art curator
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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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Art Credit
Can you imagine the perfect world where every human can help each other and don’t try to take advantage of the situation? No negotiation or bargain, just yes or no about buying a service or a product? In a perfect world you don’t even need money to make a transaction, everybody will have “credit”, from…
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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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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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Would you give booze to an alcoholic?
My name is Carlos, and I am artist. I have seen some movies and read novels about AA meetings and it seems that they start introducing themselves and acknowledging that they are addicts. Being an artist is a kind of addiction? Sometimes I found myself at the stationary department at the superstore buying pens even…
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Another rejected letter from another Art Gallery
Hello, Thank you for submitting to The Gathered Gallery. We appreciate the time and effort it takes to submit an application.The programming for the coming months has been completed and we regret to inform you that we are unable to feature you at this time. You are welcome to reapply for future programming opportunities.Thank you for your…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 100: Gagosian
Carlos Fentanes: Don’t you see? the fire is not in London, nor NYC, not even Hong Kong. The fire is inside you and also inside me. The gallery didn’t answer. If you have the opportunity to ask something to Larry Gagosian, what would it be? “Hey, do you want to take a look at my…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 99: White Cube, London and Hong Kong
Carlos Fentanes: Hello, I’m painter, I’m poet and writer but more importantly I’m a thinker. You’ll see in the future.Regards The gallery didn’t answer. I know, they’re out of my league so I didn’t mind to write any kind of message, actually I didn’t ask for an opportunity or reviewing my portfolio. The question here…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 98: Galería Óscar Román, Mexico City Mexico
Carlos Fentanes: Me intrigan sus posts que dicen: OBRA A LA VENTA. Si es una galería la que pone el post, puedo intuir que está en venta en su galería, ¿Por qué ponerlo?Saludos The gallery didn’t answer. Here’s the translation: I’m intrigued by your posts that say: WORK FOR SALE.If it’s a gallery the one…
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