The downside of isolation
Dear Artist, A fellow I know, whose name will go unmentioned here because he doesn’t…
Yearly Archives: 2013
The root of passion
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Dick Quis, co-author of Thinking Anew, wrote, “In the middle of my…
The arrival of the MOOCs
Dear Artist, MOOC stands for Massive Open Online Courses. Respectable institutions like Harvard, Stanford and…
The story in art
Dear Artist, At the end of the remarkable film, Life of Pi, we are given…
Current art-pricing trends
Dear Artist, Over the last while, another raft of emails has come in from artists…
The art of demo-doing
Dear Artist, This morning, Richard Wong of Victoria, BC, Canada wrote, “Nervousness got the better…
What’s up in the mountains?
Dear Artist, At a show last fall, “The Bugaboos and Other High Places,” a collector…
The IKEA effect
Dear Artist, Recently, Warren Thompson of Ocala, Florida wrote, “Does the IKEA effect apply to…
The tribe
Dear Artist, In The Wandering Who?, Gilad Atzmon tells of the day in his youth when…
The personal touch
Dear Artist, At shows, I often notice other painters with their noses pretty close to…