GETTING PUBLISHED!

Once again, my determination to make a career in the art world has proven a success since I found out this morning that I am going to be PUBLISHED! The last week at Sotheby’s was a little bit slower than most because the Specialists were piecing together the November 22nd & 23rd auctions. I had some extra time to think about my application for the Courtauld Institute. For those of you who I haven’t yet told, I have fallen in love with the idea of attending the Courtauld Institute for my MA. The Courtauld is one of the leading art history institutions in the world and several of my co-workers here at Sotheby’s attended the university for their own Masters Degrees. I have already started the application process but I have become consumed by thinking about how I could strengthen my application. The Courtauld asks for several pieces of writing from its applicants to assess the level of their writing.

After I finished the article, I started looking for a publication. I flipped through all the magazines lying around the office in Sotheby’s. I found a contemporary art magazine calling for freelance art writers for their next edition; so, I sent in my article! I expected to get turned down, so I didn’t tell anyone that I was attempting to get published just yet.

I kept thinking to myself that if I could get published by an art magazine, journal, or newspaper, it would show that there is someone out there who thinks that I have something intelligent to say about art. So for the next two days, I spent all my free time at work, typing up an article on how to determine which emerging artists would be successful in the primary and secondary contemporary art markets. Now, two weeks after I have sent in my work, I have just been informed that I am getting published in Visual Overture! I am so excited! And on top of it all, they are going to send me an advance for a second article on the London Frieze Art Festival, which takes place this weekend. How exciting! As my friend Kami told me, a Polish intern in my department at Sotheby’s, my ‘Professional career in the art world starts now!’ I’ll update my blog again after the exciting evening auction on Friday and after I attend the Frieze Fair on Saturday and Sunday!