tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865764596112100655.post236792049678625846..comments2023-08-29T08:48:55.919-04:00Comments on Carol Diehl's Art Vent: The best and worst of times...Carol Diehlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09023589628710711343noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865764596112100655.post-10263104750221722362009-04-10T09:18:00.000-04:002009-04-10T09:18:00.000-04:00hi carol - the levinthall photos (via your link) m...hi carol - the levinthall photos (via your link) makes me think of audrey heller's work. please visit her site - http://www.audreyheller.com/<BR/><BR/>thank you and have a wonderful Easter (spring holiday?) weekend,<BR/><BR/>jimradioisfreehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04381556286336605707noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865764596112100655.post-84084961613860767922009-03-13T08:52:00.000-04:002009-03-13T08:52:00.000-04:00I think even in a depression, people will still be...I think even in a depression, people will still be collecting art, but not with as much extravagance as previously.<BR/><BR/>So there will be business for galleries, but not huge profits, as I see it.<BR/><BR/>If artists and dealers were looking to make their fortune or just a living from contemporary art, this is probably bad news, but I think it will throw a lot of overdue attention back onto criticism rather than curation. <BR/><BR/>Rather than pumping market share, I think (I hope) people will start to use criticsm for analyzing meaning and arguing about values in the work. <BR/><BR/>It will be a smaller art world certainly, but I hope a more dedicated and vital one.CAPhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09861096695503969576noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4865764596112100655.post-81086752419779327652009-03-10T07:52:00.000-04:002009-03-10T07:52:00.000-04:00"Or, as one dealer once told me blatantly, “I don’..."Or, as one dealer once told me blatantly, “I don’t show what I love.” The same was true for artists, who were coached by art schools to ape certain kinds of art."<BR/><BR/>And then, there are those of us, sufficiently out of this crazy, frenzied loop, who are still just going to the studio every day, trying to fulfill our own criteria and vision. I'm glad the circus has left town. <BR/><BR/>But you're right, the downturn is very disorienting. Not only am I without a job to make money, but my non-money-making work is curtailed also. I just found out that the after-school gardening class that I teach has had its funding cut. So now, there will be a whole gang of pre-teens out on the street in the afternoon instead of making mud-pies and acting like the kids they are. I think I need them as much as they need me, just to keep from losing my moorings.LXVhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18396149640519096992noreply@blogger.com