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Podcast ep. 7: Jeff Poe

Podcast ep. 7: Jeff Poe

In this episode, Blum & Poe co-founder Jeff Poe discusses his decision to step back from the gallery, after 30 years helping put LA on the map as an art city. Listen as Jeff gets candid about his experiences building a gallery amidst the art world's evolution from an...

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Podcast ep. 6: The Art Market Now

Podcast ep. 6: The Art Market Now

Curious about what's been going on with the art market? Auction results in the first half of 2023 paint a picture of a market undergoing a correction of some kind, but all may not be as it seems in the secretive world of auctions. In this midyear review episode, our...

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Podcast ep. 5: Jerry Saltz

Podcast ep. 5: Jerry Saltz

Jerry Saltz 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," in this candid conversation between a Pulitzer-prize winning art critic and a veteran art advisor. Jerry also tells...

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Podcast ep. 4: Art Fairs: Part 2

Podcast ep. 4: Art Fairs: Part 2

Art Basel and Frieze may get all the press, but they’re far from the only players in the business of art fairs. In part 2 of our special two-part double episode on art fairs, we’re diving into corners of the art fair world you don’t often hear about. Our president...

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Podcast ep. 3: Art Fairs: Part 1

Podcast ep. 3: Art Fairs: Part 1

In this special two-part double episode of The Baer Faxt Podcast, we sit down with the people behind four different leading art fairs from around the globe: Lauren Taschen, who consulted on show management for Art Basel Miami Beach, Bettina Korek, the founding...

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The Baer Faxt’s 13th annual charity golf tournament

The Baer Faxt’s 13th annual charity golf tournament

On Monday, September 11th, we hosted our 13th Annual TBF Golf Invitational at the historic Rockaway Hunting Club, which raised over $175,000 net for Avenues for Justice . Congratulations to the winners: the team from Lion Tree and the team from Lead Bank—both lead...

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Podcast ep. 2: Inside the Auctions

Podcast ep. 2: Inside the Auctions

What’s it like to spend millions of dollars at a contemporary art auction? Is there a danger zone where young artists’ prices blow up too quickly? Is it still possible to buy low and sell high? And just what is an auction guarantee anyway? Step behind closed doors...

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Podcast ep. 1: Beeple

Podcast ep. 1: Beeple

What is the future of digital art? Josh Baer sat down with Beeple for the first episode of The Baer Faxt Podcast during the opening of his immersive new B.20 museum in Charleston, South Carolina earlier this month to ask him how his vision for the future of digital...

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Hong Kong City Guide 2023

Hong Kong City Guide 2023

HONG KONG ∤ CITY GUIDE ∤  2023WELCOME TO HONG KONG Our Hong Kong City Guide investigates the state-of-the-art landscape in Asia’s World City following the reopening of its borders and highlights the proliferation of cultural projects that have sprouted there during...

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Our panel of experts weigh in on Hong Kong’s comeback

Our panel of experts weigh in on Hong Kong’s comeback

JONATHAN CROCKETT | JERRY MAOHONG KONG’S COMEBACK | ADRIAN CHENGART INTELLIGENCE GLOBAL | BEEPLECity Guide | Hong KongOur panel of experts weighs in on Hong Kong’s comebackAs international collectors and dealers prepare to descend in Hong Kong this month, and as an...

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The Baer Faxt Podcast Trailer

The Baer Faxt Podcast Trailer

On our new podcast, The Baer Faxt team unpacks the inner workings of the global art industry through exclusive, candid interviews with artists, collectors, dealers, and other key players in the business as they offer their perspectives on art and the market in the US,...

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Christie’s hosts ADAM sale by Adam Lindemann

Christie’s hosts ADAM sale by Adam Lindemann

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=feYzvPA04X4 ADAM, the single-owner auction at Christie’s next Thursday, sets itself apart as one of the first times that a living collector has ever staged a single-owner auction. Josh Baer sat down with Adam Lindemann in his living...

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Los Angeles Art Week 2023

Los Angeles Art Week 2023

los angeles art week 2023 As Frieze Los Angeles celebrates its largest edition to date, and as an influx of galleries work to grow their presence in the city, The Baer Faxt asks: is LA finally a full-fledged art market destination? Our LA Art Week focus takes the...

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CITY GUIDE | Art Basel Miami Beach 2022

CITY GUIDE | Art Basel Miami Beach 2022

THE BAER FAXT PRESENTS   ART BASEL ∤ MIAMI GUIDE ∤  2022WELCOME TO MIAMI The lyric never gets old—nor does the week where the art world descends upon the slim sandbar in South Florida that caps the year in the art and its market. Miami is undoubtedly an art...

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CITY GUIDE | Paris+ Gallery Map

CITY GUIDE | Paris+ Gallery Map

To suggest that Paris may be a “new” market center is to completely ignore 200 years of Western Art History. But here we are, at an interesting inflection point in Europe’s landscape where the French capital has a unique proposition at hand. Don’t think this has only...

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CITY GUIDE | Meet Seoul

CITY GUIDE | Meet Seoul

We may be a little biased, but Korea’s art scene in the last decade has been pushed to the forefront of the global discussion. Korean art has long been an integral facet of the culture, and its modern/contemporary traditions have long proliferated locally without the...

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CITY GUIDE | Upstate Art Weekend 2022

CITY GUIDE | Upstate Art Weekend 2022

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CITY GUIDE | Post-Basel trips: South of France

CITY GUIDE | Post-Basel trips: South of France

The south of France is clearly the land of movie stars and fast cars—and Cezanne and Van Gogh, but don’t let the Impressionist canon color your rosé lenses. In fact, contemporary art has found a home in the provencal paradise of France’s Mediterranean provinces. And...

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CITY GUIDE | Post-Basel trips: Hydra & Athens

CITY GUIDE | Post-Basel trips: Hydra & Athens

About 40 miles south of Athens lies perhaps the most coveted Post-Basel destination on the Summer art circuit: Hydra! Say it with us: Eeeeeedraahh. The island of Hydra is host to a handful of annual contemporary exhibitions and clamored-after invites just an hour and...

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CITY GUIDE | Post-Basel trips: Venice Biennale and Italy

CITY GUIDE | Post-Basel trips: Venice Biennale and Italy

While the crowds in Venice during the Biennale’s opening three days sold the story that everyone in the arts was there, in fact, post-Basel, the Cecilia Alemani-curated show is still a top destination. And for good reason—head to our Instagram to see just why!Basel...

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CITY GUIDE | New York Art Week 2022

CITY GUIDE | New York Art Week 2022

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Felice Rosser in conversation with art advisor Kami Gahiga

Felice Rosser in conversation with art advisor Kami Gahiga

There’s nary a period of cultural history quite like Downtown New York of the late 1970s and early 1980s. It’s been mythologized for good reason—freedom and hedonism were bedfellows of equal parity, and the creative output and expression shaped contemporary culture...

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Will the art market embrace the Whitney Biennial?

Will the art market embrace the Whitney Biennial?

by Will Griffith It’s that time again: The Whitney Biennial is back after a calendar shuffle (you might know why), and this time, the focus is the state of America, as the Biennial’s preset agenda always is. “America” as a concept is broad, though two years into a...

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Gary Simmons “Remembering Tomorrow”

Gary Simmons “Remembering Tomorrow”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8x3GsCoXFA During our trip to Los Angeles for Frieze, The Baer Faxt took a visit to Hauser & Wirth to check out the exhibition Remembering Tomorrow by Gary Simmons, the artist's first show with the gallery. Josh Baer and Simmons...

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The Baer Faxt x Christie’s in conversation with John McEnroe

The Baer Faxt x Christie’s in conversation with John McEnroe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeY2HxN6woM Josh Baer and John McEnroe share stories from their 30-year friendship with moderator Sonya Roth at Christie's Los Angeles during Frieze week 2022. John takes us through his journey as a collector and how Josh has supported...

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Jonathan Christensen Caballero

Jonathan Christensen Caballero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DcBj0K5yAw4 The Baer Faxt sat down with Kansas-based artist Jonathan Christensen Caballero at his his exhibition La Gente/The People at the Belger Crane Yard Studios. He told us the story of his hard-working parents and how they are the...

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Gabby Palmieri on the 2022 Auction Outlook

Gabby Palmieri on the 2022 Auction Outlook

No, you can't always get what you wantYou can't always get what you wantYou can't always get what you wantBut if you try sometime you'll findYou get what you need-Mick Jagger/Keith Richards 1969 Little could the Jagger/Richards Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame tandem fathom...

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Jackson Pollock’s Mural and Deaccessioning Art

Jackson Pollock’s Mural and Deaccessioning Art

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbSKIToXe7M The No Reserve Team travels to Kansas City where Josh Baer sits down with Sean O'Harrow to discuss Jackson Pollock's Mural and Deaccessioning Art. Sean is currently the Director of the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art. Josh...

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The Des Moines Art Center

The Des Moines Art Center

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G5cW4QlkbPI The Baer Faxt went on the road this summer to discover great art in unexpected places. In this clip, we sit down with Jeff Fleming, the director of the Des Moines Art Center in Iowa, to talk about quality over quantity when...

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Episode 5: Tom Hill

Episode 5: Tom Hill

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ArF7G4_9ZM In Episode 5 we visited The Hill Art Foundation for a one-on-one interview with Tom Hill. We discussed his journey as a collector and the role the foundation plays in the community. While he does not consider himself a...

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Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

Minneapolis Sculpture Garden

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BwotV9zwXs This summer Josh Baer and the No Reserve team hit the road to highlight great art in unexpected places. In Minneapolis, we discovered The Walker Art Museum and the connecting Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. In this segment,...

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Art, Politics & Hunter Biden’s $500,000 paintings

Art, Politics & Hunter Biden’s $500,000 paintings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osSLrjrAmEc&t=1s The Baer Faxt correspondent-at-large Kelly Cannon sits down with veteran political reporters and co-founders of Punchbowl News, Anna Palmer & Jake Sherman, to explore the intersection of art and politics from...

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The Baer Faxt at The Bridge with Bob Rubin & Vito Schnabel

The Baer Faxt at The Bridge with Bob Rubin & Vito Schnabel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wGgtsUjku0 This summer, Josh Baer and The No Reserve team hit the road to experience great art in unexpected places. For our first location, we headed out east to the Hamptons where we stopped by The Bridge in Bridgehampton. Josh sat...

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Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale with Sara Friedlander

Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale with Sara Friedlander

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdl95Ah0RdQ The big spring auction week kicks off with @christiesinc 21st Century Evening Sale. Sara Friedlander takes us inside some of tonight's top lots including Jean-Michel Basquiat's "In This Case" and Urs Fischer's "Things."...

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“It’s not fair” | Swizz Beatz on artists’ rights

“It’s not fair” | Swizz Beatz on artists’ rights

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohuUtX8HjYQ&t=1s In episode 1 of No Reserve, Swizz Beatz briefly touches on the inequalities across different creative fields when it comes to artists' rights over their work in perpetuity. The artist and recent Harvard Business...

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At Home with Keith Rivers

At Home with Keith Rivers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_kVz5UI_tJE In Los Angeles, we tour the home of former NFL player and art collector Keith Rivers and talk about art history for beginners, art collecting 101, the Soul of a Nation exhibition, and favorite artists, including David...

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Rob Storr on Museum Deaccessioning

Rob Storr on Museum Deaccessioning

https://youtu.be/LE_pelWxduQ We continue our museum deaccessioning conversation with Robert Storr, an art critic, artist, former MoMA curator, and former Dean of Yale School of Art. We discuss what reasons merit the deaccessioning of art, art museum director salaries,...

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What is socially-conscious art collecting? with Bob Rennie

What is socially-conscious art collecting? with Bob Rennie

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_lfv5zlFwks&t=59s Journalist Sarah Thornton discusses the responsibility of socially conscious collecting with Bob Rennie, the founder of the Rennie Museum in Vancouver. In this extended segment, Thornton and Rennie reflect on the...

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No Reserve : Episode 2 : Post Game Show

No Reserve : Episode 2 : Post Game Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWwYLlnVPq4 That’s a wrap! As we close out on Christie’s 20th Century Evening Sale host, Josh Baer, sits down to recap and read the proverbial tea leaves with special guests Marc Porter, Chairman, Christie’s, and collector and art...

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No Reserve : Episode 2

No Reserve : Episode 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhDgPdXVqaI We have changed our name! Join us for No Reserve, as Josh Baer meets with industry leaders to discuss the most critical questions of our time—and comes face to face with a T.rex named STAN, who is also on the auction block...

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Extended Cut: John McEnroe and Marc Glimcher

Extended Cut: John McEnroe and Marc Glimcher

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMER2GNwseo In episode one, Josh Baer connects with Pace Gallery president Marc Glimcher and art collector John McEnroe. In this extended cut, our guests evaluate the impact of George Floyd's death and COVID-19 on the art world. In...

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Kevin Poon on KAWS, Chinese Art, and the Global Art Market

Kevin Poon on KAWS, Chinese Art, and the Global Art Market

https://youtu.be/8ytbPkaVJwE Josh Baer connects with Kevin Poon, innovative Hong Kong-based entrepreneur, fashion designer and event organizer. In this extended cut of their conversation, Baer and Poon discuss the value of building a diverse art collection, highlight...

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After The Hammer: Post Auction Show | Christie’s ONE Sale

After The Hammer: Post Auction Show | Christie’s ONE Sale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UsXX6w5unpE After The Hammer: Post Auction Show | Christie's ONE Sale reflects on the July 10th auction from around the world. Josh Baer from The Baer Faxt hosts Alex Rotter and Dominique Lévy in recapping Christie's ONE sale and...

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The Hammer: Episode One | Christie’s ONE Sale Pre-Show

The Hammer: Episode One | Christie’s ONE Sale Pre-Show

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k4R94IGY9o Josh Baer chats with industry insiders prior to Christie's ONE sale on July 10. Guests include: Swizz Beatz, Sara Friedlander, Marc Glimcher, Loïc Gouzer, Pamela Joyner, John McEnroe, Kevin Poon, and Sarah Thornton.

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Beeple on his $69M NFT auction record

Beeple on his $69M NFT auction record

This week during Art Basel Miami Beach, Josh Baer of The Baer Faxt sat down with Mike Winkelmann (aka Beeple) in a conversation about the communities surrounding Winkelmann and his work. Diving into the pros and cons of tech in the art market (including NFTs), and the...

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The Fine Art Group

The Fine Art Group

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBFh1k_nTAc Josh Baer sits down with Philip Hoffman, Founder and CEO of The Fine Art Group, and Anita Heriot, President of The Fine Art Group Americas, to discuss what makes their company unique. What initially started as a fund over...

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The Evolving Works of Paula Rego, Master of Power & Politics

The Evolving Works of Paula Rego, Master of Power & Politics

Powerful, beautiful, unsettling, the Paula Rego retrospective at the Tate Britain is one of the best exhibitions I’ve seen since returning to London. I’ll be honest – it’s not the kind of work I’m usually drawn to and I didn’t expect much from the show before I...

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A Sojourn into the World of Artist Cristina BanBan

A Sojourn into the World of Artist Cristina BanBan

by Jack Wilks After a long summer of meeting artists and exploring their studios, one of my most memorable visits was to Cristina BanBan’s space in Brooklyn. It was here that I got to see a new group of large-scale paintings she had been working on for her debut show...

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Artists to watch | Andrew LaMar Hopkins

Artists to watch | Andrew LaMar Hopkins

I have a feeling Andrew LaMar Hopkins (@boyneworleans1850) will have a breakout year in 2022. After his first-ever solo show last fall at @v_over_m, Hopkins’ work was part of group shows in Milan, Paris, and New York – and he has another solo show planned at Venus...

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Review | Diedrick Brackens at Jack Shainman

Review | Diedrick Brackens at Jack Shainman

Diedrick Brackens' new exhibition “Rhyming Positions” at @jackshainman is one of the best shows to see in New York this summer. @deedsweaves has been on my radar for a while, but this was my first chance to actually see his work up close, and I was totally blown away....

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Artists to watch | Anna Weyant

Artists to watch | Anna Weyant

Anna Weyant is one of the most exciting young painters working today, and she’s definitely near the top of my #Artists2Watch list. But in almost every conversation I’ve had about Weyant, John Currin’s name seems to come up. It’s often along the lines of, “She’s a...

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Artists to watch | Tomokazu Matsuyama

Artists to watch | Tomokazu Matsuyama

I’m not usually a big fan of street art, but I had to make an exception for the Brooklyn-based Japanese artist Tomokazu Matsuyama . I recently discovered his work at @kavigupta ’s group show “Realms of Refuge”, where Matsuyama’s dazzling portraits starred alongside...

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Artists to watch | Dominic Chambers

Artists to watch | Dominic Chambers

Dominic Chambers is one of the most exciting young painters in the art world. A recent Yale MFA grad, Chambers’ dream-like paintings challenge conventional depictions of Black identity – not only in art but also in media and pop culture. Capturing moments of leisure...

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Artists to watch | Hilary Pecis

Artists to watch | Hilary Pecis

A bowl of lemons. A half-finished bottle of Bordeaux. Stacks and stacks (and stacks) of art books. These are just some of the everyday, banal objects that LA-based painter Hilary Pecis transforms into radiant works of art. I was lucky enough to see her recent show...

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Inside the Superblue experience in Miami

Inside the Superblue experience in Miami

by Angela Redai alking into Superblue’s hotly-anticipated Miami preview was like stepping into a perception-distorting Ganzfeld of sorts, even before standing inside Turrell’s AKHU. My initial reaction was clouded by the excitement of being...

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