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Artelligence Podcast
by Marion Maneker
The 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
Dane 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…
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Sotheby's David Galperin on Finding the Next Big Name
In 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...
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Art and Fashion Converge with FIT's Natasha Degen
Natasha 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...
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Mo Ostin Collection; Press family collection, Basquiat, Rousseau & NY HIghlights, May 2023
The 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...
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The Gerald Fineberg Collection with Christie's Sara Friedlander
When 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…
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S.I. Newhouse: Portrait of a Collector
S.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...
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The Global Auction Calendar with Phillips CEO Stephen Brooks
The 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...
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Cecily Brown: Hugo Nathan on the Artist and Her Market
Cecily 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…
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CJ Hendry: The Artist as Impresario
CJ 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...
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The Exploding Editions Market with Phillips Robert Kennan
Editions, 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...
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Understanding Kenneth Noland: The artist's son, Bill Noland, & the estate's advisors
Innovation 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...
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New York's March Sales with Christie's Sara Friedlander and LiveArt's George O'Dell
Sara 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...
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Understanding Philip Guston Now: The National Gallery's Harry Cooper; Collector Claude Reich
Philip 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...
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London Winter Sales Preview: Kandinsky, Munch, Magritte, Richter, Picasso, de Kooning and much more
The 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...
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Art Basel CEO Noah Horowitz on the Fair's Future
Noah 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…
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Eleanor Acquavella on Wayne Thiebaud and the Fondation Beyeler show
Acquavella 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...
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The Rome-New York Connection in High Modernism: David Leiber's Show at David Zwirner Gallery
One 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...
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LiveArt's Hot List for 2023
Who 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...
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Gagosian's Laura Paulson on Managing the Big Collections for Sale
Laura 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...
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LiveArt's Market Pulse for Nov 22, 2022: Sotheby's Kelsey Leonard & Lucius Elliott
Lucius 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...
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LiveArt's Market Pulse for November 18, 2022: Lock Kresler Assesses the Market
Lock 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...
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LiveArt Market Pulse for November 8, 2022: Day Sale Focus
The 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…
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Lynne Drexler's Extraordinary Year: Christine Berry, Sukanya Rajaratnam and Julian Ehrlich Explain
In 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…
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LiveArt's Market Pulse for Nov 2: Paul Allen, Alex Katz and the Surprise of Boetti
LiveArt'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.
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The Billion-Dollar Paul G. Allen Collection at Christie's with Marc Porter and Max Carter
Christie'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...
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LiveArt Market Pulse for Oct 24, 2022: Paris Plus, Mitchell/Monet & Alice Baber
LiveArt'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...
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James Sevier Takes Stock of Frieze Week in London
Fresh 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…
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LiveArt's Market Pulse for October 10, 2022
LiveArt'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...
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Isa Lorenzo & Rachel Rillo Launch Manila Gallery Silverlens in New York
Isa 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...
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LiveArt's Market Pulse for October 3, 2022
George 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...
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LiveArt's Market Pulse for September 21, 2022
The 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...
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Jonathan Crockett on Phillips's Strength in Asia
Phillips 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...
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LiveArt's Market Pulse for September 16, 2022
LiveArt'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…
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Devang Thakkar Leads Christie's into the Future of Technology
After 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...
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LiveArt's Market Pulse: September 7, 2022
LiveArt'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...
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LiveArt's Hot List for Spring 2022, Part 2
This 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...
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LiveArt's Hot List for Spring 2022, Part 1
This 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...
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Erick Calderon's Chromie Squiggle Conquers Basel
Erick 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...
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Magnus Resch Answers Artists Questions About NFTs
Magnus 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…
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Hilton Als: Discovering Frank Walter and Finding New Ways to Present Literature and Art
Frank 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…
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William O'Reilly: The Thrill of Collecting Old Masters
TEFAF 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...
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Nate Freeman: Covering the Art World as Beau Monde
Nate 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...
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Gabriela Palmieri: How Collectors Navigate the Competitive Market for Emerging Artists
In 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...
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Andrew Fabricant Takes Gagosian Gallery into the Future
Andrew 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...
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Good Times: Bill Perkins Explains Why He Bought Ernie Barnes's The Sugar Shack for $15 million
The 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...
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Rachel Hagopian Explains Private Sales on LiveArt Market
LiveArt 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...
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Christie's May Sale Preview: Warhol's Marilyn ; Anne Bass's Rothkos, Degas & Monets; and More
May 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...
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Phillips May Sale Preview: Basquiat's Devil, Calder's Snow Flurry, Kusama's Infinity Net
Phillips 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…
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Brooke Lampley on the $676 Million Macklowe Sale—and This Season's Follow Up
The 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...
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Julian Ehrlich: Reading the Postwar to Present Market
Julian 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...
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The 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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