Author Archives: Liz Filardi

Is “professionalization” in art equal to success?

By Liz Filardi | Published: June 21, 2009
I caught a link on We Make Money Not Art to this Artworld Salon article that contemplated the criticism of an increasingly professionalized art world. The article questions, “What’s wrong with professionalization?” after citing examples of back-handed comments towards the MFA and PhD in the arts. The questions it raises are: does “professionalization” [...]
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By Liz Filardi | Published: March 11, 2009
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“Oblique Strategies”: Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt’s “How to Win” card game

By Liz Filardi | Published: January 11, 2009
  Brian Eno, the father of ambient music and Peter Schmidt, an English artist, created this deck of cards called Oblique Strategies in 1975. It is now in it’s fifth edition. Via Drawn!: Oblique Strategies is a deck of cards created by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt after thinking about approaches to their own work [...]
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“People Are Strange”: a night of multimedia performance and projections

By Liz Filardi | Published: July 6, 2008
Marisa Olsen’s upcoming show is about “an active artist’s earliest creative efforts and they provide evidence of an obsession with music, genre, psychology, and personal narrative that shines through in her more recent artworks.” It is an exhibition to celebrate the release of her book, Poems I Wrote While Listening to the Doors, 1992-1994 [...]
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