Curating is an art form in it’s own right. Get it right and your show will be way more spectacular than the sum of the individual works of art. Get it wrong, and your visitors may wander around bewildered, not …
There is a huge proliferation of flash-based art and photography websites today and while many of them look sleek and sexy I have some doubts about their effectiveness as marketing tools. Here are my biggest concerns:
Waiting….Waiting… Waiting….. That’s the …
In this excellent post, Art Business blogger Barney Davey tackles that most interesting question we’ve all been wondering about:
…“Can I make it as a visual artist without having a Twitter and Facebook account? Not to mention Linkedin, MySpace,
This is a true story. You can find the original article at Snopes. It caused me to wonder…. If an iconic artist like (say) Jasper Johns was selling art on a sidewalk – would we recognize him? Would we …
In the first article in this series we discussed preparing for the event. Now its time for….
Part 2 – On The Day Of The Event
Dress For Success
That might mean a breezy floral outfit if you are showing …
Part 4 – Custom-Designed Artist Websites
They are what they say they are – fully customized websites designed around you and your art. Effectively executed, these websites should:
In yesterdays post we discussed Online Art Galleries and Slide Registries. Today we will look at Template Art Portfolios.
Part 3 – Template Art Portfolio Services
These services allow you to create an online portfolio of your work by choosing …
Since my dream of Vincent Van Gogh last week, I’ve been pondering what “true†artists from history would think of the online art marketing environment of 2009. What would they think of email, Facebook and Twitter?
I guess that depending …
Technique #4 – Use an Automated Email Management System
We all like to think that our query letters will arrive like silver bullets in the perfect gallery and bring us instant fame and success. The reality though is that repetition …
This is part 3 of our series on getting your website seen by galleries…
Technique #3 – Send Email invitations & Queries
Galleries are quickly becoming much more comfortable with operating on the internet. Most have their own websites so …