With ‘Future Relic,’ Daniel Arsham Writes His Own Myth

Daniel Arsham is passing along the myth of his art career. And like all enduring myths, there are lessons embedded along the way. His memoir “Future Relic,” out March 17, traces that story from childhood to the present, offering creatives a blueprint for how he built his career. It wasn’t without persistence and “a lot of failure” along the way.  “People only really see the final works, which are a success in that they’ve been made,” the artist, 45, says. “They don’t see how many times I did this and it didn’t work, or opportunities that I thought I was gonna have that didn’t come through.” Arsham has been with Emmanuel Perrotin through it all, working with the gallerist since he was a 21-year-old recent Cooper Union graduate. In the two-plus decades since, Arsham has expanded beyond the insular art world through collaborations with fashion brands like Dior, Hublot and Tiffany & Co., as well as cultural figures ranging from Pharrell Williams to Merce Cunningham. “Future Relic” book cover. Courtesy “There’s a lot in the book about how I went to art school. I learned how to make things, I learned how to make ideas. I didn’t learn anything about how to make a career out

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