Posts Tagged ‘Help Desk’

Help Desk: Extracurricular (!) Activity

Kate Gilmore, Main Squeeze, 2006. Still from video

Help Desk is an arts-advice column that demystifies practices for artists, writers, curators, collectors, patrons, and the general public. Submit your questions anonymously here. All submissions become the property of Daily Serving. Help Desk is cosponsored by KQED.org. This week our intrepid columnist is traveling, so we’re reprinting one of our very favorite questions: I have a strange question involving an incident I witnessed two years[…..]

Help Desk: Missed Opportunity

Robert Rauschenberg, Minutiae, 1954. Freestanding combine, 84 1/2 x 81 x 30 1/2 inches

Help Desk is an arts-advice column that demystifies practices for artists, writers, curators, collectors, patrons, and the general public. Submit your questions anonymously here. All submissions become the property of Daily Serving. Help Desk is cosponsored by KQED.org. Dear Help Desk, I have a nagging suspicion a prominent curator in my town feels slighted by my inaction to follow up on a studio visit he solicited.[…..]

Help Desk: You Broke It!

Dan Flavin, Untitled (to Helga and Carlo, with Respect and Affection), 1974.

Help Desk is an arts-advice column that demystifies practices for artists, writers, curators, collectors, patrons, and the general public. Submit your questions anonymously here. All submissions become the property of Daily Serving. Help Desk is cosponsored by KQED.org. What is the most professional way to handle a guest breaking a piece of artwork at an opening? This has happened to me a couple of times this[…..]

Help Desk: “Recreativity”

Candice Breitz, Becoming J Lo, 2003. Video installation

Help Desk is an arts-advice column that demystifies practices for artists, writers, curators, collectors, patrons, and the general public. Submit your questions anonymously here. All submissions become the property of Daily Serving. Help Desk is cosponsored by KQED.org. Note: if you’ve been following the conversation on writing negative reviews, Will Brand has an interesting take over at the L Magazine. Pardon the interruption of our regular[…..]

Help Desk: Writing/Practice

Maarit Suomi-Väänänen, Up And About Again (Jalkeilla Taas), 2009. Still from film (photographer: Jarkko Liikanen)

Help Desk is an arts-advice column that demystifies practices for artists, writers, curators, collectors, patrons, and the general public. Submit your questions anonymously here. All submissions become the property of Daily Serving. Help Desk is cosponsored by KQED.org. I am a recent graduate from a somewhat less than prestigious MFA program. I chose the program because, A. they gave me a good scholarship, and B., because[…..]

Help Desk: Represent! (Me)

Deb Sokolow,  Untitled, 2009. Acrylic and graphite on paper, 8 x 10 inches

Help Desk is an arts-advice column that demystifies practices for artists, writers, curators, collectors, patrons, and the general public. Submit your questions anonymously here. All submissions become the property of Daily Serving. Help Desk is cosponsored by KQED.org. I have been out of graduate school for 3 years now and working as an independent artist.  I have a consistent studio practice and upcoming exhibitions at non-profit,[…..]

Help Desk: Mind the Gap

Chiharu Shiota's installation at the Art Basel Miami Beach 2010

Help Desk is an arts-advice column that demystifies practices for artists, writers, curators, collectors, patrons, and the general public. Submit your questions anonymously here. All submissions become the property of Daily Serving. Help Desk is cosponsored by KQED.org. Is a gap in your artist résumé detrimental to your current job, exhibition and other prospects? I haven’t exhibited art in a year for various circumstantial reasons. Now[…..]