Art Lovers Forum Podcast

Marla Rice founded the Rice Polak Gallery in 1992 and holds a prominent place in Provincetown, Massachusetts as one of the primary venues for contemporary art. The gallery represents a select group of emerging and established artists whose work is both contemporary and contemplative.    The philosophy of the Rice Polak Gallery is marked by a spirit of collaboration and exploration. The diverse med...

Raymond Elman is an American artist, publisher, editor, and writer. While he has had a very successful career as an artist, we are talking to him today about why he created an online video art publication platform which has already featured (500) video conversations with some of the most interesting and accomplished people from the art world. The videos are produced in short segments so that you i...

Jayda Knight (Aka Flying Knight) is a visual & street artist known for her idiosyncratic Neo-Deco Symbolist art. Jayda received a BFA & BArch from Rhode Island School of Design. She worked with Eugene Lee in set design for Saturday Night Live and off-Broadway shows in New York which influenced her creative approach.   Jayda explores pattern both as a metaphor as well as a visual to create...

I met Yasue Maetake about three months ago when gallerist Nina Johnson of Miami exhibited Yasue stunning and very unique tabletop sculptures. I walked into the exhibit and immediately thought I must own one of these amazing objects because they represented findings from the earth. I did buy one and I love looking at this piece called—-Avian— it’s made up of hand-blown glass, stained found tree bra...

Born and raised in Miami, Alex Nuñez is a Cuban-American mixed-media painter. She is not only a friend of mine, but Eliot and I collect her work. We met her at the Perez Museum 15 years ago when she gave an impromptu speech about an artist a group of us were examining. She was so articulate and so thorough that we all fell in love with her. She received her MFA from Hunter College, City University...

Lucia Giudice is the founder of New York City based Puccio Fine Art. She is also a dear friend of mine. We lived in the same upper East side coop for many years, and she was the first gallerist I became close to. I used to visit her gallery on East 63rd all the time. Now she sells exclusively online. She has an educational background in Political Science and Art History, and several decade’s worth...

  Welcome to Art lovers Forum.  Today we are going to talk about the popularity of erotic art. My girlfriend, Gladys Garrote has been working in this area for art for quite a while. She is a curator, and art historian, originally from Havana, Cuba, currently based in Miami. From 2014 to 2022, she worked as a professor at Havana University, where she taught courses on Art Appreciation, Contemporary...

Gabrielle Vitollo, better known as Gabo, takes us on the adventures of being an up-and-coming artist. She talks about her everyday life and what it takes creating art that an artist can be proud of. At the present time Gabo is most famous for her tabletop sculptures. Art collectors love them because they are completely different from anything they have ever owned.  The sculptures make a very darin...

Welcome to Art Lovers Forum.  If you want to start collecting art, or you want to know what collectors have learned over the years, put aside one hour to listen to the advice of Jane Wesman. You will not find a better master class anywhere that will give you the ins and outs of collecting. I was very fortunate to secure this interview.   Jane has been successfully collecting art since the 1980s wh...

If your art collecting has been focused on paintings and drawings, please don’t miss this episode of Art Lovers Forum with Artist Robin Schwalb. Robin is a quilt maker who introduced textile art into the world of pop culture. Her creations make you stop, stare and think “I would like to look at that every day.”   That is exactly why Robin has become so popular. She loves combining her graphically...

  Welcome to Art Lovers Forum.  Today I am speaking to Benjamin Sack, a one-of-a kind, creative artist, who draws composites of imaginary cities with pen and on paper. You have never seen anything like this. I saw Ben’s work 10 years ago, and knew immediately, that I had to own one of his masterpieces. It doesn’t matter what other pieces of art a collector has in his, or her, home, visitors will b...

Welcome to Art Lovers Forum.      Today I will be speaking to Doug Garr, a friend of mine who has spent 40-plus years as a journalist, editor, author, blogger, ghostwriter and speechwriter.  Doug is the guy who helped New York Governor Mario Cuomo sound so good at the mic. If that’s not astonishing enough, Doug is also an active skydiver with an expert license rating of 2,200 jumps.    One day I w...