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Lessons I learned working at an art gallery

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Re: Lessons I learned working at an art gallery

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Post by jimbokun »

balderdash wrote: post #7

I enjoyed reading this, but I felt that 90% of this person’s experience was simply the result of being a real contributor in an organization with non-existent expectations/completely un-optimized state/no other real contributors. In other words it’s easy to make a difference as a high performer in a low performance organization. Again not detracting from this persons achievements, I just don’t think these most of the…

Which can be an incredibly important realization.

If you don't have access to high performing institutions for whatever reason, this is how you can leverage a position in a low performing institution to achieve a lot of success.

Re: Lessons I learned working at an art gallery

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Post by magicalhippo »

llamaimperative wrote: post #93
magicalhippo wrote: post #67

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> He writes “What you see in the biographies of great artists, great writers, great anything is that they are good at figuring out where the vectors align.” Which is just plainly and absolutely not true I take it the author means "great" as in "successful".

It is not true in that case either, or at least “successful” is still poorly defined. It’s defined implicitly in this blog as commercially successful within the timeframe I had to sell their art. Which is a perfectly defensible definition, but should be explicit so people know what argument they’re hearing.

> commercially successful within the timeframe I had to sell their art

That's what I meant with successful. Not sure what other variations there would be, though I'm not a native speaker.

Re: Lessons I learned working at an art gallery

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Post by heopd »

p1nkpineapple wrote: post #22

Thanks for sharing. Henrik Karlsson is one of my favourite writers on the internet at the moment. His other piece called "Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process" [1] left such a big impression on me and I return to it frequently, highly recommend. 1: https://web.archive.org/web/20240816150009/https://www.henri...

An alternative, more nuanced, realistic version of "follow your passion" ? Follow your passion might have ended up in "follow your vision", "vision" used here as the article defines it. The article makes a case for "follow your context", a more workable version of the popular adage. Thought provoking !

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Post by ValentinA23 »

blitzar wrote: post #80
ValentinA23 wrote: post #78

Earlier quoted context omitted.

https://www.zmescience.com/science/physicist-shows-that-to-b... Albert-László Barabás, a physicist, created a network map that can predict an artist's future success based on their early network connections. His work outlines two key "laws of success": - Performance drives success, but when performance can’t be measured, networks drive success. This highlights the importance of networks when objective measures of qua…

I guess this is why a sucessful genius can tape a banana to a wall while a run of the mill worker can only restore Notre Dame to its original state.

This is a reflexion I made to a friend yesterday: the banana doesn't improve the state of art over Duchamp's Fountain. The real artist, in this case, is the guy who paid 6 millions to eat the banana !

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Post by badgersnake »

anshulbhide wrote: post #34

The article itself is fantastic. However, this is a great example of what makes catnip for HN - 1) Use scientific terms (e.g. vector fields, waves resonance) 2) Cite tech influencers (e.g. Sholto Douglas, Tyler Cowen) 3) Make the subject an abstract novel field that most developers or tech folk don't really pay attention and use #1 and #2 to make it relevant

You forgot be smug and entitled. He does that a lot.

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Post by blitzar »

ValentinA23 wrote: post #114
blitzar wrote: post #80

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I guess this is why a sucessful genius can tape a banana to a wall while a run of the mill worker can only restore Notre Dame to its original state.

This is a reflexion I made to a friend yesterday: the banana doesn't improve the state of art over Duchamp's Fountain. The real artist, in this case, is the guy who paid 6 millions to eat the banana !

They are artists all the way down.

Re: Lessons I learned working at an art gallery

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Post by Ylpertnodi »

broabprobe wrote: post #87

Curious they say in the first paragraph, "didn’t speak the language" but then seemingly very quickly started attending board meetings and taking notes? With no further mention of learning Danish. Seems like a notable achievement!

...they probably spoke in English for them at board level. Good for his benefit, also very good for theirs, too.

*where i am, any engineer (of any type) that can't speak English, is classed as an idiot (and probably benefitted from nepotistic [mal-] practices).

Re: Lessons I learned working at an art gallery

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Post by iamleppert »

How dare someone not respond to the email of a gallery coffee director within the hour! Obviously that makes them a bad artist. I like how the OP has anointed himself as the judge of other's work but instead of actually judging the work itself based on its own merits (which he can't be bothered to do) he instead relies on personal attacks and poor measurements like how fast someone responds to an email from him.

Maybe these artists were put out by the odd relationship of corresponding with the guy who runs the coffee stand for their show? He strikes me as the kind of person who needs to be involved in everything, but doesn't really care about anything. Huge ego and constantly judging everyone around him. He would make an excellent manager in corporate america.

Re: Lessons I learned working at an art gallery

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Post by dfxm12 »

krisoft wrote: post #38

The problem here is that I don’t trust the author on being able to tell who is the “best artist”. Clearly he has opinions. But for example in point 3, he says he can predict which exhibition will be great based on how easy it is to work with the artist. He predicts that some exhibition will be crap and he is right! Which sounds impressive until you notice that he is not measuring his judgement against something objec…

I think the author's definition of "best artist" is "artist who made my job easiest". I have no reason to distrust the author about this, but, on the other hand, this information is simply not useful.

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Post by deadbabe »

blitzar wrote: post #116
ValentinA23 wrote: post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

This is a reflexion I made to a friend yesterday: the banana doesn't improve the state of art over Duchamp's Fountain. The real artist, in this case, is the guy who paid 6 millions to eat the banana !

They are artists all the way down.

Now someone must eat the artist who ate the banana, for several million dollars.
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