FAQ

Why art school doesn’t prepare artists for the real world

What Art School Doesn’t Teach You

Gavin Coates

What art school leaves out: why artists graduate fluent in critique but unprepared for how institutions, visibility, and record actually function.

What Art School Doesn’t Teach You

Gavin Coates

What art school leaves out: why artists graduate fluent in critique but unprepared for how institutions, visibility, and record actually function.

Why serious art is underappreciated

Why Serious Work Is Often Under-Rewarded

Gavin Coates

Why serious, rigorous art is often under-rewarded, and how markets, platforms, and institutions favor speed, spectacle, and immediacy instead.

Why Serious Work Is Often Under-Rewarded

Gavin Coates

Why serious, rigorous art is often under-rewarded, and how markets, platforms, and institutions favor speed, spectacle, and immediacy instead.

Difference between artistic value and market value

Why Artistic Value Is Not Market Value

Gavin Coates

Why market price and artistic value are not the same, and how history, institutions, and time determine significance beyond sales.

Why Artistic Value Is Not Market Value

Gavin Coates

Why market price and artistic value are not the same, and how history, institutions, and time determine significance beyond sales.

Is talent enough to succeed as an artist

Why Talent Was Never Enough for Art

Gavin Coates

Talent alone has never determined artistic success. Why structure, institutions, and access, not merit, shape who is recognized and remembered.

Why Talent Was Never Enough for Art

Gavin Coates

Talent alone has never determined artistic success. Why structure, institutions, and access, not merit, shape who is recognized and remembered.

How is digital art preserved

Why Digital Art Still Has a Body

Gavin Coates

Digital art isn’t immaterial. Why files, platforms, and infrastructure form a real body, and what that means for preservation and history.

Why Digital Art Still Has a Body

Gavin Coates

Digital art isn’t immaterial. Why files, platforms, and infrastructure form a real body, and what that means for preservation and history.

Why art movements disappear from history

Why Entire Movements Disappear Between Textbooks

Gavin Coates

Why entire art movements vanish from textbooks, not from lack of merit, but from missing records, power, and institutional memory.

Why Entire Movements Disappear Between Textbooks

Gavin Coates

Why entire art movements vanish from textbooks, not from lack of merit, but from missing records, power, and institutional memory.