The Conversation Art Podcast

Episode 306: Collector disconnect, enjoying without owning, and


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In the final episode with Hannah Wohl (Bound by Creativity), we talk about: her experiences with mega-collector couple Sherry and Joel Mallin, who have an impressive collection and are known as being philanthropic in their approach to helping artists, including having some of them live in their homes; a purchase the Mallins made that entailed their flying from New York to London just so they could see the (six-figure) work they were considering in person before committing fully to the purchase, and how people's reactions to this anecdote are something of a Rorschach test for where they're coming from; the issues of inequality that being around collectors inevitably brings up; her brief history of being a (modest) art collector herself; and finally, in comparing contemporary art with the arts at large (the culinary arts, musicians, actors, etc.), she describes the 'radical uncertainty' that goes along with it, how the artists and the art world make decisions within this uncertainty, and the narratives that artists bound themselves within.

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