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...
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=qB3qIScnieA 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=-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...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2lKL1AxmOjM During our trip to Los Angeles for Frieze, Josh Baer and the No Reserve team took a visit to Hauser & Wirth to check out "Remembering Tomorrow," Gary Simmons' first show with the gallery. Josh and Gary discuss the...
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=FGmP3-mT7zA During our No Reserve Midwest road trip we sat down with Kanas-based artist Jonathan Christensen Caballero at his exhibition "La Gente/The People," at Belger Crane Yard Studios. He told us the story of his hard-working...
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=_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=CXEVVcLGqEY Art collector Pamela Joyner discusses how she used 2020 as a lens to survey artists creating work that was reflective of that unique moment. Pamela references an artwork she purchased from bay area artist David Huffman which...
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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGz3mptF68s We continue our museum deaccessioning conversation with art critic, artist, former MoMA curator, and former Dean of Yale School of Art, Robert Storr. Join us as we discuss if museums should be selling and for what reasons,...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=659UVROMXVc Sarah Thornton discusses the responsibility of conscious collecting with Bob Rennie, the founder of the Rennie Museum in Vancouver. In this segment, Thornton and Rennie reflect on the importance of collecting with a mission...
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=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://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxlzlDifFRc In episode one, Josh Baer connects with Swizz Beatz, arts patron and co-founder of The Dean Collection. In this extended cut, Baer and Beatz contemplate the landscape of inequality within the art world, highlighting artists'...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X90ggbwF_rM EXTENDED CUT: Kevin Poon In episode one, Josh Baer connects with Kevin Poon, an innovative Hong Kong-based entrepreneur, fashion designer, and event organizer. In this extended cut of their conversation, Baer and Poon...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
Josh Baer interviews with Lina Sophie Stallmann of Artisall, a London-based nonprofit initiative supporting emerging creatives from various disciplines.
