The Felix Podcast

During the opening day of Felix, we ran into a rare sighting: a retired gallerist voluntarily working at an art fair. While Blum & Poe founder Jeff Poe was filling in for Kirk Nelson at the La Loma gallery booth (or more precisely, hotel room), he took a few minutes to drop by The Felix Podcast. Since his departure from the art world in 2023, he said, he thinks the market has at least righted...

Even A-list Hollywood collectors get waitlisted sometimes. On this episode of the Felix podcast, Josh Brolin and his CAA agent, Joel Lubin, discuss the challenges of collecting, plus the question of what separates bad art from great art.

Veteran Los Angeles art collectors Jarl Mohn and Dean Valentine go way back, having known each other since their executive days in the television industry. Since the '80s, Jarl has headed MTV, VHI, E! and NPR, while Dean was president of Disney Network Television followed by UPN. On this episode of The Felix Podcast, the two get into art philanthropy, their shared history of collecting, how their...

"35 years of my life I gave to this stupid art world and I'm left with literally nothing." With middle finger raised, artist Frances Stark posted these words to Instagram and quickly went viral, raising questions of how much a conceptual artist can really be herself in an increasingly financialized art world. In this episode of The Felix Podcast, Stark addresses the post as part of a far-reaching...

Do you believe in omens? In this episode of the Felix Podcast, groundbreaking Los Angeles artist Joey Terrill recalls the sense of foreboding he felt on the eve of the 1980s, a decade of catastrophic loss as the AIDS epidemic ravaged queer communities all over the world. He goes on to describe his lifetime of activism and how it shaped his art-making, a multidisciplinary practice of reclamation, e...