Sunday, October 18, 2020

New York Mets artwork

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When I was a kid in Brooklyn, my dad and I used to be great New York Mets fans, and we'd go to Shea Stadium several times a year to watc...
Thursday, October 15, 2020

A Sailor and his date

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  A Sailor and his date 1986 US Navy cartoon by F. Lennox Campello
Wednesday, October 14, 2020

The Last Unicorn

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 This is "The Last Unicorn", I did it as a commission for a private printing of the book by the same name... around 1978 when I wa...
Tuesday, October 13, 2020

Analog: Hand Printed Silver Gelatin Photo Collages by Adrienne Moumin

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 Portico Gallery is hosting a mini artist reception for Adrienne Moumin only allowing 12 guests plus 4 staff/volunteers not to exceed 16 peo...
Thursday, October 01, 2020

Queer Threads: CURIOUS SPACES

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  Now On View at Transformer Queer Threads: CURIOUS SPACES Organized by Transformer and Queer Threads curator John Chaich, Queer Threads: CU...
Tuesday, September 29, 2020

Isla Acribillada

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Cuba: Isla Acribillada (Island Decimated by Stabs) 1980 Handcolored Monoprint with embedded broken blade pieces  
Sunday, September 27, 2020

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Then check out my primita Estrellita's super cool website for all those associated with the law! Click here!
Saturday, September 26, 2020

Paint It! Ellicott City 2020 – Open Paint-Out Artists Wanted!

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  Paint-Out in Historic Ellicott City: October 15-18 Be a part of the Paint It! Ellicott City Open Paint-Out! Grab your painting gear and he...
Friday, September 25, 2020

A new art fair model for the Post Covidian Age

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I first proposed a version of this model about a decade ago, when there was (even then) a sense of art fatigue brewing in the art world.  In...
Thursday, September 24, 2020

Portrait of Rodin

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This is an etching of Rodin (after Rodin) that I did in the late 1970s at the University of Washington School of Art. Rodin (after Rodin) by...
Wednesday, September 23, 2020

The curious case of predicting a juror's choice

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As mentioned  here , the  McLean Center for the Arts  sponsors a very good painting competition every couple of years called  "Strictly...
Tuesday, September 22, 2020

Lessons for artists

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An artist has a show and someone steals a piece of art. What happens next? With a signed contract, the artist would know ahead of time that ...
Monday, September 21, 2020

A strategy for saving money on framing costs...

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For those with minimalist attention span, yesterday I posted the quickie version of the below. According to some stats I read a few years ag...
Sunday, September 20, 2020

Guerrilla Framing Techniques - The easy version

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Me:  Custom framing is expensive! You:  Everybody knows that Lenster! The average price for custom framing around the DMV is brutal - and so...
Saturday, September 19, 2020

How to sign artwork

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One of the most curious things that I have puzzled about in the many decades of making art, presenting art, selling art and dealing with bot...
Friday, September 18, 2020

Tentacles (A man, an axe and a doctor: A tale of pain and art)

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One of the blog posts that I get the most emails about is  this horror story from 2005 . Here it is again: Someone who was raised in Brookly...
Thursday, September 17, 2020

How to eat a mango

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For TBT: Originally published in 2011: Here's another peek at some of the writing that I've been doing about my early childhood in G...
Wednesday, September 16, 2020

On creating art and not knowing where it ends

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When I was in Miami doing the Miami International Art Fair a few years ago, I received a phone call from a very well-known poet.  Once he id...
Tuesday, September 15, 2020

Can art prices be negotiated?

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That is one of the most common questions that newbie art collectors ask me and one that pops up all the time at the ubiquitous expert panels...