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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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] ...
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 ...
"Maybe my work is just decoration." This sentence, spoken quietly during our recent session, stopped me cold. Not because it's unusual—I hear it constantly—but because it reveals a deeper truth about how artists sabotage ...
The message came through Instagram on a Tuesday morning — unusual for me, since most collector inquiries arrive via email or phone calls. A woman I'd never met had been following my social media ...
