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They are artists all the way down.
Now someone must eat the artist who ate the banana, for several million dollars.
An artist has to tape them to a wall first.
Lessons I learned working at an art gallery
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#122The 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…
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…
It seems to me like a more valid way to describe that work is that, you can predict an artist's long-term success based on their early success.
The first five venues where an artist exhibits isn't wholly based on their social networks, but also tells you how excited the art world is about their work. Since attitudes about the work or the artist are key factors in establishing what their early network is, I don't see how you can conclude that the work and the artist are irrelevant, but the network is relevant.
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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.
For example, to receive prestigious awards would also fit under "successful," regardless of monetary components. To be recognized after death as one of the Masters would be successful.
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So how does that work, can you elaborate? What is the difference if you answer in 10 minutes, 6 hours or 24 hours? Are you competing on time of response so if you're fast you're getting the deal?
I remember one event vividly. Exec asked for some business information information while traveling. I replied promptly, sending a link to a webpage, within the proper process for secure data sharing according to company policy. This required exec to visit our internal website to view the information. A teammate emailed the information directly, violating policy and good data stewardship. CEO replied to teammate's ema…
That is classic, but you knew it would go like that when you sent the link, didn't you? :)
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No that is more about money laundering
It's more about people with a lot of money hoping to sell it for a greater return, while maybe also having shit taste in art. In five years it'll be at an auction and sell to some other person with too much money in hopes of making a profit on it later on.
Nah, it has to do with money laundering, tax evasion, and easy international money transmission. There are tons of interesting tricks you can pull once you have your hands on a small object "worth" hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars whose very illiquid + inefficiently priced sales also affects an entire market of similar objects.
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Unfortunately it's one of those hacks that makes your look like a superhuman. I hate it but obsessively answering emails and messages as soon as possible has given me so many opportunities that it feels like a cheat code. It's nothing reasonable about it but it's just the way things are.
So how does that work, can you elaborate? What is the difference if you answer in 10 minutes, 6 hours or 24 hours? Are you competing on time of response so if you're fast you're getting the deal?
Replying quickly looks like you care and you already know what's going on. It also suggests that you'd be willing to have even more synchronous conversations (phone calls, trips together, etc.)
Doing it during business hours matters more than off hours outside of major deadlines or event prep.
With many organizations, if you want to give this impression and also shut down communications to focus, you need blocks of time outside of business hours where you focus. For example, I know a responsive executive who cannot be reached from 6am-9am every weekday, when most people aren't trying to get hold of him. This is when he writes and reads. Even then, his assistant fields communications so he doesn't seem to have disappeared.
Not saying you should do this or that it's for everybody.
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#129The 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 have worked for an artist for about 20 years. He releases a print every week, I could not tell you which one is going to sell well or not.
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#130Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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.
For example, to receive prestigious awards would also fit under "successful," regardless of monetary components. To be recognized after death as one of the Masters would be successful.
The author is talking about the artistry being aligned with market forces in the paragraph preceding the quote.
I don't really see how either of those definitions fit in that context.