Marketing Mondays: Got Plans?

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Fair Play, my report series on the Miami art fairs, will resume on Wednesday with a Roundup. Scroll down for the previous posts.
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No, I'm not going to ask you about your resolutions for the new year.

Resolutions get broken and then you feel like crap.

But plans are another story. Plans are a look forward. Sometimes realistic, sometimes a bit pie in the sky, they allow us to take steps to achieve what we would most like to achieve and be where would like to be. What I like about plans is that they're not freighted with the same baggage as resolutions. Plans can change without being broken.

So today's post is a short one with what I hope will be some well-thought-out responses from you.

What are your art plans for 2012?

I can tell you that I plan to cut back on the curating to spend more time in the studio. (I love curating--in my next life I plan to come back as a curator, and in fact I have a curated show that opens on the 13th, more of which next week--but in this life it takes a lot of time away from my painting practice.) I can also tell you that I plan to spend some time archiving images, not a pleasant task but one that I've been preparing for. 

I also plan to get back to Europe this year. It's been a while since I was there. I plan to spend about a week in Italy, the Adriatic side this time, and then fly over to Berlin for the annual Gallery Weekend, April 29-31. Dining with some new German art friends in Miami, I learned how excited they were about the event. My American friends (a dealer and a collector) and I planned then and there to rendezvous with them the last weekend of April in Berlin. Sounds like the start of a joke: an artist, an art dealer and a collector walk into a gallery in Berlin . . .If I come up with a punchline, I'll let you know.
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Of course I'll continue to work in the studio. That's neither a plan nor a resolution but simply a fact of life.

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OK, over to you.

Tell us what's on the drawing board, whether for artmaking, career pursuits or art-related travel. Spare no detail.

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