Art Sense

A conversation with Boris Pevzner, Co-Founder and CEO of LiveArt, a technology company that provides a turn-key, anonymous, peer-to-peer marketplace for fine art. In order to enable informed marketplace decisions, the company has also created a powerful data platform that aggregates art market information that is typically difficult to get to. https://liveart.io/ https://www.instagram.com/liveart....

A conversation with Chris Cummings, Founder and CEO of Iconic Moments, a technology company that works alongside cultural institutions like museums to create digital collectibles that heighten engagement and fuel what the company calls “crowd patronage”. The conversation sheds light on the variety of factors that weigh on the operation of museums and the importance of storytelling when engaging mu...

A conversation with author Christine Ross about her new book “Art for Coexistence: Unlearning the Way We See Migration”. Ross is a professor of contemporary art history at McGill University and uses that lens to examine contemporary art’s response to migration crises around the globe. Can art provide an emotional gateway to humanizing the life-threatening journey of migrants?

A conversation with artist Alex Prager about her decades of staged photography that explore our shared humanity through the use of vibrant colors, dramatic lighting and carefully-crafted characters. The conversation includes details of Prager’s formative years abroad, the moment she realized she needed to become a photographer, and her latest show up now at Lehmann Maupin in New York.

A conversation with Iranian-American artist Y.Z. Kami. Kami has gained notoriety over the last four decades with his large-scale portraits of faces in contemplation, as well as a variety of other bodies of work which explore themes related to spirituality and the architecture of sacred spaces through both figuration and abstraction. In the conversation, we discuss the commonalities in his diverse...

A conversation with author Matthew Wilson about his new book “The Hidden Language of Symbols”. In the conversation, we touch on just a handful of the dozens of symbols and hidden meanings collected from the art and architecture of societies from around the world and profiled in the book. https://www.matthewwilson.uk/work https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Language-Symbols-Matthew-Wilson/dp/0500025290

A look back at the conversations from 2022, featuring excerpts of conversations with Jerry Saltz, Sarah Morris, Simon de Pury, Matthew Collings and Shepard Fairey.

A conversation with Daniel H. Weiss, CEO and President of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, regarding his new book “Why the Museum Matters”. In the book, Weiss describes the origins of the modern day museum, the challenges museums face and what the future holds. The conversation includes insights on some of the thorniest issues facing museums today, including diversity, restitution, and deaccessioni...

A Conversation with Lisa Darms, Executive Director of the Hauser & Wirth Institute. The institute is a non-profit, private foundation dedicated to transforming the field of artists’ archives by nurturing equity and innovation, while also increasing access to archives. HWI provides grants for progressive archival projects and education, fosters networks locally and internationally and organizes...

A conversation with Web3 art collector, investor and DAO co-founder Derek Edward Schloss. Derek was an early advocate for the economy that has grown around the collecting of digital art. He is the co-founder of Collab+Currency, a crypto-focused venture fund that made early investments in companies like SuperRare, Art Blocks, Async Art, Metaversal, Rarible and PROOF. He is also a founding member of...

An exploration of the life and work of the incredibly influential Spanish artist Antoni Tàpies. 2023 will mark what would have been the artist’s 100th birthday. Tàpies’ son Toni Tàpies and daughter-in-law Natasha Hébert join me to discuss the materiality, philosophy and symbolism that were hallmarks of Tàpies’ work, as well as details about the events planned to honor his centenary in the coming...

A conversation about the intricacies of the Chinese art market with iconic Chinese gallerist Pearl Lam. Lam has been a fixture in the contemporary art scenes of Shanghai and Hong Kong during an unprecedented time of growth and evolution among Chinese artists and collectors. Her galleries represent artists from both China and abroad and The China Art Foundation (which she co-founded with scholar Ga...

A discussion about the future of digital art displays with Poppy Simpson, Head of Product and Content for Netgear’s Meural product line. In the conversation, we discuss a number of issues around the use of digital art frames, including the evolving user experience, the advantages of providing a library of curated content and Netgear’s pioneering work with the SuperRare DAO to develop a licensing a...

A discussion with artist Glenn Brown. Finding inspiration in works from art history as well as science fiction, Brown creates beautifully crafted paintings built from layers of fine brush strokes and thin glazes. The process can take years, but yields paintings that captivate the viewer with sublime colors and intertwining strokes that invite the viewer’s closer inspection. The conversation dives...

A conversation with authors Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko on the long-awaited release of their new book about their father titled simply “Mark Rothko”. The volume examines both Mark Rothko the man and Mark Rothko the artist, while providing more than 275 images of his paintings, prints, and works on paper. Our conversation reasserts Rothko as a deeply intellectual and philosophical man...

A conversation with the artist Shepard Fairey. He is an artist, activist, street art pioneer and founder of the OBEY clothing line, but may be best known for his 2008 HOPE poster that served as the grassroots campaign imagery for Barack Obama’s first presidential election. Urban streets have long been the home of Fairey’s counter-culture images. The word “OBEY” paired with a stylized depiction of...

A discussion with the team that has collaborated to bring the “Life in Our Minds” generative NFT project to life. The project extends the work artist collective Random International has done around flocking simulations through a collaboration with digital artist and art director Danil Krivoruchko. The project features NFTs which evolve dynamically based on a number of data points, including those...

A conversation with artist Emma Webster. Webster uses virtual reality, collage and 3D modeling software to create invented landscapes that she then paints in oil. These unique, large-scale landscapes provoke wonder and spark curiosity. In August, Webster’s work was the subject of the inaugural show at Perrotin’s newest exhibit space in Seoul, South Korea. https://www.emmawebster.com/ https://www.p...

A conversation with Monument Lab Director and Co-Founder Paul Farber. Monument Lab is an organization of artists and curators that have spent more than a decade working to research, document and aid in conversations about the tens of thousands of monuments across our nation. The organization wants to ensure that inherited monuments accurately reflect the past and that future monuments (in whatever...

A discussion with the iconic artist Shirin Neshat. Neshat has spent more than three decades making films, videos and photography that challenge viewers to consider topics of humanity, oppression, gender roles and faith within the complex social and political framework of Iran. In the conversation, we discuss her origins in Iran, her life in exile, how her work has evolved and her perspectives on t...

A conversation with artist Anj Smith. Smith makes finely crafted and highly detailed paintings that beg the viewer to stop, look closely and contemplate what they find. She often finds inspiration in literature and poetry and her works ask questions about an unseen world that might be just beyond our perception. I spoke to Anj on the eve of her latest show “Where the Mountain Hare has Lain” which...

A conversation with artist John Gerrard. The Irish-born artist has spent more than twenty years using the latest in technology to create virtual worlds. Unlike video art, Gerrard’s work is generated from a custom computer program while viewing and no two viewing experiences are ever the same. The content of his work typically asks the viewer to deeply consider the attributes and consequences of th...

A discussion with artist Tavares Strachan. The Bahamian-born Strachan creates ambitious projects that intersect technology, politics and untold history. His work takes on many forms, but always challenges the viewer to question the validity of predetermined limits and narratives about accomplishments from the past. Working at the nexus of art and technology has led to his art being launched into o...

A conversation with artist, author and television arts commentator Matthew Collings. Matthew has been a fixture in the British arts media for more than thirty years while maintaining an active art practice. He creates sublime, large-scale abstract paintings as part of his partnership with his wife Emma Biggs. And over the course of the last three years, Matthew has produced thousands of popular dr...

A discussion with artist Edgar Arceneuax. Edgar works in the fields of drawing, sculpture, installation, performance, and video; often exploring connections between historical events and present-day truths, as well as the roles of family, memory and race. His work is thoughtful, personal and powerful and can be found in the collections of institutions like MoMA, the Whitney, the Hammer and LACMA....