Blackbird Rook
The diary of an art advisor.
| Platform |  | Pricing | Freemium | Publishes | Twice weekly |
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| Issues | 140 | Founded | 2 years ago | Last Issue | 5 days ago |
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A Collector’s Note - September
The Diary of an Art Advisor
A painter in white socks stands before a blank canvas. A clipped hedge appears to have remembered that it was once a lion. A black-and-white cat lies inside a vast pink mouth, then does it again and again, as if...
Who Gets to Define the Present?
A few decades ago, a seven-inch single carried more cultural weight than an exhibition. Time moved on and it was then the music video that could change the cut of a jacket and the appearance of a city street within weeks. Now a fifteen-seco...
One Piece Worth Seeing
I Could Devour the Whole World and Feel Good About It, 2025, Artist’s design on a handcrafted wooden surfboard, 167.6 × 55.9 × 19.1 cm, edition of three
The first thing you see is the frog. She swims under the board in lime green, her plai...
The Fear of Being Seen Trying
There is a moment just before you send an email when the whole things feels a bit pathetic. You’ve attached your images, checked the spelling of the curator’s name and removed the sentence that sounded too eager. Then you put it back becaus...
The Art in the Lobby Is Not a Cultural Strategy
What happens when organisations stop buying art and start becoming culturally intelligent
I’ve lost track of the receptions I’ve walked into where you can see someone has only loosely decided the company needs art. You know the kind of wor...
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