art and commerce
where the worlds of art and commerce collide, for better and for worse
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art and commerce
The narrative that art or creativity isn’t real work (as described below) is just one element of a much bigger discussion about what is considered and adequately valued as “real work” in today's society and economic system and what isn’t. As I wrote in Aliveness: Reframing Productivity: “We don’t really think of productivity as a measure of being
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Illustrator Karlotta Freier recalls being mocked by her art school classmates for asking about how to make a living as an illustrator. “No one would make fun of a plumbing student for asking about the business side of things,” she says, “so why don’t I get to ask?” For decades, the promise of a creative career was the alleviation of the worst parts
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Will AI Art Help or Hurt Artists?
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The prescriptive forms of the art world, as in the real world, alienate us from ourselves and our neighbors. It’s normal to make art. This is a manifest truth that is obscured by the institutional imperative to contain and monopolize awe.
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Photographer and new media artist Olivia Alonso Gough, aka @bug_girl_69, discusses working with different tiers of creativity, establishing a routine, and not going to grad school unless it's free.
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Easier, then, to strip the art of these larger contexts and references from the art, which conveniently also makes it easier to sell.