Your daily rejection
We hate rejection, but it’s a fact of life in the arts. What’s important is what we do with it.
Monday Morning Art School: don’t worry about AI just yet
The greatest ability we have in painting isn’t our technical skill (as important as that is) but our human intellect, both rational and emotional. The 20th century movement towards content-free art is over, because it can be done better and faster by machines. It doesn’t matter if you’re painting abstraction or landscape; start thinking about what the higher meaning of your work is. If it’s not there, you can be replaced by a computer.
Selling out, or selling art
The market tells us things about our work. Sometimes they’re things we don’t want to hear. If instead of getting mad, we listen, we can learn a lot.
From conceptual art to NFTs
The crash of crypto may have put a temporary hitch in the NFT market, but there is still a need for a mechanism to buy, sell and display digital art. However it evolves, tangible artists working in traditional mediums should feel no compulsion to join. It offers nothing to us.
The Feast of the Bean King
The Feast of the Bean King was the last gasp of Christmastide celebrations, in an era when people partied more than we do now. It was clearly too much fun for our Puritan ancestors.