Creative agnosia
Dear Artist, Agnosia is a clinical condition involving the loss of ability to recognize objects,…
Yearly Archives: 2007
Marvelous confabulation
Dear Artist, Just as the Santa business is a marvelous confabulation, so too is art.…
Offshore art
Dear Artist, Several artists have written to complain that offshore painters, mainly Chinese, are doing…
Give in to the wind?
Dear Artist, This morning Ray Johnson wrote, “My first job was doing charcoal portraits on…
The Long Tail
Dear Artist, In 1847, Karl Marx wrote that working for wages would be superseded by…
Declining sight
Dear Artist, There’s a wealth of creative info to be had in the life and…
Book launch
Dear Artist, For months we’ve been anxiously preparing, editing and proofing. Then suddenly, “beep, beep,…
Delicate mentoring
Dear Artist, Several recent emails have talked about mentoring. There are different approaches and I’ve…
Operant conditioning
Dear Artist, In case you haven’t heard, “operant conditioning” is the use of consequences to…
Nom de brush
Dear Artist, On Sunday Elaine Caulton wrote, “I have tried to find out what the…