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...