The Art Business

SEBASTIAN DUTHY CEO Art Market Research      Sebastian brings a wide-ranging expertise into his role as AMR CEO. He has transformed the pioneering art market price trend provider, established by his father Robin Duthy in 1978, into a sharped eye art market observer by formulating new analytical tools viewing the art market in a larger context of culture and economy. Complemented by a successful ca...

Rachel Cole is the principal at her New York-based eponymous art advisory firm, which specializes in the acquisition, curation, and placement of contemporary art. She was the first art advisor to join the Forbes 30 Under 30 list in 2022, and was recognized for placing historically underrepresented and undervalued minority artists (including women, BIPOC, and LGBTQIA+) into prominent private and pu...

Mikaela Milicuri is a Cypriot-born London-based art advisor who specialises in art sales, collection management and investment portfolio development. Having lived in five countries and eight cities, 'she navigates the international art market with confidence and combines her extensive art knowledge and business skills with meaningful industry connections to help her clients build collections which...

  Aryana Khan leads Frieze’s recently launched membership programme, Frieze 91. She currently oversees membership in London, New York, Los Angeles, and Seoul (due to launch in Spring 2023). Aryana has worked in the art market for just under a decade. Prior to Frieze she spent 6 years working at Sotheby’s in London, where she specialised in modern and contemporary Middle Eastern art, managing clien...

Milena Berman is originally from San Francisco, California. After studying art history as an undergraduate, she worked at documenta13 in Kassel, Germany in press relations, and then returned home to San Francisco to work for a private photography collection, Pier24. She also worked in commercial and non-profit art galleries before moving to Burgundy in 2013 to work in cultural tourism. For seven y...

In this episode we discuss curating art exhibitions in the historical art colony of St Ives, Cornwall with guests Alicia Livingstone and Catie Close of Livingstone St Ives Gallery and special guests Sotheby's Institute of Art MA Art Business students: Jeremy Rosen; Yujie He; Quan (Derrick) Wan; Beatrice Gallello and Maria Whitby.     Links: https://livingstonestives.co.uk/sothebys-ma-workshops/  ...

Anindo Sen is a Sotheby’s Institute of Art London 2020 alumnus, who after successful corporate leadership roles in some of India’s leading corporate enterprises like ITC and Star TV, chose to devote himself to art and culture. Currently an independent arts writer, researcher and consultant, he discusses the MA experience at the institute as well as how the art world can benefit from being more ope...

Dr. Federica Carlotto is a social anthropologist specialising in luxury, fashion and other cultural & creative industries. By applying the lens of human science to markets, trends and brands, Federica delves into the thick layers of meaning behind consumer behaviour, producing strategic business intelligence. Her cultural insights also look at connecting business with communities and the society a...

Kristy M Chan (b.1997, Hong Kong) lives and works between London and Hong Kong. She received her BFA from Slade School of Fine Art in 2019 and her MA from Sotheby’s Institute of Art in 2020. Recent solo exhibitions include Binge, The Artist Room in collaboration with Simon Lee Gallery, London (2022), Strong Cookie, Prior Art Space, Berlin (2022) and Totally Not, The Artist Room, London, (2021–2)....

Editor-In-Chief: Rhiannon Roberts Prior to studying Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s Institute of Art in London, Rhiannon completed her undergraduate degree in Art History at Belmont University. During her time there, she was the recipient of the 2021 Written Research in the Visual Arts Award for her visual essay titled “The Depiction of Global Consumerism and Overconsumption in Art,” a featured keyn...

Neha Jaiswal is Founder of The Arts Family, London, on the TAF jury and a member of the South Asia Acquisitions Committee at Tate, London. Claire McCaslin-Brown is Director McCaslin Art Advisory,  London, and Marketing Director/Curator at The Arts Family, London (TAF).   TAF holds an art prize for emerging artists from South Asia.   www.theartsfamily.com   Please download the 2021 PDF Catalogue, f...

In this follow-up to the July 7 podcast, we discuss auction houses, dealers, artists and artists' estates.  We also flag the forthcoming de Pury auction WOMEN - Art In Times of Chaos as an exciting new auction model where emerging artists and their galleries receive 100% of the hammer price.   Useful links: http://www.thehenrylydiatepartnership.com/   henry@thehenrylydiatepartnership.com   https:/...

This summer special episode presents a relaxed platform for songwriter, author and art curator Tot Taylor and art lawyer Henry Lydiate to share memories of the 1970s when their paths met in the rock music world.  We hear about life in Cambridge and London and how self-identity was developed and culture was accessed without the internet.     Tot and Henry are the subjects of earlier episodes of thi...

In the early millennium Björn Geldhof took a Masters degree in Art History at Leuven University, Belgium.  Since graduating he has been involved in journalism, theatre and art curating including the post of Artistic and Strategic Director at Yarat Contmporary Art Space from 2015-2018.  From 2009 Björn has been involved with PinchukArtCentre in Kyiv where he is Artistic Director.  The Centre closed...

Dongmin Kim is an Art Business graduate from Sotheby's Institute of Art, class of 2020. She currently works at Artlogic, the leading art technology company that designs and develops tech solutions for art galleries and art fairs, whilst running her own photography business on the weekends.  She recently won the Portrait category for Rugby Photographer of the Year 2022 and is the official club phot...

Henry Lydiate is a scholar-practitioner and former Visiting Professor of Art Law, University of the Arts, London, and has been a Course Consultant and Visiting Lecturer in legal, business, and professional practice studies at major art schools in the UK since 1978, including Sotheby's Institute of Art London. Publications include The Visual Artist and the Law, The Visual Artist’s Copyright Handboo...

Anders Petterson is a leading authority on the art market, with particular focus on the modern and  contemporary  emerging  art  markets.  He is  the  Founder  and  Managing  Director  of ArtTactic Ltd, a London-based art market research and advisory company set up in 2001.  Educated at LSE, Anders' career started in the finance world working for JP Morgan.  In 2000 he set up the web-based art mar...

Alex Bass graduated with Distinction from the MA Art Business, Sotheby's Institute of Art London in 2021 with her dissertation on 'Creating an Art Business in a Covid-19 Era'. Alex is Communications Coordinator at Gagosian Gallery New York.  She is founder and CEO of Salon 21 which introduces emerging artists to likeminded art lovers and collectors in hosted salon-style New York conversations.  Al...

Elsa Åkesson is a 25-year-old New York City based contemporary artist and entrepreneur. As a 2020 Fine Art bachelors graduate from the University of the Arts London and a 2022 Sotheby’s Institute masters graduate in Art Business, Elsa has managed to combine both her passion for painting with that of business.  Today, Elsa focuses her career on the development of her studio practice, and her promis...

16 Nicholson Street Gallery is a Glasgow-based, non-profit arts facilitation space run by a curatorial collaborative. The gallery was established in 2016 and all organisation and programming is managed by Isabella Shields, Nell Cardozo, and Aga Paulina Młyńczak. Today's guests are the two curators Aga and Nell.  Aga is an Artist and Producer interested in media, electronics, and sculptural work. N...

Jeremy Eckstein is a statistician by training. He started his professional life as a fund manager before joining Sotheby's Auction House in 1979 as Head of Research for the company, with responsibility for monitoring the performance of the British Railways Pension Fund's fine art investment portfolio. An independent consultant in the art market since 1990, Eckstein has done a broad range of commis...

Alicia Livingstone opened her first contemporary art gallery in the Cornish seaside town of Perranporth in 2018, followed by the opening of a second gallery in the seaside artist's colony at St Ives in 2020.  Alice discusses how her art business was impacted by the pandemic and its series of lockdowns, and how she successfully navigated out of it towards opening a third gallery in Clifton, Bristol...

In my introduction to the catalogue of her current exhibition (to 9 April 2022) at JD Malat Gallery Mayfair, I wrote: 'Georgia Dymock is an emerging English artist whose paintings are conceived and born from a combination of digital technology and traditional painterly techniques...... Georgia says that she likes to constantly come close to and then distance herself from the making process by trav...

In this episode we learn about the art world of Ukraine and its markets with guests Bohdan Mysiuha, curator of the Museum of Modernism, Lviv and Olena Grubb (alumna of the MA Art Business, Sotheby's Institute of Art, London) who also acts as interpreter for Bohdan's Ukrainian language.  The artistic community in Lviv, in the west of Ukraine, is preparing for the possibility of the current Russian...

In this episode of The Art Business podcast, we discuss the Russian art world and its markets, both in the main centres of Moscow and St Petersburg, as well as in the hinterland.   Dr. Anastasia Pechalova (b. 1992 Moscow) is an art market researcher with a PhD in the History of International Relations. She studied at Moscow State Institute of International Relations, and now lectures at the Depart...