Gallery

In the video the guy
goes to his ex girlfriend and is singing to her at an art gallery and a fight breaks out and he gets kicked out. I can’t remember and it’s really bothering me!

AKon – Lonely

I’m designing an ipad app for an art gallery, and I’m wondering what other people look for when theyre checking out the art. What interests you the most about a particualar peice, not what type of art but more so, each peice. The artist, the year it was created, the techniques used, other art by the same author any feedback would help a lot.

I’m sure the reason there are so few art apps is all the intellectual property issues. Consumers won’t access an art app without pictures, and to use images of art requires a lot of legal wrangling unless the work is in the public domain, which isn’t likely.

I’d caution you to tread lightly and make sure you have a personal indemnity clause in your contract with the gallery so that if an image of some painter ends up in your app without permission, or that exceeds conditions of usage, the artist can’t come after you and sue you for developing the app.

Regarding the app characteristics, it depends on the gallery, I’m sorry to say. Personally, I seek out particular art galleries based on either the genre or special collections, as I collect art by specific artist or maybe specific genre. Ask the gallery to describe their gallery in one sentence and that will be the feature(s) you build the app around.

I guess I would want artist bios, news of new acquisitions, traveling auctions, links to web sites if you could only legally use thumbnails in your app. Everything changes so fast in the world of art, I can’t imagine how you would keep a mobile/ipad app fresh.

I buy Native American Fine Art prints. I live in the US but the gallery is in Vancouver BC. They know which artists we like. They email comps of new art, or we contact them about a specific print and pay a finders fee for them to locate the work. Same with a gallery in San Francisco only to them we are small potatoes so they only send us quarterly bulletins. However, I doubt I could even afford a Lichtenstein serigraph now that he’s gone, much less an original painting!

Either the database would have to be huge and accessible locally without a connection, or contain rare information about artists that is not widely known. Even iPhone garden apps can’t resolve the data management effectively. The few that remain have had to resort to user customization because of the vast and incredibly labor intensive database management necessary. Most of us have abandoned mobile apps that force us to access data through a web connection because it becomes a slog to find anything. But, if I’m create my own database because the built-in database is inadequate and/or infrequently updated, then what do I need an app for?

Consider not the first use of your app, but the 10th or 20th use. If there’s nothing new after a few uses, then what’s the point of the app. Building an iPad-friendly version of the gallery’s web site would seem more cost effective.

And I could be an idiot from another planet! Just giving you my thoughts based on being an art and collectibles consumer, a web designer/front-end developer with an iPhone, a MacBook Pro and jonesing for an iPad.

So disregard if I am delusional! Don’t mean to rain on your parade, but also want you to consider the legal stranglehold the updated IP (intellectual properties) laws have put us all in.

Heck, it seems that just about the only subject left to use in art without permission is the sky. As far as I know, God hasn’t required a property release or conditions-of-use contract for painting a picture of it. Everything else on the planet is owned by somebody, (including NASA space images above the sky which are no longer in the free-use public domain). And that SOMEBODY gets bent out of shape pretty easily if they don’t get their piece of the pie if whatever they own appears in your work!

Tread lightly and protect yourself from others that may have their hand in your pocket if they can’t have their hand in someone else’s.

Hello!
I’m wondering if you have any creative suggestions for possible names of my online,urban experience art gallery,featuring art made from found materials of the inner city. I’m pretty bad when it comes to being creative with names and such. I want something unique and that will make people think "hey, that’s kinda cool". Something like a play on words, or an average phrase flipped around to work for the gallery. I’m open to any suggestions you may have

Primary Colors
Green Seen Art
Living Again Art
Relived Art
Do Overs
Recycled
Give It a Chance
Art Monger
Repeat Art

I am looking for a website that provides uncomplicated tools to build an online art gallery shop. Preferably this website should also provide the domain hosting, etc. Any good suggestions? Thanks guys.

Next week, I’m working in an art gallery for 4 days. I want to look smart but artsy and unique at the same time, I’m really struggling to put together a few outfits without them either being too scruffy or to business like. Suggestions?

are you a girl or a boy?
girls wear a dress, or a nice professional suit. you would rather look business like than artsy. art is a business and if treated like a style thing then your being fake thus people will see this and take note.

be you. dress nice use assories.

if your a guy a nice shirt and nice slacks works wonders. ensure your well shaven and clean.

My father does photography and we thought about opening an art gallery. How much would it cost to open an art gallery and what would be the monthly expenses?
Please and thank you.
Let’s say in Portland, OR.
Let’s say I wanted to open a gallery in Portland, OR.

HOW…. on …. Earth …. do you expect anyone to tell you that? If you are THAT naive about business, you better just forget the whole idea.

A location in a bad area in a small town might cost $500 a month, a shop in a nice area in a larger town might cost over $5000 a month. Then you have operating expenses, which will again vary greatly. You have business license, accountant fees, insurance fees, and how are you planning on working with any displaying artists? How much will you take from any sells? Are you going to charge for wall space? I hope you don’t think your Father "doing photography" is going to finance and support this whole thing.

This question is simply another variation of the never ending "what do I name my photography business" questions seen on here almost hourly by totally clueless people as pertains to business knowledge. An art gallery is a business much like any other. I suggest you get in some business courses / classes if this is something you want to pursue in the future.

steve