«GOOD BUSINESS IS THE BEST ART»

"The promotion of art in the 21st century -- be that visual, or music, or theatre or whatever -- is becoming more and more pushed down upon the individual artist in places where there used to be middlemen," says Keith Serry, a former Ottawa resident and recent law school graduate who is co-director of the Montreal Artists Legal Clinic (Clinique Juridique Des Artistes de Montreal). "There used to be galleries or publishing houses or record companies that had lots of money that would sort of say, 'Don't worry kid, give me a percentage of what you've created and I'll go and I'll do the promotion for you.' "That's all changed in the Internet age, Serry says, based on what he hears from the artists who come to his clinic for legal information.
"The middlemen still exist, but they're not essential, and they're not as rich as they used to be so they're not spreading it around as much."

-The Ottawa Citizen
June 17 2010