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,...
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,...
“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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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=_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...
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=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...
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...