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Friday 12th November 2010Masters of Photography on Show at the Metropolitan

Paul Strand, Wall Street, 1915
 
To continue the run of exhibitions dealing with world class photographers, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is now showing the works of Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen and Paul Strand as an example of truly spectacular 20th-century American photography. 
 
Running through until the 10th April 2011, Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand, explores the groundbreaking work that these photographers did in their field through a showing of about 115 photographs taken from the Mets own collection. 
 
Each of the characters covered in the exhibition have a wealth of work and historical importance to qualify their inclusion in this exhibition. Stieglitz was born in 1864 and came to be a huge advocate for photography as a medium of modern art, through the work at his gallery, 291. As well as holding photography exhibitions at his gallery, he also produced a journal called Camera Work, which still stands as one of the most interesting resources on 20th-century photography. The museum first acquired Stieglitz's work in 1928 though a personal donation from the gallerist and photographer. Amongst the works that will go on show are some of Stieglitz portraits of Georgia O'Keefe, with whom Stieglitz had a complex and involved relationship.
 
Steichen was a protégé and collaborator with Stieglitz, showing remarkable talent as a photographer. Steichen was a member of the Photo-Secession, which was a group of artists founded by Stieglitz in 1902 with the aim of creating and showing photographs that would be judged on their artist merit by photographers, not artists - as had typically been the case. Steichen became well versed in multiple printing techniques that allowed him to create photographs on a scale, and with a quality, with which he challenged the individuality of painting.
 
Strand was a younger contemporary of Stieglitz and Steichen and he is renowned for taking the soft painterly efforts of the Photo-Secession photographers and shifting to the hard-edged and graphically powerful style of emerging modernism. Strand looked at geometric abstraction and involved himself in street life and machine culture in order to produce highly striking photographs of the modern world. 
 
The exhibition at the Met offers a great opportunity to see these photographers works together and get a unique view of the development of photography at such a key time in modern history. 
 
 

Posted on November 12th 2010 on 11:37am
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Thursday 11th November 2010Gallereo Tip of the Week - Getting Your Images in the Right Order

Every week we will bring you our tip of the week - a small chunk of information that might just make the difference to your Gallereo website. You may learn things that you didn't know about the system and find out new ways to manipulate the parts you do already know about. 
 
This week, we look at how you can order the images in your galleries, something we all like to play around with every now and again. As they say, context is everything so you want to get your images looking good and sitting next to complimentary works in your portfolio.
 
So here's how you do it; click on Categories in your Manage Art menu. You will then see a list of your categories as demonstrated below. Click on the number which tells you how many artworks you have in that category.
 
 
Once you have clicked on that number, you will be taken to a screen listing all of the artworks in that category. Below is just a snippet of that page to show you want it looks like. Use the up and down arrows on the right hand side to adjust the order in which your images appear in your gallery. 
 
 
There's no need to press save, as soon as you start pressing the arrows to change the order, that change is reflected at the front end of your website when you refresh the page. 
 
Check back next week for more top tips from Gallereo, and if you have any questions in the meantime, drop us a line at support@gallereo.com.
 
 

Posted on November 11th 2010 on 05:15pm
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Wednesday 10th November 2010Secret Postcard Art at the Royal College of Art

RCA Secret is a great annual exhibition, at the Royal College of Art in London, that sees postcard-sized art go on show and up for sale by a range of professional artists, designers, illustrators and current postgraduate students at the Royal College of Art.
 
This is a fun and quirky show that sees the postcards displayed anonymously, but are signed on the reverse so that the creator is only revealed once a postcard has been purchased. The exhibition opens on Friday 12th November and runs through until Friday 19th, although please refer to the website for closures and times! 
 
There are a whole host of great surprises amongst the postcards that some lucky people are going to end up with. Amongst the thousand or so artists that have submitted a postcard are Yinka Shonibare, John Baldessari, Olafur Eliasson, Tracey Emin and Grayson Perry. Fashion designer Sir Paul Smith and animator Nick Park are also amongst the contributers to be found at this years show.
 
The cards go on sale on a single day (Saturday 20th) and they cost £45 each. You have to have a collector number before you can purchase, which you can get off the RCA's website, but purchases do have to be made in person.

Posted on November 10th 2010 on 05:01pm
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Tuesday 09th November 2010Things You Can Do To Make Your Artist Website Successful

So you've got yourself a new website, you've uploaded all of your artworks or photographs and added in your content. That's phase one of having a successful website - having one that is full of great things for people to look at and read.
 
The following are our recommendations for giving your website the best start possible for when you are ready to launch:
 
1) Get Your Own Domain Name
Make sure your website is running on your own domain name, not a sub domain such as www.myartwebsite.gallereo.com. This is important for looking professional and putting out a good image, as well as being important for search engines understanding who you are.
 
2) Get Involved in Social Media
You might not be a  big fan of Facebook or Twitter, but these sorts of platforms can make people aware of who you are and what you do. Create a page or an account about you as an artist or a photographer, and let people know when you have created some new works or have an exhibition coming up. You can then link these into your website so that people who are interested can find out more about you.
 
3) Search Engine Optimisation
Try and get to grips with search engine optimisation (SEO). The more you can do here, the more chance your website has of doing well. We have written some previous blog posts about SEO, including one on researching your keywords, and also one about on-site optimisation. We always recommend Search Engine Optimization for Dummies as a great book for anyone wanting a comprehensive, but straightforward take on things as well.
 
4) Set up Google Analytics
Make sure that you are able to track how much traffic is coming to your website and where they are coming from. Find out where in the world they are located and what keywords they are using to find your website. All of these things can help you to develop your site and your SEO campaign accordingly.
 
5) Google Webmaster Tools
Grab yourself an account on Googles webmaster tools and submit your website. This ensures that the Google search bots make the rounds to your website and start listing your pages in the search engines. You can also find information here about any problems that the search bots have with your site, such as if pages can't be crawled for any reason or your site has broken links.
 
6) Tell Anyone and Everyone
Possibly the easiest thing for you to do. You have a new website, so don't be shy about it; tell people. The more people you tell, the more people that will look at it and the more you might find people recommending you. The more people that know about your website, the better. 
 
These are just a few things that you can do as your launch your website out into the big wide WWW. If you have any other suggestions, or things that worked well for you when you launched your website - let us know!

Posted on November 09th 2010 on 02:32pm
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Monday 08th November 2010Getting into the Spirit: Reindeer at the Hamburger Bahnhof

Photo: David von Becker, courtesy of somainberling.org
 
Imagine what it would be like to wake up in the middle of the great historic hall at the Hamburger Bahnhof in Berlin in a bed on a raised platform. Around you there are twelve reindeer, refrigeration units, snow, two houseflies, twelve canaries and four mice. My guess is that you would think you were still dreaming. 
 
However, for a lucky few this can all become a reality. Aside from the wildlife, you can specifically wake up to reindeer urine, some frozen and dried agaric mushrooms and some freezer cubes. Yes, it all still sounds a little bit weird. 
 
What it is, in fact, is the newest exhibition at Berlin's Hamburger Bahnhof. Created and orchestrated by Carsten Hoeller and titled Soma, the exhibition will run through until the 6th January 2011, giving us a sort of festive event for the Christmas period. (Reindeers do count as festive, don't they?)
 
A particularly interesting feature of the exhibition is that each night, one or two guests are able to book and stay overnight in the bed on a raised platform in order to fully immerse themselves in the display. 
 
The title of the show, Soma, refers to a myth around a particular drink that was rumoured to have healing powers and the ability to lead to enlightenment. While the origins of the drink are no longer known to us, it is thought that a certain form of mushroom was the base for the drink, which has been held responsible for the effects.
 
The exhibition asks questions of the achievement of enlightenment and what role science and mythology play in our society. I dare say spending the night with twelve male reindeer, twelve canaries, four mice and a couple of house flies would go quite a long way to helping us think about the universe in a new and unique way.
 
For further details on the exhibition, visit the Hamburger Bahnhof website, or visit the dedicated Soma website.

Posted on November 08th 2010 on 06:18pm
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Saturday 06th November 2010Another New Artist & Photographer Website Template

Gallereo have now fully launched another template which is fit for use by any artists or photographers looking for a fully fitted and kitted website. 
 
Nevinson Template
 
 
As the latest template to be added to Gallereo, the Nevinson template is named after famous British war artist C.R.W. Nevinson. Son of famous war correspondent and journalist, Henry Nevison and suffragette and writer Margaret Nevinson. The Nevinson template makes use of a classic typewriter typeface and large, clean image spaces that will do any artwork or photograph justice.
 
The templates comes in 5 standard colour variations and is flexible in terms of whether is can be used as a place to sell art and photographs online, or whether it is used as a portfolio website. Differing from the current templates that we have, there is also a subtle use of colour highlights on text and image surrounds to help the features of the template stand out. 
 
 
If you want to find out more about the templates on offer at Gallereo and find out just how flexible they really are, get in touch, or try our 30 day free trial, with no obligation to pay at the end.
 

Posted on November 06th 2010 on 03:14pm
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Friday 05th November 2010An Interesting Decade for the Arts

As we approach the end of the first decade of the 2000's there are bound to be a great many reviews of what we have experienced in the past ten years and what has defined the new century. One of the most interesting instances of this to already come to light is a new book, published by Phaidon and complied by Eamonn McCabe, called Decade.
 
The book contains around 500 images over, 512 pages, and covers all of the expected events - 9/11, the war in Afghanistan, climate change, global economic crisis and the proliferation of social media as a dominant social force. 
 
Aside from these subjects, however, the book also turns to less expected territory such as the state of the art market over the past 10 years. A legendary auction house figure and source of knowledge on the art market, Christopher Burge, contributes and essay titled "How the Art Market Survived," in which he reportedly describes the swelling and bursting of the art market bubble.
 
An article by ARTINFO describes the book as cleverly using images representing the heights of the art market with the fatalities of the world wide financial collapse. An example given is the juxtaposition of an image of the Lehman Brothers meltdown, opposite a picture of a Jeff Koons Ballon Dog installed at Versailles. 
 
Other artists and artworks to make it into the book are Richard Serra's Torqued Spiral, the Berlin holocaust memorial, Martin Creed's Work. 227: The Lights Going On and Off at Tate Britain and Olafur Eliasson's Weather Project at Tate Modern. 
 
Whether you're interested on Burge's take on the whole art market or whether you just want to find out what other events and happenings made it into Decade, the books seems like it is well worth it's cost, and definitely something to keep your coffee table company this winter. 

Posted on November 05th 2010 on 08:31pm
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Wednesday 03rd November 2010Painting is Still A Strong Medium in the Art Market

There is always debate about the relevancy of different artistic mediums or modes of creation. A good example would be the Tate recently running a debate on Facebook, in relation to the Rachel Whiteread exhibition at Tate Britain, about how relevant drawing still is to the artist and how highly we value that as a skill. It's an interesting subject to look at, especially with contemporary art where we are used to seeing the weird and wonderful. If an artist that works in conceptual art, or sculpture or performance; do we think of them less if they are unable to draw to a high standard?Or can we accept their own individual contribution to the art world, without a need to verify their drawing talents?
 
The same discussion comes up about painting and how relevant it is to be a painter in today's art world. With types of media and modes of production being more various than ever before, should an artist have to rely on a key skill such as painting, or is it unnecessary? Video art, performance and installation are certainly more commonplace in museums and galleries than they have ever been, but does that mean that there is less room for paintings?
 
I think the recent sales reports from the auction houses say otherwise. There is a huge scope for paintings in the hearts of art lovers and collectors all around the world. This week alone Sotheby's managed to set a new auction record for painter, Amedeo Modiglioni, whose Nu Assis Sur un Divan (La Belle Romaine) sold for a massive $68,962,500. It's reported that 5 bidders pushed the paintings price to over $40 million more than had been expected. If that doesn't stand as a vote for painterly efforts everywhere, I don't know what does. 
 
Whether it be painting or drawing, there is plenty of space in the art market for these more traditional modes of artistic practice, with a fair number of bidders willing to put up vast amounts of cash to get their hands on a piece of the action. 
 
As for the question of whether we think an artist should be able to draw in order to considered a true artist, or whether we have moved to a new period of artistic creation where drawing is a limited means of expression, view the discussion on Facebook, and have your say.
 

Posted on November 03rd 2010 on 10:25pm
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Monday 01st November 2010Another Photography Great Goes on Show in California

We've had a lot of photography stuff on the blog recently and we could make excuses, but we won't! We talk about what we love, and we definitely love William Eggleston, who is now on show at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). 
 
The Californians are really pulling the greats out of the bag when it comes to photography this autumn, with Cartier-Bresson in San Francisco, and now Eggleston in LA. William Eggleston: Democratic Camera - Photographs and Video, 1961-2008 went on show at LACMA yesterday and will run right through until 16th January 2011.  The retrospective of the Memphis-based photographers work is the most comprehensive to date, showing over 200 photographs, following Egglestons development over the space of five decades.
 
 
Famed for his iconic images of familiar and everyday objects, Eggleston is credited as a pivotal figure in American photography; being at the forefront of securing a place for colour photography as an art form in the country. Spinning off our last post on Henri Cartier-Bresson, Eggleston is said to have been inspired by Cartier-Bressons work, along with that of swiss photographer Robert Frank, whose book The American's, we have already recommended for any photography fan. 
 
Eggleston himself has produced a number of books and portfolios that chart his various photographic interests and development. Finding something of interest in seemingly banal subject matter and learning to use colour to its full potential on film, Eggleston managed to create some of the most beautiful and striking images of American culture.
 
For more information on the exhibition, visit the LACMA website.
 
Image: Untitled, from Los Alamos, 1965-66 and 1972-74 © Eggleston Artistic Trust, courtesy Cheim & Read, New York

Posted on November 01st 2010 on 06:37pm
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