What is Nostos?

Nostos is a weekly newsletter for artist parents and creative families about making a home the intersection of art and life, a place to share stories about how creative people think about their work and its relationship to everything else.

We want to blur the boundaries between family and friends. Families can and should be safe harbors for radical creativity, little cultural laboratories where mistakes are encouraged and successes wildly celebrated. We want to expand the comfort zone of the family into the wide world beyond.

Many of us have kids and work in creative fields. We belong to a generation doing family differently, mixing work and play and letting our children see us as whole people, and creating the space to see them the same way.

All of us want to share what it feels like to build culture across our family and friends. Family grows by reaching outward.

Here’s the formal bio: Robin Peckham is the Executive Director of the JD Museum opening in Shenzhen in 2027. He previously served as Co-Director of Taipei Dangdai Art & Ideas (2019-2025) and Editor-in-Chief of LEAP, the international art magazine of contemporary China (2014-2019). He has organized exhibitions on art, technology, popular culture, and the family for Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Fosun Foundation, and K11 Art Foundation, with the show “Art Post-Internet,” co-curated with Karen Archey, listed by ARTnews as one of the 20 most important art exhibitions of the 2010s.

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