Seven situations in which a collector should wait or walk away

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BAR hit the road on the 2026 journalism conference circuit, attending convenings hosted by Investigative Reporters and Editors, Momus, and the Knight Foundation.

The diary of an art advisor. Click to read Blackbird Rook, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

The Diary of an Art Advisor

Material Witness brings together 15 works on paper by Justin Mortimer. Bodies and images are cut, joined and obscured, reflecting a world received through fractured media, unstable evidence and competing versions of events.

Material Witness brings together 15 works on paper by Justin Mortimer. Bodies and images are cut, joined and obscured, reflecting a world received through fractured media, unstable evidence and competing versions of events.

The Diary of an Art Advisor

Weekly updates from Blackbird Rook - the diary of an art advisor. Click to read Blackbird Rook’s Substack, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

On emails, follow-up, money, studio visits, praise, admin and how not to be too difficult.

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The Diary of an Art Advisor

This playlist brings together video essays adapted from The Diary of an Art Advisor, the Blackbird Rook Substack newsletter. These pieces are written from in...

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Justin Mortimer, Work on Paper, 2024-26

Contemporary Painting

Clyde Hopkins, Cap D’Ennis, Barcelona (X), 1989-91

Bad comedy tends to die in the room, but bad art can survive for years on framing, price and collective nervousness.

The jacuzzi stops behaving like a bath and becomes something closer to a body, a cockpit, a control panel or a private vehicle for leaving the world behind.

A guide to where contemporary art is bought - galleries, studios, fairs, auctions and advisers - and the anxieties each room creates.