Bean Gilsdorf

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HELP DESK: Lazy Art Critic

Francesco Vezzoli, installation view of Olga Forever! The Olga Picasso Family Album at Almine Rech Gallery

HELP DESK is where I answer your queries about making, exhibiting, finding, marketing, buying, selling–or any other activity related to–contemporary art. All submissions are confidential and become the property of Daily Serving. On twitter: @ArtHelpDesk ***NEW & IMPROVED*** Now you can reliably submit your questions 100% anonymously. Follow this link to our submission form: http://bit.ly/132VchD An art critic who writes for local newspaper recently approached[.....]

HELP DESK: Gallery Contract

Birgit Jürgenssen, “Untitled,” 1978-1979. SX-70 Polaroid. Unframed: 10.5 x 8.7 cm / 4 1/8 x 3 3/8 ins, Framed: 34 x 29 cm / 13 3/8 x 11 3/8 ins. © The Estate of Birgit Jürgenssen. Courtesy Alison Jacques Gallery, London.

HELP DESK is where I answer your queries about making, exhibiting, finding, marketing, buying, selling–or any other activity related to–contemporary art. All submissions are strictly confidential and become the property of Daily Serving. Email helpdesk@dailyserving.com with your dilemma. Now on twitter: @ArtHelpDesk I was invited to be in a group show outside of my home state. I don’t know the owner (who found my work[.....]

HELP DESK: Art Consultant

R. H. Quaytman, Passing Through The Opposite of What It Approaches, Chapter 25, 2012. Tempera and silkscreen inks, gesso on wood

HELP DESK is where I answer your queries about making, exhibiting, finding, marketing, buying, selling–or any other activity related to–contemporary art. All submissions are strictly confidential and become the property of Daily Serving. Email helpdesk@dailyserving.com with your dilemma. HELP DESK spreads the love on twitter: @ArtHelpDesk I want to know more about standards for art consultant/artist relationships that develop without a gallery being involved. I[.....]

Speaking Directly: Interview with Tony Discenza

Tony Discenza, TRANSPORTED, 2010.  Vinyl on aluminum, 30 x 24 inches

Tony Discenza’s text-based work is concise yet absurd: the tone is often matter-of-fact while the content is speculative and fanciful. The appropriated formats of a street sign or a book’s teaser page provide an internal logic that holds the tension of this paradox quite neatly; obviously, I’m a fan, so I asked him to chat with me about his recent projects. Discenza’s solo and collaborative[.....]

HELP DESK: A Uniform Presentation

Paul Chan, Volumes - inncompleteset (detail), 2012. Each: oil on fabric, paper, and cardboard, dimensions variable

HELP DESK is where I answer your queries about making, exhibiting, finding, marketing, buying, selling–or any other activity related to–contemporary art. All submissions are strictly confidential and become the property of Daily Serving. Email helpdesk@dailyserving.com with your dilemma. HELP DESK spreads the love on twitter: @ArtHelpDesk My question concerns the issue of a “signature style” and the importance of projecting an image of consistency (particularly[.....]

HELP DESK: To Print or Not to Print

Illuminated, 2012. Oil, oil stick, spray paint, and acrylic on panel, 96 x 96 inches

HELP DESK is where I answer your queries about making, exhibiting, finding, marketing, buying, selling–or any other activity related to–contemporary art. All submissions are strictly confidential and become the property of Daily Serving. Email helpdesk@dailyserving.com with your dilemma. HELP DESK spreads the love on twitter: @ArtHelpDesk I am a painter with good gallery representation. There seems to be public interest in the work I make[.....]

HELP DESK: Ready for Representation?

Monika Sosnowska, Stairway, 2010.

HELP DESK is where I answer your queries about making, exhibiting, finding, marketing, buying, selling–or any other activity related to–contemporary art. All submissions are strictly confidential and become the property of Daily Serving. Email helpdesk@dailyserving.com with your dilemma. Happy New Year! For 2013, HELP DESK is going to be published every other week to make time for my other art adventures. But there are always[.....]