Adanna

Everything in New York is love-hate: subways, bars, sidewalks, views, landlords (oops! maybe not so much love there...), parks, skylines, the news, bustle and glow, fashion, and certain urban odors.

Personally, I don't think we have enough artists in this country - or, maybe we just don't have enough venues for them.

bulldog

Mrs.RoseBlack hits the nail right on the head...too many cooks spoil the broth, and too many artists spoil the ____. But maybe it's the gallerists who foul the scene, with their brutal notions of the 'market'. Hope you'll write more about the Chelsea gallery scene...it's frightful.

mrs.rose_black

Too many artists spoil the ? Hmmm just what do too many artists spoil?
I'd say too artists spoil their chances at getting shows in Chelsea by actually working for the gallerys ie; behind reception desks instead of easels, computers, cameras etc.
But what can ya do? Gotta eat in order to make work. I say find cash, a roof and food elsewhere. Leave the answering of phones and first phase rejection of other well meaning artists to those with less emotional well being invested in the scene.

brucek

OK ....so first off...where the hell are you? these are two post with promise and god dam a woman who enjoys makers mark...
the next thing is there are not to many artist in NYC, there are a mix of wannabe emotional wrecks that take everything personal and don't have the sense to stand behind the fan when they throw the shit.

To many artist...NYC..... bullshit...to many self proclaimed sophisticates with a media degree and the need to suffer without the courage to.

Hope you haven't give up... hooked up with a creativity sucking mind numbing street guide that tells you what you want to hear and where you need to go..

Fuck the artist in NYC...and slam the glass down when you say it.

Guess i just have thicker skin than most... besides my creativity runs out my mouth in your ears and then sparks those endorphins…then I’m done.

gadnynj

So, let me add to this blog;

First of all, there are not nearly as many artist exposed as we have in NYC, and the U.S., as we have. Because of our freedom and diverse community the creative art work, as for that matter, creative work in general is abundantly under estimated. Thirty Five years ago when Chelsea was fermenting the hospice of creativity, where were you. A child, I suppose in some other land.

Let me tell you about Chelsea, back then it was a neighborhood mixed with working class intellectuals; low, middle and high income; mixed with a little Homosexual, Heterosexual Flower/Yuppie; Black, White, and of course, a main ingredient in anything that is lively about NYC: Puerto Rican group of people. Oh yea, and let's us not forget the neighborhood raunchy Irish bar.

Tribeca and was totally industrial and Hell's Kitchen, well it was "Hell's kitchen."
Think of a industrial/commercially residential ghetto, littered with poor European American ("what is commonly referred to "White Trash") vagabonds, hookers, predatory individuals ready to pound on the unsuspecting fools that wondered into the neighbor "hood" Yes, let's us not forget the "Artist", He/She was there too!
Chelsea was the better of the that end.

That was the fermenting grounds of what, today you rant about all it's failing.

Instead of ranting about it's failures, do a self analysis of why you fail, at the same time, take a chance, be the one that see a failing NYC neighborhood (not an aged neighborhood like Chelsea) and set up a studio for low rent. How do you think the original artists set up in The Village, Chelsea, and Tribeca. These original artist were rejects and trail blazers.

I just don't understand the adult people that come to America and want to be served on a silver/ or gold platter. Don't you know that all we have came from the struggles, hardships and "get down and dirty" efforts of past immigrants.

Until you struggle, and get down and dirty, not only for your benefit, but for the benefit of man/woman kind, you're just "not going to get it."

Go to NYC (5th Avenue & 42nd Street) Public Library search under "Historical Documents: NYC in New York Times" and start reading!!!!