Posts Tagged ‘Curator’

Help Desk: The Ethics of Application Fees, part 1

Eberhard Havekost.
In Control, 2009;
Oil on canvas;
27.5 x 15.75 in.

Help Desk is where I answer your queries about making, exhibiting, finding, marketing, buying, selling–or any other activity related to contemporary art. Submit your questions anonymously here. All submissions become the property of Daily Serving. Recently I submitted work in response to a thematic juried call by a large, reputable, nationally known and respected arts organization [in my city]. It’s my habit to first inspect a[…..]

Help Desk: Studio Visits for a Post-Studio Practice

Barbara Probst. Exposure #109: Munich studio, 09.19.13, 5:31 p.m. , 2013; Ultrachrome ink on cotton paper, 2 parts, 24 x 24 inches each, edition of 5

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. As an artist, what can I do to make studio visits (with critics, curators, etc.) really, really great? I often feel like I don’t know what I’m doing.[…..]

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: Authoring Texts on Praxis, Revisited

Anish Kapoor, Svayambh, 2007. Sculptural installation with wax and oil-based paint, dimensions variable

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 think it’s great you’re passing on sensible advice regarding the writing of clear, articulate, open gallery texts, but what I need to know how to write are[…..]

Help Desk: Flirtatious Collectors & Young Curators

Rob Swainston, Triumphal Arch, 2007. 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. The work in this week’s column is by Rob Swainston, who will have a solo show at Neuwerk Kunsthalle in Konstanz, Germany in September. For those of you[…..]

Help Desk: Studio Visits, part 2

Pawel Althamer (associated with Wilhelm Sasnal, associated with Monika Sosnowska, associated with Jakub Julian Ziolkowski, associated with Artur Zmijewski), FGF, Warsaw, 2007. Mixed media, 8560 x 4280 x 3090 mm

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 sponsored in part by KQED.org. The artwork in this week’s edition is part of the exhibition Setting the Scene at the Tate Modern, London, curated by Rachel Taylor and Ann Coxon.[…..]

Help Desk: Studio Visits, part 1

John Baldessari, Man with Blue Shape, 1991. Photograph, 77.5 x 122 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. . As an independent curator also affiliated with the programming of a commercial space, I often find a strange tension during studio visits as to whom the visit[…..]