Death of the “Starving Artist”: The Rise of Independent Artists in the Age of Digital and COVID

“Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it.”

-George Santayana

Vincent van Gogh. Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear and Pipe (1889) When we think of an artist, this image conjures up in our minds.

What do artists and entrepreneurs have in common? A lot. Whether they like to admit or not, the reality is, artists are entrepreneurs. Artists have always been entrepreneurs; the art history and our…