The Center Will Hold
Joey LicoOccasional essays, observations, and field notes from inside the cultural ecosystem.
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The Art World Doesn't Know What Success Looks Like Anymore
Over lunch at Manuela recently, a group of artists and friends found ourselves discussing what one artist jokingly called the “pretty girl/smart girl” problem.
The pretty girls, he explained, are the artists whose work sells. Collectors re...
Why The Archive Suddenly Feels Urgent Again
Still from the Armani/Archivio, a digital archive project.
One thing became impossible to ignore during Frieze week in New York:
For a culture supposedly obsessed with the new, we are increasingly consumed by the archive.
Fashion houses...
The Advantage of Not Being Watched
Some of the most important decisions I’ve made in my career happened before I could explain them.
Before there was a framework.
Before there was a budget.
Before anyone was asking for justification.
Just a feeling that something held—...
Why Good Artists Stall
There’s a version of this conversation that’s easier to have—about artists who can’t get in the room at all. I’ll write about that separately, because it’s real and it matters.
This one may be harder to hear.
Not because it isn’t true, bu...
We Say We Want New Artists. We Keep Choosing the Same Ones.
We say we want discovery, but we reward familiarity. The system didn’t break—it adapted. The question is whether we still know how to look.
We’ve replaced discovery with selection.
There was a time when building a point of view meant goin...
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For over 20 years, I’ve worked alongside artists, institutions, collectors, and brands. Here, I explore art, work, ambition, and the hidden structures that shape our lives.
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