Dear Artist, Yesterday, Annette Waterbeek asked some tough questions: “You often use the term ‘serious collectors,'” she wrote. “What kind of person is this? How do they choose who to collect and who not to collect? Do they collect only…
Dear Artist, Today we are returning emails that were sent here a year ago. These were New Year’s Resolutions, your private and confidential pacts that we offered to archive for 365 days. You can read about my offer and my…
Dear Artist, In 1954, when Ernest Hemingway learned that he had won the Nobel Prize for Literature, he remarked, “This prize belongs to Cuba, since my works were conceived and created here, with the inhabitants of Cojimar, of which I…
Dear Artist, As you’re probably aware, every year about this time engineers get together and reassess the seemingly miraculous moves that will be made tonight. Even with only fifteen percent of the world’s families that might be considered believers, and…
Dear Artist, Questions these days seem to come in multiple editions. I have to tell you that this week artists are thinking about going into reproductions — Giclée prints in particular. Giclées are multiple edition prints that are made on…
Dear Artist, On Saturday Joe Blodgett and I went out painting in the Miss Reveller. We’re the kind of people who generally go about our own business. We were drifting, and after a while we drifted into giving each other…
Dear Artist, After a recent letter several artists asked what I meant by “relaxed pressure scheduling.” When I’m wandering around in my studio, bumping into things, talking to myself, I call it “RPS.” RPS is less of a system than…
Dear Artist, Last summer, when I saw the location in the dramatic home, I knew right away what would look good in there. Then last week I faxed a pencil rough to the client. A secretary phoned to say that…
Dear Artist, The popular movie Frida raises anew the uses and abuses of mentoring. The ill-fated marriage between the crippled painter Frida Kahlo and Mexican fresco muralist Diego Rivera is classic. A familiar element is the successful and charismatic mentor…
Dear Artist, Walking on a pathway in a wood in the late afternoon. There’s an orange sun flirting with the latticework, like a bus gamboling on the horizon. The trees are mysterious, clinging, cobwebby — in silhouette like actors moving.…