Making It in the Art World

New Approaches to Galleries, Shows, and Raising Money

By: Brainard Carey

Narrated by: Peter Drew

Length: 5 hrs and 35 mins

Publisher's Summary

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.

©2011 Brainard Carey (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

Not my style

Everything about this audiobook turned me off. The author sounds cocky. The advice is both obvious and unhelpful. And in general, it's just unpleasant to listen to.

outdated all around. Reader is suicide inducing.

What disappointed you about Making It in the Art World?

Want to know how a 70 year old sold art 15 years ago? This is your book!

Great content. Narrator is a little dry.

I have listened to this book multiple times. The content is good, but the narrator is difficult to enjoy. It sounds very robotic.

Every artist NEEDS THIS BOOK!

Would you consider the audio edition of Making It in the Art World to be better than the print version?

no

What did you like best about this story?

Concise information of how to make it in the art world...If you are ready and willing you can do it!

Have you listened to any of Peter Drew’s other performances before? How does this one compare?

good

What did you learn from Making It in the Art World that you would use in your daily life?

how to approach things

Any additional comments?

Fantastic book YOU NEED MORE BOOKS LIKE THIS!

Straight-forward, easy to follow, great ideas

What made the experience of listening to Making It in the Art World the most enjoyable?

Very straight-forward language. Not flowery at all. Easy to understand and incorporate into our life/plan. Logical and inspiring. Great for the go-getter mentality.

Wonderful, Informative Book

What made the experience of listening to Making It in the Art World the most enjoyable?

Enjoyed the stories about the author's entry into the art world and his stories about other artists experiences with shows etc. Also had some good tips for readers... and some tips I will certainly apply.

What three words best describe Peter Drew’s voice?

The narrator's voice was pleasant, but had a choppy cadence and could be hard to follow a times,

Practical and direct to the point!

I think it was very practical giving directions and not much wondering with wishful thinking like some other books I read. 5 stars from me!

loved it enjoyed it inspired by it.

this book is filled with nuggets of so much great stuff that I cannot wait to read it over again and put into action it 's instructed words of wisdom on how to become a true artist.

Inspiring book with a lot of great guidelines

I recommend this book to any artist as it gives a lot of information about the business side and marketing for yourself as always as how to be genuine with people you meet and how to decisipline yourself. it has showed that there's a lot you can do and the answer is simple. you just need to be bold and try.

good info, crap narration but worth the time

The guy reading this sounds about as good as text to speech software. In fact Im almost not sure this is read by a human. No proper intonation, no pauses, etc. But the information is good if you can handle the narration. Giving 5 stars because of the 2 free books at Audible Plus, this one is 100x better than the other (your art will save your life)

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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the lazy cat jumped over the happy dog

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.

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

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.