Taking AIM!: The Business of Being an Artist Today - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0823234134 ISBN 13: 9780823234134

Publisher: Fordham University Press, 2011

Synopsis

Taking Aim! The Business of Being an Artist Today is a practical, affordable resource guide filled with invaluable advice for the emerging artist. The book is specially designed to aid visual artists in furthering
their careers through unfiltered information about the business practices and idiosyncrasies of the contemporary art world. It demystifies often daunting and opaque practices through first-hand testimonials, interviews, and commentary from leading artists, curators, gallerists, collectors, critics, art consultants, arts administrators, art fair directors, auction house experts, and other art world luminaries.

Published in celebration of the 30th anniversary of Artist in the Marketplace (AIM)―the pioneering career development program at the Bronx Museum of the Arts―Taking AIM! The Business of Being an Artist Today mirrors the structure and topics featured in the AIM program’s weekly workshops and discussions. Each chapter focuses on the specific perspective of an “art world insider”―from the artist to the public art program director to the blogger. Multiple viewpoints from a range of art professionals provide emerging artists with candid, uncensored information and tools to help them better understand this complex field and develop strategies for building and sustaining successful careers as professional artists.

The book ends with an annotated chronology of the past three decades in the contemporary art field and a bibliography of publications, magazine articles, online sources, funding sources, residency programs, and other useful information for emerging artists.

About this title

About the Author:

Marysol Nieves is a New York–based independent curator and art consultant with more than 20 years’ museum and corporate art experience, specializing in contemporary and Latin American art.

About this edition

• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 0823234134
• ISBN 13: 9780823234134
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 316
• Editor: Nieves Marysol