My creative partner and I started our art consulting business to help emerging artists navigate galleries, but now we're making most of our money from wealthy collectors and I feel like we're becoming part of the system we wanted to critique. They think we should lean into the commercial side since it's working, and I keep wanting to turn down lucrative projects that feel ethically compromising, and we can't agree on where to draw lines.
More people experience this than they realize.
Success in the market gradually shifts your shared mission away from its founding principles, creating tension between pragmatic growth and ideological integrity.
“Where Are You with Visual art markets?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.