Buying Art Online
Best sites for buying art online, Edinburgh Festivals, Calais & Creativity, Photographing artwork
Best Sites For Buying Art Online
Ive been continually updating this guide to buying original art online since launching MoMa in 2014. Includes a Top 10 Online Galleries list and categories from online auctions and social media to marketplaces and curators.
Photographing Artwork with an iPhone
I know I know… we should photograph our art with a professional set up (see our Art of Print interview for tips) but if needs must the camera in our pocket might be our only option. Artist Will Kemp has an impressive guide on the subject.
“Hemlock Blue” by Henrik Simonsen - £920, 20 colour screenprint (80 x 108cm)
Edinburgh Online Festivals
Edinburgh without the Festivals in August is surreal. Way more peaceful and calm but it’s not a proper summer in the city without the creative chaos of the Fringe.
Online festivals are putting up a noble fight to keep that Fringe spirit alive though:
The Edinburgh Book Festival has a full schedule of free online events including Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo talking with Nicola Sturgeon. Most shows available to watch again. (until Aug 31st)
Get access to all shows at Jess Brough's acclaimed Fringe of Colour programme supporting people of colour – £10 standard pass, £5 concession. (until Aug 31st)
Full listing of (mostly free) Fringe shows on the official EdFringe website.
Calais & Creativity
Asylum seekers resorting to desperate measures to reach the UK is a tough read. Ali, a 16-year-old from Afghanistan lost all his family in a Taliban raid:
“One day I will just swim. If I die, that is OK, I am relaxed about it.”
This Banksy mural in Calais from 2016 doesn’t get any less relevant.
Charities like Care4Calais are doing amazing work meeting their immediate needs. It got me thinking about the needs that get left behind – the need for kids to be creative.
Joel Artista runs Artolution, a community-based public art organisation who team up with local artists and educators in Syrian refugee camps to work with displaced youth.
It’s been an incredible experience for me to work with such resilient, warm individuals. The children we work with maintain their playful spark despite all the trauma and loss they’ve suffered.
So much positivity and hope in the short video below and website photos.
Ways to give to Artolution and how to get involved with Care4Calais.
Cue the Ghost soundtrack…
See you next week,
Grant