So we're publishing the numbers this sector almost never publishes Over the past year I have heard the same sentence from too many people. Not always in the same words, but close enough ...
Do you remember the last time you stood in front of an artwork and felt something — really felt something — and didn't know why? Maybe it was a scene in a gallery that ...
Every year, thousands of freshly graduated artists leave art schools with a diploma in one hand and vague ideas about the future in the other. They know how to paint, sculpt, conceptualize, theorize. But ...
Last night, watching Star Trek with my husband, I stumbled onto something unexpected. In Season 7, Episode 3 ("Interface"), Lieutenant Commander Geordi La Forge walks into Data's quarters to find the android staring at ...
Or: What happens when opportunity meets the terrifying reality of being seen Last week, an artist contacted me about what appeared to be a dream scenario: direct access to a foreign gallery, potential representation ...
While you're waiting for the "right moment," someone else just submitted their application. Here's an uncomfortable truth about creative careers: the perfect moment doesn't exist. It's a mirage that keeps talented people perpetually preparing ...
Or: No, I Won't Write a Forward Just Because Your Check Cleared Yesterday, I had one of those conversations with my husband that left me wanting to simultaneously laugh, cry, and deliver an impromptu ...
It’s not easy being an artist today. Instead of spending most of your precious time creating art and focusing on what’s important to you, you have to be your own art manager, content creator, ...
...To be an artist meant to choose a different life-style—to live minimally, with cheap rent and minimal needs and somehow survive. Today no one can afford that romance.1It’s 1977 and Jenny Holzer is writing her ...
We live off of and through nature and the land, bound to it since the dawn of human existence. Yet, over time, this bond between nature and humans has grown tenuous, distancing us from our ...
