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
VIDEO 1HOUR46MIN
The Global Africa series presents international artists who are engaging with Africa in their work. New York-based artist Kehinde Wiley talks about his portraits of contemporary urban African, African-American, and Afro-Brazilian men in heroic poses. Painted in the style of Old Master portraits, these works reveal aspects of urban identity around the world. Wiley focuses his discussion on his World Stage: Lagos-Dakar series and his recent portrait series of African footballers from the 2010 World Cup.
A conversation between Wiley and internationally renowned Washington D.C.-based Nigerian artist Victor Ekpuk follows the artist's discussion.
http://youtu.be/v3zEsBersP0
"Julia Kunin lives in Brooklyn, New York .
She works both in sculpture and video. Her recent ceramic sculptures are miniature otherworldly landscapes inspired by scholar’s rocks and the garden grotto. Ms. Kunin received her BA in 1984 from Wellesley College, and her MFA in 1993 from Rutgers University. Selected one person exhibitions include: Stux Gallery, NY, NY. The Bellevue Saal, Wiesbaden, Germany. Selected Group exhibitions include: Sandra Gering Gallery,NY, Suite 106 Gallery, NY,Schroeder- Romero Gallery, NY, Artists Space, NY, The Museum of Art and Design, NY, and the Museum of Applied Art and Design, Frankfurt, Germany. Selected fellowships include: Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Artslink, Yaddo, The Millet Colony,Vermont Studio Center, and Skowhegan."
http://youtu.be/93e8YLFmPbU http://youtu.be/ZUUKH6bjSDM
(interview format) http://youtu.be/NCedqYBjUa0 http://www.aaronsmithart.com/
"Artist Statement
The Victorian/Edwardian eras have always captured my attention. For years I've collected vintage photographs of men of the period. These men for me represent a masculine ideal, if largely a constructed one. Their bearded faces and distinguished attire are spectacular, while their stiff poses and serious expressions belie a certain vulnerability. My recent decision to translate these small colorless photographs into monumental, expressionist portraits is an attempt to ruminate on these contradictions. I also want to draw parallels between the rituals of initiation found in western culture and those practiced in tribal cultures by painting these gentlemen with colors inspired by Bird-of-Paradise and the extravagantly decorated Huli Wigmen of Papua New Guinea."
http://youtu.be/cNQRl5iqqeM
Sculpture of Balloons: Jason Hackenwerth
http://www.jasonhackenwerth.com/#latex-balloon-sculptures/1
William Lamson discusses the creation of Solarium, on view in Storm King's South Fields. Film by Kate Barker-Froyland. http://vimeo.com/42978999#
(William Lamson discusses the creation of Solarium, on view in Storm King's South Fields. Film by Kate Barker-Froyland.)
Alyson Shotz discusses the role of light and her process in her works Mirror Fence and Transitional Objects. Film by Kate Barker-Froyland. http://vimeo.com/43778270
Alyson Shotz discusses the role of light and her process in her works Mirror Fence and Transitional Objects. Film by Kate Barker-Froyland.
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Alex Israel from stef bloch on Vimeo.
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
(Frome Tate modern website):
"English photographer and video artist. Wearing has described
her working method as ‘editing life'. By using photography and video to
record the confessions of ordinary people, her work explores the
disparities between public and private life, between individual and
collective experience. Wearing has cited the influence of English
fly-on-the-wall documentaries, such as Michael Apted's 7-up and the 1970s documentary The Family. Signs that Say What You Want Them to Say and Not Signs that Say What Someone Else Wants You to Say
(1992–3), made shortly after her graduation from Goldsmiths College in
1990, was produced by approaching people on London streets, asking them
to write something on a card and then photographing them as they
displayed it. Private lives were given a sudden and revealingly painful
exposure: a policeman holds a card reading ‘Help!'. With the
introduction of video and more in-depth interviewing of her subjects,
Wearing began to use adult actors lip-synching the recorded confessions
of children, and subjects, solicited from advertisements placed in
newspapers, making confessions while wearing masks. The introduction of
actors signalled an increasingly dramatic element in her work and a
shift away from the use of documentary techniques. The 1999 video I Love You
used actors to explore the theme of strong private emotion spilling out
into a semi-public domain. The scene of a drunken woman repeatedly
screaming ‘I love you' is played out a number of times, the reaction of
her three friends differing each time. Wearing won the Turner Prize in
1997."
In the cases below the now established method offers familiarity and works for the service of institutions or pushing against some of the examples given above http://womenagainstfeminism.tumblr.com/
When art migrates from artist to artist... Andy Warhol (left) Campbell's soup and Skull paintings
and Damien Hirst (right) For the Love of God and prescription prints
"For W Magazine's latest art meets fashion issue, the magazine has enlisted actress Jessica Chastain and photographer Max Vadukul to
team up with four extraordinary artists and create the latest cover
story. We have Jessica pictured through vision of artists Rineke
Dijkstra, George Condo, Mickalene Thomas, and Chantal Joffe." Copycat Architecture Rises in China's Building Boom
Published on Mar 13, 2013
China's rapid urbanization has fueled an enormous building boom. According to the Economist Intelligence Unit, China has built housing equivalent to roughly two Spains from 2000 to 2010. Stepping into cities like Hangzhou, one might mistake it for Venice, Italy or London. While copying architectural styles is as old as architecture itself, China has done it on an unprecedented scale and speed. http://youtu.be/wMj5nbhQQ4c
http://christojeanneclaude.net/projects/wrapped-reichstag
