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Free and anonymous web site…. http://www.whopaysartists.com/  That tracks artists jobs and the money (or lack of) they make from them.

Making a living as an artist can be hard.

You never know how much to ask for. Discussions about money are taboo because we pretend that passion and creativity alone should pay the bills. Some of the best events have “no budget”, and sometimes only the worst events can make a career as an artist look painfully sustainable. Let’s help each other sort through some of the confusion, and develop an ongoing dialogue about how artists make money.

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via http://www.whopaysartists.com/

 

How Much Do Artists Make?

Jim Campbell is a master at taking a moving image and making it a 3-Dimensional Sculpture…He relies on the power of the human mind to detect and recognize movement. He can take a string of lights and make magic with them. His work is really wonderful but you need to see the video to get it…

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Jim Campbell: Exploded View

Maya Angelou, one of our greatest poets has passed.

The world is a little darker without her light today.  A light that gave us all a glimpse into what it meant to be black in America but most importantly she  always reminded us what it means to be human.

 

 

 

Maya Angelou 1928 to 2014

Shortlisted this year for the Prix Pictet award, Mishka Henner has been making a very impressive conceptual body of work over the years. Normally Henner is a bit of a Photo Dadaist prankster (see Robert Frank’s famous book he erased – it’s brilliant – and pissed everyone off). But his Feedlots images along with the Oil Fields compromise a haunting look at the effects of these two industries on the American landscape. Shot from high above the plains they appear to be abstractions but a closer look gives us the diabolical details of these industries. Particularly horrifying (and intensely beautiful) are the run off ponds that these feedlots produce.

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Mishka Henner: Feedlots

During her long illustrious career Sarah Charlesworth has explored a haunting and beautiful body of work about the power of the image. In her legendary series Objects of Desire her minimal presentations translate to a very powerful body a work that explores how images and our subconscious attractions collide.

It’s been a long, long time since these wonderful works have been on view. Most are from private collections.  Not to be missed.

SARAH CHARLESWORTH
Objects of Desire: 1983-1988
April 25, 2014 – June 21, 2014

Maccarone Gallery, 630 Greenwich Street, NYC   http://www.maccarone.net/

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Via the artist’s website

“There’s something about the surface of a photograph, how it acts, and about the coherence of photographic illusion that both fascinates and disturbs me. To me, there’s something mysterious about what’s physically there and how it acts on our psyches…how it connects us to some other thing-to a chair, a human being, to a different reference point, a moment in time, and finally, to desire itself.”
Interview with David Deitcher, Afterimage, Summer 1984

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Via the artist’s website

 

 

SARAH CHARLESWORTH: Objects of Desire: 1983-1988