Field Guide to the Art World: How to Stay Human when Everything is For Sale is a book written from inside artistic practice. Rather than explaining art from a distance, it traces the everyday structures through which contemporary art is made, discussed, evaluated, and sustained.

Moving through seminars, critiques, studios, applications, markets, and moments of quiet persistence, the book observes how artists learn to navigate systems of attention, value, and legitimacy. Written with clarity and dry humor, it resists both romanticization and cynicism, treating the art world not as spectacle but as lived environment.

Part essay, part narrative, part structural portrait, Field Guide to the Art World explores what it means to remain human within systems that constantly translate experience into value. It is a book for artists, readers, and cultural workers who recognize the conditions it describes, even when they are rarely named.