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Mark Kostabi and Veronica De Blasi on stage during one of Galleria Spagnoli’s “Settimana dell’Arte” on the island of Sardinia

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SELLING ART IN HARD TIMES
by Mark Kostabi

June 23, 2011

“Anyone who can sell a painting today deserves a gold medal.” Those were the words I heard this morning from Giuseppe Orler, my biggest client, a dealer based near Venice. With his brothers, Giuseppe owns four galleries and ordinarily sells vast quantities of art via television infomercials with call-in numbers.

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May 31, 2011	Art School Confidential NEW MFA GRADS AT CHICAGO ART SCHOOLS by Pedro Vélez New talent from Chicago MFA programs at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, the Center for Book & Paper Arts at Columbia College, and the School of the Art Institute.

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Sept. 23, 2010	ADVICE TO ART STUDENTS by Mark Kostabi "Be better, not bitter."

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