Photo Credit: Tyler Melton
Tyler Melton, founder of Los Angeles-based art placement platform MANTL, posits that the art market has often asked too much, too soon.
“Commit now and sign a name to something lived with for maybe forty-five minutes, and all that under curated gallery lighting, which rarely reflects the lived truth,” he states.
When the price of original work often sits on the higher end, Melton argues that the architecture of acquisition has not evolved…

