Morning!
I am alive, but with some ill health, moving house and being without internet at home for 3 weeks now, I have been a bit AWOL to say the least. Sorry about that.
Gonna start the blogging lightly and use other people’s materials today :D
First up – a great blog post by Alistair Gentry on Market Project about real residencies versus art holidays parading themselves as residencies. This has been worrying me for some time and when I saw this opportunity the other week I was astonished – a whole new breed of these it seems.
The ‘opportunity’:
http://curatorcharlie.blogspot.co.uk/2012/04/artis…
The blog post:
http://www.marketproject.org.uk/the-customer-is-al…
Second – W.A.G.E. are presenting the results of their huge 2010 survey of artists in New York this week. Promises to be a very revealing and interesting document. I wish I WISH I could go to New York for the open forum on Friday!
A taster quote for now:
“58% of artists who exhibited at a New York non-profit organization between 2005 and 2010 received no form of payment, compensation or reimbursement – including the coverage of any expenses.”
2010 W.A.G.E. Artists Survey
