15 Keys to Better Art Marketplace Relationships: Keys 1–5
Relationships in the arts are complicated.
By Eric Maisel
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Relationships in the arts are complicated. You may be very friendly with a fellow painter and also quite envious of her. You may actively dislike a gallery owner or a collector but decide that he is too valuable to cast aside, maybe because he is your only advocate or your only customer. You may respect your editor’s opinions but despise the rudeness with which she delivers them. There may be no such thing as a genuinely straightforward relationship anywhere in life but relationships in the arts are that much more complicated and shadowy.
Let’s try to tease out fifteen sensible rules for marketplace relating. We’ll look at five of these rules in each of three posts. Here are the first five:
