The Residency Revolution: Why American Galleries Are Betting on International Artists—and Transforming the Creative World in the Process
Something significant is shifting in the institutional priorities of American galleries and arts organizations. Across the country, funding that once flowed primarily toward acquisitions and domestic programming is being redirected toward international artist residencies—structured exchanges that bring creators from abroad into American studios and send American artists into communities around the world. This is not simply a programmatic trend. It is, this writer argues, a structural transformat