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The Diary of an Art Advisor

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Blackbird Rook
Jun 28, 2026
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There’s a moment that comes for a lot of artists in their late thirties or early forties that nobody adequately warns them about. It doesn’t always arrive as a crisis. It often arrives as a mortgage conversation, or a nursery bill, or a partner going back to work, or not being able to. A second child, or a landlord raising the rent. A parent needing car…

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