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Jon Coffelt, highly acclaimed artist, activist and curator, is a former gallery owner living and working in Manhattan. Coffelt decided to keep his distinctive Southern drawl.

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Monthly Archives: February 2009

“Radical Intention”

February 20, 2009
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Intent, Intention, Intentional
Intentionalism is simply the theory that a work should be judged in terms of the author’s intentions.
As I stated in a previous post, Intention is the most important thing we do in our lives. Without it we are aimless sniveling misfits out of sorts with the reality around us.
Intention is something we can [...]

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“Confidence and High Hopes”

February 15, 2009
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I was listening to NPR this past week. Well, I always listen to NRP and there was a discussion about chance and luck and if people who felt lucky did better in life. They talked about tossing a coin and the more times a coin is tossed the more 50/50 the odds became. Psychologically, people [...]

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What Is Wikipedia Art?

February 14, 2009
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What is art?
What makes something art?
It something art because an artist deems it as such or is it art already?
What encompasses an art piece?
Everyone knows about Wikipedia. Everyone uses Wikipedia. It’s for finding information about everything from definitions to people, places and things.
Wikipedia is considered collaborative and is consensus driven.
Because it is freely edited, it [...]

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“Risk Taking, Openness, Patience, and Trust”

February 8, 2009
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Sometimes I read something that says so much in so few words. Recently on “Something Wiki This Way Comes,” Innovation During a Global Recession struck a cord with me. As artists, it is sometimes refreshing to see what the rest of the world is doing and what they are thinking during the economic debacle [...]

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“Everyone Is Talking About It, The Big Pink Elephant In The Room.”

February 4, 2009
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Who’s next? Which gallery is going to disappear next? With all of the speculation in the art market these last few years, many galleries have opened to grab a piece of the market, many with only money-making in mind. Artists be damned! At the same time, new upstarts with the best of intentions have opened [...]

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