art& 2026: Art & Therapy
Last year, we opened the art&therapy exhibition at Gallery Studio 21 and asked what art can do for us. This year, we're flipping the question: what happens when you make the art yourself? The ...
Too many artists have told me this year that they’re thinking of giving up
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 ...
Late-night Notes from an Artworld Parent
On one little blue box, a fully booked calendar, and the specific guilt that likes to dress itself up as professionalism. (Writen on the night of July 9, 2026) The pajamas are near the ...
Don’t ask what AI can do for you. Ask what you want to be doing.
Why AI shouldn’t write your artist statement — and why it’s welcome to write so many of the other things eating up countless precious hours of your week. In June, on Instagram, I asked ...
Marketing Is a Dirty Word in the Artworld
Why the art scene is afraid of a word that lies at its core. And three habits that change it — for artists and for galleries. I sit down with a small-gallery owner. We're ...
Two Kinds of Illiteracy
On what we lose when we replace the ability to read with the ability to critique We talk about literacy as if it's a single thing: the ability to read words on a page, ...
Tell Your Story or Someone Will Make One Up for You
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 ...
For Artists Building Their Careers: Waiting Isn’t a Strategy
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 ...
Does Art Need to Be Sexy?
Sex sells. But does it buy us anything worth keeping? The image above depicts an allegory of art rendered in pin-up style — a visual metaphor that makes you do a double-take. The classical ...
Building the Art World We Actually Need
The creative economy in Europe is undergoing a fundamental transformation. According to Eurostat, nearly one-third of Europe's 7.8 million cultural workers are now self-employed — more than double the rate of the general economy.[1] ...