Science of Art

What Despair Does to Artists

And How Some of Them Got Through It or Didn't

Aug 8 • Shagun Singh

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July 2026

Finding a Home For My Art: On Discovering Where Your Art Actually Belongs

For most of my career, “strategy” meant one thing: keeping a spreadsheet of open RFQs and RFPs and applying to as many as I could possibly stretch my…

Jul 13 • Shagun Singh

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The Empty Playground: Why some of the best art careers have the weirdest playbooks

There’s a story artists like to tell themselves, and it goes something like this: you make the work, you submit it somewhere, and if it’s good enough…

Jul 1 • Shagun Singh

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June 2026

Live with Stefan van de Graaff

A recording from Shagun Singh's live video

Jun 18 • Shagun Singh and Stefan van de Graaff

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The Myth of the 1% Better Daily Grind (And the Case for a "Season of Obsession")

On burning down the to-do list, protecting your summer, and engineering a fall that actually pays.

Jun 9 • Shagun Singh

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May 2026

On Building a Sustainable Practice in 15 hrs/Wk increments

Being a systems thinker with ADHD, two small kids, and a multidisciplinary practice that refuses to fit in one box , and what I'm actually doing about…

May 27 • Shagun Singh

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Against the Cult of Busyness

What Science and Great Artists Agree On About Creative Work

May 21 • Shagun Singh

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The Accountability Structure: Why Every Artist Needs a Wall to Run Into

We have been taught to think of procrastination as a moral failing, the “Thief of Time,” the enemy of the serious artist, the character flaw that…

May 11 • Shagun Singh

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The Invisible Work: On Building While Becoming

Tactical vulnerability, messy quarters, and the art of doing before knowing

May 1 • Shagun Singh

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April 2026

The Nail Bed: What Endurance Art Teaches Fine Artists About Surviving

In 1978, a Taiwanese artist named Tehching Hsieh locked himself inside a wooden cage in his lower Manhattan loft and didn’t come out for a year.

Apr 23 • Shagun Singh

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March 2026

The Hidden Strategy Behind Art History's Greatest Reversals

Five moves that turned ridicule into canon and what they have in common.

Mar 13 • Shagun Singh

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The Chronos Trap: Why Your Perception of Time is Stalling Your Art Career

A practical guide to working with your creative rhythm, not against it

Mar 6 • Shagun Singh

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