Remote thinking
Dear Artist, Canadian novelist Margaret Atwood has invented the LongPen. With custom software and high-speed…
Monthly Archives: March, 2021
An exuberant painter
Dear Artist, Jane Appleby of Burnaby, B.C. wrote, “I’m thinking I may like to put…
Peak shift
Dear Artist, Nigel Spivey, in his insightful book How Art Made the World, speculates on…
Fresh drive
Dear Artist, According to productivity gurus, there are two types of motivation; extrinsic and intrinsic,…
Curiouser and curiouser
Dear Artist, This morning I was on the phone with a painter I’d Googled. He…
The end of objecthood
Dear Artist, At the risk of beating a dead digital horse, I need to revisit…
At Mabel’s house
Dear Artist, I’m laptopping you from Ansel Adams’s room in the beautiful old home of…
OVRs and IRLs
Dear Artist, A survey conducted by artists’ emergency fund Artist’s Relief found that 95% of the…
Problems of the multi-media artist
Dear Artist, Yesterday, Jennifer Foster wrote, “I was recently at an arts professionalism seminar where…