Leipsner said getting close to fans is still part of the equation for artist development, but in 2011, that includes an online component.
Since its launch in 2009, Greedhead Music has reshaped the way indie rappers think about business, merging artist development with innovative distribution models.
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But they are all signed to the Warner Music Group, an indication that artist development might once again become a priority for the major labels.
Three years ago, the Russian bank decided to fund a program for young opera artists similar to what the Metropolitan Opera in New York does with the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program.
"This is a very important milestone for Warner Music, reflecting our commitment to artist development by strengthening our worldwide roster, global footprint and executive talent, " said Len Blavatnik, chairman and founder of Access Industries, the parent company of Warner Music.
But they are helping record companies get more bang for their ever-shrinking artist-development and marketing bucks.
Surveying under one roof a large number of Preti's hitherto widely scattered paintings enables one to trace his development as an artist.
"They are of key importance for our understanding of Van Gogh's views and his development as a burgeoning artist, " said the Amsterdam museum.
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The retrospective and a concurrent show of notably strong new pictures at the Marian Goodman gallery give a strange impression of development in reverse: an artist doing his relatively uncomplicated early work last.
In middle age the artist seems to be returning to his Buddhist roots, a development that is both inspiring and, perhaps, inevitable.
How fascinating it is to chart the thematic development and coming-of-age of an artist, weaned on MAD Magazine, who began his career as part of the San Francisco comic-book counterculture of the 1960s and '70s, which included talented draftsmen like Robert Crumb and Gilbert Shelton.
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