by David | Oct 8, 2014 | design, economics, media, photo
This summer, I was fortunate enough to have the opportunity to teach a business basics class for a group of artists participating in a new way to create and sell artwork, Community Supported Arts. Like its inspiration, Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), CSArts is...
by David | Jul 9, 2014 | culture, economics
There’s a new concept in buying art based on the tried and true Community Supported Agriculture (CSA) model used by farms and other food producers. Community Supported Art means you pay in advance for a share and on “harvest day” you pick up a box of...
by David | Apr 29, 2013 | economics, media
While researching a piece for the Currensee Blog about contemporary art as an alternative investment, I came upon an excellent piece on the Reuters blog from last year with the excellent title, Artnet’s silly indices. In this post, Felix Salmon opines that...
by David | Jan 31, 2013 | culture, design, media, photo
I am sitting in a room probably very different from the one you are in now. I am sitting on a metal glider swing in the front parlor of a Somerville home facing two intensely bright lamps and listening to recorded sounds of nature. It’s artist Lyn...
by David | Dec 12, 2012 | culture, design
It’s been some time since we had some decent ducking news around here, and drought was offically broken by @fartingduck with his retweet of this item: BREAKING: THERE IS A MASSIVE YELLOW DUCK FLOATING DOWN THE THAMES I retweeted too, because, well, who...
