AI: Actual Intelligence vs. Artificial Intelligence, a Talk at Intersect Aspen
By now, we’ve all seen that AI can make beautiful art, but can it make great art? And what is great art anyway?
Unpacking the Current State of the $1m+ Art Market: a Webinar at Sotheby’s
Jacqueline Wachter, vice chairman and senior specialist, private sales at Sotheby’s joins Josh Baer and Liz Sterling of The Baer Faxt to unpack the current state of the $1m+ art market, including key takeaways from Sotheby’s Insight Report and their impressions of high touch points from the spring 2023 New York evening sales.
Podcast ep. 7: Jeff Poe
The Blum & Poe co-founder looks back on the art world’s evolution in the 30 years since opening the gallery, and reveals the reasons behind his recent decision to step back from his role there.
Podcast ep. 6: The Art Market Now
Josh Baer compares our current market environment with his experience of the art market’s early 90s crash, as Luyang Jiang asks him: Is the art market going through a slowdown, a major correction, or not?
Podcast ep. 5: Jerry Saltz
New York Magazine’s Pulitzer-prize winning art critic debates Josh Baer about the value of art, why auction houses are “a pox,” and how the art world got to be “the f***ing mess that it is.”
Podcast ep. 4: Art Fairs: Part 2
In part 2 of this special two-part episode, Daniel Hug, Director of Art Cologne, uncovers the origins of the world’s first art fair, and David Chau, co-founder of art021, explains how the fair served as a platform to foster China’s homegrown art ecosystem.
Podcast ep. 3: Art Fairs: Part 1
In part 1 of this special two-part episode, Lauren Taschen, a key consultant on Art Basel Miami Beach, and Bettina Korek, founding Director of Frieze LA, tell the stories behind the founding of the two fairs.