Talk:Clint Baclawski

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Clint Baclawski is a contemporary artist Boston, MA. This page was marked for deletion. Baclawski was included in "The National: Best Contemporary Photography 2018" at the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wane, IA. Additionally, the Lehman College exhibit, "Castles in the Sky: Fantasy Architecture in Contemporary Art" featured Baclawski alongside artists Salvador Dali, David Lachapelle, and Claes Oldernburg.

The Boston Globe has written about Baclawski, once in 2015 (https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2015/09/29/frozen-time-altered-perspectives-new-photo-shows/XsVi1uPsLPe4jdGvsBSG6H/story.html) and again in 2016 (https://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2016/05/31/artist-clint-baclawski-helps-see-photographs-different-way/vhOfIjxpRjNaVuYYZKXCOM/story.html).

His work is included in private and institutional collections. Baclawski has been featured in: FRAME magazine, The Boston Globe, The Creator’s Project, Boston Home magazine, Designboom, and The Collector’s Guide to New Art Photography Volume II.

Contemporary art is difficult to write about in the current moment; it seems that artists get recognition for "contemporary art" near the end of their lives, like David Hockney. I think Clint Baclawski should be included as a contemporary artist in the Wikipedia collection because he is currently making and showing art at institutions and investing in the next generation of artists while teaching students at Massachusetts College of Art and Design. If we do not include artists who are truly contemporary, we are doing a disservice to readers who go to Wikipedia to learn about contemporary artists.— Preceding unsigned comment added by Levesc12 (talk • contribs)

I added some citations from a recent Boston Globe review of Baclawski's work after I read it in the newspaper and then came to Wikipedia to learn more. I think this page has enough citations now. -Scl2162Scl2162 (talk) 18:49, 7 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Promotional accusations?[edit]

Hi User_talk:ThatMontrealIP, I don't understand your "promotional rollback" reverts messaging. I have no connection to this person, and am just cleaning up the wording and making it read more encyclopedic. Thank you. LumaNatic (talk) 21:06, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

yes, apologies, that was my mistake. I did remove the gallery mention in the lede per WP:NOTPROMOTION. I left you a message on your talk page.ThatMontrealIP (talk) 23:07, 15 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Hi User_talk:ThatMontrealIP,I cannot understand why you keep reverting my edits to take the template down for "A major contributor to this article appears to have a close connection with its subject. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view." — Preceding unsigned comment added by 129.236.132.109 (talk) 18:17, 15 November 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks for explaining ThatMontrealIP . Respectfully, I disagree. I think the template in this case is very distracting. Do you have any evidence to support it being biased in any way? There are many citations to support notability. Wikipedia has no rules. In the templates section it says, "The template violates a policy such as Neutral point of view or Civility and it can't be fixed through normal editing" I think in this case the template that suggests there is bias actually makes the article seem not neutral. If having the name of the gallery implies bias, by all means, delete it. It seems like helpful information for an encyclopedia and also helps prove notability.

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