F-ART
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I love receiving unsolicited enticements to spend £28 a year for an online portfolio site that has no professional standing or provenance and looks like…
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OMG, SRSLY?
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OK you guys, I’m sorry but I may not be writing this blog for much longer because OMFG CAN’T BREATHE I’ve just been spotted by…
ABSURDITY: A FEATURE, NOT A BUG
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“Advertising may be described as the science of arresting human intelligence long enough to get money from it.” Stephen Leacock, The Perfect Salesman, in The Garden…
THE PARALLAX VIEW
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Chris Barlow of Parallax Art Fair has written to me in response to my recent coverage of his venture. I’m also posting my response to…
PARALLAX, EMPHASIS ON THE LAX
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Q: What do you get from Parallax Art Fair (sic) two months after your last request that they remove you from their mailing list and…
NEW YEAR, SAME MISERABLE BASTARD
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This year the WordPress annual blog report has expressed viewing figures via the rather peculiar metric of “sold out performances at Sydney Opera House”, which…
“I CHOKED ON MY LOAD”
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Those of you who are interested in the antics of “top tastemakers” Debut Contemporary should visit Charlie Tuesday Gates and read about her CON ARTIST…
DISINFORMATION CATALOGUE
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DO YOU LIKE EVENING CLASSES, TATLER, WILD CLAIMS, SPENDING MONEY AND BEING TREATED LIKE A BATTERY CHICKEN? IT’S YOUR LUCKY DAY Thanks to several informants…
THE DUNNING-KRUGER EFFECT
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In 1999 two researchers defined scientifically a phenomenon of cognitive bias that’s been well-known anecdotally for thousands of years: the truly incompetent have no idea…
ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES: PS
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I know many of you have been reading and sharing Artist Opportunities May 2013, and hopefully you’ve been reflecting upon the tragic fact that I hardly…
COME TO DADA
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I want your souuuuuuuuuul… and a £25 submission fee, and a massive commission fee, and some other fees that are hidden in the small print,…
THE ORA… THE ORA…
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Ten international galleries want you, like a vampire bat wants sleeping cattle. Premio Ora (“Premium Hours”) says that the “basic registration fee required as partial…
