Podcast Ep. 1: Beeple
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 2023
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...
The Baer Faxt Podcast Trailer
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,...
How to own a piece of a masterpiece with Mintus | Brett Gorvy & Tamer Ozmen
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.
Fractional Art Ownership with Mintus | Josh Baer & Tamer Ozmen
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...
ADAM | The eclectic sale at Christie’s by Adam Lindemann
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...
When will there be another Golden Age in art? | Jeffrey Deitch at Christie’s LA
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
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...
CITY GUIDE | Art Basel Miami Beach 2022
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...
CITY GUIDE | Paris+ Gallery Map
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...
CITY GUIDE | Meet Seoul
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...
CITY GUIDE | Upstate Art Weekend 2022
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CITY GUIDE | Post-Basel trips: South of France
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...
CITY GUIDE | Post-Basel trips: Hydra & Athens
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...
Art dealer Eleanor Acquavella on collecting from her “gut and heart” for better or worse
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...
CITY GUIDE | Post-Basel trips: Venice Biennale and Italy
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...
How to plan an auction | Phillips & Carpenters Workshop Gallery
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...
CITY GUIDE | New York Art Week 2022
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“A man would not have put these things together” | Marguerite Hoffman
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...
The power of a good art advisor | Dallas collector Howard Rachofsky
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...
Felice Rosser in conversation with art advisor Kami Gahiga
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...
Virtual Salon | Elizabeth Dee of Independent & Tony Karman of EXPO Chicago
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...
Will the art market embrace the Whitney Biennial?
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...
“The irredeemable nature of time” | Artist Enrique Martinez Celaya on T.S. Eliot and his other influences
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 to handle an artist’s lifelong career | Art dealer Marianne Boesky on Pier Paolo Calzolari
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”...
Gary Simmons “Remembering Tomorrow”
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...
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...
Jonathan Christensen Caballero
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...
Gabby Palmieri on the 2022 Auction Outlook
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...
Inside the Nelson-Atkins Museum Collection with director Julián Zugazagoitia
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...
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...
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...
The white supremacist constructs of urban planning | Jordan Weber on his community garden
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...
“We learned a lot” | The Walker Art Center on backlash from Indigenous communities and Angela Two Stars commission
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...
Episode 5: Tom Hill
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...
Minneapolis Sculpture Garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2BwotV9zwXs This summer Josh Baer and the No Reserve team hit the road to highlight great art in unexpected places. In Minneapolis, we discovered The Walker Art Museum and the connecting Minneapolis Sculpture Garden. In this segment,...
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...
The Baer Faxt at The Bridge with Bob Rubin & Vito Schnabel
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...
“and I will wear you in my heart of heart” at the Flag Art Foundation
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...
Christie’s 21st Century Evening Sale with Sara Friedlander
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."...
Tom Hill, Jeffrey Deitch, and Glenn Fuhrman: auctions, Desert X, and more
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...
KAWS & Koons—the greatest artists of the 21st century? | Alberto Mugrabi, Paul Schimmel & Josh Baer
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...
“Disappearing” lots in the digital age with Christie’s chairman Marc Porter
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...
“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...
Brick and mortar versus online viewing rooms | Jessica Silverman & Sarah Thornton
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.
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...
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,...
No Reserve – Episode 3 – Art Market, Museum & Collecting Insights
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...
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...
Art for climate change | Haley Mellin on land conservation & Art into Acres
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...
No Reserve : Episode 2 : Post Game Show
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...
No Reserve : Episode 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhDgPdXVqaI We have changed our name! Join us for No Reserve, as Josh Baer meets with industry leaders to discuss the most critical questions of our time—and comes face to face with a T.rex named STAN, who is also on the auction block...
Buying art without seeing it in person | Loïc Gouzer & Josh Baer
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...
Extended Cut: John McEnroe and Marc Glimcher
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMER2GNwseo In episode one, Josh Baer connects with Pace Gallery president Marc Glimcher and art collector John McEnroe. In this extended cut, our guests evaluate the impact of George Floyd's death and COVID-19 on the art world. In...
Black artists after 2020 | Pamela Joyner on collecting and artist’s legacies
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...
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...
After The Hammer: Post Auction Show | Christie’s ONE Sale
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...
The Hammer: Episode One | Christie’s ONE Sale Pre-Show Predictions
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...
The Hammer: Episode One | Christie’s ONE Sale Pre-Show
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.
“Why paint the sky blue when you can paint it pink?” | In the Studio with Hiba Schahbaz
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...
Beeple on his $69M NFT auction record
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...
The Fine Art Group
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...
The Evolving Works of Paula Rego, Master of Power & Politics
Powerful, beautiful, unsettling, the Paula Rego retrospective at the Tate Britain is one of the best exhibitions I’ve seen since returning to London. I’ll be honest – it’s not the kind of work I’m usually drawn to and I didn’t expect much from the show before I...
A Sojourn into the World of Artist Cristina BanBan
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...
Artists to watch | Andrew LaMar Hopkins
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...
Review | Diedrick Brackens at Jack Shainman
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....
Artists to watch | Anna Weyant
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...
Artists to watch | Tomokazu Matsuyama
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...
Artists to watch | Dominic Chambers
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...
Artists to watch | Hilary Pecis
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...
Algorithms to predict the unknown | Adam Chinn, George O’Dell & Boris Pevzner of LiveArt
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...
How non-profit Artisall supports emerging artists
Josh Baer interviews with Lina Sophie Stallmann of Artisall, a London-based nonprofit initiative supporting emerging creatives from various disciplines.
Inside the Superblue experience in Miami
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...