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In 1920, Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani died at the age of 35, destitute and penniless. Done in by a then uncurable case of tubercular meningitis\u2014and way too much drinking\u2014he was literally so broke that he only ate by trading his work for meals. (That’s, l-r, Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, and critic Andr\u00e9 Salmon in 1914, Paris, right.)<\/p>\n
Of course, today, he is recognized as a genius.<\/strong> In 2004,\u00a0Jeanne Hebuterne (devant une porte)<\/em>, above, an eponymous portrait of his life’s great love, sold at auction for $31,368,000<\/strong>; a record for his work.<\/p>\n Too bad he couldn’t take a trip to the future, not just to skim some needed cash off the top, but to pick up a copy of author Jackie Battenfield<\/a>‘s book, The Artist’s Guide: How to Make a Living Doing What You Love<\/em><\/a>. As she notes on her web site<\/a>, the text<\/p>\n is a comprehensive handbook that provides the information, tools, and techniques, for developing and sustaining a successful art career. It provides answers to the challenges artists face everyday and includes real-life examples, illustrations, step-by-step exercises, and bulleted lists that allow readers to dive in and begin working immediately.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Instead, her core idea is that, equipped with the right information, an artist can run their career, as opposed to having it run them. Modigiliani would, no doubt, agree.<\/p>\n Jackie Battenfield is a guest today on my WBAI-NY \/ 99.5 FM radio show, NONFICTION, this afternoon, Friday, December 4, at 2 pm ET.<\/p>\n Today, I’ll be talking with editor-in-chief Andre Torres, as well as writer Michael Gonzales<\/a>, author of the current issue’s cover story on Super Fly<\/em> soundtrack creator Curtis Mayfield.<\/p>\n You can hear Jackie Battenfield’s Andre Torres’s, and Michael Gonzales’s ideas by tuning in at 2 pm. If you’re outside of the New York tri-state, check out our stream<\/a> on the web. If you miss the live show, dig into our archives<\/a> for up to 90 days after broadcast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In 1920, Italian artist Amedeo Modigliani died at the age of 35, destitute and penniless. Done in by a then uncurable case of tubercular meningitis\u2014and way too much drinking\u2014he was literally so broke that he only ate by trading his work for meals. (That’s, l-r, Modigliani, Pablo Picasso, and critic Andr\u00e9 Salmon in 1914, Paris, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[12,44,13,33,40,47],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6117"}],"version-history":[{"count":16,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6137,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6117\/revisions\/6137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"jackie-portrait\"](\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/jackie-portrait.jpg\" "\\"jackie-portrait\\"")
Some artists see poverty as the price they must pay to become great, or even, wrongly, as a sign of it. But Battenfield, right, a gifted visual artist herself, doesn’t dispute that, at points in one’s career, Ramen noodles can be a sculptor’s best friend.<\/p>\n![\"i38b-front\"](\"http:\/\/harryallen.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/i38b-front.jpg\" "\\"i38b-front\\"")
Then, eight years ago this month, Wax Poetics<\/em><\/a>, right\u2014the chunky, Brooklyn-based bimonthly\u2014began what has become a stellar run of thirty-eight issues to-date. Designed to putty “the once noticeable gap in music\u00a0journalism\u2014an editorial void between\u00a0contemporary artists and classic greats,” the magazine effortlessly bridges disparate blends of groove-oriented musiculture.<\/p>\n