Artelligence Podcast

The New York Mid-Season sales are upon us and the art market is eager to see what prices will be paid for a wide range of artists. There are many new names whose secondary sales are first appearing at auction. There's also a lot of Abstract Expressionist work by women and classic names in the market looking for prices and attention. George O'Dell and Sophie Coco talk about the artists on offer, which ones to watch and what might become of their markets.

Phillips Chairman, Asia, Jonathan Crockett talks about the challenges of selling art in Hong Kong over the past few years. As the auction house moves into its new headquarters at the West Kowloon Culture District, steps away from the M+ Museum, Crockett talks about growing interest in Western artists among Asian collectors and the market for emerging talents.

LiveArt's George O'Dell and Arina Novak discuss the Independent and Armory Show art fairs in New York; strong auction performances for Lynne Mapp Drexler, Ernie Barnes at Bonhams and David Hockney at Phillips; openings for Mario Ayala at Deitch and Lucy Bull at David Kordansky; plus a conversation about Brussels as a gallery destination.

After a career at Microsoft and Artsy, Devang Thakkar has combined his interest in art and the art market (he did graduate work on art pricing) with his experience in technology to launch Christie's early stage venture fund. In the podcast, Thakkar discusses the venture fund's thesis, his experience in technology and cryptography, and his views on what needs to happen next as the art world increasingly merges with technology.

LiveArt's sales team led by George O'Dell, Sophie Coco and Arina Novak discuss the week's most important events effecting the Contemporary art market. In this episode, they discuss Burning Man and Frieze Seoul; the markets for Michael Majerus, Lynne Drexler and Alice Baber; as well as the opening exhibitions for Wolfgang Tillmans at MoMA, Rick Lowe at Gagosian and Christina Quarles at Hauser + Wirth. Get the most valuable market intelligence from LiveArt.

This is LiveArt's Hot List for the second quarter of 2022. Using our comprehensive data, we looked at the sales in April, May and June in London, New York and Hong Kong. We tried to identify the artists with high hammer ratios across multiple sales. Hammer ratio is the hammer price over low estimate.

We narrowed that list to a few dozen artists, excluding, for example, the names from the Winter Hot List. Then we boiled it down further to 16 artists whose markets we think are worth paying some attention to right now.

We covered 9 artists in the first episode. In this one, George O'Dell discusses the markets for Sam Gilliam, A.R. Penck, with side tangent on Georg Baselitz and other European artists, Yuichi Hirako, Susumu Kamijo, Louis Fratino, Ross Bleckner along with some other re-discovered artists from the 1980s, Danielle Orchard and finally George’s take on the market conditions going into the Fall.a

If you want to follow along as we discuss the sales, go to analytics.liveart.io. Type the artist’s name in the nav-bar search window in the upper right hand corner. Once you’re on the artist’s page, scroll down to the search results. In the right-hand corner you can sort by date sold, newest to oldest. Or use the Auction Sales tab to select only the sales for 2022.

This is LiveArt's Hot List for the second quarter of 2022. Using our comprehensive data, we looked at the sales in April, May and June in London, New York and Hong Kong. We tried to identify the artists with high hammer ratios across multiple sales. Hammer ratio is the hammer price over low estimate.

We narrowed that list to a few dozen artists, excluding, for example, the names from the Winter Hot List. Then we boiled it down further to 16 artists whose markets we think are worth paying some attention to right now.

To give all 16 artists the time they deserve, along with some related observations from the marketplace by George O’Dell, we split the podcast into two parts. In this episode, George discusses the markets for Ernie Barnes, Anna Weyant, Robert Motherwell, Scott Kahn, Lynda Benglis, Donald Baechler, Francesco Clemente, Roby Dwi Antono, and Katherine Bernhardt.

If you want to follow along as we discuss the sales, go to analytics.liveart.io. Type the artist’s name in the nav-bar search window in the upper right hand corner. Once you’re on the artist’s page, scroll down to the search results. In the right-hand corner you can sort by date sold, newest to oldest. Or use the Auction Sales tab to select only the sales for 2022.

Erick Calderon is the founder and CEO of Artblocks, a generative art platform that produces NFTs. Generative digital art projects rely on a set of rules defining variables and parameters that control the visual characteristics of the iterative works.

As Snowfro, Calderon’s crypto-name, he is the creator of the Chromie Squiggles, a generative art project capped at 10,000 unique iterations. To date, Calderon has minted more than 9,000 of the Chromie Squiggles and retains the remainder.

An early collector of Crypto-punks, Calderon is an influential figure in the NFT community. He and Artblocks have been one of the most successful NFT platforms. In this podcast, we discuss his recent trip to Basel, Switzerland and his views on the current state of the NFT market as well as its future prospects. I hope you find it interesting.

Magnus Resch is a serial entrepreneur. He built companies in Europe before starting his first art business in Hong Kong. Then he built the Magnus app in New York to add price transparency to the art marketplace. At the same time, Magnus has written a series of books about the business of making and selling art. The first was a study of Best practices in art dealing. The second was “How to Become a Successful Artist.” It spawned an online course. Now, Magnus has written "How To Create And Sell NFTs - A Guide For All Artists.”

In this podcast, Magnus talks about his hopes for NFTs to bring price transparency, authenticity and provenance tracking to the art market. He also explains the most pressing questions artists have about success and offers some surprising insights common to both the market for traditional art and NFTs.

Frank Walter’s rarely seen work is being exhibited at David Zwirner Gallery on the Upper East Side of Manhattan until July 29th. He was an agriculture expert from the island of Antigua in the Caribbean. After a multi-year sojourn in Europe, Walter returned to Antigua where he spent the rest of his life making art. Few saw these works until the 2017 Venice Biennale. There Walter was featured at the first ever pavilion for Antigua and Barbuda.

Hilton Als is a writer for the New Yorker. He is also a frequent curator of art exhibitions. Als happened to be in Venice in 2017 and came upon Walter’s work by chance. In this podcast, we talk about Frank Walter and his art. We also discuss Hilton Als’s career as a curator. He was involved in the seminal Black Male show staged at the Whitney in 1994. Since then he has put on shows for Victoria Miro Gallery, David Zwirner and the Yale Center for British Art. Als next show is an exhibition on the life and work of Joan Didion. It will be the latest in a number of innovative shows he has created around literary figures. In these shows, he has found a new way to present ideas in gallery spaces.