#artistic-integrity

#artistic-integrity

It rooted slowly but firmly, like all "cult classics." It wasn't so much the story of her abusive childhood and the liberation she found in sex and substances, swimming, and writing as it was a polemic against the notion of a fixed past. Its emphatic embrace of subjective experience-celebrating a certain ownership and reframing of your own history-over static, objective fact made it a kind of guide. Words to live by.

You're a painter who blew up after a group show at a blue-chip gallery that is now clamoring to sign you. You've been on the roster at a small gallery that has been deeply committed to your career. Now you can jump ship, but will it turn you into a jerk? Take this quiz to find out if you should level up to the big leagues or stick with the scrappy farm team.

Even legacy institutions are adjusting, scrambling to do more with less, often while trying to preserve a sense of mission that can't be measured in clicks or conversion rates.

Amy Sherald canceled her upcoming exhibition at the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery due to fears of censorship surrounding her painting of a transgender Statue of Liberty.

"Today, photographers point to their Instagram as a portfolio without any understanding of how to curate images - and that means that they've just been treating their work as the c-word."

"I know art often overlaps, but moments like this hit hard when you've poured your heart into telling stories with care and barely get the recognition you deserve."