![]() I had exactly $410.03 in my checking account. Posted by alex_skazat at 4:19 PM on Apįirst Anna, and then the men, pressured me to put down my credit card for that block while Anna sorted out the situation with her bank. I never possessed those sort of skills to navigate such a world. I'm not saying everyone is like this, but there is a part of the art world where you eat, or get eaten. I'm sure they're racket is still very similar. I haven't even thought of this person in years. It's just a receipt of being a part of a long con. In the end, it all becomes a write off when the work is given to a museum or foundation and that person is then known as a wonderful patron of arts and culture. Then they open up their checkbook to make a huge purchase. You wine, you dine, you make the client feel special. It's a pretty terrible place - think of what you need to stay afloat (as a gallery owner): you basically have to please with someone who has far too much money to continue to collect a certain artist's work - so much that you could never hang it up. I have since stopped trying to work within a gallery system as an artist. The last I heard about her was that she was the personal assistant to Mathew Barney or whatever. I remember her wanting to do some con with me and I declined - I was then put on her shit-list. She'd sell student's artwork that wasn't hers (although she said otherwise) to get a good price. Her stuff (she wasn't very talented) would get praised and perhaps eventual showings, my crap would be actually shunned -refused to even be talked about. She sold/gave cocaine to a certain gallery owner (who's now dead from a lifetime of drug addiction) who would then be visitors to our class's critiques. Lots of confidence, a foreign name, some sort of family wealth (it was assumed because: public spending habits). ![]() After all, who else was going to float my career producing objects that have no intrinsic value? My tiny porthole window into the well-to-do happened in art school. ![]()
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