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1. Artist Placement Group (APG): The individual and the organization. A decade...

In 1966, the UK’s Artist Placement Group was established to integrate artists into businesses and organizations. To what extent does APG’s "Conceptual engineering" provide a historical reference...

2. English for Art Purposes (2008)

Interview with Kate Griffeath, an academic intrapreneur who has led the growth of programming of specialized English for art students, now numbering 2000 at Academy of Art University in San...
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3. Albright-Knox Art Gallery Future Curators program (2011)

We asked four students-turned-critics who participated in the program what they thought... In May 2011, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York (USA) held an exhibition curated by...
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4. Why I love Damien Hirst’s skull (2008)

The diamond skull breaks new ground for media / communications art, argues R.J. Preece. A diamond-encrusted skull…worth £50m (US $100m)…said to be the most expensive piece of contemporary...

5. Slammin with Jeff and Damien (2009)

Dear Jeff Koons and Damien Hirst: our stiletto-wearing legal correspondent, M. Contraband, Esq., is watching your moves in the mosh pit... PUNK is about shock and irony and anarchy, and...

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Indonesia: Why the art market needs art history (1997)

Astri Wright offers her thoughts about how the art market can combat against thefts of artwork and forgeries in Indonesia. "Crime does not pay," the old saying goes. That is a truth, however,...
(Posted on 01 Feb 12)
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Tracey Emin on art writing: "Everyone waiting to stick the knife in"...

Via Tracey Emin’s experience, to what extent is today’s artwriting riddled with factual errors and underlying motive by writers, journalists, and academics? And from a real research perspective, if...
(Posted on 14 Jan 12)

Albright-Knox Art Gallery Future Curators program (2011)

We asked four students-turned-critics who participated in the program what they thought... In May 2011, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, New York (USA) held an exhibition curated by...
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A model of art production, distribution & consumption (1983)

At the outset I would like to make a plea for clarity and consistency in the use of terminology. In my view it is unfortunate that the expressions “art history” and “the history of art” are used...
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The art press: Three decades of art magazines / journals (1976)

Writing history is an extremely problematical enterprise— even writing the history of such a restricted subject as the development of art periodicals during the past thirty years— because...
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Art magazines and their impact (1976)

"Art has entered the media system", remarks Harold Rosenberg. [1] To the question "How then do we distinguish between the products of the media and works of art?" he answers: "The power of...

The entrepreneurial artist: Case study results (Part III) (2001)

Entrepreneurial artist (intro) | Entrepreneurial artist (framework) | Entrepreneurial artist (results) So, the artist and I banded together, and within the space of 14 months, this is what the...
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The entrepreneurial artist: A conceptual target-marketing framework (Part...

Entrepreneurial artist (intro) | Entrepreneurial artist (framework): 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | Entrepreneurial artist (results) So, we agreed to work together, and conduct a mutual experiment, a...
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The entrepreneurial artist: Marketing & media / communications context...

In this presentation, I’m going to present a sort of position paper, drawing on what turned into a case study. I will talk about my ideas of combining media and communications strategies, within...
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Mid-career artist needs €1.1 million in sales over 10 years to average...

Wake-up call for contemporary artists and fine arts students: is the business of being an "artist that sells" financially sustainable? Putting some basic numbers on paper, especially for...
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