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The Collectors Forum is a passionate forum for collectors, curators, artists, and dealers. It is dedicated to discovering and supporting the ideas and opinions around how to establish, maintain and make a collection accessible to the public. Host, Althea Viafora-Kress is a private art dealer, curator and commentator. She began her career as a gallery owner, making her reputation by exhibiting emerging artists now shown in important galleries and collections. Ms Viafora-Kress holds a BA in Art History from Columbia University.
Althea Viafora-Kress and David Graeber anthropologist, activists and Goldsmiths lecturer discuss the psychology of the object. Graeber distinguishes Marx's fetishes, Mauss' gift theory and his ideas on possibilities. He explains how Duchamp fits in, where creative actions are held, and what "inmaterial labor" is. He also discusses his book Possibilities: Essays on Hierarchy, Rebellion, and Desire. Hear how these are connected to capital and where the artist fits in.
Althea Viafora-Kress in conversation with the collections curator of rare books, David Brafman, for the Getty Research Institute, who visited recently during the Grolier Club exhibition of Past Presence, Objects of Study at The Getty Research Institute. The wide-ranging display looks at how artists, writers, and architects responded to the ephemeral quality of time and the urge to capture a moment, recreate the past, record the present, or imagine the future. Among many fine objects on display, an 18th-century etching by Francesco Piranesi recreates a long-destroyed monument from the 1st century B.C. The exhibition also features the earliest known copperplate engraving of a curiosity cabinet from 1622 alongside Marcel Duchamp's Box, produced three centuries later in 1958, inviting comparison.
Collector, curator and educator, Werner (Wynn) Kramarsky is chairman of the board of the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA, and also serves on the boards of the Museum of Modern Art In New York and the Hammer Museum at UCLA. In this conversation with Althea Viafora-Kress, he speaks of the formation of his sensibility and his concentration on postwar drawings of the reductive, abstract variety. Kramarsky says he dislikes the word patronage but he is certainly one of the world's most enthusiastic and generous collectors of drawings by contemporary artists. In the last six years, he has given the Museum of Modern Art nearly 200 separate pieces, 81 in the last year alone. "You have a responsibility to challenge, to move the world along, to add insight to what beauty can be," he says.
Althea Viafora-Kress persuades architects Richard Gluckman, Mark Dubois and Steven Learner to reveal their relationships with clients private and public while discussing a range of bracing issues associated with such challenges as building a museum on the 52nd floor of a skyscraper, adapting a design to a client's aesthetic, and making a space for viewing art where people are going to live or work.
Architect Richard Gluckman has made a specialty of working with artists, galleries and museums. He has been the principal architect at Gluckman Mayner in New York since 1977, designing commercial, residential and institutional projects around the world. These include, among many others, the Larry Gagosian, Paula Cooper and Mary Boone galleries and the Dia Center for the Arts, all in Chelsea; the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh, PA; and most recently, the Mori Art Center in Tokyo and the Museo Picasso in Malaga, Spain. He has also completed homes and studios for artists Ellsworth Kelly, Richard Serra and Chuck Close. The Steven Learner Studio recently completed an apartment in the Richard Meier-designed residential towers on the Hudson River in New York, the VBH jewelry store in New York, the Sean Kelly Gallery and several private residences in Del Mar, California; Greenwich, CT; Sag Harbor, NY and elsewhere. Mark Dubois is a partner in Ohlhausen Dubois Architects. Recent art-related design projects include the spectacular Klein residence and the Sherrie Levine studio, both in Santa Fe, NM; the Danese Gallery in New York; the Orozco Room at the New School University, and work with the Metropolitan Transit Authority on the Elizabeth Murray mosaic in the Lexington Avenue/59th Street subway station, also in New York. Dubois has also done exhibition design for the Arthur M. Sackler Museum of Art and Archeology in Beijing, China.
If proof were needed for Cynthia Hazen Polsky's taste and erudition in the visual and decorative arts of India, it is currently available in the exhibition, "In the Realm of Gods and Kings: Selections from the Polsky Collections and The Metropolitan Museum of Art", more than 200 works on view at the Asia Society through January 6, 2005. Here she speaks to Althea Viafora-Kress about her education in Indian art and aesthetics, the disparate export laws in Europe and Asia, and her seat on the acquisitions board for photography at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, where she is a trustee. She is also a trustee of the Morgan Library, Trustee Emerita of the American Academy in Rome, Honorary Life Trustee of the Asia Society, and a member of Collectors Committee National Gallery of Art, in Washington.
What's it like to live with a Pollock and a Rothko or two? Host
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invites Ben Heller, one of abstract expressionism's greatest appreciators, to tell all.
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presents a rare interview with art collector and President Emerita of the Museum of Modern Art, Agnes Gund.
Guests today are the prominent collectors Arthur and Carol Goldberg and, representing a new generation of art patrons, MoMA Junior Associate Lisa Mamounas. Host Althea Viafora-Kress is an art advisor and private dealer who has specialized in both emerging artists and advising young collectors.
