I've been invited to speak Tuesday evening (tonight) at A.I.R. on the subject of women's art and the marketplace. A.I.R. is the oldest artist-run gallery for female artists in the city, and it was established for the purpose of fostering an audience and environment for showing and making art without the overriding commercial motivations that usually accompany gallery-based work.
It's an interesting venue to discuss these subjects, which I wrote about last spring in the NYT, especially in light of the current, superheated art world/market where quality is often equated with marketability and desirability. Jerry Saltz just wrote (again) about the need for an antidote, when most people don't even acknowledge that there's a disease right now, at least in public. I may end up just reading Jerry's piece and opening it for questions [kidding].
If you're around 511 W 25th st, suite 301 this evening at 6:30-8:00, stop by, listen, and throw in your two bits.
Night A.I.R. Series, organized by A.I.R. Fellow Sarah Blackwelder [airnyc.org]