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Why People Don’t Buy Art: The Stories We Tell and the Rituals We Keep
For most people, the morning is a ritual of familiarity. My grandfather used to read the newspaper while the radio droned the morning news, offering him a constant stream of updates to critique over breakfast. My mother, more focused, restricts herself to the local news—traffic, weather, maybe a fire or two. My wife, in contrast,…
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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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To NFT or not to NFT
I have been trying to understand the term Non-Fungible Token (NFT), its concept in the art world and its function with a work of art. As a concept I can get it but when it is transformed to a valuable work of art, I really don’t get it. It seems to me that It is…
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Self Censorship
Have you ever felt the need to censor your artwork in order to make it palatable to your audience and/or to make a profit? Back in the 90’s my gallery gave me some freedoms but they had some restrictions with paintings: No religion, no politics, no national symbols. I couldn’t help to make a painting…
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Curatorial Fees?
Dear Carlos Fentanes, Our curator team has seen your artworks and finds these very impressive. PAKS Gallery and MAMAG Museum invite you to exhibit your art during the Cannes Film Festival, Art Basel Week and Carrousel du Louvre. You can also be part of these great exhibitions. Here i send You informations to the participations in the Biennials, as also about the possibility to be represented by the PAKS Gallery and show Your art in MAMAG Modern Art Museum. I received this note a few weeks ago and I thought that it could be a good example for one of my blogs. Gallery representation with one artwork with max size of 80cm x 80cm on the wall in the PAKS gallery + one artwork in the storage during the representation time. Cost of participation: 980 Euro. I’m not against paying for a curatorial selection for an exhibition but this is not the case, here they are not doing any kind of curatorial work: basically if you pay, you’re in, if you don’t pay you’re…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 36: Luhring Augustine, New York NY
Carlos Fentanes (CF): With so many galleries in NYC how difficult is to have a notorious presence and have a part of the market? Luhring Augustine (LA): nothing After 36 days I’m noticing that I started to be repetitive, pretty much the same question with the same no answer at all. How can I avoid…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 29: Dowling Walsh Gallery, Rockland ME
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Sky, lakes, clouds, some urban landscape…I can see this type of art in the North against South that is more figurative and the big cities that are prone to Abstract Art and Conceptual Art.Have you ever think about this? What are the factors? Weather? Education? Values? Dowling Walsh Gallery (DWG): nothing Another…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 22: Franklin Bowles Galleries, San Francisco & New York
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I saw some photos of your newest exhibition: Natural Curiosities. The artists seem so different between them but the exhibition is so harmonic. What’s the common point? Franklin Bowles (FB): nothing Sadly not answering is the most common reaction from galleries, here’s another example. Today I walked my dog in the morning,…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 21: Beinart Gallery, Melbourne Australia
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I really like the style of your gallery, is it fantasy or how do you call it? Beinart Gallery (BG): Thank youWe generally call it surreal figurativeBut that is not an official title for a movementJust descriptive CF: Sorry about called it “fantasy”, I didn’t know how to name it maybe Visual…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 20: Galería Fernando Pradilla, Madrid Spain
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Hello, I have a blog about galleries and their relationship with artists and I want to feature yous gallery, as an introduction how do you describe your gallery? Galería Fernando Pradilla (GFP): nothing That was a translation, I wrote it in Spanish in part because the gallery is in Spain and in…
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