When I was first starting out I thought there was a “right” way to approach my art and my business etiquette. I felt like all artists were filled in... except for me.
If I could go back in time, I'd tell myself there is no right or wrong way along with the winning numbers of the EuroMillions.
Looking back I feel it’s about doing things your way. Had I known this earlier I would have been less troubled about how my work was received and more confident in my vision for my business.
The art business can be very competitive: whose work is better, whose work is selling more. It took me a while to detach myself from that mindframe.
We’re halfway through 2023 and critics are slouching towards their Best Records Of The Year So Far lists. They’re rarely happy about it. If dicing releases every 12 months is arbitrary, then six months is labor on a factory line, wood chips for the content mill. But this year, I feel like they hate these lists more than usual. They’re having a hard time picking much. And maybe you are, too. P...
At the close of 2022, Bitcoin wasn’t just down—it was so down that its precipitous fall was breaking records. One report from Bank of America suggested that the collapse in value was the fifth-worst for any asset in financial history. Despite steady gains this year, it hasn’t even come close to its November 2021 peak, and now things are about to get shaken up like a bead in a baby’s rattle w...
In Ari Aster’s 2016 short film C’est La Vie, Chester Crummings, a homeless man, speaks directly and combatively to camera about his life and society at large as he wanders the streets of LA, surviving, begging for change and casually murdering people. At one point, he says: “You know what Freud says about the nature of horror? He says it’s when the home becomes unhomelike. Unheimlich.”
In Sig...
