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Dany Louise

Dany Louise asks why artists and curators continue to use the old-fashioned term Private View. Suggesting they should start to consider what it stands for, she proposes it's time the contemporary art world comes up with an alternative.

last comment: 15/05/2012 16:02:10

David Trigg

How much would you spend on a limited edition screensaver? 
That's what s[edition] - the website which sells affordable digital work by big name artists - offers. David Trigg takes a look and wonders if it is all a little too limiting.

last comment: 04/04/2012 15:22:00

Cara Sutherland

The sight of long winding ‘blockbuster’ exhibition queues has become commonplace in our major cities, but what effect does the sheer mass of visitors to an exhibition have on the experience of art? Cara Sutherland looks back on being too small to see and how growing hasn’t helped.

last comment: 04/05/2012 12:29:34

Helen Kaplinsky

After the press and journalism in general have had a grilling via the News of the World scandal this year, it seems pertinent to consider the role of the art press in creating value. Do art critics validate artists or is it the other way round, asks Helen Kaplinsky?

last comment: 18/04/2012 18:48:42

Robin Cracknell

Pricing your work is one thing, but being your own dealer is another says photographer Robin Cracknell. He gets to grips with how to sell work on and off-line, without the support of a gallery.

last comment: 28/02/2012 13:08:28

Jenny Steele

Do you financially supplement your artistic practice with part-time lecturing? Artist Jennifer Steele does and has started to question the viability of this career path, and the future of art education, as visiting lecturers' pay and hours are reduced.

last comment: 26/01/2012 17:11:03

Alistair Gentry

If artists work for nothing, as well as working for free, are they subsidising their employers or galleries who in many cases can well afford to pay, or pay better? Artist and writer Alistair Gentry calls for artists to get real and to respect themselves a bit more.

last comment: 19/12/2011 09:05:20

Becky Hunter

Successful artists have always been victims of forgery and those that earn big money can afford to pursue legal action. But what can an artist on more modest earnings do to protect their work? Becky Hunter thinks all artists should understand their rights.

last comment: 05/12/2011 02:53:18

Joanne Laws

Should the pop-up gallery be a sustainable structure, or are transience and failure the nature of its format? Writer Joanne Laws examines the possibilities of the pop-up art gallery at a time when pop-up protests across the world are using collective action to oppose the narrow definition of success proposed by global capitalism.

last comment: 25/10/2011 00:13:50

Chris Sharratt

Does size matter in art, or is it just a way for established artists to make their ideas appear more vital than they really are? Chris Sharratt muses on whether big means better.

last comment: 19/10/2011 10:33:30