Posts Tagged ‘Help Desk’

Help Desk: Are You Trying to Wind Me Up?

Piero Manzoni, Merda

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 co-sponsored by KQED.org. Do you think that contemporary art pieces that are controversial or seem to have required little effort contribute to the opposition of government funding of the arts? The[…..]

Help Desk: Putting It Out There

Mamma Andersson, Pigeon House, 2010. Acrylic and oil on panel, 33 1/2 x 48 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 co-sponsored by KQED.org. Like two other artists that wrote in [see Help Desk: Location, Location, Location], I also live in a part of the country that doesn’t have the strongest art[…..]

Help Desk: With Intent

.Chris Burden, L.A.P.D. Uniform, 1994. Fabric, leather, wood, metal & plastic, 88 x 72 x 6 inches (223.5 x 182.9 x 15.2 cm) Ed. of 30

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 co-sponsored by KQED.org. How important is it to consider the intent of an artist when viewing his or her work? Your position on this matter depends on how you feel about[…..]

Help Desk: Building Character

Wynne Greenwood,

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 co-sponsored by KQED.org. This week’s column is accompanied by images from Wynne Greenwood‘s recent show “Peace In” at Lawrimore Project in Seattle. Do you think that learning the technique of mediums[…..]

Help Desk: Money, Honey

Irina

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 co-sponsored by KQED.org. This week’s column is illustrated with collages by Irina and Silviu Szekely. My question is: how does an artist decide how much a certain piece is worth, monetarily?[…..]

Help Desk: Burning Bridges

Eva Lake, Judd Montage 17, date. Photomontage, dimensions.

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 co-sponsored by KQED.org. Also, check it out: Help Desk was interviewed for the Art21 blog! This week’s column is illustrated with collages by Eva Lake, whose solo show “Judd Women Targets”[…..]

Help Desk: Publishing and Reproducing

Nate Lowman, Loser, 2009. Alkyd on canvas, 101.6 x 76.2 cm.

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 co-sponsored by KQED.org. I have created a book about mail art, done over a 30-year span, which served as a communication between another artist and myself. Besides containing a lot of[…..]