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When we look in the mirror, we are seeing more than just clothing. We are looking at a manifesto. Our clothes are our most personal means of expression. It is our "second skin," a speech before we speak.

It’s a question you hear often: Is all art political? That Picasso? That contemporary performance art piece? That meme you saw on your feed today? Is it all really political? To answer that question, we’re going to have to take a deeper look at art, meaning, and propaganda. It’s easy to look at art that has a clear political message, for example, political cartoons, and to see that it holds that sort of sentiment. But what about something as abstract as Jackson Pollock’s pain

This trend is viral today, but an ethical disaster tomorrow. There has been an influx of posts on social media related to the AI recreation of images in the style of Studio Ghibli art, with your past/future self, with your favorite celebrity, or reimagining different artistic concepts by various artists. All it takes is a prompt, and you can get a ‘piece of art’ for increasing your social media engagement. However, what appears to be a celebration of the artists and their ar

Before You Become an Artist, Read This! Any artist knows that certain struggles come from being an artist. But this is especially true for the set of problems that come with being new to being an artist. For a newbie artist or creative person in the industry, there are a number of hurdles to overcome. Trolls feed the art you post online into AI to mock you or one-up you, other artists copy or steal your work, the algorithm never seems to favor you and even shadow-bans some o

Statistically, 90% of your LinkedIn feed is now "prompt engineers" pretending they went to art school. Artists often disparage AI art itself for being derivative to a rudimentary, crippling degree and see it as something to be avoided. But what about AI tools? Can they be used to our advantage? Is it worth using them? Are the AI art tools democratizing art, or killing the craft? The answer is a little complicated. Say you have an image that you created but lost the original

Think fashion isn’t art? 'The Devil Wears Prada,' the cult movie, has something interesting to say ... revealing the secret of fashion art.

I know this won’t be received well by most serious artists, but I’ll say it anyway. 91% of the artists spend their entire careers building a ‘signature style’. But they don’t realize their signature style can be a deathtrap! Most artists want to be found. They want to build a brand of their own that makes them stand out from the crowd. They want their work to be identified from across a room. And, this is useful as well. This recognizability creates a sense of reliability

IS TRAVELING AN ART? As an avid globetrotter myself—as well as an artist—I have reveled in the idea of travel itself being an art form. But am I touting an unfavorable viewpoint? At the outset, let’s clear something up: I’m referring not just to our wandering eyes setting on the arch of a doorway or the bright colors at a local food market in a faraway continent—that could very well be argued to be the spark that creates art, if not art itself. But here, I’m referring to the

I like to think I’m pretty savvy. Like most of you, I’m constantly swimming through scams, fluff, and “too good to be true” messages—and usually my internal nonsense-detection is solid. But every now and then, something slips through because it’s that well-crafted. Not long ago, a scammer targeted one of the longtime artists we represent and impersonated our Head of Gallery Operations (don’t ask me how). Using our identity, they initiated a convincing, extended email thread w

“Good artists borrow. Great artists steal??” Are you truly being inspired by their artwork, or are you just copying it? The line between inspiration and plagiarism is a thin one to tread. There have been countless instances of artists, filmmakers, and writers throughout history having their work stolen and peddled off under a different name. But what’s the difference between stealing and taking inspiration? For one, transparency. It helps to be open about what inspires you a

A moment that cheered me up so unexpectedly… it stayed with me for the rest of my life. I remember one of Phoenix’s monthly Third Friday Art Walks—my favorite night of the month. Sure, I loved selling my work, but what I really craved was the conversation: art lovers, fellow artists, strangers. And they’d tell me what they felt about my work—unfiltered, for better or worse. I had set up a booth that night, with originals and prints, including one of my most popular pieces: Ca

OK, I’m going to say this out loud. Most commercial art galleries today are more like curated snobbery than— well, art. It’s also about who you know, what you look like, and where your friends come from. I can’t deny I myself had some success a decade ago showing my work in New England, New York, even Paris. But then life had gotten in the way, and I learned that when you stop, the algorithm forgets you ever existed. By 2019, I was picking up, however, living for the third Fr