Fair and Fair Alike: Miami 2009. Art Bloggers @ Art Miami, December 5

.Fair and Fair Alike coverage so far:Are We Out of the Woods?A Little GossipArt? Or Not Art?Nosing Around. .The blogosphere has flattened the hierarchy. As an artist you’re fairly powerless; in the blogosphere artists have the power not only to join the discussion but to lead it.—Sharon Butler.From left: Hrag Vartanian, Sharon Butler, Thomas Hollingworth, Libby Rosof, Roberta Fallon, Paddy

Reference Letter Requests: An Update

.Marketing Mondays update: You know how I feel about reference letters. Now along comes my buddy Sharon Butler, of Two Coats of Paint, with a stunningly smart idea: a request for a reference letter that gives something back to the letter writer. In her quest for a promotion to full professor at her university, she needs those dreaded letters. So why is her request different? Let me count the ways

What I Saw This Summer, Part 1: Studio Visits with Grace DeGennaro, Richard Bottwin, Sharon Butler

.Three recent paintings and a wall of paper templates in Grace De Gennaro's studio, Brunswick, Maine

..One of the pleasures of being an artist is looking, constantly looking, at art. One of the frustrations of being an artist who blogs is that there's never enough time and space to blog about everything I've seen.

But I do want to show you as much as possible of what I've been seeing this

Three Smart Projects

(The discussion is still going strong at The Vanity Galleries post.).What interests me in general, and for this post specifically, is the way creative people tap their typically broad range of talents. Here, those talents are in service to broadening the arts dialog and offering opportunities to artists and an art-supporting public..1) Sharon Butler of Two Coats of Paint, is the blogger in

Blogpix, The Show

Marketing Mondays will return to its regularly scheduled slot next week.Click here for first Blogpix postClick here for first Armory post, Show Me the Money.Today and this week, I'll be posting pics from the Blogpix panel and reports from the various New York fairs..If you didn't attend the Blogpix opening, below is your first look at the show. I took these installation shots before the artists