This episode marks the one-year anniversary of The Baer Faxt Podcast, and the second episode of Baer with Me, our mini-series of The Baer Faxt Podcast hosted by our President, Luyang Jiang, with market insights from Josh Baer. On the last day of our busy Hong Kong Art...
Philip Hoffman, Founder and CEO of The Fine Art Group, and Patti Wong, Co-founder and Partner of Patti Wong and Associates, joined Josh Baer at The Upper House during Hong Kong art week for our inaugural edition of The Baer Faxt Talks series. Moderated by Rahul Jacob,...
Doryun Chong, Deputy Director, Curatorial and Chief Curator, M+, sat down with Josh Baer for The Baer Faxt Live from Art Basel Hong Kong, recorded live during the VIP opening of the fair. Doryun reveals how he and his fellow curators at M+ acquire artworks at...
Evan Chow, art collector and patron, sat down with Josh Baer for The Baer Faxt Live from Art Basel Hong Kong, livestreamed during the VIP opening of the fair. In their conversation, Evan and Josh discuss the importance of seeing artworks in person at the fair...
Amy Cappellazzo, Founding Partner of Art Intelligence Global, sat down with Josh Baer for The Baer Faxt Live from Art Basel Hong Kong, livestreamed during the VIP opening of the fair. Amy shares her impressions of the art and collectors at this year's fair and...
Elaine Kwok, Managing Partner, Asia of Hauser & Wirth sat down with Josh Baer for The Baer Faxt Live from Art Basel Hong Kong, livestreamed during the VIP opening of the fair. Elaine shares her observations on the collectors and sales at this year's edition...
Josh Baer sat down with Troy Carter, Founder and CEO of Venice Music, for our third annual talk at Christie's Los Angeles. The music manager and longtime collector shares his perspective on the challenges artists face when their careers take off all at once,...
Jussi Pylkkänen joins Josh for his first sit-down interview since leaving his role as Global President of Christie's after nearly 40 years to start his own independent advisory, Art Pylkkänen. Jussi reveals the secret art of the auctioneer, sharing his favorite...
Josh sits down with Melissa Chiu, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on the occasion of the museum's 50th anniversary, and the 10th anniversary of her tenure as Director. Listen as Melissa reflects on the unique role of the national museum,...
The Baer Faxt will be reporting from Hong Kong next week for The Baer Faxt Live from Art Basel Hong Kong. Get right on the ground of the VIP opening next Tuesday, March 26 with dynamic insights from our network of top insiders about their impressions of the fair and...
Baer with Me is our new mini-series of The Baer Faxt Podcast, building on our past episodes featuring Josh Baer's insights on the current state of the art market. Hosted by Luyang Jiang, our President and Executive Producer of our Podcast, Baer with Me will...
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“Chris Burden intended these things to exist, and basically your job was to just say yes.” -Josh Baer Our private panel discussion, "Beyond Limits: Unrealized Artworks of Chris Burden," celebrated Burden's life and legacy and the launch of TRLab's new interactive...
Josh sits down with Loïc Gouzer on the occasion of the relaunch of his single-lot auction platform, Fair Warning, this week. Listen as Loïc reveals his motivations for building the unique auction app as a response to the current state of the auction world, why...
Josh is joined by Adam Lindemann for part 4 of The Baer Faxt Live from Art Basel Miami Beach, the debut edition of our new interview series livestreaming from top art events around the globe. In this conversation, collector and Venus over Manhattan founder Adam...
Want to find out what top art advisors are saying about this year's Art Basel Miami Beach? In part 3 of the debut edition of The Baer Faxt Live, our new content series livestreaming from major events around the globe, Josh Baer is joined by fellow advisor Gabi...
In part 2 of The Baer Faxt Live from Art Basel Miami Beach, the debut edition of our new content series streaming from major events around the globe, Josh Baer sits down with digital innovator Audrey Ou, co-founder of TRLab. Audrey opens up with Josh about what she...
Nadya Tolokonnikova, founder of Pussy Riot, and Lauren Taschen, co-founder of Art Basel Miami Beach, join Josh Baer live from the VIP opening of the fair for The Baer Faxt Live from Art Basel Miami Beach, our inaugural edition of our new The Baer Faxt Live content...
What makes the German art market so unique? And how did the European art market, as seen at Art Cologne, respond to the results of $2.2 billion worth of auctions in New York in the two weeks leading up to the fair? Veteran art advisor Josh Baer covers these questions...
Follow us to Shanghai’s West Bund for our live report from West Bund Art & Design 2023, hosted by Luyang Jiang, president of The Baer Faxt. Watch as we catch up with top gallerists from both the local and international scene that are exhibiting at this year’s 10th...
Another gallery seems to be shutting down every few weeks, and everyone’s talking about an art market correction, but the art fairs must go on. For this episode, Josh Baer and Luyang Jiang were on the road in London for Frieze art fair and the London auctions. Listen...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-rRahkuqEOQ By now, we’ve all seen that AI can make beautiful art, but can it make great art? And what is great art anyway? Josh Baer took on these questions and much more in his talk at Intersect Aspen art fair, “AI: Actually...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UmZnE5NHY94 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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
JONATHAN CROCKETT | JERRY MAOHONG KONG’S COMEBACK | ADRIAN CHENGART INTELLIGENCE GLOBAL | BEEPLECity Guide | Hong KongJonathan Crockett on Phillips’ expansion and the rise of the art market in Asia The chairman of Phillips, Asia, has overseen the auction house's rapid...
JONATHAN CROCKETT | JERRY MAOHONG KONG’S COMEBACK | ADRIAN CHENGART INTELLIGENCE GLOBAL | BEEPLECity Guide | Hong KongFrom connoisseur to entrepreneur: Jerry Mao on supporting the Chinese cultural landscape Mao describes his journey with the UCCA museum as going “from...
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...
JONATHAN CROCKETT | JERRY MAOHONG KONG’S COMEBACK | ADRIAN CHENGART INTELLIGENCE GLOBAL | BEEPLECity Guide | Hong KongK11 founder Adrian Cheng on the role of cultural-commerce The Hong Kong-based collector tells us about K11's new acquisitions and his collaboration...
JONATHAN CROCKETT | JERRY MAOHONG KONG’S COMEBACK | ADRIAN CHENGART INTELLIGENCE GLOBAL | BEEPLECity Guide | Hong KongBeeple’s Human One at M+ and the Debut of The Baer Faxt Podcast Ahead of his Hong Kong debut, we caught up with Beeple at his museum in Charleston to...
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,...
https://youtu.be/UfOHKwf-5kQ Brett Gorvy and Tamer Ozmen of Mintus, an online art investment platform, sit down with Josh Baer to discuss the firm’s unique approach to fractional art ownership and international team of specialists.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxR8tNRSHdQ What role does investment-grade art play in an investor's portfolio? Josh Baer and Mintus co-founder Tamer Ozmen discuss how the firm has brought together experience and expertise from the art and investment worlds to...
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtBoQuAtX3I&t=85s When will there be another Golden Age in art? Are we living in the Golden Age, or a corporate age? Josh Baer sat down with Jeffrey Deitch for our second annual talk at Christie’s Los Angeles for LA Art Week, with...
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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
Julie Baumgardner Acquavella isn’t a name that needs all too much explaining. The Picasso people, to some, though the catalog of master paintings that this dynasty handles doesn't start with Modernism. And now, it doesn't stop at Freud, whom the gallery famously...
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...
https://vimeo.com/706287847/e9c74b5879 New to the auction adventures? Our friends at Phillips and Carpenters Workshop Gallery have teamed up together to break down just exactly how an auction becomes what it is: a bit of pageantry, a dollop of desire and a whole...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMYMoadIxHI The Baer Faxt team traveled to Dallas to sit down with arts patron and philanthropist Marguerite Hoffman. Marguerite takes us inside "B1 & B2", the nicknames for the buildings that house her expansive collection. She...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnI5wWJIx7c The Baer Faxt team traveled to Dallas to sit down with arts patron and philanthropist, Howard Rachofsky, whose Warehouse exhibition space has become the stuff of legend. Rachofsky relays his journey as a collector and how...
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRWSoNyBkvs&t=776s "Fair Play: The Art Fair as an Ecosystem for Collecting, Discovery and Supporting the Arts” is a conversation between Independent founder Elizabeth Dee, EXPO CHICAGO founder Tony Karman and former The Baer Faxt...
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Lk_5Xz4IKs The Baer Faxt sits down with Cuban painter Enrique Martinez Celaya, a scientist-turned artist, at his solo exhibition The Rose Garden at the UTA Artist Space in Los Angeles. Celaya connects literature, philosophy, and...
How does a gallerist thoughtfully handle a lifetime career of an artist? That’s a question anchored in most dealers' minds. We’re all familiar with the peaks and perils of being the latest market darling, or the advantageous market opportunities in a “rediscovered”...
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...
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...
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...
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0qi4EN2TR8 The Baer Faxt sat down with Julián Zugazagoitia, the director of the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, to talk through the history of the institution and its collection, including how it came to acquire one of the finest examples...
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...
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BfBihavfWE The Baer Faxt team stopped by Des Moines, Iowa, to catch up with the Des Moines-based artist Jordan Weber, who recently completed a residency at The Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, where he developed a sculpture and...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gewq4a1W4h4 In the summer of 2021, Josh Baer and The Baer Faxt team hit the road to highlight great art in unexpected places. In Minneapolis, we discovered The Walker Art Center and the connecting Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. In this...
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...
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...
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zfZJGd33vas We explore the FLAG Art Foundation's exhibition I will wear you in my heart of heart, a group show at Glenn Fuhrman's foundation with director Stephanie Roach and artistic director Jonathan Rider. Stephanie and Jonathan...
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."...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WADR4qmm3ew&t=5s In this video, Josh Baer visits the Hill Art Foundation for a one-on-one interview with Tom Hill. We also discuss art as a financial asset with Jeffrey Deitch, Glenn Fuhrman and Aisi Wang. Ahead of the big spring...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8KbvNF80BA Will KAWS and Jeff Koons make it into the history books? Josh Baer catches up with art the curator and dealer Paul Schimmel in Los Angeles and the collector Alberto Mugrabi in New York to discuss the "masterpieces" KAWS and...
https://youtu.be/OemPKiKDAOk Marc Porter, the chairman of Christie's Americas, and Josh Baer of The Baer Faxt discuss how auctions have drastically changed since moving online. Baer asks him about transparency with concerns around lots being withdrawn, given that in...
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E65ax-KIgHA Brick and Mortar VS Online Viewing Rooms: Sarah Thornton discusses brick and mortar art galleries with her life partner and San Francisco gallerist, Jessica Silverman.
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...
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,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lr8QuszShXY In our final episode of 2020, Josh Baer and our art market luminaries recap major topics in the art world. Stay tuned for tips on collecting art, the future of art fairs and galleries, and hear insights on the hottest...
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3yJ5yVs3e0 In Episode 2, we did our first studio visit with artist and land conservationist, Haley Mellin. As a climate-based conservationist, Haley works with fellow climate-forward artists, collectors, and institutions through a...
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGA2RHkWYJY In episode one, Josh Baer connects with Loïc Gouzer, founder of Fair Warning and former head of contemporary art at Christie's. In this extended cut, Baer and Gouzer consider the importance of cataloging when works can't be...
https://youtu.be/jJJw3S4FipE In this extended cut, best-selling author Sarah Thornton and prominent art collector Pamela Joyner explore the multifaceted nature of black artists' legacies. Together they forecast 2020's long-term impact on the upcoming decades. Joyner...
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...
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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0uMvLSBs4U Prediction round-up from art world insiders on the Christie's ONE sale from The Hammer: Episode One Pre-Show Predictions from: Josh Baer, Swizz Beatz, Sara Friedlander, Marc Glimcher, Loïc Gouzer, Pamela Joyner, John...
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.
Brooklyn-based artist Hiba Schahbaz shares her journey which began in Karachi, Pakistan. The classically trained miniature painter turned large-scale contemporary artist pays homage to her roots while carving a new visual path both for herself and other women. From...
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...
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 twenty years ago has grown to include five...
BaerFaxt+ Clubhouse with LiveArtIn this recorded clubhouse conversation we are joined by Adam Chinn, George O'Dell, and Boris Pevzner from the online trading platform, LiveArt. The LiveArt team includes a number of well-known art market and technology professionals...
Josh Baer interviews with Lina Sophie Stallmann of Artisall, a London-based nonprofit initiative supporting emerging creatives from various disciplines.
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...