We Need a New Renaissance — And It’s Already Happening
- Joe Taveras
- Apr 12
- 3 min read
In the past 60 days, I’ve painted in Singapore, Paris, Thailand, New York, Hong Kong, Dubai, and Los Angeles.
I’ve seen hand-finished sketches sell out in minutes.
I’ve placed paintings into private collections across four continents — including one in the Vatican — all without gallery representation, auctions, or institutional support.
What’s happening is bigger than me.
It’s a global shift. It’s the New Renaissance.
A Cultural Movement Is Forming — Outside the System
The New Renaissance isn’t a marketing campaign or a pop-up trend. It’s a living, breathing, decentralized movement of artists, designers, thinkers, and collectors who are choosing a different path — one rooted in authentic expression, not institutional permission.
We’re not asking to be discovered. We’re creating our own gravity.
Right now, artists aligned with the New Renaissance are generating six- and multi-six-figure sales directly from their studios and phones — through relationships, content, and energy. We’re placing work with collectors who see what’s coming — people who feel the urgency of art that actually means something again.
And we’re doing it with no safety net.
No auction houses.
No Art Basel booths.
No press machine.
Just movement.
The Art Market Is Changing. Culture Is Changing.
Collectors aren’t just buying technique anymore — they’re buying resonance.
They want stories. They want conviction. They want work that reflects the time we’re in — and the future we’re building toward.
And that’s exactly what the New Renaissance is:
A re-emergence of art as a vehicle for consciousness, identity, and transformation.
We Create Without Permission
I left the tech world — a career in robotics and AI — to paint full-time because I knew something was missing. Not in the industry. In me. And I knew I wasn’t the only one.
Artists today are multi-dimensional. We’re not waiting for validation from institutions built in another era. We’re not hoping for representation. We’re building systems of distribution and trust that move as fast as culture itself.
This is why I created New Renaissance Art Advisory — not as a gallery or a brand, but as a living network. We support visionary artists telling universal stories. We help collectors place meaningful work. And we’re expanding every week.
But the New Renaissance isn’t mine. It’s bigger than any one artist or studio.
It’s a pattern of reawakening that’s showing up across disciplines.
Designers feel it.
Musicians feel it.
Architects, scientists, poets — they feel it.
And increasingly, so do collectors.
Why This Matters Now
We’re entering a new phase of culture:
AI is generating images faster than humans can process them.
Trends cycle in 24 hours.
Meaning is being flattened.
But there’s an antidote: radical, human authenticity.
Work that is alive. Work that is unrepeatable. Work that reattaches us to ourselves.
That’s what the New Renaissance stands for.
That’s why people are paying attention.
That’s why collectors are moving quickly.
What Happens Next for the New Renaissance
Right now, we’re building the movement in real time.
Through dialogues. Through travel. Through distribution. Through conversations like this.
If you’re a collector, creator, curator, or cultural builder — you can be part of it.
You don’t need to wait.
We’re not looking for gatekeepers. We’re looking for alignment.
And the door is open.
