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Being an Entrepreneurial Artist

As in sports, business, and other sectors, the star artists, the top 1%, have disproportionately influenced the public expectations for what 'a successful artist' means. But it isn’t necessary to retell the stories of the 1% of arts entrepreneurs. This essay looks instead at the quotidian artist and, unlike the art historian, at what they do and why, not what they make.