Wet Canvas goes head to head with Your Art Escort!

I made a post a while ago and Greg from Wet Canvas checked in.... The RED is his responses: A little sarcastic I thought....
Hi Greg....
O.k. let's talk.... I am currently looking and writing a piece about the upcoming show and clearly you have an opinion... I am usually willing to hear people out... So can I ask you some open questions that are to educate me and are not loaded questions...

Beyond the Venice Biennale & Chianciano, does Florence have one? 
yes thet do

How many total does Italy have?

try Google for a count, I have not time to do your reseach.

How many total in the world? 
as above

Any statistics?
What's your take on Vittorio Sgarbi?

I don't have an opinion

Vanity by definition is the excessive belief in one's own abilities or attractiveness to others. 
Vanity Galleries and exhibitions are those that make a profit from artists rather than by selling art. Often with false promises of success. 
Do you think they will not achieve something great in time or are they putting on shoes a little too big, too quick? I look forward to hearing from you.

Who are they, the Artists? or the Biennale of Chianciano? The relevant question is who will make a profit from the artists participation? If it was likely to be the artists unfortunate enough to take part, the Biennale could earn their money from the commission on sales and referrals plus the door receipts. Not by charging exhorbitant fees to submit online, and $4-600 just to hang a painting. And don't forget the other costs of shipping, insurance and paying the Biennales handlers to unpack and repack the works.... whiuch hasn't been mentioned.
Why not ask the Biennale how many sales were made from the last exhibition for a measure of the success? 

Ciao from Umbria..


From You Art Escort:
I did my homework and I am impressed... I suggest you do yours...
P.S. I interviewed numerous people internationally to "source" and create this wiki page. How about you, who are your sources? Just you? Apparently you don't even have time to do your own home work... 
www.yourartescort.blogspot.com

MOMA'S ONLINE MODERN ART HISTORY COURSE

The idea of fun and exciting to learn was what I first thought I would be greeted by upon entering MOMA’s MODERN ART HISTORY course this past summer. Within no time at all, the magnitude of this little online summer course defined itself.

First was the list of class mates… international gallery owners, national museum curators to historians, then there was the chief of India Unesco fellow, to a Sotheby’s Institute Graduate and Auction House Employee, to a NYC Freudian Psychiatrist, to another impressive person to another. 

The registrar’s list made me feel honored to be invited to such a worldly, educated, accomplished group of bohemian educated spirits. That name dropping list alone took a while to come down from that high!

Next it was time to dive into the class work… how hard could that be… 7 outlined pages of learning per week for 10 weeks…. Artist after artist the lives became revealed, historical details, friendship and rivalries where laid out where these artists lives’ timelines crossed and over lapped.

Where the story started slightly slow before the Modern Art Movement, it expanded with such intensity that at times it was impossible to stop watching the videos and reading the materials.  Lack of time became an issue. I found myself staying up till midnight and later watching, learning and absorbing.

The magnitude of my comprehension did not occur till near the end. All the segments and angles and corner and turns… all started winding into one master piece itself. For the already profound debt of knowledge I had about Modern Art History… I started to get it a little bit more, a little clearer and just a little different. Pieces and angle I had not known showed themselves.

It will take much more time than 10 weeks of being immersed in outstanding learning and given private art tours by MOMA researchers, curators and historians, I believe the profound intensity of information will need to be reviewed and re-reviewed by myself for some time to saturate all the open spaces and crevices that have left space to fill in the soul of this learning process.  

If all my prior knowledge had been torn squares of fabric most complete and deep, organized and sorted, memorized and recorded…  my MOMA MODERN ART HISTORY COURSE will be my  hand sewn and embroidered, stitched with authentic antique threads, QUILT OF REVELATIONS.  I will forever refer back in my mind to the priceless and unique, one of a kind quilt, I have completed in this simple little course I have so cherished!

a special invite.... and our little secret

Dear Francesca,

I have enquired about you coming to Chianciano and we have arranged a room for you in a nearby hotel. This will be offered to you by the Museum and is available for the whole week if you are interested. In relation to meals, the staff will mostly be dining together and so you are welcome to join. 

Overall it will be a fun but hectic week and I am sure that we can find something for you to do. I will be in Italy mid next week. The room will be available from the 16th onwards.

See you soon.

Kind regards

Peter