This temporary Blog is in conjunction with a Masters & PHD TransArt Institute summer workshop conducted in Berlin
It is intended for research purposes only
The following audios are taken from Art World Demystified (see main link below) and
related Youtube channels researched for this workshop. This has been
assembled to provide various points of view rather than any singular
roadmap for artistic or professional success. Appropriate caution should
always be exercised appropriately when securing professional
consultants.
An interesting figure in the age of coaching is Brainard Carey (an artist himself. Conceptualist) Who spearheaded an interesting podcast/radio program "The Artworld Demystified" and is often surprising because of his frankness, inquiries and surprising suggestions. Here on his youtube channel he recommends Social media (i.e facebook et al) and online distribution conduits (i.e Ebay and Print on demand etc.) as an avenue for sales and presence CLICK https://youtu.be/edwSbBeWE7w TO WATCH and he continues specifically about facebook https://youtu.be/Jcd2aecs-6M A number of the following links are initiated by his audio project. He is the author of two books based on the insights from his audio interviews.
Alyson B. Stanfield is an author and a helper to artists pursuing a career in the arts. Her book, I’d rather be in the studio! is pictured below and available from amazon. She has a website, and much can be learned from her blog which is required reading for the artist who is gathering tools… She has a website, CLICK TO LISTEN HERE (below is a video from Ms.Stanfiled's youtube channel)
Jackie Battenfield has been a practicing artist since she attended Penn State, and evolved into an author, full time artist, educator and resource for artists. Her book, The Artist’s Guide, is below and can be purchased on amazon, and her website showcases her own art,m though she has a website for her book as well.…CLICK TO LISTEN HERE
Caroll Michels is a career coach, artist-advocate, and author of How to Survive & Prosper as an Artist. Selling Yourself without Selling your Soul. She was also the first person to write a comprehensive book meant to advance the careers of visual artists. She is a pioneer in the field of professional development for artists CLICK TO LISTEN HERE
Katharine T. Carter is the founder of Katharine T. Carter & Associates, the only publicity firm dedicated to serving artists. She is also the author of the book pictured below, Accelerating On The Curves, The Artist’s Roadmap to Success. In this interview she talks about her book and her views on the business of helping… CLICK TO LISTEN HERE
Sarah Thorntonis a British-Canadian sociologist and writer whose book, Seven Days in the Art World details the inner workings of the art world in humorous detail. With wit and style she explores a world that seems mysterious and closed to many. In this interview she talks about her work, the next book "33 Artists in 3 Acts", and thoughts on emerging artists CLICK TO LISTEN HERE UPDATE: )If you are curious, She speaks about her current book "33 Artists in 3 Acts" here at THE CONVERSATION)
Laura Hoptmaninterview while curator at the New Museum.("Post-studio" practices...) CLICK TO LISTEN HERE
This is the interview with Nato Thompson from Creative Time in NYC. Nato Thompson Interview with Brainard Carey 2011 CLICK TO LISTEN HERE
The interview with mavrick curator Shamim Momin, who curated at The Whitney Museum in New York and now with her own institution called LAND. CLICK TO LISTEN HERE
Dean Daderko Recently appointed at Yale read more here. The interview is below which contains the story of how he became a curator in his apartment in brooklyn and even had a few of the artists he showed included in the Whitney Biennial. CLICK TO LISTEN HERE
Dan Cameron is founder and artistic director of U.S. Biennial, Inc, a not-for-profit (501c3) organization that produces Prospect New Orleans, a new international biennial whose first edition opened in November 2008 at multiple sites around the city, and closed in January 2009. Prospect.1 was the largest contemporary art biennial in U.S. history---CLICK TO LISTEN HERE
This is the recording of the interview with Marilyn Minter on WYBC The name she was trying to remember was Emery Blagdon, who was in a show at the New Museum called Ghosts in the Machine. Some of the links she mentions in the interview are the facbook page of Family Business as well as…--CLICK TO LISTEN HERE
WRAPPED REICHSTAG, by Christo & Jeanne-claude, BERLIN 1995
From the Artists' website:
"After a struggle spanning the seventies, eighties and nineties, the wrapping of the Reichstag was completed on June 24, 1995 by a work force of 90 professional climbers and 120 installation workers. The Reichstag remained wrapped for 14 days and all materials were recycled.
1,076,390 square feet (100,000 square meters) of thick woven polypropylene fabric with an aluminum surface and 9.7 miles (15.6 kilometers) of blue polypropylene rope, diameter 1.26 inch (3.2 centimeters), were used for the wrapping of the Reichstag. The façades, the towers and the roof were covered by 70 tailor-made fabric panels, twice as much fabric as the surface of the building.
The work of art was entirely financed by the artists, as in all previous projects, through the sale of preparatory studies, drawings, collages, scale models as well as early works and original lithographs. The artists do not accept sponsorship of any kind."
YOUTUBE video (timelapse) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=esiErDm62E4
The late "Francis Bacon" and The Spectacle of WEALTH and the strategies of Art & corporate branding...The AUCTION HOUSE and the Museum or the Gallery as EVENT SPACES where the spectacle is performed --One example of such spectacle is Marina Abramovichttp://youtu.be/OS0Tg0IjCp4
A SUBTLETY, OR THE MARVELOUS SUGARBABY by Artist Kara Walker , 2014, New York City USA
with the assistance of CREATIVE TIME and DOMINO SUGAR Corporation
(Creative Time's PR may be seen HERE http://creativetime.org/projects/karawalker/ )
The artist is interviewed and speaks about the evolution of this specific art project on the tv program ART21 (see video below) or the youtube link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRkP5rcXtys
Public commentary was not limited to instagram. Platforms such as YELP http://www.yelp.com/biz/a-subtlety-by-kara-walker-brooklyn
provided the public with a "voice" to articulate their feedback on this mediated sculpture project.
Here are some sample comments:
"Although the front of the Sphinx is what is displayed in photos, the backside was the real buzz!"
"Good Lord I thought I was approaching the Great Wall of China! We
arrived in Brooklyn around 2:30pm only to find a line that stretched for
blocks. It was almost 90 degrees and I don't recall a breeze. After
lunch we got on line Saturday the 5th , on the eve of the exhibit's
closing. Oddly enough it only took us about 1 hour and 10 minutes; I was
so relieved! "Subtlety" also known as "The Marvelous Sugar
Baby" exhibit is SOMETHING that you have to see with your very own
eyes! 35 feet tall and 40 tons of sparkly white sugar sprayed on to a
form, to create this astounding Southern American"
(right) "For the Love of God" by artist Damien Hirst (Left Cambel Soup cans and Skulls by Andy Warhol)
From Wikipedia on this artwork:
"For the Love of God is a sculpture by artist Damien Hirst produced in 2007. It consists of a platinum cast of an 18th-century human skull encrusted with 8,601 flawless diamonds, including a pear-shaped pink diamond located in the forehead that is known as the Skull Star Diamond. The skull's teeth are original, and were purchased by Hirst in London. The artwork is a Memento mori, or reminder of the mortality of the viewer. In 2007, art historian Rudi Fuchs, observed: 'The skull is out of this world, celestial almost. It proclaims victory over decay. At the same time it represents death as something infinitely more relentless. Compared to the tearful sadness of a vanitas scene, the diamond skull is glory itself.'[1] Costing £14 million to produce, the work was placed on its inaugural display at the White Cube gallery in London in an exhibition Beyond belief with an asking price of £50 million. This would have been the highest price ever paid for a single work by a living artist.[2]" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_the_Love_of_God
Robert Hughes - *The Mona Lisa Curse 1hr 15min
"At the end of 1962 the Louvre in Paris loaned Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa to the U.S. government for exhibit in the United States. The painting was endlessly hyped by the media, resulting in a sort of frenzy, or what arts writer and social historian Robert Hughes came to call, the Mona Lisa Curse."
http://youtu.be/JANhr4n4bac
What makes art valuable? - BBC Documentary 1hour
Go inside the glittering world of the super-rich as art critic and journalist Alastair Sooke explores the remarkable stories behind the Top Ten Most Valuable Paintings in the World to sell at auction. The documentary tells the stories behind the astronomical prices of art and why the world's richest people want to spend their millions on it.
http://youtu.be/QXOPBZFvBQ4
http://christojeanneclaude.net/projects/wrapped-reichstag
