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Uncategorized Artsy AF Podcast, interview — → Uncategorized Via Omega, Issue 10, featured interview — → Uncategorized Entheoscope Magazine, Issue 4, feature — → Uncategorized In Too Deep Podcast, interview — → Uncategorized Sleeve Studios, interview — → Interview New York Times Magazine New York Times Magazine — William Safire, “On Language” (December 2007) — → Interview Meet David Buckingham | Sculptor — Shoutout DFW (2023) — → Interview Check Out David Buckingham’s Artwork — Voyage LA Magazine (2019) — → Interview In the Studio: Outlier — Western Art & Architecture (2015) — → Interview Juxtapoz, Magazine — → Interview Meet Moncho1929 (Dan Monteavaro) — → Press Whitehot Magazine Otero, Liam. “The Flamboyance and Pizzazz of Miami Art Week ’25.” — → Press Bmore Art Farley, Michael Anthony. “The Satellite Art Show & Art Gaysel at 10.” — → Press IMPULSE Magazine Nobles, Lydia. “Standout Booths at SPLIT LEVEL.” — → Press Two Coats of Paint Brennan, Michael. “A garden grows — on AstroTurf — in Gowanus.” — → Press Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year Series 9 — → Press Pilot Collective Zine Feature — Brooklyn, NY (2024) — → Press Irresolute — Harsh Collective Zine, New York, NY (2025) — → Press Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, feature — → Press Hi-Fructose, Vol. 64, feature — → Press American Art Collector, Issue 235, feature — → News Spring Shows To See — Spring Art Guide New York 2026 What to See Now by Anni Irish Spring in New York City is peak time to see art work and be seen. The weather is warmer, people are out, and major shows are opening across the city, which can be overwhelming if you do not know what to see. […] → Press The Whitney Biennial That Won’t Pick a Fight — The 82nd edition. 56 artists, duos, and collectives, co-organized by curators Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer. Whitney Museum of American Art Running March 8 through August 23. Every Whitney Biennial arrives with the expectation that it will take the cultural temperature of the moment. The 2026 edition, opening to the public on March 8, does reflect […] → Press What Is Holding Up — During the first two hours of Scottsdale Art Week’s opening night reception, a painting by Justin Bua sold through MRG Fine Art for $1,000,000. Indigenous figures in a landscape. Trees, water, a ship in the background. The fair posted the sale itself. A million dollars. Second-year fair. Two hours in. That number has context. Art […] → Press When the House Takes the House — There’s a sentence buried in a recent Financial Times report about Sotheby’s that I keep coming back to. An art adviser mentioned that their client, someone who had consigned an entire collection to the auction house, received payment eight months later than anticipated. Eight months. And the reason, per Sotheby’s own contract language, was that the […] → Press The Art Market That Built Itself Without You. — A note from the editor: Most collectors have never heard of SP-Arte. That is not a reflection of its significance, it is a reflection of how deliberately Brazil has built its art market on its own terms, without waiting for international validation. While New York remains the undisputed center of gravity, the stress tests of the last […] → Press From Fracture to Form: 2026 Fair Season Opens — What Zona MACO and the Gulf tell us about the moment → Essay Create! Magazine (Curated by Brock Brake) September 2017, Issue VI — → Essay Booooooom (2019 & 2018) — → Essay It’s Nice That (2019) — → Essay American Art Collector (2019 & 2018) — → Essay Moffly Media (2024) — → Essay Milwaukee has new Riverwalk murals — → Essay Bridgeport-Norwalk Hi-Ho Mural — → Essay Art² Foundation — Artist Grant & Growth Program Recipient (2025) — → Essay RAILED Magazine — Cover artwork & featured paintings with printed credits (2026) — → Essay The New York Times Style Magazine — “Vera Tepliakova, entre lo íntimo y lo social” (2025) — → Essay Spike Island — → Essay Hypebeast – Myrna Quiñonez Puts a Surreal Spin on Landscape Tradition at Beers London — → Essay Artist-in-Residence, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD (2025) — → Essay Pinky, Issue 7 (2025) — → Essay I Like Your Work Fall Catalog (2025) — → Essay The Jacobo Azagury Prize, Gibraltar International Art Exhibition (2021) — → Essay Winner, Our Gibraltar, Ministry of Culture Award (2022) — → Essay Science Museum Collection, London (2024) — → Essay Winner, Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year (2024) — → Essay A Philosophy of Abdication — This is the third in a series. The first was about how this market works. The second was about who Lion & Lamb is built for. This one is about who we are. If you are new here: start with The Middle Garden. Then It Should Feel Like Arrival. Then come back. There is a room you have […] → Essay It Should Feel Like Arrival — I have been writing to you about everything wrong with this industry for over a year now. The fair model under pressure. The coaching industrial complex. The galleries that charge representation rates for listing service value. The institutional apparatus that hands collectors language to justify what their instincts already told them, as if the feeling […] → Essay Art as Pedagogy — Good morning. This edition of The New Art World Order is a little different from our usual material. It’s shaped by a series of philosophical and existential questions I’ve been sitting with lightly. Less dense with data than my usual musings, but no less relevant. If anything, more so. This series is written for those who like […] → Essay The bank is fine. Please don’t withdraw your money. — This is one of my favorite parts of the job being right on analytics. So without further delay, as I write this at almost 11pm Friday night, let’s get into the reality of what is going on, because as the many posts on Instagram will tell you, everything is going great. Back to growth after […] → Essay Who Actually Controls the Artist? — Good morning and happy spring, we made it! It has been a busy and exciting start to the season here at Lion & Lamb. If you aren’t already a member of the Salon, that’s where the deeper work lives; available works from the gallery, industry analysis that doesn’t fit neatly into a single essay, and the kind […] → Essay You Can’t Tell By Looking, Can You? — Alexis MATA – Encrypted Dreams 2023| Oil on canvas | 70.9 × 59.1 inches Welcome back to At the Studio Table. Last week the Salon received an early look at available work by Alexis Mata alongside the argument for why this particular moment, and this particular practice, matters to collectors. This is the expanded version of […] → Essay What Does Success Mean to You? — Spring has officially sprung, and with it I will be leaning heavily on metaphor. Seasoned readers of this Substack will know I have a long and committed relationship with water metaphors, particularly when explaining the complicated mechanics of how art moves as an economic good. This piece will be a bit different but similar in […] → Essay Why People Buy Art at Turning Points — She didn’t come in looking for art. She came in three weeks after her mother died, wearing the kind of quiet that grief puts on people, composed on the outside, completely untethered underneath. She walked the space without urgency, without the usual performance of someone trying to look like they know what they’re doing in […] → Essay The Art Coaching Industrial Complex — I‘m writing this from a place of frustration. I work with full time working artists all day every day. The kind who are painting in their living rooms at midnight, fighting for commissions from clients who might say no, rebuilding after shows that didn’t land the way they hoped. I see what it actually takes. […] → Essay Tarot-Inspired Paintings Encapsulate the Latinx Pulse of LA — → Essay 2026 Predictions — People Will Gravitate Toward Fewer Worlds, But Engage More Deeply With Them → Essay The Work of Choosing in the Messy Middle — Why People Are Outsourcing Judgment in an Age of Abundance → Essay Selling Art Is a Human Problem — At the Studio Table → Essay The End of Free Distribution — What actually changed in online distribution and how the market is reorganizing around trust → Essay When Growth Becomes Real: L&L Case Studies — At the Studio Table → Essay The Return of Human Intermediaries — From Attention Economies to Interpretation Economies → Essay When Money Looks for Shelter — What Gold, Burnout, and the Art Market have in common → Market Art Basel HK 2026 | The performance vs. reality — The Gap Nobody Wants to Name I can’t even begin to count the fairs I’ve been to over the decades. Easily in the hundreds by now. Every iteration, as a dealer and as a collector, across more countries than I can count on two hands. And for the last year, every major fair arrives with the […] → Market The Venetian Problem — Venice opens May 9. The week it opens, almost everything that would normally govern it, the artist selection process, the press, the institutional frameworks, becomes visibly broken at once. I have been to the Biennale many times, as a director, as a dealer, as someone who builds and runs the machines. If you have never […] → Market Withheld Resolution — There is a painting type circulating right now that I keep stopping at and so, it seems, does everyone else. Not because it asks something of me, but because it already knows something about me. The face caught mid-scream that reads more like a laugh. The figure blurred at the edges, as if glimpsed through […] →2025
Uncategorized Deconstructing Landscapes, Lilienthal Gallery, Knoxville, TN — → Interview JIMON Interviews Jessica Brilli — → Press The Maddox Gallery (UK) has named Jessica Brilli one of “5 Contemporary Artists to Watch in 2025” — → Essay The Age of World-Building: Why Artists (and Brands) Need More Than Marketing Now — →2026
Interview New York Times Magazine New York Times Magazine — William Safire, “On Language” (December 2007) — → Interview Meet David Buckingham | Sculptor — Shoutout DFW (2023) — → Interview Check Out David Buckingham’s Artwork — Voyage LA Magazine (2019) — → Interview In the Studio: Outlier — Western Art & Architecture (2015) — → Interview Juxtapoz, Magazine — → Interview Meet Moncho1929 (Dan Monteavaro) — →2026
Press Whitehot Magazine Otero, Liam. “The Flamboyance and Pizzazz of Miami Art Week ’25.” — → Press Bmore Art Farley, Michael Anthony. “The Satellite Art Show & Art Gaysel at 10.” — → Press IMPULSE Magazine Nobles, Lydia. “Standout Booths at SPLIT LEVEL.” — → Press Two Coats of Paint Brennan, Michael. “A garden grows — on AstroTurf — in Gowanus.” — → Press Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year Series 9 — → Press Pilot Collective Zine Feature — Brooklyn, NY (2024) — → Press Irresolute — Harsh Collective Zine, New York, NY (2025) — → Press Beautiful Bizarre Magazine, feature — → Press Hi-Fructose, Vol. 64, feature — → Press American Art Collector, Issue 235, feature — → Press Spring Shows To See — Spring Art Guide New York 2026 What to See Now by Anni Irish Spring in New York City is peak time to see art work and be seen. The weather is warmer, people are out, and major shows are opening across the city, which can be overwhelming if you do not know what to see. […] → Press The Whitney Biennial That Won’t Pick a Fight — The 82nd edition. 56 artists, duos, and collectives, co-organized by curators Marcela Guerrero and Drew Sawyer. Whitney Museum of American Art Running March 8 through August 23. Every Whitney Biennial arrives with the expectation that it will take the cultural temperature of the moment. The 2026 edition, opening to the public on March 8, does reflect […] → Press What Is Holding Up — During the first two hours of Scottsdale Art Week’s opening night reception, a painting by Justin Bua sold through MRG Fine Art for $1,000,000. Indigenous figures in a landscape. Trees, water, a ship in the background. The fair posted the sale itself. A million dollars. Second-year fair. Two hours in. That number has context. Art […] → Press When the House Takes the House — There’s a sentence buried in a recent Financial Times report about Sotheby’s that I keep coming back to. An art adviser mentioned that their client, someone who had consigned an entire collection to the auction house, received payment eight months later than anticipated. Eight months. And the reason, per Sotheby’s own contract language, was that the […] → Press The Art Market That Built Itself Without You. — A note from the editor: Most collectors have never heard of SP-Arte. That is not a reflection of its significance, it is a reflection of how deliberately Brazil has built its art market on its own terms, without waiting for international validation. While New York remains the undisputed center of gravity, the stress tests of the last […] → Press From Fracture to Form: 2026 Fair Season Opens — What Zona MACO and the Gulf tell us about the moment →2026
Essay Create! Magazine (Curated by Brock Brake) September 2017, Issue VI — → Essay Booooooom (2019 & 2018) — → Essay It’s Nice That (2019) — → Essay American Art Collector (2019 & 2018) — → Essay Moffly Media (2024) — → Essay Milwaukee has new Riverwalk murals — → Essay Bridgeport-Norwalk Hi-Ho Mural — → Essay Art² Foundation — Artist Grant & Growth Program Recipient (2025) — → Essay RAILED Magazine — Cover artwork & featured paintings with printed credits (2026) — → Essay The New York Times Style Magazine — “Vera Tepliakova, entre lo íntimo y lo social” (2025) — → Essay Spike Island — → Essay Hypebeast – Myrna Quiñonez Puts a Surreal Spin on Landscape Tradition at Beers London — → Essay Artist-in-Residence, Creative Alliance, Baltimore, MD (2025) — → Essay Pinky, Issue 7 (2025) — → Essay I Like Your Work Fall Catalog (2025) — → Essay The Jacobo Azagury Prize, Gibraltar International Art Exhibition (2021) — → Essay Winner, Our Gibraltar, Ministry of Culture Award (2022) — → Essay Science Museum Collection, London (2024) — → Essay Winner, Sky Arts Landscape Artist of the Year (2024) — → Essay A Philosophy of Abdication — This is the third in a series. The first was about how this market works. The second was about who Lion & Lamb is built for. This one is about who we are. If you are new here: start with The Middle Garden. Then It Should Feel Like Arrival. Then come back. There is a room you have […] → Essay Spring Shows To See — Spring Art Guide New York 2026 What to See Now by Anni Irish Spring in New York City is peak time to see art work and be seen. The weather is warmer, people are out, and major shows are opening across the city, which can be overwhelming if you do not know what to see. […] → Essay It Should Feel Like Arrival — I have been writing to you about everything wrong with this industry for over a year now. The fair model under pressure. The coaching industrial complex. The galleries that charge representation rates for listing service value. The institutional apparatus that hands collectors language to justify what their instincts already told them, as if the feeling […] → Essay Art as Pedagogy — Good morning. This edition of The New Art World Order is a little different from our usual material. It’s shaped by a series of philosophical and existential questions I’ve been sitting with lightly. Less dense with data than my usual musings, but no less relevant. If anything, more so. This series is written for those who like […] → Essay The bank is fine. Please don’t withdraw your money. — This is one of my favorite parts of the job being right on analytics. So without further delay, as I write this at almost 11pm Friday night, let’s get into the reality of what is going on, because as the many posts on Instagram will tell you, everything is going great. Back to growth after […] → Essay Who Actually Controls the Artist? — Good morning and happy spring, we made it! It has been a busy and exciting start to the season here at Lion & Lamb. If you aren’t already a member of the Salon, that’s where the deeper work lives; available works from the gallery, industry analysis that doesn’t fit neatly into a single essay, and the kind […] → Essay You Can’t Tell By Looking, Can You? — Alexis MATA – Encrypted Dreams 2023| Oil on canvas | 70.9 × 59.1 inches Welcome back to At the Studio Table. Last week the Salon received an early look at available work by Alexis Mata alongside the argument for why this particular moment, and this particular practice, matters to collectors. This is the expanded version of […] → Essay What Does Success Mean to You? — Spring has officially sprung, and with it I will be leaning heavily on metaphor. Seasoned readers of this Substack will know I have a long and committed relationship with water metaphors, particularly when explaining the complicated mechanics of how art moves as an economic good. This piece will be a bit different but similar in […] → Essay Why People Buy Art at Turning Points — She didn’t come in looking for art. She came in three weeks after her mother died, wearing the kind of quiet that grief puts on people, composed on the outside, completely untethered underneath. She walked the space without urgency, without the usual performance of someone trying to look like they know what they’re doing in […] → Essay The Art Coaching Industrial Complex — I‘m writing this from a place of frustration. I work with full time working artists all day every day. The kind who are painting in their living rooms at midnight, fighting for commissions from clients who might say no, rebuilding after shows that didn’t land the way they hoped. I see what it actually takes. […] → Essay Tarot-Inspired Paintings Encapsulate the Latinx Pulse of LA — → Essay 2026 Predictions — People Will Gravitate Toward Fewer Worlds, But Engage More Deeply With Them → Essay The Work of Choosing in the Messy Middle — Why People Are Outsourcing Judgment in an Age of Abundance → Essay Selling Art Is a Human Problem — At the Studio Table → Essay The End of Free Distribution — What actually changed in online distribution and how the market is reorganizing around trust → Essay When Growth Becomes Real: L&L Case Studies — At the Studio Table → Essay The Return of Human Intermediaries — From Attention Economies to Interpretation Economies → Essay When Money Looks for Shelter — What Gold, Burnout, and the Art Market have in common →2026
Market Art Basel HK 2026 | The performance vs. reality — The Gap Nobody Wants to Name I can’t even begin to count the fairs I’ve been to over the decades. Easily in the hundreds by now. Every iteration, as a dealer and as a collector, across more countries than I can count on two hands. And for the last year, every major fair arrives with the […] → Market The Venetian Problem — Venice opens May 9. The week it opens, almost everything that would normally govern it, the artist selection process, the press, the institutional frameworks, becomes visibly broken at once. I have been to the Biennale many times, as a director, as a dealer, as someone who builds and runs the machines. If you have never […] → Market Withheld Resolution — There is a painting type circulating right now that I keep stopping at and so, it seems, does everyone else. Not because it asks something of me, but because it already knows something about me. The face caught mid-scream that reads more like a laugh. The figure blurred at the edges, as if glimpsed through […] →Thank you! Your message has been sent.
