Recent Posts Tagged With 'rants'

• Attention Artists

  Posted on Wednesday October 7th, 2009 at 08:48 in artist, rants, gallery, representation

  This is a short lesson in how not to present your work to a gallery for representation. On a daily basis, both Migration and artPark are approached by artists seeking representation. I thought I had seen all the crappy ways artists choose to do ...

• Rose Art Museum to close and sell collections

  Posted on Wednesday January 28th, 2009 at 10:05 in rants, brandeis university, rose art museum

  John Hechinger of the Wall Street Journal reports today of Brandeis University???s decision to close its Rose Art Museum and sell more than 6,000 artworks from its collection. The University blames its decision on undisclosed endowment losses. A litt...

• Man on the mountain

  Posted on Wednesday October 15th, 2008 at 11:17 in art, rants

  When a new face comes into the gallery I like to break the ice in an attempt to start a little conversation. One of my standard silence breakers is "If you have any questions, I???ll be happy to answer them." It???s a sloppily worded phrase, but most...

• Parade of Homes

  Posted on Friday September 26th, 2008 at 10:28 in architecture, rants

  I opened the newspaper this morning and saw that this is the final weekend for the Blue Ridge Home Builders Association’s 2008 Parade of Homes. It’s an event for local builders to show off their newest creations. As a lover of residential archite...

• Who is directing Second Street Gallery?

  Posted on Wednesday September 24th, 2008 at 11:22 in rants, second street gallery, rebecca schoenthal

  Back in May, it was reported that Second Street Gallery’s long-time director, Leah Stoddard, was no longer director (note: details of her departure were never made public). Catherine Barber was named the Acting Director while a nation-wide search f...

• Are you a DaVinci or a Velvet Elvis?

  Posted on Thursday August 21st, 2008 at 15:20 in rants, charlottesville

  Over the past couple of weeks, I paid attention to those individuals and groups who are in a position to promote the visual arts in Charlottesville and decided whether or not they are actively making this town the "cultural and creative capital of Ce...

• PINKIE is my favorite Velvet Elvis

  Posted on Thursday August 14th, 2008 at 12:50 in rants, charlottesville, cvillemuse

  This post is part of a continued series distinguishing individuals and groups by presenting a DaVinci award or a Velvet Elvis award for their role in promoting Charlottesville as the "cultural and creative capital of Central Virginia". There is a web...

• Charlottesville City Council gets a Velvet Elvis

  Posted on Tuesday August 12th, 2008 at 10:36 in rants, charlottesville

  This post is part of a continued series distinguishing individuals and groups by presenting a DaVinci award or a Velvet Elvis award for their role in promoting Charlottesville as the "cultural and creative capital of Central Virginia". As touted on t...

• And the first Velvet Elvis Award goes to...

  Posted on Friday August 8th, 2008 at 15:12 in rants, charlottesville, university of virginia art museum

  This post is part of a continued series distinguishing individuals and groups by presenting a DaVinci award or a Velvet Elvis award for their role in promoting Charlottesville as the "cultural and creative capital of Central Virginia". My first Velve...

• An Insider's View?

  Posted on Thursday July 3rd, 2008 at 15:57 in rants, arttactic

  If there was any question of the increased interest that the role of the art market plays in the economy, look no further than the recently developed Art Market Confidence Indicator maintained by a London-based group called ArtTactic. From their webs...