Category: Social Media
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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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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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Countdown: 65 days until delivering my next painting.
After my 100 days project something change inside me, I was the same but at the same time I feel that I have more control on what I am doing as an artist, and little by little I started to participate in art shows here in Canada and in the USA. I moved to Toronto…
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What is Art?
What is art? That is a question that had been avoid for any reasonable answer to me. At the beginning I was thinking that it has to do something with beauty but after painters like Picasso, Cezanne or Van Gogh, I don’t know how describe beauty anymore, beauty is fragile and very subjective. Then I…
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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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Stones on the road
“…a stone on the road, taught me that my destiny was to roll and roll…” El Rey (The King) Folk Song by Jose Alfredo Jimenez I’m keeping a registry of the submission I’ve done in the last year and sadly, the results are very similar to the exercise with galleries, most of the submissions are…
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All things must pass
Hello, I’m Carlos and I’m an artist. I think I’m slow in what I do. What I mean is that for make a 8” x 11” drawing takes me too long, at least most of the average. Why is this important? Because one of the things that I like to do is register the process…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 97: Two Art Gallery, Murcia Spain
Carlos Fentanes: And then I saw a brilliant number 6 in the horizon and realized that it was unreachable so I just watched it until it disappeared. The gallery didn’t answer. OK, this nonsense didn’t work I have to be more creative next time. The website of this gallery seems made by professionals but they…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 96: Davis Gallery, Austin TX
Carlos Fentanes: And then I saw a brilliant number 6 in the horizon and realized that it was unreachable so I just watched it until it disappeared. The gallery didn’t answer. Of curse they’re not going to answer, what is a possible answer to this nonsense. What is it mean? I don’t know I just…
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