Press

Press entries are Valise’s way of keeping the coverage of your work in one place: a review in a magazine, a studio visit, an interview, a mention in an exhibition round-up. Each entry records where the piece was published, when, who wrote it, and which of your works it mentions.

Over time this becomes an archive you can actually use — pulling a press list together for a grant application, finding every piece written about a particular work, or checking which publications have covered you before.

To see your press, go to the Press page.

Fields

• Title: the headline of the article or review.
• Publication: the outlet it appeared in, like Frieze or The Globe and Mail.
• Published date: when the piece ran.
• Authors: who wrote it. Authors are contacts with the “Author” role, so the same writer can be linked across every piece they’ve written about you. You can create a new contact without leaving the picker.
• Link: the URL of the article, if it’s online.
• Works mentioned: the artworks the piece discusses. These also appear in the Press section of each artwork’s page.
• Documents: PDFs, scans, or saved copies of the article. You can attach up to 10 per entry.
• Notes: any free-form notes you want to keep alongside the entry.

Adding press

Go to the Press page and press Add press, or use the N shortcut. The dialog that opens has two tabs.

Scan

On the Scan tab, paste a list of article links (one per line) or drop in PDFs and scans, and Valise reads each one and fills in the details for you: the title, publication, date, authors, and any of your works it names. Each link or file becomes its own press entry.

A few things worth knowing:

• Links you’ve already saved are skipped. Valise ignores tracking parameters when comparing, so a link with ?utm_source=… on the end won’t create a duplicate of one you already have.
• Scans work as well as PDFs. A phone photo of a printed clipping is fine — Valise reads the image directly.
• The entry is saved even if the details can’t be read. If a site blocks us or a scan is unreadable, you’ll still get an entry with a warning banner, and you can fill in the details yourself or press Retry.
• Your edits always win. Fetching only fills in fields you’ve left empty, so it will never overwrite something you typed.

Details arrive in the background, so you can close the dialog and keep working. Entries still being read show a Fetching… label in the list.

Manual

The Manual tab is a plain form for entering one piece by hand. Only the title is required — everything else can be filled in later.

Starring selected press

Not every piece of coverage carries the same weight. Star an entry to mark it as selected press — the handful of pieces you’d put at the top of a press kit or send to a gallery.

Star an entry from the star icon in the press list, from the entry’s own page, or from the action menu. You can then filter your press down to just the starred entries.

Press on an artwork

Every artwork page has a Press section listing the entries that mention it. You can link an existing entry from there, or create a new one already attached to the work you’re looking at.

Tips & tricks

• Start with a search. Searching your own name or the title of a work will usually turn up more coverage than you remember. Paste everything you find into the Scan tab in one go.
• Add press as it happens. An entry takes seconds to create from a link, and reconstructing years of coverage later is much harder than keeping up with it.
• Press entries are included in search, so you can find a piece by its title, publication, author, or notes from anywhere in the app.