A site like www.act-i-vate.com, a collective of by-invitation-only comics creators, is a place for the artists to hone their craft and one-up each other.
To be sure, there is an invitation list: the collective asks some favorite artists, as does the young dealer Vito Schnabel, son of Julian, who is the official handler of this year's edition.
In one day I got two invitations from foreign diplomats (one from the US ambassador) inviting me to attend the collective dinner.
Despite the invitation in the title of New Movement Collective's latest work, some of the audience aren't initially permitted to take their seats at all.
Lee, who runs touchpad maker Synaptics, says he accepted Apple's invitation out of a sense not of collective joy but of obligation.
His Spanish-language "Burro" was a mariachi-style take on "Strange Invitation," and he commissioned Tijuana band Nortec Collective to rework his "Qué Onda Guero".
Collective or representational participation happened when participants viewed their invitation to participate and be involved as representing a specific nursing interest group, such as the national nursing association, educators, or academia.
After a few informal conversations, an invitation was extended to members of the community collective Queer Space to visit the town hall for tea.
Many of his early portraits were taken at the Lower East Side's Con Artist Collective and Greenpoint's Tender Trap, where McManus had a standing invitation to visit and interact with diverse crowds that were friendly to his mission.
A prominent professor of philosophy, Ralph McInerny, has characterized the invitation of Mr. Obama as "a deliberate thumbing of the collective nose at the Roman Catholic Church".
Lee, who runs touchpad maker Synaptics, says he accepted Apple's invitation out of a sense of obligation, not of collective joy.
