Alistair Gentry

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Tag Archives: pay to play galleries

F-ART

May 12, 2014by Alistair

Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
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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Career Suicide

OMG, SRSLY?

February 11, 2014by Alistair

Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
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…

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Career Suicide

ABSURDITY: A FEATURE, NOT A BUG

February 11, 2014by Alistair

Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
“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…

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Career Suicide

THE PARALLAX VIEW

February 11, 2014by Alistair

Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
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…

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Career Suicide

PARALLAX, EMPHASIS ON THE LAX

January 8, 2014by Alistair

Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
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…

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Career Suicide

NEW YEAR, SAME MISERABLE BASTARD

January 8, 2014by Alistair

Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
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…

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Career Suicide

“I CHOKED ON MY LOAD”

January 8, 2014by Alistair

Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
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…

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Career Suicide

DISINFORMATION CATALOGUE

August 26, 2013by Alistair

Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
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…

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Career Suicide

THE DUNNING-KRUGER EFFECT

August 18, 2013by Alistair

Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
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…

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Career Suicide

ARTIST OPPORTUNITIES: PS

May 26, 2013by Alistair

Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
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…

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Career Suicide

COME TO DADA

May 3, 2013by Alistair

Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
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,…

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THE ORA… THE ORA…

March 4, 2013by Alistair

Originally posted on CAREER SUICIDE:
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…

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Career Suicide

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