Artelligence Podcast
179 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 months ago - ★★★★ - 38 ratingsThe Artelligence Podcast presented by LiveArt unpacks the mysteries of the global art market through interviews with collectors, dealers, auction house specialists, lawyers, art advisors, and the myriad individuals who make the art market a beguiling mixture of sublime beauty and commercial acumen.
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Dane Jensen on Art Advising in Los Angeles and the Ernie Barnes Market
June 13, 2023 21:00 - 48 minutes - 66 MBDane Jensen just opened his own art advisory firm in Los Angeles. He has worked in the art and auction industry as a curator, auction house specialist and art advisor. He became much more visible after engaging in an epic bidding war over Ernie Barnes’s The Sugar Shack II that sold to energy trader Bill Perkins for more than $15 million at Christie’s in May of 2022. In this podcast, Jensen talks about the role of an art advisor as well as what makes Los Angeles distinctive in terms of its col...
Sotheby's David Galperin on Finding the Next Big Name
June 02, 2023 16:00 - 38 minutes - 52.5 MBIn this podcast, David Galperin, Sotheby’s Head of Contemporary Art for the Americas talks about the success of Justin Caguiat’s work in last month’s The Now sale, the continuing success of Jadé Fadojutimi’s work and how the cycle of discovery has accelerated. Why do young artists or historically overlooked artists launch so quickly into auction sales cycles? How does the discovery market function and what’s the interplay between galleries and auction houses.
Art and Fashion Converge with FIT's Natasha Degen
May 26, 2023 14:55 - 44 minutes - 60.7 MBNatasha Degen is the chair of the graduate program in art market studies at FIT in New York. She has just published a book called Merchants of Style, Art and Fashion after Warhol. That subtitle doesn’t really capture the depth and nuance of her book. SHe has written an anatomy of the ways art and fashion have become intertwined in the present-day global economy. It’s not just that major fashion brands have latched onto artists as way to market their wares and their brands. Degen unpacks t...
Mo Ostin Collection; Press family collection, Basquiat, Rousseau & NY HIghlights, May 2023
May 09, 2023 18:51 - 38 minutes - 52.6 MBThe New York auctions begin this week with just over 2000 lots on offer. The combined low estimate is nearly $1.37 billion dollars. If we remove the Allen collection from last November’s sales, we’re still at about the same level in terms of the value of the low estimate. If that doesn’t surprise you, you’re lucky. That means you didn’t spend three months after November’s auctions waiting for a global recession to begin. During that period, little art traded hands. Now that the economic s...
The Gerald Fineberg Collection with Christie's Sara Friedlander
May 05, 2023 19:33 - 32 minutes - 44.9 MBWhen the $270 million dollar Gerald Fineberg collection was announced, Christie’s Sara Friedlander remarked that the Boston real estate developer, “bought art like a curator.” Citing his ability to go deep into key movements like the artists of Black Mountain College, the Ninth Street Women, Gutai, Pop, Minimalism, Arte Povera and the Pictures Generation, Friedlander also points out that Fineberg had important works by Gerhard Richter, Christopher Wool, Alice Neel, Man Ray, Beauford Delaney...
S.I. Newhouse: Portrait of a Collector
May 02, 2023 17:45 - 43 minutes - 60 MBS.I. Newhouse Jr. was a titan of the media business in the late 20th Century, presiding over Conde Nast but also owning with his brother Donald Advance Publication’s chain of newspapers and other cable television properties and networks. He was one of the preeminent collectors of Post-war and Contemporary art. Through the painter Alexander Liberman, who served as Conde Nast’s Editorial Director, he met the abstract expressionist Barnett Newman. Through Newman, he developed an interest in ab...
The Global Auction Calendar with Phillips CEO Stephen Brooks
April 25, 2023 12:56 - 38 minutes - 52.6 MBThe global auction and art fair calendar hardly seems like the fascinating subject that it really is. The art world still operates on a schedule largely established decades ago. The disruption of the global pandemic seemed to offer an opportunity to reshape those assumptions. Asia has become more important and art fairs are proliferating from Seoul to Los Angeles and Paris. Nevertheless, 2022 saw the old auction calendar re-emerge. Judging by the very strong numbers posted last year, sales ...
Cecily Brown: Hugo Nathan on the Artist and Her Market
April 13, 2023 08:00 - 37 minutes - 51.6 MBCecily Brown has been a prominent painter for more than a quarter century. But starting in the last 5 years, her importance in the art market has grown substantially. With the opening of Death and the Maid at New York’s Metropolitan Museum, it seemed like a good time to discuss her market. The Met show is one of only a handful of museum shows that Brown has participated in including Boston’s MFA in 2006 and the Louisiana Museum in 2018. To get a better sense of how collectors view and value...
CJ Hendry: The Artist as Impresario
April 06, 2023 01:00 - 39 minutes - 54.9 MBCJ Hendry is an artist “of sorts,” she says. She’s an Instagram phenom, an entrepreneur, a copyright provocateur and an impresario. Last year she converted a church in London into an immersive experience that involved a never-ending indoor “snowstorm.” This month in Brooklyn, she has created a massive indoor playground for children and adults for a show called Plaid. From her renovated Brooklyn townhouse just featured in Architectural Digest to acting as her own gallery to a documentary ab...
The Exploding Editions Market with Phillips Robert Kennan
March 29, 2023 21:11 - 34 minutes - 46.7 MBEditions, or the sales of prints and multiple works, is an auction category that is rarely discussed. For many artists, editioned work is a significant part of their practice. Over the last several years, there has been an explosion in interest and auction activity. In 2021, Phillips saw a record-breaking year for its Editions sales. Since then, auction volume has risen another 30% to a total of $40 million in sales in 2022. Phillips editions department was founded in 2008. Since that time,...
Understanding Kenneth Noland: The artist's son, Bill Noland, & the estate's advisors
March 24, 2023 10:51 - 51 minutes - 70.7 MBInnovation is so important to Kenneth Noland's practice, says Pace Gallery's Alex Brown in this podcast. This month, Pace brings a show of Noland's Stripes, Plaids and Shapes to Chelsea after a successful run in their London gallery. To get a better understanding of Noland's career, we spoke with Bill Noland, the artist's son; then Alex Brown and the Noland estate's long-term advisor, Douglas Baxter, help us understand the market for the artist.
New York's March Sales with Christie's Sara Friedlander and LiveArt's George O'Dell
March 17, 2023 15:56 - 35 minutes - 48.1 MBSara Friedlander, a deputy Chairman at Christie’s who styles herself and “art merchant,” joins LiveArt’s George O’Dell to discuss the first New York sales of 2023. The auction calendar is anchored by the May & November sales in New York but the rest of the year is a free-for-all of sales. On a year-over-year basis, the New York Contemporary art sales were up in dollar volume due to presence of two single-owner sales but down only slightly on a like-for-like basis. Sara points out that she h...
Understanding Philip Guston Now: The National Gallery's Harry Cooper; Collector Claude Reich
March 10, 2023 01:50 - 1 hour - 86.2 MBPhilip Guston Now is the biggest international retrospective of the artist's work in a generation. It's debut at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC this month comes shortly after the announcement of a major gift of the artist's work to the Metropolitan Museum in New York. Both the retrospective and the donation contain a considerable number of works from the artist's daughter, Musa Mayer. In this podcast, we speak to the National Gallery's Harry Cooper, a curator of the show, abo...
London Winter Sales Preview: Kandinsky, Munch, Magritte, Richter, Picasso, de Kooning and much more
February 24, 2023 15:35 - 41 minutes - 56.7 MBThe art market has been holding its breath for nearly three months. How will the global economy affect the art market in 2023? With the important London auctions now on view, we speak to Sotheby's Helena Newman, Phillips's Cheyenne Westphal, Christie's Keith Gill, Olivier Camu and Tessa Lord, as well as Sotheby's James Sevier to learn more about the upcoming lots including a $45 million Kandinsky on offer through restitution, a several Gerhard Richter abstract paintings at different price poi...
Art Basel CEO Noah Horowitz on the Fair's Future
February 20, 2023 17:21 - 40 minutes - 55.6 MBNoah Horowitz returned to Art Basel as CEO after a year and a half away at Sotheby's. In his new role, which is also a new role for the company, Horowitz is rebuilding the Art Basel team around a strategy for a bigger art fair business with more galleries, more fairs and more opportunities. In this podcast, he talks about the importance of each fair in the Art Basel constellation meeting the needs of galleries, collectors and the cities that surround them. But he also looks toward the future ...
Eleanor Acquavella on Wayne Thiebaud and the Fondation Beyeler show
February 07, 2023 10:00 - 37 minutes - 51.8 MBAcquavella Gallery has represented the artist Wayne Thiebaud since 2011. The artist, who died on Christmas day in 2021 at the age of 101 was serious about his art, teaching and tennis. How serious was he about his art? Thiebaud worked on one painting for 32 years. Now the Fondation Beyeler has a show of 65 works by Thiebaud that will introduce the breadth of his work to a global audience. In this podcast, Eleanor Acquavella explains the unique factors that have led to a dramatic rise in value...
The Rome-New York Connection in High Modernism: David Leiber's Show at David Zwirner Gallery
January 26, 2023 19:05 - 36 minutes - 50.8 MBOne of the clear trends visible in last year’s auction data is a renewed interest in abstract painting. Bidders are pursuing a range of overlooked artists from the 1940s and 1950s. Into that trend, David Zwirner Gallery has opened a new show, Roma New York, 1953-64. The exhibition more than 50 works by 23 different artists highlights the connection between some of the giants of mid-century art like Willem de Kooning, Robert Rauschenberg, Franz Kline and Cy Twombly , as well as lesser known na...
LiveArt's Hot List for 2023
January 17, 2023 14:44 - 47 minutes - 65 MBWho are the hottest artists at auction in 2022 whose markets are likely to continue to rise in 2023? George O'Dell talks us through the trends that emerged from looking at more than 200 artists whose overall auction prices were well above the estimates. We identified six main trends: 1) strong demand for artists who are women; 2) revivals of forgotten or undervalued artists; 3) big names gaining value; 4) naive painters; 5) surrealists and their contemporary admirers; as well as demand for 6)...
Gagosian's Laura Paulson on Managing the Big Collections for Sale
December 23, 2022 15:36 - 48 minutes - 67 MBLaura Paulson is Principal at Gagosian Art Advisory where she has recently advised on the sale of David M. Solinger's collection which featured the much-talked about Willem de Kooning "Collage." Earlier this year, Paulson also advised on the sale of the Macklowe collection which galvanized the market and was briefly the most valuable single-owner collection ever sold. In this podcast, Paulson discusses the strategy behind the Solinger heirs decision not to take a global guarantee or third-par...
LiveArt's Market Pulse for Nov 22, 2022: Sotheby's Kelsey Leonard & Lucius Elliott
November 25, 2022 17:23 - 37 minutes - 52.1 MBLucius Elliott and Kelsey Leonard go through some of the sales trends in the November auctions with LiveArt's George O'Dell. David Hockney, new market share levels for female artists, Abstract and Color Field painters, Christina Quarles, Lauren Quin, Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Louise Nevelson, Andy Warhol and Salmon Toor are the artists and markets covered in this conversation.
LiveArt's Market Pulse for November 18, 2022: Lock Kresler Assesses the Market
November 22, 2022 16:54 - 39 minutes - 54.7 MBLock Kresler is a Senior Director at Helly Nahmad Gallery in London. He's deeply involved in the private market but also spent a decade working at Christie's. In this conversation with George O'Dell of LiveArt, Kresler comments on the success of Paul G. Allen Collection, the uneven nature of this season's sales and how that will influence both the public and private markets going forward.
LiveArt Market Pulse for November 8, 2022: Day Sale Focus
November 11, 2022 14:08 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MBThe Day sales are where the art market does its business. These marathon marts are where dealers, art advisors and the occasional brave collector chase the works they believe in. Collecting trends, price movements and discoveries all take place in the day sales. LiveArt's George O'Dell, Arina Novak and Sophie Coco discuss a broad range of artists on offer in the Day sales from a wide array of Abstract Expressionists to recent market mainstays like Scott Kahn. Join us for a preview of what to ...
Lynne Drexler's Extraordinary Year: Christine Berry, Sukanya Rajaratnam and Julian Ehrlich Explain
November 08, 2022 12:37 - 32 minutes - 44.9 MBIn 2022, artist Lynne Drexler's work exploded on the art market. An artist who had briefly shown in the early 1960s in New York, she continued to work on a remote island in Maine until her death in 1999. Two decades later, she became the artist of the moment. Sukanya Rajaratnam and Christine Berry have collaborated on a dual-gallery show of Drexler's work from her first decade, 1959-1969, The shows at Berry Campbell and Mnuchin have drawn in new audiences and further burnished Drexler's reput...
LiveArt's Market Pulse for Nov 2: Paul Allen, Alex Katz and the Surprise of Boetti
November 04, 2022 05:00 - 29 minutes - 40.1 MBLiveArt's sales team discussed the Paul Allen collection at Christie's, Alex Katz's market in light of his retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum, and the new record prices set for Alighiero Boetti's work in Paris and the expectation of an even bigger record in New York this month.
The Billion-Dollar Paul G. Allen Collection at Christie's with Marc Porter and Max Carter
November 01, 2022 12:00 - 37 minutes - 51.4 MBChristie's Chairman Marc Porter talks about Paul Allen as a collector and the role philanthropy now plays in the sale of the major art collections of our time. Max Carter discusses the challenge of estimating a wide array of artists in a collection that ranges over hundreds of years. Led by works from Cézanne, Seurat, Gauguin, Klimt, van Gogh, Boticelli, Manet, Jasper Johns, Lucian Freud, David Hockney and many more artists.
LiveArt Market Pulse for Oct 24, 2022: Paris Plus, Mitchell/Monet & Alice Baber
October 25, 2022 19:23 - 28 minutes - 38.6 MBLiveArt's George O'Dell and Sophie Coco discuss the mood in the market. George is just back from Paris Plus, the new Art Basel fair in Paris. He gives his impressions on the difference between the Paris and London markets. Can the two fairs survive side-by-side as they have for years or will one win out? Sophie and George also assess the Fondation Louis Vuitton Monet Mitchell show that brings together late works by both artists who lived in similar landscapes outside Paris but at different t...
James Sevier Takes Stock of Frieze Week in London
October 18, 2022 16:00 - 34 minutes - 47 MBFresh off Sotheby's strongest Frieze-week sales ever, James Sevier discusses the state of the Contemporary art market. London was filled with eager buyers who packed the fairs and auctions. More than $257 million was spent at auction and there's no telling how much more changed hands at the various fairs and galleries in London. In this conversation, Sevier talks about the mood in the market, the effect of the cheaper pound on how consignors behave and the strong demand for artists like David...
LiveArt's Market Pulse for October 10, 2022
October 11, 2022 13:46 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MBLiveArt's sales team of George O'Dell, Adam Rutledge, Sophie Coco and Arina Novak discuss Sotheby's Hong Kong Contemporary art sale where $81m in art was sold but the bidding was lackluster overall. Still, there were strong sales for Emily Mae Smith, Maria Berrio, Lynne Drexler, Lucy Bull and Louise Bonnet. Then the discussion shifts to what the sales team wants to see at Frieze London—especially the presentations of prominent galleries and the special presentation of AWARE (Archives of Women...
Isa Lorenzo & Rachel Rillo Launch Manila Gallery Silverlens in New York
October 07, 2022 20:58 - 31 minutes - 43.7 MBIsa Lorenzo founded Silverlens Galleries in Manila in 2004. She was joined three years later by co-Director Rachel Rillo. Together they built an innovative gallery program in Manila and on the global art fair circuit. After partnering with galleries around the world for several years, Lorenzo and Rillo discovered they were seeing significant traffic to their website and social media from the United States. There was also serious interest from curators about their artists. The team opened in t...
LiveArt's Market Pulse for October 3, 2022
October 04, 2022 17:02 - 37 minutes - 51 MBGeorge O'Dell, Sophie Coco and Arina Novak discuss the results from New York's mid-season Fall sale opening auctions. With $69 million in art sold at an 84.5% sell-through rate, the market remains stronger than many expected though the tug-o-war between sellers and buyers is now at a draw after several seasons where sellers were in the advantaged position. In this podcast, we discuss results for artists like Amy Sillman, Danielle Orchard, Louise Bonnet, Lynne Drexler, Mary Weatherford, Rashid...
LiveArt's Market Pulse for September 21, 2022
September 27, 2022 14:04 - 28 minutes - 39.1 MBThe New York Mid-Season sales are upon us and the art market is eager to see what prices will be paid for a wide range of artists. There are many new names whose secondary sales are first appearing at auction. There's also a lot of Abstract Expressionist work by women and classic names in the market looking for prices and attention. George O'Dell and Sophie Coco talk about the artists on offer, which ones to watch and what might become of their markets.
Jonathan Crockett on Phillips's Strength in Asia
September 23, 2022 16:00 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MBPhillips Chairman, Asia, Jonathan Crockett talks about the challenges of selling art in Hong Kong over the past few years. As the auction house moves into its new headquarters at the West Kowloon Culture District, steps away from the M+ Museum, Crockett talks about growing interest in Western artists among Asian collectors and the market for emerging talents.
LiveArt's Market Pulse for September 16, 2022
September 20, 2022 16:00 - 25 minutes - 34.9 MBLiveArt's George O'Dell and Arina Novak discuss the Independent and Armory Show art fairs in New York; strong auction performances for Lynne Mapp Drexler, Ernie Barnes at Bonhams and David Hockney at Phillips; openings for Mario Ayala at Deitch and Lucy Bull at David Kordansky; plus a conversation about Brussels as a gallery destination.
Devang Thakkar Leads Christie's into the Future of Technology
September 16, 2022 16:00 - 36 minutes - 50.6 MBAfter a career at Microsoft and Artsy, Devang Thakkar has combined his interest in art and the art market (he did graduate work on art pricing) with his experience in technology to launch Christie's early stage venture fund. In the podcast, Thakkar discusses the venture fund's thesis, his experience in technology and cryptography, and his views on what needs to happen next as the art world increasingly merges with technology.
LiveArt's Market Pulse: September 7, 2022
September 13, 2022 19:53 - 31 minutes - 42.7 MBLiveArt's sales team led by George O'Dell, Sophie Coco and Arina Novak discuss the week's most important events effecting the Contemporary art market. In this episode, they discuss Burning Man and Frieze Seoul; the markets for Michael Majerus, Lynne Drexler and Alice Baber; as well as the opening exhibitions for Wolfgang Tillmans at MoMA, Rick Lowe at Gagosian and Christina Quarles at Hauser + Wirth. Get the most valuable market intelligence from LiveArt.
LiveArt's Hot List for Spring 2022, Part 2
August 03, 2022 05:00 - 41 minutes - 57 MBThis is LiveArt's Hot List for the second quarter of 2022. Using our comprehensive data, we looked at the sales in April, May and June in London, New York and Hong Kong. We tried to identify the artists with high hammer ratios across multiple sales. Hammer ratio is the hammer price over low estimate. We narrowed that list to a few dozen artists, excluding, for example, the names from the Winter Hot List. Then we boiled it down further to 16 artists whose markets we think are worth paying so...
LiveArt's Hot List for Spring 2022, Part 1
July 27, 2022 11:00 - 41 minutes - 56.5 MBThis is LiveArt's Hot List for the second quarter of 2022. Using our comprehensive data, we looked at the sales in April, May and June in London, New York and Hong Kong. We tried to identify the artists with high hammer ratios across multiple sales. Hammer ratio is the hammer price over low estimate. We narrowed that list to a few dozen artists, excluding, for example, the names from the Winter Hot List. Then we boiled it down further to 16 artists whose markets we think are worth paying so...
Erick Calderon's Chromie Squiggle Conquers Basel
July 20, 2022 12:00 - 41 minutes - 38.2 MBErick Calderon is the founder and CEO of Artblocks, a generative art platform that produces NFTs. Generative digital art projects rely on a set of rules defining variables and parameters that control the visual characteristics of the iterative works. As Snowfro, Calderon’s crypto-name, he is the creator of the Chromie Squiggles, a generative art project capped at 10,000 unique iterations. To date, Calderon has minted more than 9,000 of the Chromie Squiggles and retains the remainder. An ear...
Magnus Resch Answers Artists Questions About NFTs
July 06, 2022 11:00 - 34 minutes - 47 MBMagnus Resch is a serial entrepreneur. He built companies in Europe before starting his first art business in Hong Kong. Then he built the Magnus app in New York to add price transparency to the art marketplace. At the same time, Magnus has written a series of books about the business of making and selling art. The first was a study of Best practices in art dealing. The second was “How to Become a Successful Artist.” It spawned an online course. Now, Magnus has written "How To Create And Sell...
Hilton Als: Discovering Frank Walter and Finding New Ways to Present Literature and Art
June 29, 2022 11:00 - 26 minutes - 36 MBFrank Walter’s rarely seen work is being exhibited at David Zwirner Gallery on the Upper East Side of Manhattan until July 29th. He was an agriculture expert from the island of Antigua in the Caribbean. After a multi-year sojourn in Europe, Walter returned to Antigua where he spent the rest of his life making art. Few saw these works until the 2017 Venice Biennale. There Walter was featured at the first ever pavilion for Antigua and Barbuda. Hilton Als is a writer for the New Yorker. He is ...
William O'Reilly: The Thrill of Collecting Old Masters
June 22, 2022 12:43 - 27 minutes - 37.8 MBTEFAF Maastricht, the mother of all art fairs encompassing 7,000 years of art history, normally runs for multiple weeks in March. This week it re-opens for a shortened run. Noted as the centerpiece of the Old Masters calendar, and with Christie’s having held Old Masters sales in New York just a week or two before, I thought it would helpful to speak to William O’Reilly, who runs the New York office of Dickinson. Founded in 1993 by Simon Dickinson, the firm boasts that it privately and discr...
Nate Freeman: Covering the Art World as Beau Monde
June 15, 2022 11:00 - 40 minutes - 55.6 MBNate Freeman writes a weekly art column for Vanity Fair. He made the evolution from art world reporter for ARTnews, Artsy and Artnet to writing a weekly gossip column that profiles the most interesting characters in the art world. In this podcast, we talk about how he writes his column, what he expects to see at Art Basel, the fusion of the art and fashion worlds, New York’s hippest neighborhood Dimes Square, the temperature of art market based upon the May sales, the return of Larry Gagosian...
Gabriela Palmieri: How Collectors Navigate the Competitive Market for Emerging Artists
June 01, 2022 12:00 - 36 minutes - 49.8 MBIn her 17-year career at Sotheby’s, Gabriela Palmieri presided over the most valuable Contemporary art day sale ever held. She was involved in the sale of Adam Sender’s collection and worked with the estate of Allan Stone. Since establishing Palmieri Fine Art, Gabriela has worked on the Emily and Jerry Spiegel collection and the sale of Barbarlee Diamondstein-Spielvogel and Carl Spielvogel’s collection. She also advised on the Brillembourg-Caprilles collection and the sale of a major collecti...
Andrew Fabricant Takes Gagosian Gallery into the Future
May 25, 2022 11:00 - 33 minutes - 46.2 MBAndrew Fabricant became Chief Operating Officer of Gagosian Gallery a year before the global pandemic radically transformed the business of dealing art. In this podcast, Fabricant discusses the recent auctions in New York, the unexpected surge in the art market during the pandemic and what that means for the future of the art market as the global economy rebalances toward a post-pandemic world. We also delve into the opportunities and challenges involved in running an art-dealing enterprise w...
Good Times: Bill Perkins Explains Why He Bought Ernie Barnes's The Sugar Shack for $15 million
May 18, 2022 11:00 - 33 minutes - 46.3 MBThe May week of sales began with Andy Warhol's $195 million Shot Sage Blue Marilyn. That was the work everybody expected to be the most talked about lot of the week. But on the third night of sales, something extraordinary and authentic happened. A work by former professional football player and artist Ernie Barnes was offered for sale. Positioned at the auction house in a highly trafficked place, it had begun to stir interest. When the bidding began, that interest erupted into a war between ...
Rachel Hagopian Explains Private Sales on LiveArt Market
May 11, 2022 12:38 - 32 minutes - 44.3 MBLiveArt Market's Managing Director Rachel Hagopian discusses the approaching launch of LiveArt's exchange, The Trading Floor, where buyers and seller's will be able to match wishlist demand with supply. Hagopian also talks about the surprising entities that have benefited from the platform's anonymity and the growing interest interest in private sales.
Christie's May Sale Preview: Warhol's Marilyn ; Anne Bass's Rothkos, Degas & Monets; and More
May 04, 2022 11:00 - 37 minutes - 50.9 MBMay is the biggest auction season of the year. It opens with a huge set of sales at Christie’s. In this podcast, we’ll speak with Christie’s Chairman, Marc Porter, about the brother and sister collectors Thomas and Doris Ammann. Johanna Flaum, head of the Contemporary department, tells us about Warhol’s Marilyn, the rare large Flowers painting, and a work by Francesco Clemente. Max Carter, Head of Christie’s Impressionist and Modern department, talks about an early cubist Picasso bronze b...
Phillips May Sale Preview: Basquiat's Devil, Calder's Snow Flurry, Kusama's Infinity Net
April 27, 2022 11:00 - 33 minutes - 46.1 MBPhillips Auction house has a reputation for creating markets for artists who don’t have a track record. Over the last several years, the house has grown rapidly to become a venue for a range of works including some of the biggest lots of the season. In this podcast, we’ll talk to Phillips Basquiat expert Scott Nussbaum about the massive Jean-Michel Basquiat painting Phillips will be auctioning for Yusaku Maezawa. We’ll also hear from Deputy Chairman Robert Manley about a rare Calder mobile,...
Brooke Lampley on the $676 Million Macklowe Sale—and This Season's Follow Up
April 20, 2022 11:00 - 37 minutes - 51.5 MBThe sale of Harry and Linda Macklowe’s art collection was one of the most anticipated events of 2021. The first part of the two-part sale was held in November after a delay caused by the Covid pandemic. Sotheby’s had made an aggressive play for the collection. As Brooke Lampley points out in this podcast, a new team was in place with a lot to lose from a weak sale. In the end, the sale and the season saw prices beyond anyone’s expectations. On May 16, Sotheby’s will sell another $200 million ...
Julian Ehrlich: Reading the Postwar to Present Market
April 13, 2022 11:50 - 36 minutes - 50.4 MBJulian Ehrlich is the head of Christie's Post-war to Present sale. In today's market where artists are regularly bid high above their estimates, the mid-season Post-war to Present sale is a place for breakout lots. This season that happened spectacularly with the work of Lynne Drexler. But she's hardly the only artist to shine at Christie's. In this podcast, Julian talks about putting together his first sale at Christie's and how he reads the market.