art market
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 42; Thinkspace Art Gallery, Culver City, CA
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Can you name your top five favorite artists of your gallery and your top five works of art? They didn’t answer. It is always harder to get an answer from galleries in big cities and that’s the case with this gallery in LA area, maybe they’re busier than galleries in small cities;…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 40: Absolute Art Gallery, Belgium
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I like your name: Absolute.Absolute marvelous They never answer. I’m trying to engage a conversation talking about something it’s important to them or at least something that I thought is important but this time didn’t work. I know August is a difficult month on Europe, is when everybody take vacations. But anyway,…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 39: Arts Illiana Gallery, Terre Haute IN
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Hello, I have been following you for a while and I don’t understand pretty well how you work. Is it a commercial gallery or a nonprofit organization or something in the middle? Arts Illiana (AI): Arts Illiana is a not for profit arts organization dedicated to promoting all of the arts in…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 38: Quidley and Co., Nantucket MA, Naples, FL, Westport CT
Carlos Fentanes (CF): How do you handle to control three galleries in very different cities with very different tastes?Does it become like franchises?Like McDonald’s? How do you keep quality versus quantity? Obviously the gallery didn’t answer. I have a bad feeling about this post, my wife asked me in the morning why I am so…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 35: Galeria Contempo, Trento Italy
Carlos Fentanes (CF): Isn’t it a disadvantage being away from a big city?Don’t you think it’ll be better for the gallery to have a place in Florence or Milano?When you are in a small city you have to start teaching the people about Contemporary Art before selling art. What do you think? Galleria Contempo (GC):…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 33: Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport RI
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I have been following you for a while and I always find your site a source of inspiration. Your artists are very good. I’m going to tell you a secret: in the future I’m going to be part of your artists, not yet but I’m getting closer.Regards Coastal Contemporary (CC): Thank you…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 32: Banditto Gallery, Tuscany Italy
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I received an invitation from Keri James about the Banditto Residency Prize. Then I tried to do some research and I couldn’t verify anything, nor the owner of the gallery, the place is for rent in Airbnb but there’s no reviews. Everything seems a scam.And then I found some comments on Facebook.Who…
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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 24: Galerie 42b, Paris France
Carlos Fentanes (CF): I like abstract painting but there’s something inside me that’s repeating all the time: “My kid could paint this”.Have you ever had this sensation? Galerie 42b (G42b): (empty) Another day, another gallery with no answers. This question was a little poisonous, I know but have you ever wondered the same thing about…
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100 days 100 galleries; Day 4: Gallery BOM, Boston MA
Me: The art that you show in your posts looks great, very good curated. Congratulations! I wish you the best. Gallery: Nothing. Hey, now I’m not telling you anything about exhibit, about I’m a starving artist, about showing my work… Did I deserve an answer this time? I wanted some answer, maybe just a: “Thanks!”,…
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