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Picasso and the Myth of Originality

March 2, 2013 by Steven Sparling 19 Comments

Today I attended a great exhibition at the Courtauld Institute, Becoming Picasso, Paris 1901, which looks at one year in Picasso’s output, 1901 when he first came to Paris as an ambitious 19-year-old and proceeded to paint up a storm. The breadth of his work during this period is remarkable. What is interesting about this […]

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Entrepreneurship Often Starts With Crazy Ideas

April 26, 2011 by Steven Sparling Leave a Comment

Entrepreneurship often starts with crazy ideas!

  I spent a recent weekend working on one of my essays for my MA in Creative Entrepreneurship. We had to write a proposal for a project, with a budget and identifying target sources of funding. I struggled for a long time about what to write about. Then I came up with the idea of doing […]

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