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What Separates Exhibitable Work from Non-Exhibitable Work

What Separates Exhibitable Work from Non-Exhibi...

Gavin Coates

Why some art is exhibitable and some is not, an explanation of institutional criteria, public legibility, and why exhibition is an obligation, not a reward.

What Separates Exhibitable Work from Non-Exhibi...

Gavin Coates

Why some art is exhibitable and some is not, an explanation of institutional criteria, public legibility, and why exhibition is an obligation, not a reward.

How Exhibition History Becomes Financial Collateral

How Exhibition History Becomes Financial Collat...

Gavin Coates

Why exhibition history functions as financial collateral, how institutional continuity, not visibility, turns exhibitions into durable signals of value.

How Exhibition History Becomes Financial Collat...

Gavin Coates

Why exhibition history functions as financial collateral, how institutional continuity, not visibility, turns exhibitions into durable signals of value.

History of figuration in art

Figuration in Art: From Prehistory to Post-Inte...

Gavin Coates

Figuration is not a style or revival. From cave art to post-internet images, it is a persistent mode of meaning shaped by bodies, power, and institutions.

Figuration in Art: From Prehistory to Post-Inte...

Gavin Coates

Figuration is not a style or revival. From cave art to post-internet images, it is a persistent mode of meaning shaped by bodies, power, and institutions.

what prolific means in art

Why Being Prolific Is Not the Same as Having a ...

Gavin Coates

Why prolific output rarely becomes a true body of work, how institutions evaluate coherence, continuity, and structure rather than quantity alone.

Why Being Prolific Is Not the Same as Having a ...

Gavin Coates

Why prolific output rarely becomes a true body of work, how institutions evaluate coherence, continuity, and structure rather than quantity alone.

Why art is an unregulated market

Why Art Is One of the Last Major Unregulated Fi...

Gavin Coates

Why art remains one of the last unregulated financial markets, how opacity, institutions, and cultural validation shape art’s economic role.

Why Art Is One of the Last Major Unregulated Fi...

Gavin Coates

Why art remains one of the last unregulated financial markets, how opacity, institutions, and cultural validation shape art’s economic role.

Is art quality subjective or objective

What Makes a Painting “Good”?

Gavin Coates

What makes a painting “good” isn’t taste. It’s coherence between intention, form, and execution, how a painting works within its own visual logic.

What Makes a Painting “Good”?

Gavin Coates

What makes a painting “good” isn’t taste. It’s coherence between intention, form, and execution, how a painting works within its own visual logic.