Who Profits When Art is Resold? Spoiler: Not the Artist!
Visual artists don’t get royalties when their work resells, even if it sells for ten times more. Maybe it’s time that changed.
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Catapult Uncensored is our weekly editorial on contemporary art. We write about artists, the art market, the industry, and how artists are treated in the age of algorithms, AI hype, and tech oligarchs controlling reach. Our perspective – unfiltered. Vision and skepticism. Independence over social media metrics. No PR, no bullshit. Just critical curation on what's happening in art today. Published every week. Read, disagree, think.
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Let the tool make pictures. Artists make meaning. That’s non-replaceable.
Who gets paid when fashion says it “loves art”?
Often the brand banks it and calls it inspiration. The rare proper collab names and pays the artist. Same runway, two scripts, very different endings.
The Politics of Showing Art
Can we separate art from politics? Why showing a Russian artist feels wrong while a Ghanaian feels right, a reflection on bias and art’s true freedom.
Monday Bitch #1. The Thank-You That Never Came
A short art-world exorcism every Monday. One thought, one scream, one deep breath after.