AS AN ARTIST YOU’D BETTER HAVE YOUR LAWYER READY
AS AN ARTIST YOU’D BETTER HAVE YOUR LAWYER READY
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Art
THE INHERENT DANGER OF ART
2,500 years ago Plato through his Republic sought to banish the mimetic arts from his notion of an ideal society, in that he recognised the distracting and destabilizing effects of art on its citizens
WHEN HACKING LOSES ITS THRILL YOU CAN ALWAYS TRY ART THEFT
There is no doubt that Rembrandt would have been surprised that he holds the Guinness Book of Records medal for the most stolen work. Jacob de Gheyn III was stolen in 1966, 1973, 1981 and 1983.
THE ART COMPETITION, THE VALIDATION, THE NON-RETURNABLE FEE.
Art contest judges have to pick at least one “winner” just to keep the competition going and the truth is that success for artists doesn’t come from participating in petty competitions against your peers.
HOW DO YOU WANT TO BE LABELLED? EMERGING [unknown], MID-CAREER [a darling of the shopping trolley] or MATURE [dead].
At what point do you start and stop being an emerging artist? Many artists remain in the ‘emerging’ category all of their lives in spite of a sustained practice and sales and some never attain that status at all.
THE HONOUR, THE PRIZE, THE DECISION, THE FUTURE
The ultimate honour for any visual artist is to be recognised by their country as having contributed to the collective imagination and identity of the country