Feb 12, 2018 • 9M

TDL090 Exchanging Art For Cash

 
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Larry G. Maguire
The Sunday Letters Podcast is the weekly audio newsletter from organisational psychologist Larry Maguire on the meaning & purpose of daily work and our paradoxical relationship with it. We explore how we may break free from tiresome means-to-an-end labour and take command of their own working lives. Topics include solo working, careers, entrepreneurship, small business economics, society and culture. Content follows the written newsletter, which goes out to subscribers every Sunday.
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Read it here: https://larrygmaguire.com/exchanging-art-for-cash/ Exchanging Art For Cash If you’ve already read The Artist’s Manifesto you’ll know that exchanging art for cash, or anything for that matter, is an important principle of the document. It’s vital that creative people like you and me rid ourselves of any negative associations around exchanging art for cash because if we don’t we go broke. Sometimes it’s so subtle that we hardly notice it. It sits at the back of our minds festering, only pronouncing itself when we encounter things we don’t like. Maybe the industry that has built up around the arts doesn’t always serve artist’s interests honourably. Or maybe you were burned in the past and you carry that with you. Maybe a mentor or a parent went their entire lives broke as a pie crust and now having experienced that you hold a similar view to them. Or perhaps your parents weren’t creative and they constantly told you yo --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/sunday-letters/message