Reading the Art World

For the 22nd episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Richard Lacayo, author of “Last Light: How Six Great Artists Made Old Age a Time of Triumph,” published by Simon and Schuster. Richard Lacayo is one of the world's top art critics and he has been a long-time writer and editor at Time magazine. From 2003 to 2016 he was the magazine's art and archit...

For the 21st episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Diana Seave Greenwald, whose latest book, "Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life," was co-written with curator Nathaniel Silver, published by the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and distributed by Princeton University Press. Isabella Stewart Gardner, who lived from 1840 to 1924, assembled an extraordin...

For the 20th episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Susan Davidson, author of “Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting,” published in August by Hatje Cantz. Susan’s work is an in-depth study of the renowned Abstract Expressionist known as a deeply intellectual painter, brilliant theorist and articulate spokesman for the movement alongside Willem de Kooning, Mark Ro...

For the 19th episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Amy Whitaker and Nora Burnett Abrams, authors of the new book, “The Story of NFTs: Artists, Technology, and Democracy,” published by Rizzoli Electa and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. NFTs, or non-fungible tokens, exploded into the art space last year, raising curiosity, conversation, creativity and...

For the 18th episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Daniel Weiss, author of "Why the Museum Matters" published in 2022 by Yale University Press. "Why the Museum Matters" offers Daniel Weiss's unique perspective as both a museum leader, art historian, and cultural thinker. Reading this book leaves you newly inspired by how our museums...

Renowned curator, scholar, and author Ruth Fine takes us behind the scenes of the creation of Frank Stewart’s Nexus: An American Photographer’s Journey, 1960s to the Present , an exhibition and catalog that analyzes the impact of the African-American, New York-based photographer known for capturing jazz artists in their element. Join art advisor and Reading The Art World   host, Megan Fox Kelly, a...

How are museums physically adapting to a fast-paced, globally-minded world? Join art advisor and Reading the Art World host, Megan Fox Kelly, as she sits down with András Szántó, cultural strategy advisor and author of Imagining the Future Museum: 21 Dialogues with Architects. In this book, Szántó hosts conversations with 21 innovative building designers and surveys the thinking in the field, enga...

Join art advisor and Reading the Art World host, Megan Fox Kelly, for an in-depth interview with the Paul Mellon Director of the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Courtney J. Martin. In this episode, they discuss Cecily Brown, one of the most influential painters of our time. The 2020 book, Cecily Brown, is the first major monograph about the British-born, New York-based artist who rose to...

For the fourteenth episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Jerry Saltz, author of “Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries and Vigilantes, and Flashes of Hope in the Night," published November 1, 2022 by Riverhead Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House. Pulitzer Prize winning art critic, "New York Times" best selling author and self-...

For the thirteenth episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Michael Findlay, author of The Value of Art: Money, Power, Beauty . Lately, so much of the conversation around art and collecting and the art market is about value — value in terms of price and investment return. But Michael talks about value in terms of the inherent value of the art itself, and he gi...

For the twelfth episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Gareth Harris, Chief Contributing Editor of “The Art Newspaper” and the author of "Censored Art Today" (Lund Humphries, 2022), which provides a careful and informed discussion of the various ways in which the centuries-old issue of censorship seems to be only increasing in recent years, and of...

In this episode, art advisor and Reading the Art World  host, Megan Fox Kelly, speaks with Emily A. Beeny, curator at The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco and co-author with Francesca Whitlum-Cooper of the book, Poussin and the Dance . Their conversation takes an in-depth look at Nicolas Poussin in 17th century Rome — a city rich with classical sculpture from antiquity and Renaissance paintings t...

For the tenth episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Marguerite Steed Hoffman and Gavin Delahunty about the new book, “Amor Mundi: The Collection of Marguerite Steed Hoffman” (Ridinghouse, 2022). The book tells a unique story of carefully considered and inspired collecting, and the motivations behind the collection’s creation and its ongoing evolution. “Amor...

For the ninth episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Todd Bradway about his book,  "Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction to New Romanticism” (D.A.P., 2019). The first book of its kind to take a global view of its subject, Bradway's work features more than eighty outstanding contemporary artists — both established and emerging — whose ages s...

For the eighth episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with András Szántó about his new book, “The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues” (Hatje Cantz, 2021). As museums shuttered during the 2020 coronavirus pandemic, New York-based author and cultural strategist Szántó conducted a series of virtual conversations with international museum leaders. At this pivotal mom...

For the seventh episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Sarah Roberts and Katy Siegel about their new book, “Joan Mitchell,” which accompanies the retrospective they co-curated. The exhibition, "Joan Mitchell," opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in September 2021 and ran there through January 17 of this year, and it opened on March 6 a...

For the sixth episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Bernard Lumpkin about the book, “Young, Gifted and Black,” which shines a light on the remarkable artists whose work is the foundation of his collection. Bernard tells the story of his evolution to collector, patron and advocate alongside husband Carmine Boccuzzi, longtime champions of emerging artists of...

For the fifth episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Melanie Gerlis, art market columnist for The Financial Times, Editor-at-Large for The Art Newspaper, and the author of The Art Fair Story: A Rollercoaster Ride (Lund Humphries, 2021). This conversation took place in the library of The Betsy Hotel in South Beach during Art Basel Miami 2021 on the publicatio...

For the fourth episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Mary Rozell, the Global Head of the UBS Art Collection and the author of The Art Collector's Handbook: The Definitive Guide to Acquiring and Owning Art (Lund Humphries, 2020). "Reading the Art World"  is a live interview and podcast series with leading art world authors hosted by art adviso...

For the third episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with journalist and art market expert Georgina Adam, whose new book, "The Rise and Rise of the Private Art Museum," looks into the global proliferation of the private museum and its implications for society and the arts. Reading the Art World  is a live interview and podcast series with leading art wo...

For the second episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Italian-born, London-based writer and curator Michele Robecchi, Commissioning Editor of Phaidon's Contemporary Artists Series.  In 2020, Phaidon celebrated 25 years of this now iconic series of monographs .  Robecchi talks about his collaborations with artists and shares stories of how his process fo...

In the first episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian, a Venezuelan-born collector who has chaired acquisition committees for the Guggenheim Museum and the Tate Modern. Tiqui's second book, "For Art’s Sake: Inside the Homes of Art Dealers," offers a beautifully photographed look inside the elite homes of the art world. R...