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The Art Business is a bi-weekly podcast dedicated to talking about both cultural and business aspects of the art world with some of its key players. It is hosted by Dr David Bellingham, Programme Director of the MA in Art Business at Sotheby‘s Institute of Art London.
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Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
Wednesday Mar 09, 2022
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 invasion reaching their city. Bohdan also talks about the history of modern Ukrainian art under Soviet and post-Soviet rule.
Here are some links:
Museum of Modernism
https://www.ukrgate.com/eng/?p=13433
Ukraine Unofficial - project dedicated to the works of artists of the XX century.
Have a look at Yevhen Lysyk scenography here. It's amazing : http://www.archive-uu.com/en/profiles/lysyk-yevhen
This is one of Bohdan's monographs on Ukrainian art of the XX century.
These are some of Bohdan's articles for the Ukrainian newspaper (all in Ukrainian though).
NB Information about the Fund for Documentation of the Crimes Against Ukrainian Art formed by the artists from Eastern Ukraine will be posted here later. It was only formed yesterday and its creators are still working on official accounts etc.
Names of some of the artists mentioned:
Oleksandr Archipenko, Alexandra Exter, Davyd Burliuk, Ivan Trush, Mikhail Vrubel
intro and outro music
‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama)
by TOT TAYLOR
is used by kind permission of the artist
©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)
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Saturday Feb 19, 2022
Saturday Feb 19, 2022
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 Department of International Relations. She has an MA and BA in International Relations, and has recently graduated with distinction from the MA in Art Business at Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London. Her PhD was on the role of expertise in decision-making and politics.
In 2016-2021 Anastasia worked in top-level Russian politics as a speechwriter. In 2020-2021 she worked as a researcher on a project devoted to trend-watching in culture. This analysed trends in exhibitions, the work of museums and cultural institutions.
In 2021 Anastasia launched Art Barometer, Russia’s first research platform dedicated to monitoring the art market. To date this includes communications with over 300 dealers, collectors and market professionals about their activities in 2021. http://artbarometer.ru/english
Anastasia's professional interests include the market for Old Master paintings, Russian art and icons. She collects Russian eighteenth and nineteenth-century icons, damaged and unrestored as well as objects of Russian peasant life.
intro and outro music
‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama)
by TOT TAYLOR
is used by kind permission of the artist
©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)
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Friday Feb 04, 2022
Friday Feb 04, 2022
Khalil Akar (b.1992) is a Nigerian-Lebanese art director working at the Signature African Art
gallery in London. Having been brought up in Lagos, he spent his formative years at his dad’s
Signature art gallery studying and learning about art, both traditional and contemporary. He
insisted on trying a new field at university to widen his horizon, and earned a Bachelors in
Civil Engineering with Sustainability as well as a Masters in Project Management. After five
successful years in the construction industry, he decided to return to the art world and
setup the Signature African Art gallery in London. We discuss the history of Signature from its founding in Lagos in 1992 to the opening of the London gallery in 2019 and how the pandemic and BLM has affected it.
intro and outro music
‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama)
by TOT TAYLOR
is used by kind permission of the artist
©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)
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Friday Jan 21, 2022
Friday Jan 21, 2022
Kojo Marfo's work has become familiar to Londoners living and working in the West End over the last two years since appearing in the 'Isolation Mastered' open competition finalists' exhibition at JD Malat Gallery in Mayfair in the summer of 2020 following months of lockdown. His magnificent portrait paintings caught the eye of important collectors, so much so that Kojo was given a solo show in the summer of 2021, beautifully named 'Dreaming of Identity' (catalogue introduction written by podcast creator David Bellingham. In this podcast we discuss Kojo's influences and his poetic visual responses to the pandemic, his African heritage and contemporary global society and culture.
intro and outro music
‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama)
by TOT TAYLOR
is used by kind permission of the artist
©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)
PRS/MCPS/PPL
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Thursday Jan 06, 2022
Conrad studied Pure & Applied Mathematics at Warwick University and his early career was in oil derivatives trading. He took my summer school in Art & Its Markets at Sotheby's Institute of Art and was inspired to become an art consultant and dealer. In 2014 Conrad launched the Emerging Artist Prize which now has over 2,000 global artists applying with over 5,000 artworks every year. We talk about the relationships between dance, science, mathematics, music and art as well as (from @00:34:15) Conrad's methods of selecting and marketing his artists. Conrad's instagram site @theartprize has 38.4k followers of over 8,000 posts.
intro and outro music
‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama)
by TOT TAYLOR
is used by kind permission of the artist
©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)
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Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Thursday Dec 23, 2021
Tot is best known in the art world for his London contemporary art gallery, Riflemaker which he co-curated with Virginia Damtsa from 2003-2018. His first novel The Story of John Nightly was published in 2017. We talk about his early days in London as a session drummer and his first experiences with the art world from regular visits to Sotheby's to his time spent studying music at Goldsmiths which coincided with Damien Hirst and other nascent YBAs. During lockdown Tot recorded his first solo album Frisbee......
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‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama)
by TOT TAYLOR
is used by kind permission of the artist
©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)
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Friday Dec 10, 2021
Friday Dec 10, 2021
JD Malat is a contemporary gallery founded in 2017 and located in Mayfair just down the road from Claridges Hotel and alpha galleries and auction houses including Gagosian, Sadie Cole and Philips. We talk about London as an art world hub, how galleries develop their artists as well as how they have coped with the pandemic.
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‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama)
by TOT TAYLOR
is used by kind permission of the artist
©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)
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Thursday Nov 25, 2021
Thursday Nov 25, 2021
Jacqueline is an alumna of the MA in Art Business, Sotheby's Institute of Art London. Since joining Bonhams in 2017, Jacqueline has been involved in some of the company's most important sales and events, most recently the previously unseen single-owner sale ‘Kusama: The Collection of the late Dr Teruo Hirose’. As Head of Sale, she brought the first mural by Keith Haring to market, achieving a new world record for the artist; she conceived and executed 'Paper Jam' - the department's first curated selling exhibition, and devised the exhibition of the collection of visual arts patron and hip-hop icon Q-Tip from A Tribe Called Quest.
In addition to her role at Bonhams she also runs an independent auctioneering and fundraising consultancy, serving non-profit institutions and holding auctions at high profile charity galas and benefit events in the United States and Europe. Her clients include international royalty from HRH Prince Charles to Jay-Z and Beyonce, and she has shared the stage with leaders of finance, entertainment, tech and politics. Over the years she has auctioneered to thousands of bidders and raised millions for charity.
music
‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama)
by TOT TAYLOR
is used by kind permission of the artist
©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)
PRS/MCPS/PPL
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Friday Nov 12, 2021
Anna Somers-Cocks OBE is one of the best-known names in the international art world. After her early career as a curator at the V&A Anna went into art journalism and founded The Art Newspaper in 1980. She is also renowned for her work with the Venice in Peril Fund as well as the Illicit [Antiquities] Trade Advisory Panel. We talk about the power of art, walking and spirituality, the illicit trade in Italian antiquities and, of course, the prospects for Venice in the light of COP 26.
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‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama)
by TOT TAYLOR
is used by kind permission of the artist
©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)
PRS/MCPS/PPL
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Tuesday Nov 02, 2021
Ruth Millington joined Sotheby's Institute of Art London this summer as Director of Careers Services. We discuss life and art and Ruth's forthcoming art-historical book Muse (Penguin, due April 2022) which looks at the proactively creative roles of muses, both female and male, in art.
music
‘Baby, I Miss The Internet’ (Rama, Rama, Rama)
by TOT TAYLOR
is used by kind permission of the artist
©Tot Taylor/Songmatic Music (2020)
PRS/MCPS/PPL