RE: [-empyre-] subscription

[Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>]

True enough. But the distinction to me is crucial. When I was curating in 
Atlanta, we had up to 3000 at a single opening - few email lists are that 
large. And not all of them were artists - there were a lot of curious 
people. Events like that - and not-for-profits also have in general strong 
outreach programs into the schools and other community venues - bring a 
melding of community and artist. We showed a great number of so-called 
folk artists (a term I've written against btw), all sorts of people, Susan 
Meiselas curated a show of El Salvadoran war photography. I've not seen 
the like on any email list - they tend, like empyre, to be relatively 
cloistered.

= Alan


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