Travis Diehl

An employee works near Andy Warhol artworks at Sotheby's auction house in central London. Day jobs provide stability through the feast-or-famine cycles of gallery sales.

Why is a day job seen as the mark of an artist’s failure?

THERE is a scene in the 1996 movie Basquiat where the incandescent young painter (played by Jeffrey Wright) has a handyman gig...