Mana Contemporary – “Art Criticism and Writing with Owen Duffy”

  • Has been writing for 7 or 8 years
  • 2 sentences for the pitch (?!)
  • Any response (gentle no) is better than silence
  • Queens County Chronicle; Journal of Curatorial Studies
  • “Someone else’s voice gently mixed into it.”
  • He was offered $500 for the article; he asked for more, and got $750.
  • Art & Education: $1,000 for a 1,500 to 2,500 word article
  • $1,500 is a month’s rent
  • Polemic: This is someone we should pay attention to. Here is something overlooked.
  • Winkelmann: writing not about art you’re seeing in person but reproductions. Etchings. Not an embodied experience.
  • Easier to argue for more compensation if you can say this is an exception to the rule. “This other publication wants it.” “I really want to put it here.” Can justify why this article in particular needs more money. Or: “This is what I require.”