Press & Media Kit

artlust
in the press

Making people actually look — art history & criticism for more than a million across the internet.

By the numbers

Total audience~1.2M+
Monthly views, all platforms~56M
TikTok followers334K
Facebook followers~321K
Instagram followers~203K
YouTube subscribers~327K
Monthly reach · FB+IG~38M
YouTube views / month~18M

Trailing 28 days · YouTube, Facebook & Instagram. Also on TikTok & Substack.

About

Who's behind it

artlust is the art-history-and-criticism channel of Seema Rao.

Seema Rao is an art historian and museum expert with 20+ years in the field — including the Cleveland Museum of Art and the Akron Art Museum — principal at Brilliant Idea Studio and author of Self-Care for Museum Professionals. Through artlust she makes art history, criticism, and visual literacy genuinely accessible, building a combined audience of more than a million across TikTok, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Substack, with tens of millions of views every month.

As featured in

Press & appearances

Hyperallergic
Required Reading — featured for breaking down the misogyny in couples' portraits
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blooloop
Museum-influencer feature — on digital art & outreach
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Not Sorry Art — Podcast
Interview: art on social media, institutions & realism
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ArtLust Podcast
Weekly show making the art worlds accessible
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Museums and the Web
"To Journey in Twitter Canoes" · 2018
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@artlust on X & TikTok
Daily art history & criticism · 334K on TikTok
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PDF · audience, bio, brand & contact — one page.

↓ Press kit (PDF)

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