Art Lovers Forum Podcast

Marc Wehby needs no introduction to people who love to collect art. He and his wife Susie Kravetz, both owners of Kravetz/Wehby in NYC for the last 26 years, have been major influencers in the purchasing of art for both new and experienced collectors. In fact, Marc told me that many older collectors are now focusing on emerging artists because they like the work being produced. He said that folks...

Welcome to Art Lovers Forum.  I am very excited about this interview with Moiz Zilberman. This is the first time I am talking to a gallerist who owns galleries in three countries. In fact, he has multiple galleries in each city. He is certainly experiencing the art world on a grand scale.   Moiz’s galleries are in Istanbul, Berlin and Miami. He feels the Magic City is the perfect place to promote...

I’m grateful that Yiwei Lu agreed to be interviewed by Art Lovers Forum during this difficult time in Los Angeles. Her galleries are in Venice Beach and Wuhan, China.  We officially met during the Art Fairs in Miami last month.   Miami friends of mine, Emily and Chris Campbell, bought art from Yiwei more than a year ago and they now have a close relationship. I wanted to hear what it was like bein...

  I just want to say that I love Carmin Kilpatrick’s artwork. She is only a freshman in college and yet she has mastered creating art that is filled with mystery, intrigue, secrets, fascination and new shapes and designs. I can stare at her work forever. I have shown her work to a few experts who like what they see and are now waiting anxiously to see what she produces over the next few years. I a...

   When Liz Berman Sklaw ran the New York Marathon this past November she unequivocally felt like she was viewing a kaleidoscope of paintings in every borough she passed through.  “It may have been the diversity of the street crowds, or the change in architecture every few miles,” Liz said. She felt like she was in an art trance. The fact that she was totally focused on the beauty of the city, Liz...

  When I found out that Laura Shabott, the artist, the lecturer, the actress, gave talks about the book, Ninth Street Women, I knew she had to do a second interview with me on Art Lovers Forum.  I wanted Laura to tell folks who are interested in art why the Ninth Street Women is so important.    The book was published in 2018 and while it was a best seller there are still so many people who are in...

  Deborah Mitchell is a conservation artist. I met Deborah years ago when she took members of Fountainhead Arts on a hike through the muddy waters of the Everglades. It was an exhilarating experience.  Her interview on Art Lovers Forum is exactly that. She is going to take you away from your daily busy life, which is probably indoors, and tell you what’s happening on the outside.    Deborah recent...

Charo Oquet is one of the most popular artists in the city of Miami. Everyone loves her because she has been able to maintain a thriving art practice while helping others from foreign countries get expose for their creative work. She is also admired because her work has always remained relevant through the years. Her interview reveals how she does it all which is a good life lesson for all of us....

I just got back from visiting my long time (Guatemala, Madrid, Miami) artist friend Veronica Riedel at her Mycelium Garden exhibit. She was showing how the world of nature, artificial intelligence, and art come together. Her exhibit is at idartlab, 676 NW 23rd St, Miami. I know Veronica and her mother Ana Westermann and Ana’s husband for several decades. We all met on one of our travel trips we to...

Welcome To Art Lovers Forum.  Brook Dorsch, the founder of the Emerson Dorsch Gallery in Miami, was at his home in Asheville, North Carolina when Hurricane Helene stormed through the beloved city known  as an art colony, a healing resort and a home to notable luminaries, statesmen and bohemians.  In this episode of Art Lovers Forum, Brook describes the force of the hurricane, the destruction, and...

  Welcome To Art Lovers Forum.  Make note of the two women I’m introducing you to today. Not only will artists/explorers Randi Renate and Beatriz Chachamovits be world famous in the not too distant future, but they will be instrumental in helping to save the planet. The work they are doing to preserve and restore coral reefs are also leading them to publicly expose other areas of the ocean that ar...

Everyone in the art world needs to know Leslie Weissman. She knows the ins and outs of the creative and business side of art better than most. She is an artist, collector, advisor, curator, pop-up gallerist, lecturer, educator, networker, and avid reader. What’s more, she is very close to her husband Michael and children. None of this is an exaggeration. I’m a friend of hers and I see her in actio...

Welcome to Art Lovers Forum.  This episode of Art Lovers Forum is dedicated to the late Rosa de la Cruz who was one of the leading art collectors in the United States. I am talking to Ibett Yanez del Castillo, Director of the Emerson Dorsch Gallery in Miami, who worked side-by-side with Rosa and Carlos for 19 years. This is probably one of the most intimate and detailed interviews you will ever he...

Cris Sweeny and Claire Lardner, owners of Frameworks in Miami for the last 30+ years, have started a new division in their company that offers one-of-kind art pieces that are becoming increasingly popular everyday. Appropriately called LS Art Consulting, Sweeny and Lardner are experts in designing the most captivating, yet appropriate custom art works in the fields of hospitality, cruise lines, de...

Artist Laura Shabott is a well-known, multi-media artist and actress, but should be the Ambassador for Provincetown, Massachusetts, the New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod. Laura sounds like she is reciting poetry when she describes the small coastal resort which has a year-round population of 4,000 and then grows to 60,000 or higher in the summertime. Often called "PTown, the...

I met Melanie Baer Schwartz a few months ago during a Fountainhead Arts trip to Detroit. She is the Director of Sales at Library Street Collective, one of the most creative art galleries in the nation. The minute I met her I knew this is what I needed from a gallerist. She was well informed, willing to share her knowledge, very inspirational and super friendly. She made our experience visiting the...

Thanks to Robert Fontaine, Lincoln Road is once again a meaningful and exciting destination for serious art collectors. He recently moved his blue chip art gallery, The Robert Fontaine Gallery, to the legendary outdoor mall, because of the ever-increasing foot traffic. It’s also steps away from the world-famous Art Basel and all of the art fairs that pop up annually. Robert Fontaine is going to ad...

If you want to expand your horizons in the art world, listen to this episode of Art Lovers Forum. I am speaking to Dianne Beal, an independent curator and private art dealer in Washington D.C., Paris and Miami. She is absolutely a well-known specialist of non-conformist art. Let’s put it this way, the bipartisan political power couple, Mary Matalin and James Carville, are just two of her celebrity...

Tomas Redrado is one of the youngest gallery owners in the United States. He became a gallerist in his homeland of Buenos Aires during the pandemic because he felt it was a period in all of our lives when we could try new things. He was just starting his career in foreign affairs when the world went into lockdown. He couldn’t travel so he turned to his love of art. Tomas was friendly with a number...

Welcome To Art Lovers Forum.  I met Pauline Shender a few years ago at Fountainhead Arts, an art residency in Miami. We are both members. She is a few decades younger than me but when I see her, I feel like I am looking at myself at her age. However, I’m far more brash, she is much more sophisticated. Pauline has been studying contemporary art since 2012. What started as a curiosity about contempo...

Welcome To Art Lovers Forum.  This is a podcast conversation about pop art in the 1960’s and 1970’s that includes drugs, infidelity, dementia and everything else that makes a real juicy story.  If you are involved in art you may know some of this already, but today I have Jonathan Scull on Art Lovers Forum who is going to tell us all about Ethel and Robert Scull, the most talked about  Pop Art col...

I feel like I know Evelyn Politzer forever. I have been seeing her yarn, thread, and fabric exhibits all over Miami for years, especially airline terminals, parks, and a vast array of galleries.  Her work makes you stop and stare. You can’t believe what this woman can do with soft hand-dyed fibers to create unconventional pieces ranging from small two-dimensional tapestries to monumental projects....

I’m thrilled to be interviewing Jeanne Jaffe today because she is not the typical artist that I usually meet. She has been creating art for 40 years and continues to put out more work than most people half her age. She is a true inspiration for folks who have something to say. Jeanne is a multi-disciplinary artist working in installation, sculpture, and stop motion animation. Her work is influence...

Most people refer to Bianca Bosker as the New York Times best-selling author of Cork Dork and, most recently, Get the Picture. I refer to Bianca as the most self-assured writer alive who doesn’t mind putting herself in vulnerable and embarrassing situations if it means she gets to write kick ass books that shake up entire industries for the better. Most of the folks I know would never allow themse...

This is the first Art Lovers Forum I am doing extemporaneously. I usually have a prepared introduction with a list of questions. I guess my free spirited, number 13 episode, is appropriate for the art explorer I am about to interview. Avi Ivan has traveled to 69.1 per cent of the earth studying art. The list of places he has traveled to will be published in my blog: www.digidame.com . I met Avi in...