Artelligence Podcast

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 community at large. MacLear emphasizes the importance of understanding a foundation’s assets and creating create a “time horizon” in which goals should be accomplished. MacLear’s task was to understand the artist’s “values,” so she could, in turn, help the heirs and foundation decide what to do with the assets. I In addition, the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation chose to make Rauschenberg’s copyright open to public use keeping with their belief in “art as a communicative currency.”

"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 between fashion and artists like Schiaparelli and Salvador Dalí. *The controversy surrounding Cecil Beaton's Vogue photoshoot in front Jackson Pollock's work.

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 tastes have effected the prices for Monet's gainstacks. *Also discussed here are many works that were previously offered nearly a generation ago that failed to find buyers but now achieved major prices, as well as surprises for Miro, Chagall, Picasso and others.

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' businesses, how they differ and what their strategies going forward appear to be.

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 market and the tone of the Art Basel fair. Artinfo's Judd Tully gave his impressions of the dealers, their inventory and the booths. The discussion includes a brief exploration of the state of the Andy Warhol market and its effect on the broader Contemporary art market. Part 2 of the discussion focuses on the landscape of the auction houses and their differing strategies.

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 activation and a museum director. Featured in this podcast are: Kenny Schachter: perhaps the only serious collector, dealer and advisor who also writes extensively about the art market. Schachter details his strategy for obsessively extracting every relevant piece of information out of the fair. Elena Soboleva: Elena leads special projects at Artsy and details the year-long planning and execution of Artsy's signature event, this year an immersive experience of VR and music at the Faena Art Time Capsule Geodesic Dome feat

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 countries around the region. • Who are the generation of artists who happen to be from Latin American countries but are now major global artists. • The future of Cuban art and artists as the country opens itself to the US and the world.

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

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 for their art upfront but it is a powerful psychological enabler for them to be able to pay over time. More important, Becker explains, Art Money takes a widespread practice among art market veterans—paying for a work of art over time—and makes it available to new buyers who may not know that some galleries will over such terms to buyers. "We allow people," Becker says, "to say 'Yes!'"

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.

Bloomberg's James Tarmy discusses sales and the mood at the Frieze art fair.

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.

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.

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.

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 acquisition, management and deaccessioning of private art collections. An art lawyer with a master’s degree in modern art from The Courtauld, she was until recently the Director of Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art – New York. Rozell has also served as the director and/or consultant to several major private art collections, as well as Managing Director of the Swiss Institute – Contemporary Art in New York and Curator/Director of the European Studio Programme for the ACC Galerie in the city of Weimar, Germa

Inigo Philbrick discusses his new London gallery show of Rudolf Stingel's "Instruction Paintings," Stingel's market and the vagaries of art dealing.

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.

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)

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.

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.