Category Archives: Art

Home-Based Businesses are Exploding!

Today, 50% of U.S. businesses are home-based businesses. That number increases to 60.1% when looking specifically at non-employer firms, or companies that don’t have any employees.

Add the number of employees that work from home and it changes the perception of a home. Buyers are now overwhelmingly looking at how their home can function as a business.

When selling a home, consider how that home will meet the buyer’s needs to operate a business there too.

We bought our property with that in mind and are getting ready to launch our home-based business in our new town Lake Placid, FL.

Our need was to have a property big enough, pretty enough to operate an art studio, hold occasional events, and have amenities already in place for our business.

We found it on Lake Huntley, a 1.2 acre lakefront home with 2 dozen oak trees, dock, and a shed we could convert.

See More [R. Michael Brown – Freelance Writer and Marketing & Communication Consultant]

A Danish artist who submitted empty frames as artwork is appealing court ruling to repay the cash

BY JAN M. OLSEN
Updated 7:30 AM EDT, September 27, 2023

COPENHAGEN, Denmark (AP) — A Danish artist who was given a pile of cash by a museum in northern Denmark to create a piece for its exhibition on labor conditions two years ago submitted two empty canvases — titled “Take the Money and Run.” The exhibit caused a stir.

Jens Haaning, ‘Conceptul Artist’

A Danish court ruled last week that Jens Haaning has to repay 492,549 kroner ($69,894 ) to Kunsten Museum in Aalborg for having violated his contract. His lawyer, Peter Schønning, said Wednesday that the contemporary artist is appealing the ruling and declined further comment.

The museum had commissioned Haaning in 2021 to recreate two of his earlier pieces featuring bank notes attached to canvases representing the average annual wage in Denmark and Austria.

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Brownie Bytes Take

I guess Jen’s concept is that art is in the eye of the beholder. He expects viewers to imagine what would be there? He allegedly called it “Work it out.”

Does it seem to you that the art world is awfully full of grifters and scammers? What do you think?

Apple unveils the best photos from the Shot on iPhone Macro Challenge Winners highlight the global community of iPhone photographers

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www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/04/apple-unveils-the-best-photos-from-the-shot-on-iphone-macro-challenge/

Currents – An Abstract Commission

Leo Art Creations, just finished this piece!

This abstract acrylic painting is my wife’s first large commissioned piece. It’s influenced by a famous Puerto Rican artist, Andres Bueso.

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https://leoartcreations.com/2021/08/28/currents-an-abstract-commission/