art and commerce
where the worlds of art and commerce collide, for better and for worse
Keely Adler and
art and commerce
Keely Adler and
Illustrator Karlotta Freier recalls being mocked by her art school classmates for asking about how to make a living as an illustrator. “No one would make fun of a plumbing student for asking about the business side of things,” she says, “so why don’t I get to ask?” For decades, the promise of a creative career was the alleviation of the worst parts
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Easier, then, to strip the art of these larger contexts and references from the art, which conveniently also makes it easier to sell.