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TBF at Christie’s LA with Troy Carter

TBF at Christie’s LA with Troy Carter

  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,...

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Beyond Limits: Unrealized Artworks of Chris Burden

Beyond Limits: Unrealized Artworks of Chris Burden

“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...

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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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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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Tom Hill at the Hill Art Foundation

Tom Hill at the Hill Art Foundation

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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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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Bob Rubin & Vito Schnabel at The Bridge

Bob Rubin & Vito Schnabel at The Bridge

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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“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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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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The Fine Art Group

The Fine Art Group

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...

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