Para­graph 7: “When you are a pro­fes­sion­al artist, mean­ing that you are mak­ing a liv­ing off your work, you do learn to say good bye to your work every day.  That is what it means to be mak­ing a liv­ing.  A friend recent­ly told me that this is sim­i­lar to a farmer not get­ting too attached to ani­mals that will be slaugh­tered.  Not a pleas­ant thought, but appro­pri­ate, some­how, as the art is feed­ing us, and my attach­ment can­not be too deep either.”

Mako­to Fujimu­ra | Sandy, Gold­en Sea and Dil­lon Gallery

When I spoke at the last IAM gath­er­ing on “Cul­ture Care,” I referred to the com­ing par­a­digm shift for the gal­leries of Chelsea. I paint­ed a rather gloomy pic­ture. Nev­er did I imag­ine then the cat­a­stro…

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