Should You Apply for the Guggenheim Fellowship?

Should You Apply for the Guggenheim Fellowship?

So you’ve applied for the Guggenheim Fellowship for five years in a row, and still haven’t gotten it? That’s “early days” for this award, says Paddy Johnson in this especially juicy and candid edition of her advice column Art Problems. Read it to learn what artists should consider when deciding whether to spend a month out of their lives putting together a multi-page application, or doing literally anything else (learning an obscure language? Au…