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Artist Q&A: What if a gallery refuses to work with you if you require a contract?

No one understands the business challenges that artists face better than other artists. That’s why CHF asks established working artists to weigh in on their peers’ most common questions. Their …

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The elephant painting that Dance commissioned while she was in Uganda

The Missing Link – Make Your Art Accessible

I remember the day clearly even though it was many years ago. My 14-year-old self was standing in line with my mom at a local Starbucks when I spotted a particular piece …

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Prince: Trailblazer for Artistic Control

As news of Prince’s passing spread last week, most people responded with deep sadness, but none mourned as intensely as his fellow Minnesotans. To the world, he was a creative …

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Forecasting a Brighter Future for Artists

Forecasting a Brighter Future for Artists

In a recent article for ArtSpace, Andrew M. Goldstein surveyed a wide array of art professionals to solicit their 2016 prognostications for the art world. Representing a cross-section of the …

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Patronage, Not Parentage

In a recent blog post for Americans for the Arts, Sofia Perez, the editorial director of the Clark Hulings Foundation, wrote about the shrinking hoops that artists must jump through …

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Rising Rents: The Ripple Effect For Artists and Communities

What happens when artists can no longer afford their studios? The question was raised in a recent New York Times article (“Priced Out of Brooklyn“), which described sculptor Gabriel Koren’s struggle …

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Artists Can’t Survive As Saints and Martyrs

If you don’t receive You’ve Cott Mail newsletter, please sign up for it! No matter what area of The Arts interests you, or whether you’re an artist or not, his …

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Tax Court Ruling Is Seen as a Victory for Artists

If you say you are an artist, but you make little money from selling your art, can your work be considered a profession in the eyes of the Internal Revenue …

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Museums See Different Virtues in Virtual Worlds

LIKE vodka and fun-house mirrors and trips to Japan, the Internet can make you feel bigger than you are. It persuades vitamin D-starved shut-ins to try their hand as webcam …

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Bunny Mellon’s Keen Eye Is a Boon to Sotheby’s

Few people have ever visited Oak Spring Farms, the grand home here of Rachel Lambert Mellon, better known as Bunny. If they had, they would have seen a Pissarro, unframed …

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If You Visited My Studio Tomorrow

I live and work in a small rural town in central Massachusetts. In addition to my studio work I’m an on-call firefighter for my town. Although these two jobs may …

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