Podcast: Take over a vacant storefront–legally
Even with the current economic challenges, there are opportunities available for artists who are willing to think outside the box. Listen to the podcast to learn about a promising, surprising, and FREE! venue for artists, which also benefits the communities involved. [2:50] Related Art Marketing Action newsletter (a written version of this podcast) Curate & Install Your Art Exhibit Like a Pro Assess Art Venues Art Goes "Pop" During Recession (BBC) 92 Empty Shops Leeds (blog: Leeds, UK) → Instructions for subscribing to the Art Marketing Action podcast on iTunes
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Podcast: Take over a vacant storefront–legally
Handmade Jewelry-Wholesale Jewelry-Handmade Earrings-Hummingbird Jewelry Wholesale Jewelry and Gift Shows are great for sourcing new handmade jewelry suppliers. The summer shows are typically less crowded so handmade jewelry and gift buyers can take their time in a more relaxed atmosphere to find the perfect suppliers for their retail stores.
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Wholesale Jewelry and Gift Shows Great for Sourcing Handmade Jewelry Suppliers
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Entering the gallery at the University City Arts League last week was like looking into a time capsule. The exhibit there, Hidden Gems of West Philadelphia, is from the collection of Sylvia Egnal, one of the UCAL founders and long time supporter. She’s almost 98! Andy Warhol, Flowers, silk screen; this was one of the successful sales, and listed at $4,000 it had the highest asking price in the exhibit.
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A glimpse through time at the Arts League
Drawger has set up the Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies where “tools of the trade that have died or have just about died a slow slow death are cheerfully exhibited.” I still have plenty of these kicking around from my school days — rubber cement pick-up, proportion wheel, dry cleaning pad, t-squares, triangles. I even use some of them still, despite having a heavily digital workflow.
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Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies
David Huyck unleashed the second edition of his super stlyish, super fun, and super affordable letterpress print set, The Cloudy Collection . Like the last set, this set of 7 prints is only $35 with free shipping, limited to 100 sets, and as of this writing there are 80 sets left. I snagged mine right away; love that pink and brown! This set features prints from David, S.Britt, Vera Brosgol, Chris “Elio” Eliopoulos, Scott Campbell, Bwana Spoons, and Vincent Stall
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Cloudy Collection, Edition 2
Friday : i.JAM Networking Session + Denise Wine Chillax with the *Shh* Couple + Warm Sake and Chilled Sake Appreciation at Clarke Quay + 5 am Zzz Saturday : Ayam Ponteh + Indian Food at Lucky Plaza + Jeremy the Drama King turned Happily Engaged + Classic Margarita at PS Cafe, Dempsey + Happy Birthday Julian + Clarke Quay 3rd Time Unlucky + The Arena Yucks + 6 am Zzz Sunday : Ikea Tampiness + JB Adventure with Maggie and Johnny + Tracking down the Lok Lok Truck + Sims 3!!! + Hello Again, Salted Egg Crabs! I Missed You! + Sake & Red Wine The highlight is probably trying to track down a particular Lok Lok truck like some kind of crazed stalkers. Didn’t get to try it in the end but we planned to go back again next weekend and probably check out the club scene too
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Weekend
James Rosenthal is a Senior Lecturer in Art History at the University of the Arts and teaches Visual Culture on the new MFA degree program at Moore College of Art and Design. I am interested in how visual culture today overlaps with the more theoretical side of science fiction. The notion of the dystopian future, in particular, sits on the art world proper and results in a lot of work that is abject. A long list of contemporary artists come to mind starting with Mike Kelly, Chris Burden, Matthew Barney, Bruce Nauman, Leon Golub, Cindy Sherman and about any “neo-Expressionist” you can think of, particularly Anselm Keiffer. James Rosenthal, that's Captain Rosenthal, of the Starship artblog, pictured at the recent Franklin Institute Star Trek exhibit
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Visual culture planet — where art and sci-fi meet
Are you assuming–perhaps incorrectly–that certain connections are separate from your art connections? Regardless of the type of work you did before diving into your art career, every contact you have made is valuable.
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Podcast: Include prior connections on your mailing list
Breakfast at the Villa + Eggs should be scrambled please + Water Sports at Jimbaran (Para-Sailing, Jetskiing, Scuba Diving) + Yours Truly did a Perfect Landing while the boys tumbled all over the place, LOL + Seafood Lunch at Jimbaran Bay + A&W Reminisces + Grocery Shopping at Carrefour + Dip in the Pool + Foot Spa at the Villa + Hot Tub + IndoMee! Pictures from Day 1 & 2 After traveling and partying the previous day, and the water sports in the morning (Scuba Diving is sooooo tiring), our energies were pretty much spent.
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Bali Day II (Sunday)
Andrew Jeffrey Wright performs his notorious, x-rated stand-up comedy act at the Print Center tonight. 7:30 p.m., only five bucks! Now that’s an unlikely pairing–prints and comedy! Andrew Jeffrey Wright painted eyes on the Print Center's loo as part of his installation there. Wright is performing in conjunction with his exhibit at the very same venerable institution more known for making nice than making dirty.
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Hot off the presses–The Print Center finds its inner kid
If you’re a fan of The Rack —the always entertaining and funny webcomic written by Kevin Church and illustrated by Benjamin Birdie —you already know they debuted their first printed volume recently at MoCCA Fest 2009. For those of you who couldn’t make it to MoCCA, you can now buy the book on their website , and send a little love their way for all their hard work and for providing one of the many wonderful free webcomics out there today
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The Rack: A Comic Strip About A Comic Shop
Try JibJab Sendables® eCards today! JabJab’s latest original music video, He’s Barack Obama , which premiered at the White House Radio & Television Correspondents Dinner this week, is my favourite yet. I visited the JibJab studios last month, and everyone was hard at work putting the finishing touches on this piece. It was great fun to see all the work in progress, and bless their hearts, the JibJab team has put all of it on their production blog
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JibJab: He’s Barack Obama
Are you looking for that one thing that will propel your art career forward faster than you could have imagined? It’s easy to get lost in the quest for knowledge
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Podcast: Stop, and then get to work
Large and particularly bland office buildings line the gradual ascent of Market Street westward, as it prepares to cross the Schuylkill. I was headed to the First Troop Armory; I’d read the address, but couldn’t quite remember it. My eyes were out for the blue easel which sits on the sidewalk and marks all Hidden City venues, but what caught me first was the giant rusticated turret sticking out just south on 23 rd St. This, clearly, was my destination. Though I’d passed the spot countless times, and though I’m endlessly curious about the city’s buildings, I’d somehow failed to ever note this veritable castle. Hence even before Leah Stein’s dance company even took the floor, Hidden City achieved its stated goal: to re-enchant us with landmarks generally forgotten but in our midst. The festival has been imagined and planned over three years — Libby expressed overwhelmed-ness at its extent (search this blog for more coverage) – but it’s already half-over, so you should gain admittance to the normally private sites on one of the two remaining weekends
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Battle Hymn at the Armory and other Hidden City offerings
Leah Douglas, Director of Exhibitions at Philadelphia International Airport, is looking for people in the region who collect everyday ordinary things as a hobby or private obsession for a new show of collections at the airport. If you have a collection of small to mid-size objects you’d like to see displayed at the airport — you know, coffee mugs, teaspoons, bumper stickers, campaign buttons, postcards, etc., get in touch with Leah pronto. She’s trying to organize a show for July. The collections should be of small to mid-size objects, and around 20-50 objects per collection will be shown, she says
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Airport opp for obsessive collectors of everyday stuff, you know who you are
These color photographs were all taken in the Russian Empire between 1909 and 1918. Sergei Prokudin-Gorskii was a Russian photographer born in 1863. After studying chemistry with Mendeleev and later with Adolf Miethe – one of the crucial figures in the invention of color photography – Gorskii started developing his own techniques and processes of color photography, giving it a quality that even impresses even today.
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New Russian art, AD 1909
UPDATED : The fourth-from-last paragraph in the story initially confused me. I’ve been set straight. Today’s story in deeply questionable art museum ethics — complete with the near-requisite get-out-of-jail-free card from the industry apologist, the Association of Art Museum Directors — comes from California, where the Orange County Museum of Art has sold 18 paintings at roughly 10 cents on the dollar half price to an unnamed private collector
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In super-secret deal, OCMA sells art at steep discount
Interested in having a sponsor for your art opening or event? Listen to learn about specific steps to take when presenting sponsorship opportunities to people and businesses that want to be in front of your audience.
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The nude Madonna and Guy Ritchie painting by Peter Howson ended up selling this week. It failed to sell at a recent contemporary Scottish art auction by McTear’s Auctioneers in Glasgow but has since been sold for more than the £15,000 reserve price. McTear’s employee Brian Clements told the BBC “We were very confident we would find the right buyer for ‘Madonna and Guy’ and we are delighted to have secured such an excellent price for the painting.
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Madonna Nude