Welcome to Artist Masterplan: Build a Sustainable, Self-Directed Art Career

Your 12,000-word blueprint for building a sustainable, self-directed art career.

Artist Masterplan Part 3 — Design Your Capacity: The Business of Resonance

Build your own creative universe, create friction that signals value, and attract the right people with precision — all while preserving your energy and artistic integrity.

Artist Masterplan Part 2 — Test Before You Build: Turn Concepts into Collectors

Use small, fast experiments to refine your work in public, gather high-value feedback, and create early access pathways that transform casual viewers into long-term collectors.

Artist Masterplan Part 1 — Flip the Script: Build Demand Before the Work Exists

Learn how to validate your ideas before creating them, design anticipation like a pro campaign, and launch into an audience already primed to buy.

Steve Martin Wants You Back in The Frick

Steve Martin stars in a video inviting the public back to The Frick Collection after its $220M, five-year renovation, highlighting its restored Gilded Age intimacy.

From Wolf of Wall Street to U.S. Marshals: Basquiat, Picasso, and Arbus Hit the Auction Block

Basquiats, a Picasso, and a Diane Arbus seized in the 1MDB scandal are being sold online by the U.S. government, with bids starting far below market value.

Apply for the 2026 LMCC Manhattan Arts Grants — Up to $16,000 for Artists, Collectives & Community Projects

Up to $16K in grants for Manhattan-based artists and orgs through LMCC’s 2026 programs—open to public art, education, and community projects.

Southern Artists Can Apply for the $10,000 1858 Prize and Yearlong Exhibition at the Gibbes Museum of Art

Apply now for the 1858 Prize for Contemporary Southern Art—$10,000 cash and a major exhibition at the Gibbes Museum await the winning Southern artist.

Shaker Heights Offers $5K Each to Two Artists for Community Murals

The City of Shaker Heights is commissioning two Ohio artists at $5,000 each to design printed murals reflecting local voices in Lomond and Moreland.

Goldman Sachs Expands Art Advisory in Asia to Court Next-Gen Heirs

Goldman Sachs is targeting Asia’s ultra-wealthy heirs with art advisory services, teaching them to monetize, inherit, and borrow against major collections. Hong Kong, Singapore, and beyond.

Arts Council England’s Reapplication Mandate and Budget Cuts Threaten Nearly 1,000 Cultural Organizations

Arts Council England’s surprise funding changes and government cuts place 990 arts organizations at risk.

The Chumash Museum Opens. But Who’s Still Not Listening?

Panu Syrjämäki examines the tension between cultural preservation and performance in the newly opened Santa Ynez Chumash Museum.