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Volunteer Lawyers for the
Arts
1 East 53rd
Street
NYC
(212)
319-2787
The
VLA website
Got some copyright
questions? Want to incorporate yourself as a non-profit? One
major obstacle artists encounter in trying to manage their
careers is lack of adequate legal advice. This legal aid
service for artists and arts organizations provides education,
pro bono legal representation, and advocacy for artists
of all disciplines. And their site provides a list of
satellite providers nationwide, from California to Maine.
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Chashama
135 West 42nd
Street, NYC
(212)
391-8151
website
Finally,
a reason to revisit Times Square. Chashama (from Farsi,
meaning “foresight,” or “of the eye”) is a multimedia
production company whose mission is to offer the public
“risky, accessible, and vital work” through the transformation
of non-gallery spaces into venues hosting artwork and
performance in the context of everyday, mainstream life. With
that in mind, the curators of “Chashamafest”—which includes
installation and performance art a block away from Times
Square, in the display windows of 111, 125, 129, and 135 West
42nd Street—have acquired old retail spaces slated for
demolition, and donated them to visual and performance
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Grants for Artists
Various online resources
There
are times when a thousand (or so) words are worth all the
pictures in the world—for instance, when it comes to grant
writing. Two websites, in particiular—Grants
Portal and Donors
Forum—provide valuable free insights into the
process. Also free, a site named Foo
offers a no-frills overview of tips, links, sample artist
statements, and “how-to” summaries. Money
For Art treats money and time not as luxuries, but as a
serious artist’s right—and for about $32 a month, they’ll work
hard on your behalf with a tailor-made, year-long program to
“radically improve the artist’s chance of getting money to
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New York Earth
Room
141 Wooster
Street
(between Houston and Prince)
NYC
Earth
Room website
Feeling a bit
removed from Ma Nature lately? Walter De Maria?s New
York Earth Room will cure what ails you. His “interior
earth sculpture” consists of a 3,600 square foot gallery space
filled knee-deep with 280,000 pounds of topsoil. That’s 250
cubic yards of the great outdoors, resting silently in a city
loft. The most immediate aspect of the piece? The unexpected,
overwhelming smell of good, solid, moist dirt. Take a break
from SoHo shopping, and commune with some heavy loam.
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Love Saves the Day
119 2nd Ave, NYC
(212)
228-3802
The
perfect place to start a Kitsch 101 course, Love Saves the Day
houses Star Wars memorabilia, Elvis porcelain lamps,
vintage Playboy magazines, Pez dispensers—you name it,
they probably have it. The store’s been around for decades,
and it’s not hard to imagine a young Jeff Koons browsing here
with Cicciolina. In other words, here’s that little shove
you’ve needed in order to make giant puppy sculptures out of
flowers, candy, or whatever else comes to hand.
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