Art Sense

A conversation with Tina Kukielski, the Susan Sollins Executive Director and Chief Curator for Art21. Art21 is a leader in art-focused content that includes television series, films, publications, digital programs and a wide variety of educational resources. Most famously, Art21 is responsible for the production of the Peabody Award-winning PBS-broadcast television series “Art in the Twenty-First Century”. The conversation includes the history of the organization, the goals of their programming, the challenges they face and the upcoming 11th season of “Art in the Twenty-First Century” which debuts April 7 at 10pm ET on all PBS outlets.

https://art21.org/

https://www.instagram.com/art21/

A conversation with Helen Frankenthaler Foundation Executive Director Elizabeth Smith about a new exhibit of Frankethaler’s work currently on display at Gagosian’s 24th Street gallery in New York. “Drawing within Nature: Paintings from the 1990s” features more than a dozen works by Frankenthaler made during a period when she took inspiration from the environment near her Connecticut studio on Long Island Sound. The conversation touches on Frankenthaler's life, career and this latest exhibit.

https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2023/helen-frankenthaler-drawing-within-nature-paintings-from-the-1990s/

https://www.frankenthalerfoundation.org/

A conversation with artist Julian Opie. Opie is an artist known for distilling the world around us into its simplest forms, reducing people, animals and architecture into shapes and lines that capture their essence instead of their details. In the conversation, we discuss his inspirations, his process and his new show at Lisson Gallery in London that includes his continued experimentation with virtual reality.

https://www.lissongallery.com/exhibitions/julian-opie-op-vr-hem-london

https://www.julianopie.com/

A conversation with Masterworks Founder and CEO Scott Lynn. In 2017, Lynn founded Masterworks after seeing an opportunity to securitize fine art as an asset class and thus providing the common Wall Street investor access to blue chip art. Today, Masterworks is the world’s largest buyer of art acquiring seven-to-eight-figure paintings from the likes of Joan Mitchell, Picasso and Basquiat almost daily to meet the demand of its nearly one million users.

https://www.masterworks.com

https://www.instagram.com/masterworks.io/

A conversation with artist Mat Collishaw. Collishaw is an artist who creates installations that leverage the ephemeral nature of illusions to explore issues related to perception, moral ambiguity and the brevity of life. Among his latest work is a collaboration with NFT veterans Danil Krivoruchko and the team at OG.Art. The project extends a floral theme Collishaw has explored for years by allowing collectors to breed and hybridize new variations based on community interactions and assets in the collectors’ wallets.

https://matcollishaw.com/

https://og.art/

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.io/

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 museum patrons.

https://www.iconicmoments.co/

https://twitter.com/Iconic_NFT?s=20&t=QNLhjtN8dgfFDVoGqe4yyQ

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 body of work and what can be seen at his latest exhibition in New York.