an unprofessional artist

http://momus.ca/how-to-be-an-unprofessional-artist/ “The professional always makes the right moves, knows the right thing to say, the right name to check. Controlled and measured, the professional never fucks the wrong person or drinks too much at the party. They never weep at the opening, never lay in bed for days too depressed, sick, broken to move. They

The Death of the Artist

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/01/the-death-of-the-artist-and-the-birth-of-the-creative-entrepreneur/383497/ “When works of art become commodities and nothing else, when every endeavor becomes “creative” and everybody “a creative,” then art sinks back to craft and artists back to artisans –a word that, in its adjectival form, at least, is newly popular again. Artisanal pickles, artisanal poems: what’s the difference, after all? So “art” itself

conversations.e-flux: Are art professionals today too hyperactively busy to produce work of lasting importance?

http://conversations.e-flux.com/t/are-art-professionals-today-too-hyperactively-busy-to-produce-work-of-lasting-importance/528 “Art professionals today are notoriously busy. They are ceaselessly writing, networking, traveling, tweeting, attending openings, managing their “brand,” and responding to emails. This level of hyperactivity is perhaps required today in order to earn even a modest living in the art world. But how does it affect the work that’s produced, and the discourse

Are art professionals today too hyperactively busy to produce work of lasting importance?

http://conversations.e-flux.com/t/are-art-professionals-today-too-hyperactively-busy-to-produce-work-of-lasting-importance/528 “Art professionals today are notoriously busy. They are ceaselessly writing, networking, traveling, tweeting, attending openings, managing their “brand,” and responding to emails. This level of hyperactivity is perhaps required today in order to earn even a modest living in the art world. But how does it affect the work that’s produced, and the discourse