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Carrie first encountered Suzannah Sinclair's work twenty-some odd years ago - Playboy pinups painted on wood, seductive and complicated and genuinely risky - and put her work in a show about women looking at women. Then they lost touch. This episode is the final part of their reunion. Suzannah is a painter's painter who built a real career in New York and Boston before leaving it all for rural Mai...

Twenty years ago, Suzannah Sinclair was one of the most talked-about young painters around - making seductive, complicated paintings of Playboy pinups on wood that had the art world paying attention. Then she left New York, moved deep into rural Maine, had children, lost her gallery representation, and largely disappeared from the conversation. But she never stopped painting. In this two-part conv...

What if exhibiting at an art fair was completely free? That's the question Ryan Stanier - founder of The Other Art Fair - decided to actually answer. After 100 editions and a decade-plus of watching artists get squeezed by rising costs, Ryan stepped away, and then launched Fair Play Art Fair: 70 carefully selected artists, zero booth fees, £20 visitor tickets, and a revenue model that only works i...

Download Avant Arte's New Generation Report: https://avantarte.com/insights/articles/new-generation-survey-2026 This year’s findings show that younger collectors are becoming an increasingly active economic and philanthropic force, spending meaningfully on artworks, visiting museums frequently, and demonstrating a growing appetite to financially support institutions. Mazdak Sanii didn't gr...

Jonathan Schwartz is the founder of Atelier 4 , one of the most trusted names in art handling and shipping worldwide. But his entry into the business was less than auspicious - he answered an ad to drive art cross-country despite not really being a driver, worked for what he calls "a pirate outfit," and came home from vacation to find maggots in the sink. That was 36 years ago. Since founding Atel...

What does a room reveal about the life lived inside it? For painter Lottie Cole, the answer is: everything. Lottie joins Carrie to talk about her new show at Long & Ryle Gallery in London - an exhibition of interiors inspired by Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen, whose famous family home, Bowen's Court, was sold and demolished by a farmer who wanted only its timber. The story of that house...

Carrie Scott sits down with conceptual artist Phillip Toledano to unpack his most audacious project yet - a show at Fotografiska Berlin attributed to a photographer who doesn't exist. We get into AI, historical surrealism, the death of photographic truth, and why his most provocative work is also his most personal. Explore Phillip's work: https://mrtoledano.com/ Join our mailing list: http...

Painter Suzy Spence spent 35 years making work in New York before trading the city for a sprawling Vermont studio - and she never stopped being radical. In this conversation, we dig into her summer show at the Bundy Museum, the feminist politics woven into equestrian imagery, and why the best paintings should be, in her words, hopefully indescribable. Explore Suzy's work: https://suzyspence.co...

This week on Have You Seen?, Carrie sits down with photographer Anastasia Samoylova - a Russian-born, Miami-based artist who has spent 15 years building one of the most distinctive bodies of work in contemporary photography, largely by refusing to be intimidated by anything. They talk about Ana's project pairing her contemporary Florida images with Walker Evans's archive, which landed her...

Damian Elwes spends years researching each painting, piecing together fragments of photographs and historical evidence to recreate the exact studios where masterpieces were made. He's probably the only person alive who's visited every Picasso studio and every Matisse studio. And he sometimes teaches art historians things they don't know about the artists they study. In this conversatio...

Syd Carpenter has spent fifty years expanding what clay can hold and now she's expanding beyond clay altogether. With a major retrospective at the Woodmere Art Museum and three additional exhibitions on view, Carpenter is having the kind of moment most artists dream of. But talk to her for five minutes and you realize she's not looking back. She's still inventing. In this episode, Syd talks about...

This week, Carrie is joined by Dan Webb, a Seattle-based woodcarver whose work has been astonishing her for 20 years. Dan creates sculptures that seem impossible: hands emerging from raw timber, Mylar balloons carved from wood that say "I love you" and actually mean it, gestures frozen in material older than nations. We discuss his fifth exhibition at Greg Kucera Gallery, " Yespalier, " and explor...

Artist and LA resident Richelle Rich joins Carrie to debrief on what turned out to be a landmark week for art in Los Angeles. Fresh from days of fairs, openings, and yes, a lot of driving, Richelle gives us her honest account of Frieze LA and the constellation of events that surround it. They talk about why this year felt so different from last year's emotionally charged, post-wildfire edition...

Shop Harold Feinstein Estate Prints: https://www.carrie-scott.com/shop?category=Harold+Feinstein Carrie sits down with Judith Thompson as she shares the intimate story of her husband, legendary photographer Harold Feinstein - a man who didn't just capture beauty, he taught people how to see it and live it. While his contemporaries focused on grit, Harold turned his lens toward joy. His philoso...

Artist Laurie Frick makes portraits without faces. Instead, she transforms personal data into tactile artworks made from wool felt, leather, and sandblasted glass. A former tech executive who spent 20 years in Silicon Valley, Frick has been tracking herself obsessively—sleep patterns, location data, heart rate—since the early 2000s. In this conversation, she shares her radical vision: that surveil...

Sponsored by Arthur Analytics. Join for free: https://www.arthuranalytics.com/seenart What happens when someone from finance marries into an art collecting family and decides the industry desperately needs better infrastructure? You get Arthur Analytics—the platform that's consolidating auction data, exhibition histories, gallery sales, and art fair previews into what can only be described as...

Art advisor Tina Corinteli joins Carrie from Doha to give us the unfiltered take on Art Basel's experimental new format. No traditional booths. Museum-style flow. All costs covered. Sounds dreamy, right? Tina breaks down what really happened: the stunning presentations (Sadie Coles!), the sales situation (complicated), and whether galleries would return if Basel wasn't footing the bill. Pl...

Create your free Auctionet account and explore 80 action houses from your couch: https://auctionet.com/?utm_source=instagram&utm_medium=organic_social&utm_campaign=Seen What if the box of action figures in your parents' attic could fund a house deposit? In this episode of Behind the Seen, Carrie Scott sits down with Kayleigh Davies, a toy specialist with Auctionet with 15 years of experien...

Artist Rob Strati drops antique plates onto rocks and transforms them into stunning art that explores memory, colonial history, and the power of repair. When his mother-in-law's cherished chinoiserie plate shattered, he saw opportunity instead of loss—extending the imagery beyond the fragments to create something profound. In this conversation, Rob reveals his mesmerizing process, why people c...

Learn more about Esther Kim Varet: https://www.estherkimvaret.com/ This week, Carrie chats with Esther Kim Varet—co-founder of Various Small Fires, the gallery with locations in LA, Seoul, and Dallas—to discuss her journey from opening a gallery at 24 (inspired by a chance $60,000 payday at an art fair) to running for Congress in Orange County. Yes, she's the real-life inspiration behind the g...

This week, Carrie Scott sits down with artist Wilma Woolf. Wilma is a Virtual Artist working in London. In 2020 she completed a Masters in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, graduating with a Distinction. She has exhibited her work at The Tate Modern, V&A and at Richard Saltoun Gallery in Mayfair with a solo exhibition centred around her installation, Domestic. In 2022 Woolf was invited to the...

This week, Carrie Scott interviews artist Richelle Rich. What does Margaret Thatcher have to do with Mr. Whippy ice cream? And why does it matter to contemporary art? Listen to this episode to find out. Working from her vine-covered studio in Santa Monica, Richelle is finally looking back at the Isle of Wight—the small island where she grew up. Her current work explores systems of power through un...

In this episode of the Seeing series, curator Carrie Scott sits down in studio with Joel Mesler . In this deeply personal conversation, Joel opens up about the end of his abandonment issues, why he deliberately chooses discomfort, and what it really means to create permission for others to feel. As an introvert who holds office hours at galleries, he embodies fascinating contradictions—and his rad...

In this episode, artist Richard Phillips sits down with Carrie Scott to talk everything from his meteoric rise after being featured on Gossip Girl, to being 'cancelled' and the abrupt closure of his show at Gagosian. From his unconventional creative process and willingness to destroy seemingly finished works to why he believes today's artists are creating from a place of fear - Richard reminds us...

In this episode, Carrie sits down with Berto Herrera, an American artist and former U.S. military member now based in Germany, who brings a unique perspective to exploring themes of identity, power, and technology through multidisciplinary work. Trained at Parsons and involved early in his career with Los Angeles's influential art collective Box Eight, he worked for a decade as an art director at...