• Columns

Hard Truths: Can a Sommelier Help the Art World Evolve Beyond ‘Grape-Flavored Toilet Water’?

A wine lover wonders why the art world drinks swill, and a preservationist ponders how to off a boffo boss.

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  Chen & Lampert
• Jun 5, 2023 11:55 am

• Columns

Hard Truths: Can a Doofus Director Be Made to Accept Their Fate?

An ousted director doesn't seem to want to leave, and an assistant bemoans their bosses clumsiness with email.

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  Chen & Lampert
• May 10, 2023 11:02 am

• Columns

Hard Truths: Is Yoga a More Prudent Career Path Than Art Criticism?

A writer considers putting down the pen, and an artist wonders whether to take care of an old professor's disgusting dog.

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  Chen & Lampert
• Feb 24, 2023 11:52 am

• Columns

Hard Truths: Can an Activist Smear Food on Art Without Consequences?

A protestor wants to make an impact, and a teacher bemoans his old grad-school email list.

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  Chen & Lampert
• Jan 19, 2023 11:59 am

• Columns

Hard Truths: How Can a Collector Fire His Art Adviser Without Burning a Bridge?

Dubious taste puts an adviser on watch, and an NFT devotee wonders what he's done.

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  Chen & Lampert
• Dec 8, 2022 10:27 am

• Columns

Hard Truths: How Can an Artist Learn to Slay at Karaoke?

A hung-up singer wonders how to loosen up at the mic, and an aspiring artist asks how to be more than just friends.

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  Chen & Lampert
• Nov 2, 2022 3:00 pm

• Columns

Hard Truths: How Can a Frumpy Curator Adapt His Fashion to Become an Icon?

With a world in crisis and an art market spinning out of control, ace art-world consultants Chen & Lampert deliver hard truths in response to questions sent by Art in America readers…

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  Chen & Lampert
• Sep 16, 2022 2:37 pm

• Columns

Hard Choices: Will You Survive Your First Solo Gallery Show?

Take a quiz to see if you will catch a big break—or be broken.

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  Chen & Lampert
• Aug 10, 2022 10:52 am

• Columns

Hard Truths: Should a ‘Serious Painter’ Stoop to Make NFTs?

An artist selling at blue-chip prices wonders if messing with NFTs might sink his market.

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  Chen & Lampert
• Jul 7, 2022 4:24 pm

• Columns

Hard Choices: Should You Go See the Venice Biennale?

Is travel worth the travails in these troubled times?

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  Chen & Lampert
• Jun 22, 2022 2:29 pm