The Artful Collector: Your Guide to ArtSpeak – Part 3 (final)
The art of speaking “art”, or, the art world’s version of technobabble.
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The Artful Collector: Your Guide to ArtSpeak – Part 2
Translating art babble, one word at a time.
The Artful Collector: How Children Become (Art) Collectors
Tips on how to encourage your kids to become collectors.
The Artful Collector: Good Art by Bad Men, continued . . .
A continued look at the morality of art and the distinction between the art and the artist.
The Artful Collector: What do SF Art Collectors and “Gold Bugs” Have in Common?
If I told you that 20 years from now 80% of the art of the art you are buying today would be be worth about half of what you paid for it, would you still […]
The Artful Collector: Should You Worry About Forgery in SF Art?
How important is Fraud in the SF/F art market? I could write lengthy blogs on how forgers break down and then reconstitute the same clay to fashion Mid- and South American artifacts, using original (thousand-year-old) […]
The Artful Collector: Is it All in the Image?
At the heart of this debate is a real difference between how some creators of commercial art (i.e, art produced for the purpose of persuasion/marketing) view the kind of art they are commissioned to create, […]
The Artful Collector: Are Conventions Good Places to Find Art? (Part 3)
Throughout the 1990s, while weekend antiques and craft fairs, and even Ren Faires, were drawing tens of thousands of attendees each weekend, SF cons were still deliberating the good of “one day memberships” and advertising […]
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