{"id":65917,"date":"2025-09-17T19:10:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T19:10:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/how-to-enter-the-art-world\/"},"modified":"2026-09-09T15:10:19","modified_gmt":"2026-09-09T15:10:19","slug":"how-to-enter-the-art-world","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/how-to-enter-the-art-world\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Enter the Art World"},"content":{"rendered":"

‘Vital guidance for all artists. Empowering, encouraging and enlightening. Hettie Judah writes with such clarity and passion.’<\/strong><\/p>\n

–  Robert Diament, writer and broadcaster, Talk Art podcast<\/em><\/p>\n

‘Accessible, reassuring, useful and funny… I loved this book so much and needed it so badly, I practically inhaled it!’<\/strong><\/p>\n

– Viv Albertine, musician, artist and author<\/em><\/p>\n

‘I’ve worked in the arts for over thirty years, and this is the first time I’ve read something and thought this was written for me.<\/em>’ <\/strong><\/p>\n

– Lou Mensah, founder of Shade Podcast and Shade Art Review <\/em><\/p>\n

‘Hettie Judah writes with characteristic warmth and humour, but also great authority on a subject she knows well.<\/strong>’ <\/p>\n

– Caroline Walker, artist <\/em><\/p>\n

Can you make it without going to art school? Can you get back into the art world after years away? What does ‘success’ actually mean? <\/p>\n

How to Enter the Art World…<\/em> is a grown-up guide for any artist whose life is complicated, demanding and, well, human<\/em>. Informed by years spent working with artists and dozens of candid interviews, it is a myth-busting bonanza full of insights, ideas and inspiration. Frank, funny and occasionally forthright, this is your friend on the path (back) into the art world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A guide for anyone whose trajectory through the art world isn’t a smooth upward curve, based on years of research with art professionals.<\/p>\n

Part 1: Reality Check
\n Part 2: Making Art
\n Part 3: The Expanded Art School
\n Part 4: Plugging In
\n Part 5: Putting Out
\n Part 6: Showing
\n Part 7: Selling
\n Part 8: Other Models
\n Part 9: Misfits among misfits
\n Part 10: The Horror Show<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":77920,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":""},"product_brand":[],"product_cat":[5523],"product_tag":[],"class_list":["post-65917","product","type-product","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","product_cat-art","author-by-author-hettie-judah","publisher-hoxton-mini-press","first","instock","shipping-taxable","purchasable","product-type-simple"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nHow to Enter the Art World - ACC Art Books US<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.accartbooks.com\/us\/book\/how-to-enter-the-art-world\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Enter the Art World - ACC Art Books US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A guide for anyone whose trajectory through the art world isn’t a smooth upward curve, based on years of research with art professionals. 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