Fifty-Seven Inches

Most writing about buying art online is by people who have never sold any. This is the other side of that.

Guides for a first original, honest reviews of the platforms selling them, and what the trade looks like from behind the desk: commission splits, consignment terms, damaged deliveries, returns that go badly.

Written for someone spending three hundred to three thousand dollars on a painting for the first time, and wondering what nobody is telling them.

Forthcoming

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Published when finished. Nothing gets written early to fill a slot in a calendar.

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