Roborant Review Membership

Roborant Review is powered by its readers. When you become a member, you’re directly funding sharp, independent contemporary art journalism. Choose the path below that best suits you to join our community of like-minded people who value art and writing.

Support independent art writing and receive personal invites to our community events and informal gatherings with writers and artists.

Sustaining Membership 

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For inquiries about making a significant contribution or giving via a donor-advised fund, please reach out to us at roborantreview@gmail.com

To fund our endeavor we offer 1) memberships and 2) integrated advertising to those who want to financially support our efforts. Member galleries and advertisers help fund reviews from a variety of venues (not just their own), and along with individual (non-gallery) memberships, help financially support the remuneration we offer to our cohort of writers. 90% of any monies raised to support the journal go directly to compensate our writers, the remaining 10% goes to the administration of the site. 

We remain committed, as we have demonstrated since launching, to covering exhibitions at smaller venues who do not have the resources to financially support our efforts. To that end, we have published reviews of cafe shows, smaller pop-up galleries, and student exhibitions. Since June 17, 2025 (when we first launched Roborant Review) we are proud to say we are the most prolific art journal publishing long-form art reviews in the Western United States. 

We have reflected at great length on how best to fund our efforts. Other journals rely on the sale of pop-up and/or banner ads which we have elected not to pursue because of the empirical data that shows this kind of advertising does not lead to meaningful online traffic or sales for the galleries involved. 

Instead, Roborant Review offers galleries and museums fully integrated advertising which serves as a lasting editorial presence published alongside our reviews, and links directly to the advertiser’s own website. We believe that a permanent backlink from a respected editorial domain is a tangible asset. It improves a gallery's search ranking for artists, shows, and their own name — in ways no banner ad can. Roborant Review advertising listings remain online indefinitely which allow search engines to index them, thus drawing more meaningful traffic to our advertisers sites.

Roborant Review does not guarantee favorable coverage to member galleries or advertisers. The publication alone decides what exhibitions to review and the content of those reviews. 

We welcome any feedback on our leadership or sustainability structure and will continue to make adjustments in that regard to improve our publication.