Dumpty said, in rather a scornful tone, “it means…
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What is art for?
How a lithograph can be worth 100 times more just because it is signed? What was the main function of that work of art? Is it for the joy of the senses? Is the emotion that makes us feel? Decorating a wall? No, because then it would not matter if it was signed. Who cares…
Carlos Fentanes 