Christy MacLear, former Executive Director of the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, speaks about building the Rauschenberg Foundation at the Institute for Artists Estates Conference in Berlin (http://www.artists-estates.com)last September. Rauschenberg put some thought into his own legacy before he died. From arts education to the environment, Rauschenberg wanted his Foundation to have an impact on several areas. It was left to MacLear to build a bridge between Rauschenberg’s interests and the com...
Jan 18, 2017•37 min
"It's easier to know what bag to pick up for a lot of people than it is to know what art to pick." Marisa Kayyem, program director for Christie's Continuing Education, talks about the ways in which art and fashion have grown to depend upon each other more and more. In this conversation she talks about: *Why brands are in search of the "new" and what they find in art. *The trend toward luxury retailers using art to create unique spaces. *Fashion shows as performance art. * Historical links betwee...
Jan 10, 2017•37 min
David Norman delves into his 30 years experience as a top specialist in Impressionist and Modern art to discuss in this podcast sponsored by Christie's Education New York the results of the November sales in New York. *Norman explains the backstory behind Wassily Kandinksy's Rigide et courbé and the not-easy decision to guarantee a post-Bauhaus Kandinsky at that level. * Norman offers some of the market history behind Edvard Munch's Girls on the Bridge. *We learn more about how the changing tast...
Jan 04, 2017•1 hr
This edition of the Artelligence Podcast is the second part of a two-part conversation at Christie's Education between Vernonique Chagnon-Burke, Judd Tully and Marion Maneker. Chagnon-Burke is the director of Christie's Education New York. She organized this panel to discuss the future of auction houses and the current state of the art market for students and guests at Christie's Education's Rockefeller Center location. The discussion begins with a general take on the shape of the auction houses...
Dec 21, 2016•39 min
This edition of the Artelligence Podcast is the first part of a two-part conversation at Christie's Education between Vernonique Chagnon-Burke, Judd Tully and Marion Maneker. Chagnon-Burke is the director of Christie's Education New York. She organized this panel to discuss the Art Basel in Miami Beach art fair and the current state of the art market for students and guests at Christie's Education's Rockefeller Center location. The discussion begins with a general take on the state of the art ma...
Dec 14, 2016•37 min
Each year 30,000 visitors arrive in Miami for the Art Basel fair. Many are art dealers and art collectors looking to buy or build relationships. But Art Basel in Miami Beach is also the art market's trade convention or annual Christmas party, take your pick. In this podcast, we speak to 8 different attendees about why they come to Art Basel and what they do at the fair. You'll hear from auction house professionals and appraisers, art lawyers and magazine publishers, the creator of Artsy's activa...
Dec 07, 2016•40 min
Dealer Gary Nader discusses the future of the Latin American art market. • The central importance of Latin America's four global masters: Wifredo Lam, Joaquin Torres-Garcia, Fernando Botero and Roberto Matta. • The history of the Latin American category, why it was invented and how the market needs to move beyond it. • Museums of Latin American art and the museum infrastructure in Latin America. • How Central and South American collectors view artists from their own countries and from other coun...
Nov 21, 2016•30 min
Jonathan Miller, CEO of Miller Samuel, Inc. discusses the intersection of the real estate and art markets. In this podcast, Miller goes into some detail about •the financing and construction of luxury real estate in New York and Miami •the glut of supply in the luxury market of $5m and above •the sudden drop in demand at the highest end of the market •how real estate markets clear when supply is greater than demand •apartments as stores of wealth and which cities predominate
Nov 11, 2016•38 min
Paul Becker, founder and CEO of Art Money, talks about how Art Money enables art buyers to pay for a work of art from a gallery over 10 months while the gallery owner gets paid in 10 days (helping the gallerist pay the artist sooner too.) This art buying model solves a stalemate between buyers—who want to purchase art but feel it is more responsible to pay for the works over time—and sellers who do not want to play the role of a bank. Becker explains that 90% of his customers can afford to pay f...
Nov 07, 2016•24 min
Jamie Niven, the well-known charity auctioneer, discusses his new role at Athena Art Finance, his years in business development at Sotheby's and the loneliness of the auctioneer struggling through a bad sale.
Oct 21, 2016•33 min
Bloomberg's James Tarmy discusses sales and the mood at the Frieze art fair.
Oct 14, 2016•28 min
Touria El Glaoui is the founder and director of the 1:54 Art Fair which opens in London on October 6th. In this podcast, El Glaoui talks about the African collector base for Contemporary African art, the 1:54 Fair's role in developing that collector base further and the future of African Contemporary art within the global art market.
Oct 03, 2016•38 min
Allese Thomson, who works with many Contemporary artists as executive producer at Here Be Dragons, and James Tarmy, who covers the art market for Bloomberg, discuss the new Thomas Heatherwick structure being built for Hudson Yards as a "public" art project, the current mind-set of Contemporary art collectors as they digest the fruits of the last few years of market frenzy, and the continuing evolution of art fairs in this episode of the Artelligence podcast.
Sep 30, 2016•43 min
Galerie Gmurzynska's Mathias Rastorfer talks about Wifredo Lam's legacy in the context of the Tate's new show of the Cuban Modern master. Rastorfer reviews Lam's progress back into the mainstream of the global art market after a sojourn as a Latin American painter. He also reveals the strong connection between Jean-Michel Basquiat and the work of Wifredo Lam.
Sep 26, 2016•23 min
Mary Rozell discusses the UBS Art Collection which holds 30,000 works of art in the bank's offices around the world. Rozell's team curates and conserves the art it owns and acquires on the primary market additional works from artists and dealers around the world. In this podcast, Rozell discusses the unique nature of UBS's art collection and her thoughts on guiding it into the future. Mary Rozell has been an advisor to collectors, artists and estates on legal and strategic issues relating to the...
Jun 27, 2016•40 min
Inigo Philbrick discusses his new London gallery show of Rudolf Stingel's "Instruction Paintings," Stingel's market and the vagaries of art dealing.
Jun 17, 2016•29 min
Leon Benrimon is spearheading Heritage Auction's expansion into Modern and Contemporary art and sales in New York. He speaks here about his focus on the middle market of works ranging in value from $10,000 to $1m, why he thinks that market is going to expand dramatically and Heritage's unique use of the web for bidding and selling.
Apr 27, 2016•43 min
Adam Fields is the founder of Arta, the platform for matching galleries and collectors with the appropriate art shipping firm. Arta offers a tool to give quotes on art shipping as well as providing fast and easy access to competitive bids. (Shiparta.com)
Mar 21, 2016•24 min
Marc Spiegler, Global Director of ArtBasel, and Noah Horowitz, Director Americas, talk about the world's leading art fair, the character of each of the different fairs and how ArtBasel works with galleries to create a massive federation of global galleries.
Mar 08, 2016•47 min
Norwegian explorer, book publisher and noted art collector talks about his experiences becoming a collector without access to the art world or a great deal of money.
Feb 02, 2016•48 min
A panel discussion at ArtBasel Miami Beach offering perspectives on the future of the art market as the global economy moves toward significant re-adjustment with Wilbur Ross, Jr., Steven Tananbaum and Jeffrey Deitch.
Jan 20, 2016•59 min
Robert Heffel of Canada's leading auction house, Heffel Fine Art, discusses the firm's Post-War and Contemporary art and Fine Canadian art sales that will take place on November 26, 2015. The Fine Canadian art sale features three important works by Lawren Harris, the Group of Seven artist who was featured at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles this Fall.
Nov 21, 2015•25 min
Mathias Rastorfer, CEO and Co-owner of Galerie Gmurzynksa, talks about the survey of Joan Miro's work the gallery has mounted for its 50th Anniversary. The exhibition comprises early, radically abstract-surrealist museum-works such as the 1925 “Circus Horse” or the beautifully-hued 1927 “Peinture;” rarely seen mixed-media “Collage-Drawings” of the 1930s; a suite of large drawings picturing fantastic biomorphic interpretations on the female figure and on the theme of lovers; and a distinct group ...
Oct 08, 2015•34 min
Fred Hills and Daisy Sanders of Collisart discuss the growing international demand for American paintings and their experiences at Masterpiece, the London art fair.
Jun 23, 2015•30 min
Collector turned private dealer, Stavros Merjos, discusses his love for the work of Ed Ruscha, hot artists from the 1980s and their markets, LA collectors, Richard Prince and why Warhols are still really, really cheap but won't be forever.
Jun 09, 2015•34 min
Rudiger Weng describes the business logic behind his new venture, Weng Contemporary, which hopes to transform the market for prints and multiples by contemporary artists.
Jun 03, 2015•31 min
Judd Tully of Art + Auction and Scott Reyburn of the International New York Times discuss the May 2015 cycle of marquee art auctions in New York. With sales totals well above $2bn, Christie's bold move to consolidate sales and its aggressive use of guarantees have pushed the art market into new territory.
May 26, 2015•58 min
Heffel holds its Spring sales in Vancouver on May 27th amid growing interest in Canadian art exemplified by the popularity of the Dulwich Picture Gallery's show of Emily Carr and the upcoming Lawren Harris show co-curated by Steve Martin coming to the Hammer Museum.
May 20, 2015•31 min
Alfred Pacquement, former director of the Centre Pompidou, Sukanya Rajaratnam of Mnuchin Gallery and Daniel Hantai, discuss the artist's career and his position within the history of abstract painting.
May 15, 2015•32 min
Global gallerists Rachel Lehmann and David Maupin discuss artists, collectors and running a gallery with offices on opposite sides of the world serving artists and collectors everywhere in between.
May 12, 2015•37 min
