April 18th, 2020

We’re deep into the quarantine and I’m going to be honest with you guys; I have NOT felt like doing the podcast, like at all. It was super fun and was  in the beginning but like many of you, this isolation is making me depressed, anxious, and lonely. So I was grateful when Sarah Hoover took the time to speak to me this week and pushed me out of my weird isolated mind to discuss our beginnings in art, how we came to love art, our relationship to New York, female AND male feminists, and how we the art world can improve itself.

This episode gets real for me as our conversation pushed me to confront some of the unhealthy ideas surrounding art and capitalism which I’ve developed working in the art world. By the end of the conversation, Sarah had me reconsidering why I do this, how important art is, and how we can readjust our ideas as we rebuild post-pandemic. I guess this is the silver lining of all this: SELF REFLECTION and RECONSIDERING WHY WE DO ANYTHING OF THIS. I hope you enjoy the conversation. This one is an hour and half. Settle in and enjoy.

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Sarah Hoover is a director at Gagosian, where she has worked since 2007. As an artist liaison and salesperson, she is involved with exhibitions both at the gallery and art museums around the world. She is a founding member of the Accelerator board of American Ballet Theatre and has sat on the development committee at Recess Arts since 2019.

She has a perfect two and a half-year-old son named Guy Louis Armstrong Sachs and a french bulldog named Napoleon.