Artist Mistakes: Disqualified from Exhibition...

"I ask artists... are you really business minded? And if they say no, then I tell them you have to find someone who is."In this episode, we revisit our 2021 conversation with dentist-turned-visual artist Brent Estabrook. He introduces us to the heroes he's met over the course of ...  Show more

Before she became a photographer, Ambe J Williams was devoted to acting. She was juggling on-stage work with odd jobs in the New York City catering industry when she realized she needed a change."If I lay down one more knife, I may flip this table. And that's when I was like, I n ...  Show more

Tune into this episode of The Hotline where Host Marina Granger answers questions from listeners. She tells you how you can get into the gallery, ways to grow on Instagram, how you can exhibit at Art Basel, how many artworks you need to go public as an emerging artist, and more! ...  Show more

On this episode, Jerry and Matt explore the actively underway corporatization & professionalization of the art industry and follow that up with questions related to the apparent artist class structure, and we try to suss out the answer to “Who is the author of an abstract ...

Is making art a job? This question is central to The Work of Art: Value in Creative Careers (Stanford University Press, 2017), the new book by Alison Gerber, a postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Sociology at Lund University. The book explores the working lives of artists by ...  Show more

Alec looks at the art world from two angles -- from someone in it, and from someone who has observed the world from a distance. First, writer Michael Shnayerson -- his latest book, Boom, gives an exhaustive history of how today’s art market came to be. Shnayerson writ ...