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Michelle Cooke
Like many contemporary artists, Michelle Cooke prefers not to confine herself to any one subject or any one way of realizing an idea. She has worked with glass, aluminum, feathers, brass, gemstones, and barbed wire, as well as…
Another Opening, Another Show
The opening, duration, and end of a gallery or museum show can be cause for anxiety, depression, obsession, elation, relief, and any number of other emotional reactions that occur when you…
Dora Dillistone
“These are literal landscapes,” says Dora Dillistone of the works on paper that have been her focus for the past few years. “They’re made by the land and the elements and can never be repeated. I’m just the…
So Long at the Fair?
Love ‘em or hate ‘em, the art fair appears to be the major marketing phenomenon of our times. Artsy.com, a site primarily for collectors, lists 60 top fairs worldwide, with ballpark estimates for maintaining a booth at one ranging from…
Don Porcaro
Don Porcaro has described his sculptures as occupying a psychic space somewhere between that of “the monster and the child.” They have…
Sanctioned Spaces
Robert Motherwell, my father, purchased our home the year I was born. My earliest recollection of entering his studio is when I was a toddler. We lived in a…
Extreme Self-Marketing
It should probably come as no surprise that Jeff Koons at points in his career has hired “image consultants”—professionals who give advice on cultivating and presenting an appealing persona. The artist got his start, after all, as a…
Jamie Hamilton
Five years ago, while rock climbing in upstate New York, Jamie Hamilton fell about 45 feet and lived to tell the tale. “I landed on my butt, and I bounced to my feet,” he recalls. “The impact literally caused me to bounce.”
Carol Rose Brown
Carol Rose Brown has been through several metamorphoses as an artist. She started showing while still in her twenties and working at an office job in the Brooklyn Museum. One of her first exhibitions, at the adventurous Sidney Janis Gallery in the mid-1960s, was a light show about Marilyn Monroe.
A Tribute to Jake Berthot (1939-2015)
I met Jake Berthot in 1992 while I was in my junior year at the School of Visual Arts in New York. I had already discovered his work and fallen in love with it. So much so that I tried copying everything I saw that I liked…
The Lives of the Artists
Carol Rose Brown is a small, sharp, wren-like woman with piercing dark eyes and a surprisingly deep and resonant voice that retains traces of her native New York. She’s had more than her share of lumps in life—losing her beloved first husband in a terrible accident…
Courting the Dealers
To the young or emerging artist, the art world may seem like a forbidding maze, a complicated circuitry of inside contacts and arcane codes almost impossible for the newcomer to crack. How can the artist without…
Andrew John Cecil
As Andrew John Cecil was finishing up his M.F.A. at Cranbrook Academy of Art in the early 1980s, at a time when all his friends seemed headed for careers in New York, he made the very conscious decision to…
Studio Visits Revisited
In the fall of 2013, I published a story in ARTnews called “Show and Tell: The Dos and Don’ts of Studio Visits,” which went the art-world equivalent of viral—that is to say, scores, possibly hundreds, of people shared on Facebook because…
A.A. for Artists (Not What You Think)
In his 2012 novel Back to Blood, Tom Wolfe devotes a chapter to the art-fair feeding frenzy that is Art Basel Miami Beach, introducing a minor presence named Marilyn Carr, who is known to her principal client as “A.A.,” short for art adviser.
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