Dear Artist, Readers’ emails arrive here in Ireland on my Blackberry. These days, with the blessing of laid-back leprechauns, I’m reading every one. I sincerely appreciate your input and the confirmation that these letters are in some way affecting your…
Dear Artist, In the pub the other night, I watched a couple of workmen fresh from plastering. Pints in hand, they were going over their lotto tickets. “All wrong numbers,” they said. Every examined ticket received a resigned smile and…
Dear Artist, Nowadays, with Satellite GPS and Google Maps, it’s possible to virtually traverse the surface of our planet. Afghanistan, for example, reveals a feast of benign abstracts: patterns of desert, river, orchard, obscure caves and the rectilinear walls of…
Dear Artist, Two days ago I happened to be cruising The Painter’s Post and noticed an Artinfo item, “Bartering is an art form all its own.” The article mentioned Andy Warhol in need of a video camera, trading some self-portraits…
Dear Artist, Up here in Canada, some people think the government should be regulating the names we pick for our kids. It has come to their attention that oddball names may have a detrimental effect on proper development. There was…
Dear Artist, In 1995, Stanford University psychologists Claude Steele and Joshua Aronson coined the term “Stereotype threat.” At the time, they were dealing with such stereotypes as “Girls do poorly in math” and “African Americans are challenged in higher education.”…
Dear Artist, When it comes to painting, kissing can be the kiss of death. Kissing is where elements in a painting come up to one another and just lightly touch or rub against one another. It can be the result…
Dear Artist, Recently, Mark Winkelstein wrote, “A friend passed away and I have been trying to assist his family in the best means of selling some of his originals. He is the fairly significant Hungarian-Canadian painter Gyula (Julius) Marosán (1915-2003).…
Dear Artist, Recently, Marylin Davies of Terrace, BC, Canada, wrote, “There are many delights for those of us pursuing our art in small towns and remote places. One of our problems is exposure to larger audiences. What are our options…
Dear Artist, Yesterday, among the email that came in for the launch of The Painter’s Post, there was a note from Pam Ryan of Wilmette, Illinois. She attached a letter she received from an anonymous juror after one of her…