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  • By: Brainard Carey
  • Narrated by: Peter Drew
  • Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins
  • 3.7 out of 5 stars (49 ratings)
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Brainard Carey hopes to shatter the tiresome myth of the struggling artist in Making It in the Art World, a valuable resource for artists hoping to gain greater success and more lucrative opportunities from their work. Carey, co-founder of the collaborative art duo Praxis, generously outlines some key factors, from unconventional thinking to fostering interpersonal relationships and building a community, all delivered by Peter Drew in an urgent and forceful performance that renders Carey's advice all the more motivational. Thanks to Carey, listeners are shown that it is possible to have a long-lasting and fulfilling career as a principled artist.

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Learn how today’s artists survive, exhibit, and earn money, without selling out! This book explains how to be a professional artist and new methods to define and realize what success means. Whether you’re a beginner, a student, or a career artist looking to be in the best museum shows, this book provides ways of advancing your plans on any level. Making It in the Art World is an invaluable resource for artists at every stage, offering readers a plethora of strategies and helpful tips to plan and execute a successful artistic career. Topics include how to evaluate your own work, how to submit art, how to present work to the public, how to avoid distractions in the studio, and much more.

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Stories with a bland narrator

Interesting stories about famous artists and their own (often highly eccentric) success stories, but not as useful to aspiring artists as the blurb makes out. Very financially driven, with a particularly tedious American bloke narrating the entire thing.

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Great tips but monotone to listen

Needed to put the speed up to 1.3 and then was able to listen as otherwise it was unbearably monotonous. Amazing tips tho and will listen again soon

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Same stuff again

Firstly, this seems to be read by AI. It’s an unnatural and tedious voice that makes listening difficult. I had to stop.

The content is ok, but amounts to the usual story of a lucky artist who assumes the same luck awaits everyone else. They present strategies that worked for them and might work for others, but in the telling it just sounds like someone who is very pleased with themselves sharing stories of their luck. Unhelpful if you’re at a low point in your ‘career’ as an artist. Beware if you’re looking to this book for answers when you’re at bottom. It could make you bitter and angry (as it did me). Try ‘Art & Fear’ instead. It’s positive and not driven by the model promoted in this book, ie, monetary gain = success

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not the message i wanted to hear

the book has some intelligent remarks, but it's all about art as a business. not exactly what i wish, ideally, art to be, or be about. i got this book expecting to hear a discourse on art, instead this seems to focus on all the wrong things, from my perspective.

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very boring and uninspiring

The narrator reads extremly monotone like a robot. There are perhaps some good advises to find here for some readers, but none that I remember as particular useful in the end.

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