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What does it take to steer wealthy collectors to success in contemporary art? How to avoid the pitfalls of a constantly expanding market, the possible conflicts of interest among parties involved? Get the skinny on the art of the private advisory service as Mark Fletcher trades tips and quips with friendly rivals Abigail Asher and Sandy Heller, a former art historian and art conservator, respectively.
To greet the newly expanded Museum of Modern Art, host Mark Fletcher asks the World Monument Fund's John Stubbs and Henry Ng relate the near- disastrous story of architect Edward Durrell Stone's Old Westbury, NY home for MoMA's first president - arguably Stone's masterpiece of domestic architecture. By the way, art lovers: this house is for sale.
Edward Durell Stone (1902 - 1975) designed the A. Conger Goodyear House in 1938. Goodyear House, at the same time he was working with Philip L. Goodwin on the original building of the Museum of Modern Art in midtown Manhattan. Built in an International Style derived from the architecture of Frank Lloyd Wright and Mies van der Rohe, this "beautiful living machine" has been restored by the World Monuments Fund to save it from a developer's wrecking ball. It is considered among the finest and most elegant Early Modernist houses in the U.S. and is currently for sale, marking the first time that the WMF, which currently has 260 projects in 86 countries, has attempted such a reclamation.
Find out how a tiny gallery can make an international impression from
Frieze Art Fair cofounder Amanda Sharp and independent gallerist Michele Maccarone, Mark Fletcher's guests on this illuminating program.
Amanda Sharp founded the British contemporary art magazine, Frieze, with Matthew Slotover in 1991, and has been its publisher ever since. Now she is a director of the amazing Frieze Art Fair, now only in its second year and already a huge success. It takes place in Regent's Park in London, from October 14 to 18.
Formerly director of the Luhring Augustine Gallery, Michele Maccarone is the proprietor of Maccarone, Inc., her dynamic gallery at 45 Canal Street in New York, just this side of Chinatown, where she represents such artists as Olav Westphalen, Christian Jankowski, Matthew Antezzo, Chivas Clem and Christoph Büchel among others.
There is something remarkable shaping up at the Lever House building on Park Avenue in midtown Manhattan.
Mark Fletcher and his guests, Aby Rosen, President of RFR Holdings, and independent curator Richard Marshall discuss the Lever House Contemporary Art Program and it's innovative exploration of the relationship of great twentieth century architecture with the art of our time.
What does it take to lay a 27,000-square foot painting on one of the world's busiest thoroughfares? Mark Fletcher wants to know! Tune in for a behind-the-scenes view of what it takes to produce a large-scale installation of public art. Guests Yvonne Force (Art Production Fund), Ann Pasternak (Creative Time) and Tom Eccles (Public Art Fund) may be the only people who would even attempt to install Rudolf Stingel's HUGE floral landscape (in the form of a wall-to-wall carpet) in Grand Central Station.
Host Mark Fletcher puts the big three's contemporary art specialists together for the first time (in public anyway)! Listen as Sotheby's Tobias Meyer, Christie's Amy Cappellazzo and Phillips de Pury's Mike McGinnis compare notes on the morality of the auction process during this historic power chat!
