Well I was hoping to find something like the old forums here. Hopefully that will return at some point. I'm thinking this will be the best place with what's available to ask a question and hopefully get some responses.

I've been on a sort of hiatus from writing for the past several months. Partly I ran out of useful information to write "Financial Management" articles on, and partly I just got to busy to write. I'm planning several new articles for Art Calendar going beyond the whole financial angle. One is related to galleries. (Sorry Carolyn, but I highly doubt this will be written by the due date for the issue focusing on galleries, though I hope to have a different gallery related article for that.) Anyway, my idea is this, I've observed both in myself and others that artists tend to be afraid of asking gallery owners hard questions. We might just be to timid by nature, don't want to piss off the gallery we want to be in with ugly questions, are just plain intimidated by the whole gallery issue, or whatever.

I have a very good relationship with the owner of my local gallery. They also happen to be my best gallery by far on many levels so I feel there is a good amount of value in what the owner has to say. Thus I'm in a position where I can ask hard questions of a quality gallery and hopefully get good answers. So my question of all of you is this, what have you always wanted to ask a gallery but were afraid to? I suppose it doesn't have to be really hard questions either. It could just be general questions you'd like to know about, but this is the opportunity to ask the tough ones you normally wouldn't dare. For example, I'll certainly have to ask, "Why should I give you 50% of the retail price!?!!?" It also seems like a good idea to ask something along the lines of, "What if I think you contract is a piece of crap? Can I demand changes?"

So let's here it. Do you have any questions I can add to the list?

I haven't tried this blog thing yet so I'm really hoping everyone can post comments, ie. your questions, to it.