FAQ

What makes art serious

What Makes a Work of Art Serious?

Gavin Coates

What makes a work of art serious? An institutional explanation of seriousness as consequence, continuity, and historical responsibility, not tone or ambition.

What Makes a Work of Art Serious?

Gavin Coates

What makes a work of art serious? An institutional explanation of seriousness as consequence, continuity, and historical responsibility, not tone or ambition.

why modern art is bad

Why Contemporary Art Looks the Way It Does

Gavin Coates

Why contemporary art looks the way it does, how historical shifts, institutional criteria, and contextual necessity shape today’s visual language.

Why Contemporary Art Looks the Way It Does

Gavin Coates

Why contemporary art looks the way it does, how historical shifts, institutional criteria, and contextual necessity shape today’s visual language.

Why open calls don’t work for artists

Why Most Open Calls Fail Artists

Gavin Coates

Why most open calls fail artists, not through bias, but through scale. How volume, compression, and lack of context undermine serious work.

Why Most Open Calls Fail Artists

Gavin Coates

Why most open calls fail artists, not through bias, but through scale. How volume, compression, and lack of context undermine serious work.

Can you make a living as an artist

Can You Really Make a Living as an Artist?

Gavin Coates

Can you make a living as an artist? A data-driven breakdown of artist income, precarity, and what the numbers actually show about sustainability.

Can You Really Make a Living as an Artist?

Gavin Coates

Can you make a living as an artist? A data-driven breakdown of artist income, precarity, and what the numbers actually show about sustainability.

Why is modern art so expensive

Why Modern Art Is So Expensive

Gavin Coates

Why modern art is so expensive, an explanation of history, institutional consensus, scarcity, and how price functions beyond taste or skill.

Why Modern Art Is So Expensive

Gavin Coates

Why modern art is so expensive, an explanation of history, institutional consensus, scarcity, and how price functions beyond taste or skill.

Why mid-career artists struggle

Why Mid-Career Artists Are the Most Vulnerable

Gavin Coates

Mid-career artists face the greatest risk. Why institutions favor novelty and legacy, and how lack of continuity leaves sustained practice exposed.

Why Mid-Career Artists Are the Most Vulnerable

Gavin Coates

Mid-career artists face the greatest risk. Why institutions favor novelty and legacy, and how lack of continuity leaves sustained practice exposed.