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Ethics For Artists

Karen Atkinson | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Applying for Grants, Consultants, Submitting Artwork, Professional Practices, Economy, Approaching Galleries, Art Making, Funding, Art Career, Soliciting, Portfolios, Editions, Gallery Dealers, Privacy, Mid Career Artist, Letter of Recommendation, Graphic Images, Artworld, Ethics, Curators, Bitterness, Collectors, Business of Art, Art Audience, Teaching, Rejection, Art Opening, Established Artist, Proposals, Director, Gallery Relationship, Graduate Student, Criticism, Eco Art, Model Release, Art Contracts, Fame, Thank You, Desperation, Legal Issues, Art, Emerging Artist, Curating, Selling Art, Deception, Artist, Visiting Artist, Art Research, Art Agents, Stealing Images, Art Hazards, Arts News
Karen Atkinson

With every artist rushing to the top, and with only so many slots to fill, ethics often get overlooked. Here are some things I see often, and want artists to consider when deciding how to proceed.

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The Material of Public Art

Mark Mennin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Artists, Artworld, New York City, Plastics, Plastic Art, Green Architecture, Green Art, Sculpture, Architecture, Biodegradable, Organic Art Materials, Corten Steel, Green News
Mark Mennin

The production of plastics, a synthetic, may be greener than the overall impact from fashioning art out of wood, what would seem to be the most organic material.

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L.A. MOCA Throws a "Hail Jeffrey"

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jeffrey Deitch, Soho, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Sergei Diaghilev, Artworld, Entertainment, Living, Los Angeles News
Raymond J. Learsy

The Los Angeles Museum Of Contemporary Art has caught the art world flat footed in a wonderful way. It has broken with tradition in naming a remarkable individual as its next director.

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Francis Bacon at the Met: A Postscript

Mark Mennin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Francis Bacon, Artworld, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, Museums, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon Abstract Expressionism, Lucien Freud, Francis Bacon at the Met, Abstract Expressionism, Edvard Munch, Graham Sutherland, Francis Bacon Exhibition, Francis Bacon Studies, Style News
Mark Mennin

The Francis Bacon show was a demonstration of how an already relevant painter can become even more relevant in the years following his death. This was a mega-show about a mega-life.

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The Figure is Back...Again

Mark Mennin | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: US Economy, Bill Clinton, Beauty, Art Education, Artworld, New York City, Recession, Style News
Mark Mennin

As has happened so many times over history, the re-emergence of the Figure reaffirms that representational art will never die, as many art manifestos would like to declare in their very first sentence.

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