Podcast: Baer with Me: Hong Kong
Josh Baer, Luyang Jiang, and The Baer Faxt’s team members based in Asia, Boliang Shen and Claire Huang, compare their observations from Art Basel Hong Kong and surrounding market events.
Podcast ep. 11: Jussi Pylkkänen
The former Global President of Christie’s reveals the secret art of the auctioneer, sharing his favorite stories from his time orchestrating many of the biggest record-breaking sales in recent years.
Podcast ep. 10: Melissa Chiu
The Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden discusses the museum’s 50th anniversary, and the ways artists Hiroshi Sugimoto and Yayoi Kusama have influenced its evolution.
Podcast: Baer with Me: 2024 Predictions
For the first episode of our new podcast mini-series featuring Josh Baer in conversation with Luyang Jiang, Josh shares his market predictions for 2024: how to buy the dip, and the bull market to come.
Episode 9: Loïc Gouzer
Best known as the man behind the $450m sale of Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi at Christie’s, Loïc shares tales from his time at the auction house, and the founding of his own platform, Fair Warning.
Podcast ep. 8: Art Market Correction?
Josh Baer and Luyang Jiang discuss the impacts of the so-called art market correction at Frieze London, and how top gallerists are planning for a potentially rocky road ahead.
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.