Art Sense

A conversation with author Matthew Wilson about his new book “The Hidden Language of Symbols”. In the conversation, we touch on just a handful of the dozens of symbols and hidden meanings collected from the art and architecture of societies from around the world and profiled in the book.

https://www.matthewwilson.uk/work

https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Language-Symbols-Matthew-Wilson/dp/0500025290

A look back at the conversations from 2022, featuring excerpts of conversations with Jerry Saltz, Sarah Morris, Simon de Pury, Matthew Collings and Shepard Fairey.

A conversation with Daniel H. Weiss, CEO and President of The Metropolitan Museum of Art, regarding his new book “Why the Museum Matters”. In the book, Weiss describes the origins of the modern day museum, the challenges museums face and what the future holds. The conversation includes insights on some of the thorniest issues facing museums today, including diversity, restitution, and deaccessioning.

https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300259353/why-the-museum-matters/

https://www.amazon.com/Why-Museum-Matters/dp/0300259352

https://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-met/leadership

A Conversation with Lisa Darms, Executive Director of the Hauser & Wirth Institute. The institute is a non-profit, private foundation dedicated to transforming the field of artists’ archives by nurturing equity and innovation, while also increasing access to archives. HWI provides grants for progressive archival projects and education, fosters networks locally and internationally and organizes public programming that expands conversations around artistic legacies.

https://hauserwirthinstitute.org/

https://www.instagram.com/hauserwirthinstitute/

A conversation with Web3 art collector, investor and DAO co-founder Derek Edward Schloss. Derek was an early advocate for the economy that has grown around the collecting of digital art. He is the co-founder of Collab+Currency, a crypto-focused venture fund that made early investments in companies like SuperRare, Art Blocks, Async Art, Metaversal, Rarible and PROOF. He is also a founding member of the ultra-exclusive crypto-art-collecting Flamingo DAO, which boasts the world’s most valuable collection of NFTs. In the conversation, Derek discusses the assessment of value, his love of generative art and the inner workings of an art-collecting DAO.

https://www.collabcurrency.com/

https://flamingodao.xyz/

https://twitter.com/derekedws

An exploration of the life and work of the incredibly influential Spanish artist Antoni Tàpies. 2023 will mark what would have been the artist’s 100th birthday. Tàpies’ son Toni Tàpies and daughter-in-law Natasha Hébert join me to discuss the materiality, philosophy and symbolism that were hallmarks of Tàpies’ work, as well as details about the events planned to honor his centenary in the coming year.

https://www.pacegallery.com/artists/antoni-tapies/

https://www.pacegallery.com/exhibitions/antoni-tapies-transmaterial/

https://fundaciotapies.org/en/

A conversation about the intricacies of the Chinese art market with iconic Chinese gallerist Pearl Lam. Lam has been a fixture in the contemporary art scenes of Shanghai and Hong Kong during an unprecedented time of growth and evolution among Chinese artists and collectors. Her galleries represent artists from both China and abroad and The China Art Foundation (which she co-founded with scholar Gao Minglu) aims to utilize art to spark cross-cultural dialogues between the East and the West.

A discussion about the future of digital art displays with Poppy Simpson, Head of Product and Content for Netgear’s Meural product line. In the conversation, we discuss a number of issues around the use of digital art frames, including the evolving user experience, the advantages of providing a library of curated content and Netgear’s pioneering work with the SuperRare DAO to develop a licensing and royalty model for displaying NFTs on digital displays.

A discussion with artist Glenn Brown. Finding inspiration in works from art history as well as science fiction, Brown creates beautifully crafted paintings built from layers of fine brush strokes and thin glazes. The process can take years, but yields paintings that captivate the viewer with sublime colors and intertwining strokes that invite the viewer’s closer inspection. The conversation dives into Brown’s artistic mindset and methodology, as well as a discussion about his current exhibit “We’ll Keep On Dancing Till We Pay the Rent” at Gagosian’s 24th Street location in New York - his first show in the city since 2014.

https://gagosian.com/exhibitions/2022/glenn-brown-well-keep-on-dancing-till-we-pay-the-rent/

https://glenn-brown.co.uk/

A conversation with authors Kate Rothko Prizel and Christopher Rothko on the long-awaited release of their new book about their father titled simply “Mark Rothko”. The volume examines both Mark Rothko the man and Mark Rothko the artist, while providing more than 275 images of his paintings, prints, and works on paper. Our conversation reasserts Rothko as a deeply intellectual and philosophical man who aspired for his abstract work to challenge viewers at a spiritual level.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/0847872122?ref_=cm_sw_r_cp_ud_dp_S8WZG2AJ955BPREPC9HG

https://www.mfah.org/calendar/mark-rothko-book-launch/202211121430?returnUrl=%2Fcalendar%3Fdate%3D2022-11-12