Art Market Podcasts

Interviews with leaders and innovators in the global art industry

Dr Robert Shimshak

Dr Robert Shimshak

27 January 2016
In this week’s episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, Dr Robert Shimshak, the prominent California-based art collector, joins us.

Dr Robert Shimshak shares his evolution as an art collector. He has acquired in this process, several works by Ed Ruscha, Sol Lewitt, On Kawara, Bruce Conner and others.

Dr Shimshak then offers advice for new collectors. Advice  that he wishes he had received when he first started collecting. Also, Robert gives his perspective on the current state of the art market and reveals some significant buying opportunities that currently exist. Lastly, having lived primarily on the west coast, Dr Shimshak compares the art scenes in San Francisco and Los Angeles to New York City.

Gavin Delahunty

Gavin Delahunty – Dallas Museum of Art

19 January 2016
In this week’s episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, Gavin Delahunty joins us.

Gavin Delahunty is the Hoffman Family Senior Curator of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art. First of all, he joins us to discuss his critically acclaimed exhibition, Jackson Pollock: Blind Spots.

First, Gavin reveals to us what inspired him to curate the largest survey of Jackson Pollock’s black paintings ever assembled.

Then, he takes us inside the process of locating the artworks around the world. Ultimately convincing collectors and museums to lend their artworks for the exhibition. Also, Gavin shares with us what having a high-quality, critically acclaimed exhibition such as the Pollock show has benefitted the city of Dallas. More broadly he gives his impressions of Dallas’ growing contemporary art scene.

Given the growth of the contemporary art market, Gavin explains to what extent, as a contemporary art curator for an institution, the art market plays in his job. Finally, Gavin speaks about the Dallas Museum of Art’s free admission initiative and to what extent he is witnessing an expanded audience at the museum as a result.

UBS art collection

Stephen McCoubrey and Johan Jervoe – UBS

14 January 2016
In this week’s edition of the ArtTactic Podcast, we speak with Stephen McCoubrey, Curator for the UBS art collection, and Johan Jervoe, group chief marketing officer at UBS

First, Stephen McCoubrey and Johan Jervoe discuss UBS’ strategy as to what and how they acquire artworks for the UBS Art Collection. Then, they reveal the extent of the relationship between UBS employees and the company’s art collection. Also, Stephen and Johan share some of the major benefits of UBS sponsoring Art Basel. Lastly, they explain the motivation behind their recent commissioned photographs by Annie Leibovitz.

Joe Elliot

Joe Elliot – Artlogic

8 January 2016
In this week’s edition of the ArtTactic Podcast, Joe Elliot, director of sales and marketing at Artlogic

Joe Elliot joins us to talk about some of the technological trends in the art market today. First, Joe tells us how technologically advanced both blue chip and emerging art galleries are at the moment. Then, he explains how galleries presently view the importance of eCommerce as a selling platform. Also, Joe discusses how collectors are benefitting from technological innovation in the art world over the past few years. Lastly, Joe explains how Artlogic plays into the technology discussion within the art world.

Katya Kazakina

Katya Kazakina – Bloomberg News

28 December 2015
In this week’s episode of the ArtTactic Podcast we recap the top stories and trends in the art market from 2015 with Katya Kazakina.

Katya Kazakina, art market reporter for Bloomberg News, shares her two top stories of the year.  She discusses the increased competition between the three major auction houses. She also addresses the rise of private museums established by top collectors around the world.

Katya identifies a diverse group of artists who she believes had the best 2015s.  These include Frank Stella, Lucio Fontana and Kazuo Shiraga. Furthermore, she speculates on what will happen in 2016 to the generation of emerging, younger artists who paint in an abstract, Zombie Formalism style.

Katya explains to what extent the online art market matured as an industry over the past year. Finally, Katya describes the current sentiment of the art market as we enter 2016.

Baiqu Gonkar

Baiqu Gonkar – Art Represent

20 December 2015
In this week’s episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, we chat with Baiqu Gonkar.

Baiqu Gonkar is the founder of Art Represent.  Art Represent is a commercial platform conceived to promote, sell and exhibit artworks by artists impacted by conflict and social upheaval.

First, Baiqu shares how Art Represent aids artists who are affected by conflict. Then, she describes the commonality she witnesses across the artists with which she has worked.  This both in terms of how their art helped them survive and ultimately flee these conflicts. Also, Baiqu discusses how an art scene is transformed when conflict infects a region.

Kelly Crow

Kelly Crow – The Wall Street Journal

13 December 2015
In this week’s episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, Kelly Crow, joins us.

Kelly Crow is art market reporter for The Wall Street Journal. She joins us to share her insights and observations from Art Basel Miami Beach.  First, Kelly discusses the recent softening at the top end of the art market. This she notes to be in conjunction with the strengthening lower and middle price points of the market. Also, in light of the increasing popularity and volume of art fairs, Kelly explains how galleries are altering their approaches in terms of what type of art to bring to these fairs. Then, she highlights some of the prominent collectors in Miami, such as the Rubells, who annually open up their private museums to the art world during Art Basel Miami and to what extent these collectors’ influence have grown recently. Lastly, Kelly highlights a few of the exciting, younger artists who exhibited at the fairs in Miami.

Angus Haldane

Angus Haldane – Haldane Fine Art

9 December 2015
In this week’s episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, Angus Haldane, joins us to talk about the Old Masters market

Angus Haldane, director of Haldane Fine Art, speaks to us in light of major Old Masters auctions this week at Christie’s, Sotheby’s and Bonhams. First, Angus reveals why his expectations are somewhat tempered for the sales this week. Equally he reveals what is the overall sentiment of the Old Masters market at this moment.

Meanwhile, Angus reflects on the average age of an Old Masters collector being greater than Impressionist and Contemporary collectors. He shares with us what tactics he employs to try to sway younger collectors to embrace Old Masters art. Lastly, the geographic growth of the art market continues.  In light of this, Angus tells us to what extent he has witnessed an expansion of the collector base for Old Masters artworks.

Kenneth Schlenker

Kenneth Schlenker – ArtList

2 December 2015
In this week’s episode of the ArtTactic Podcast we chat with Kenneth Schlenker.

Kenneth Schlenker is co-founder and CEO of ArtList, a startup online private art sales website. First, Kenneth tells us how they are effectively utilising Instagram to attract collectors to their site. Then, he explains why he believes a bubble has emerged in the art e-commerce sector of the art market. Also, Kenneth tells us how he feels about ArtList selling artworks by younger, emerging artists. Lastly, Kenneth talks about the challenges ArtList and other art eCommerce sites face if they wish to flourish in the long-term.

Judd Tully

Judd Tully – Art + Auction

16 November 2015
In this week’s episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, Judd Tully, editor at large of Art + Auction

Judd Tully joins us to recap last week’s contemporary auctions in New York. First, Judd discusses the biggest story of the week, the Taubman Estate sale at Sotheby’s. He reveals what he heard in advance of the auction. Equally, how the property performed relative to its pre-sale guarantee. Then, Judd describes the state of the Impressionist and Modern art market in light of both Sotheby’s and Christie’s decisions to feature mixed Impressionist and Modern and Post-War and Contemporary auctions this season. Lastly, Judd Tully shares the take away from this sales season in terms of what collectors are willing to pay for and what they aren’t willing to pay for at the moment.

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