Recently I have been experiencing first hand, and for the first time in my life, the workings of the dull machinery that moves the art world.

Little did I realize, when I was initially invited to hold an exhibition in the States, that so much bureaucracy, paperwork, and hard physical labor would be involved.

Packing and shipping 24 art prints from Israel to the US is a royal pain in the Tuches! (Yiddish for posterior)
Especially if the prints happen to be on the largish size.
Curses on my megalomaniac weakness for working in big formats.

It turns out that the largest prints I planned for the exhibition at the gallery @404b (opens 1st of August), CAN’T BE SHIPPED BY AIRMAIL!

Call me naive, but I though that since we got people to the moon 4 decades ago, shipping “72 Virgins“, “Pharaoh’s Dream“, and “For our Sins” to Arkansas by airmail wouldn’t be such a big deal… Shows what I know.

I’m glad I had the foresight to start preparing for the exhibition now. Even so I think that what with preparing and printing a decent catalog, making labels, shipping everything to the states, preparing myself for the trip, and god knows what else I’m forgetting, this is going to be far more challenging than I thought…

The things you don’t read about in artist’s biographies…
: )
All the best
Mike