A new wave of AI music platforms promises to turn written lyrics into finished songs. For independent artists on tight budgets, the interesting part is not the hype — it is what happens before the studio.
Chicago's bilingual arts festival returns with a week of free programming, one ticketed night at the MCA, and attendance figures that matter in a lean funding year.
An art insurance policy is a contract like any other: premium in, defined promise out, and a claims adjuster testing the wording after a loss.
Chelsea holds over 200 galleries, SoHo's dealers left in the mid-1990s, and the Lower East Side grew some 200 outsider spaces at its 1980s peak.
Court records, not taste, separate homage from infringement: the Second Circuit's Koons and Prince rulings show how the fair use factors weigh borrowed work.
A noticed portfolio is a small edited image set, a plain statement, and documented work sent to fellowships and grants.
Galleries typically keep 25 to 50 percent of a sale, and consignment keeps ownership and risk with the artist until a buyer pays.
The honest case for and against the MFA, and what actually builds a career either way.
The week before an opening is the part visitors never see. Here is how a show actually gets made.
A plain-English glossary of the exhibition types you see on gallery walls, and what each one asks of the artist.
Retrospectives gather an artist's work across decades, staged late for the long view, and Canada's documented fee fight put pay behind the honor.
An exhibition ends, but its catalogue stays on the shelf. Here is how these books are made, what goes inside, and who covers the cost.
From the White House Rose Garden to the U.S. Naval Academy, one Santa Monica filmmaker has made it his job to put American presidents in bronze.
What to stage, what to say, and what to leave out when someone important walks through your door.
Art Basel has unveiled the exhibitor list for the second edition of Art Basel Qatar, and it is a big one: 80 single-artist presentations by 82 galleries from
When no gallery calls, artists rent the storefront, split the rent, and hang the show themselves. Here is how that model works, and where it strains.
From the White House Rose Garden to the U.S. Naval Academy, one Santa Monica filmmaker has made it his job to put American presidents in bronze.
Commercial galleries are free, need no appointment, and welcome browsers; a first walk through West Chelsea's 200-plus doors needs only four moves.
Marfa, Beacon, and Provincetown each turned cheap space and one committed institution into small-town economies that run on art.
A certificate of authenticity promises a lot on paper. Here is what a valid COA contains, what it guarantees, and where buyers get fooled.
A plain guide to reading a gallery price list and asking about artwork prices, from what the list shows to who sets the numbers.
Shared shops like UrbanGlass and the Lower East Side Printshop give New York artists hours on furnaces and presses that no solo studio budget could carry.
A Baltimore nonprofit just hit a 45-year milestone. Here's what organizations like it do for working artists, and why the model matters.
Bushwick Open Studios runs one weekend each year and puts hundreds of working studios behind industrial doors open to anyone — here is how to work the weekend like someone who lives there.
A practical guide to the three programs — Chashama, NYFA's Fiscal Sponsorship, and the city's Materials for the Arts warehouse — that keep New York artists working when rent doesn't.
In 2006 Austria returned five Klimt paintings to Maria Altmann, the largest single return of Nazi-looted art in the country's record, nine years after the non-binding Washington Principles of 1998.
The hammer price is the winning bid; buyer's premiums, seller commissions and United States resale law decide who actually keeps the money.
Art critics look, describe, and judge. Here is what actually happens when a critic reviews a show, from first notes to published review.
This year's Video Music Awards turn the camera around and honor the artists behind it.