Acting agents represent actors and actresses and help to promote their services. The acting agent’s job is to build the types of industry connections that allow them to find out about opportunities for their actors early, and to have an audience with the types of people who can place those actors in roles. (more…)

Acting agencies are a critical tool for succeeding as a professional actor. It can be difficult to match yourself with the correct acting agency to meet your needs. In this article we will discuss some of the factors to be mindful of when selecting and applying for representation. (more…)

Fine Art, Commercial Art, Popular Art

These categorizations of art are blurry at best and often just plain arbitrary. If fine art becomes popular, does it cease to be fine? What about commercial art which has been included in a museum exhibit–is it then fine art? Andy Warhol pretty much invented the idea of popular art (he called it pop art), but in many ways the marketing and mass production of his art was itself a fine art project. Or maybe it was all just a commercial art project

The fact is, artists in this day and age will do well to avoid pigeon-holing themselves into just one category on which they stake their identity. After all, much of the classical art that is now considered to be indisputably in the fine art category was actually created on commission, especially the art sculptures that we all know and love; they were essentially commercial in their time, but were either good enough or popular enough to be treasured over a long period of time.

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