The Conversation Art Podcast

Epis. 370: Bullish on Miami 2024- SCOPE Art Show founder Alexis Hubshman


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Founder of the SCOPE Art Show, Alexis Hubshman talks about everything from its size (approx. 300,000 sq ft of exhibition space), to the number of galleries exhibited (95 from 27 countries) to how he makes the fair run smoothly; his support of new and emerging galleries, giving many of them rent-free booths, subsidized by their corporate sponsor partnerships; how he sees the accessibility of the art at Scope as a form of open-source experience, emphasizing being welcoming to visitors; how and why they've taken more nouveau-pop sensibilities out of the exhibition equation; he breaks down Scope's Miami week as catering to: high-end collectors and museum curators on Tues. and Wed., Thurs. into Friday are for "culture shifters," while Saturday and Sunday are a 'come one, come all' scenario; how when he got sober 15 years ago, he decided to limit Scope's enterprise to Scope Miami (no more Basel, London, Hampton, L.A.), to both focus the work and to allow for his quality of life; how he's able to attend the other fairs happening simultaneously in Miami, which he credits to his great team; the shift in the industry towards sobriety between the 90s/2000s to now, even showing more of a yoga-and-sound-bowls kind of morning these days for his team; and how bullish he feels (was feeling) going into the fairs, Scope specifically, based on the election, the location, the market generally and other intangibles.

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