What the wannabe media moguls really want
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One of my oldest, dearest friends is a visual artist who’s had quite a remarkable career. He’s had gallery shows around the world, and his paintings, drawings and multimedia works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, to name just a few.
Right now, though, he’s sort of in limbo. The art world and its wealthy collectors are notoriously fickle, and the last major gallery that represented him ended up slow-rolling payments to him on sales of his work to such an extreme (more than a year, with tens of thousands of dollars owed) that he had take legal action to get his damn money.
Every month or so, he and I grab lunch and compare notes, and I’m always struck by how much the art world and the media world have in common.
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