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Dear Aesthetic Grounds,

We found Aesthetic Grounds Blog, and would appreciate a link from your website to ours.

ArtObserved.com covers global contemporary and fine art news from a New York perspective. We have original stories and photographs, with strong and growing web traffic. We believe that linking to ArtObserved.com will be beneficial for both sites.

ArtObserved.com has:

- A continuous increase in traffic to the ArtObserved site (50 percent increase in total website visits each month for the past nine months)

- Worldwide art coverage and deep sidebar content featuring artists, collectors, galleries and museums, offer an exclusive look into the art world.

- The bulk of our readers are cosmopolitan adults, affluent, educated, between the ages of 25-38 and enjoy attending gallery openings, art events, and other cultural activities

If there is anything we can do for you, please let us know!

Thank you,
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Amia
ArtObserved.com

Dear aesthetic Grounds,

We'd be very interested to be present in your website which defend true values of art and a certain philosophy we try to specially displayed. Is it possible for a free announcement, advertising, publishing...? Or an exchange of link in our website for a future and true collaboration.

Indeed our compagny "Le point sur le i" (before called: Ares Arts) is specialized in the online works of art sale (engravings, lithographs, photographs...) but above all (and that's our first ambition) all our profit is transfered in the defense and the promotion of young and very promising contemporary artist in an international way. We gamble every day !

For example, one of our artists, Sofia Leconte Mitev ( www.sofia-mitev.com ) and her amazing and UNIQUE work with a so special and intelligent point of view (architectoral and human) of the society. Let see her, you'll be seduce !

I hope something will be possible between tow artlovers like us and by solidarity and that maybe you can help us in our aim to try one's luck to all these new emerging artists and their unbridled creativity !

Thanks for your attention
Best Regards

Compagny : « Le point sur le i »
website : www.aresarts.com
Manager : M. Marc Cohen Tanugi
60 rue Jabouley 69007
Lyon - France

Hey Glen,

I'm wondering about the efficacy of your 'public buyer of art' trope for the AJ art blog. As the disembodied public, we purchase services, not products. Like buying physicians' time through an HMO or fire department responses, the services may vary with the worker, the site and the time of day.

A public art commission reflects a lot of things including the times, the artist, the administrator, the program leadership, the political will of the head of the particular municipality. Often they reflect the opinions of one or two vocal community members, the size of the budget and the attention to artwork and site maintenance.

Are public fire department services a good thing? Yes. Could they be better, in Philly, LA, or Cucamonga? Yes. The public buys not just for the individual, but for ones neighbors, visitors, and the disenfranchised.

An interesting question is whether local control is better than a nationalized standard. Does the growing army of professional public artists do a better job than the anointed blue chip artists who occasionally apply to public art commissions? Where is the public who experiences this art? Are we addressing tax payers, or are we including children, the retired, visitors and people from out of state?

Who selects and shapes the art in public art?
It's all perspective.

Helen