How damaging is a bad review or show to an artists career?
It can be damaging, but hopefully it’s not necessarily a permanent thing and they can somehow recover in the next show. Every artist has bad moments, even Picasso did, so it’s very difficult for an artist to sustain a brilliant career throughout his life. You just have to accept that there’s going to be certain troughs where they’re going to be experimenting and not producing their best works.
