The Art Market Podcast

The Art Market Podcast

The Art Market Podcast is a weekly deep dive into the global art world, hosted by Georgina Adam and Tom Forwood, that pulls back the curtain on auctions, galleries, collectors and the money behind the masterpieces. Georgina and Tom draw on their years of insider knowledge, offering a clear-eyed perspective to bring you what's really going on in one of the world's most fascinating, seductive and opaque industries.

  1. 2d ago

    26. Frieze Week Special

    This week, Georgina and Tom hit the road together, racing around London during Frieze Week to take the temperature of the city’s art fairs, from the biggest behemoths to the scrappy upstarts. They start at Minor Attractions, a young, trendy fair held in a Fitzrovia hotel, where co-founder Jacob Barnes makes the case for the hotel-fair model and building a year-round community rather than a once-a-year event. Then to Frieze London itself, where CEO Simon Fox reveals a surprising truth about where the fair’s money really comes from, and Tom and Georgina ask whether, in the Ari Emanuel era, Frieze has lost its edge. Along the way, they visit the glossy new London Invitational in a five-star Mayfair hotel (and whether anyone there knows it’s happening), the energetic Latin American newcomer Paraíso, and Fair Play, a “gallery-free” fair whose promise to help artists Tom and Georgina put firmly under the microscope. A whistle-stop tour of who art fairs are really for, and whether Frieze still deserves its crown. Enjoy! ___________________________________________________ ✉️Email questions at hello@theartmarketpodcast.com ___________________________________________________ Follow or Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.

  2. Oct 9

    25. How to Sell £200 Million of Art in a Week (with Katharine Arnold)

    For our Silver episode-iversary, Georgina and Tom sat down with Katharine Arnold, Christie's Vice Chairman of 20th/21st Century Art and Head of Post-War & Contemporary Art, Europe, to go behind the scenes ahead of Christie's major October sales during Frieze Week. Katharine takes us inside the run-up to the sale of the Peter Simon Collection, and pulls back the curtain on the machinery of a major auction, and how she has seen the art market shift over sixteen years. Next, the discussion moves to the importance of education, the rise of millennial and women collectors, prints as the gateway to collecting, why you should buy with your eyes, not your ears, and how speculating on art is a one-way path to losing money. Enjoy! _______________________________________________________ ✉️Email questions at hello@theartmarketpodcast.com _______________________________________________________ Follow or Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics. _______________________________________________________About Katharine Arnold: Katharine is Vice-Chairman of 20th and 21st Century Art at Christie’s in Europe. Her areas of special interest include artists: Gerhard Richter, David Hockney, Henry Moore, Jenny Saville, Peter Doig, Barbara Hepworth, Bridget Riley, Francis Bacon, Paula Rego, Tracey Emin, Lucian Freud, Cecily Brown and Michael Andrews. Katharine works with artists, collectors and institutions advising on sales and acquisitions both privately and at auction. She is also actively involved in Christie’s Art Finance. Katharine is closely connected to philanthropic endeavours including fundraising for Great Ormond Street Hospital, Recovery: Pinchuk Rehabilitation Centres, Ukraine, Maggie’s Cancer Centres, Camden Arts Centre, Association of Women in the Arts, TKE Studios, National Portrait Gallery, Mimosa House, South London Gallery, Gallery Climate Coalition, Blue Marine Foundation, and the Royal Drawing Schools. Katharine began her professional career on the equities’ trading floor at Merrill Lynch in 2007. She holds a first-class bachelor’s degree from the University of Oxford (2003-2006), MSc from the London School of Economics (2006-2007) and MA from the Courtauld Institute of Art (2009-2010). She joined Christie’s in 2010.

  3. Oct 2

    24. ARTBO and the many Art Markets of Latin America (with Maria Sancho-Arroyo)

    This week, Georgina and Tom dip their feet into the massive topic of the art market in Latin America. They are joined by Maria Sancho-Arroyo, art market specialist, lecturer, and author of ¿Inversión o pasión?: Una guía para navegar por el mercado del arte, a guide to navigating the art market. Freshly back from ARTBO in Bogotá, Maria reports on Colombia's homegrown collectors and artists, and why so much Latin American collecting happens not at home but in Miami, New York, London, or Madrid. They explore the punishing import taxes that keep markets like Brazil largely domestic, and the national-treasure laws that stop works ever leaving Mexico. Plus, the role of Tate and MoMA's acquisition committees in building visibility. Enjoy! _____________________________________________________ ✉️Email questions at hello@theartmarketpodcast.com _____________________________________________________ Follow or Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.

  4. Sep 25

    23. Has Korea Survived the Hype? Frieze Seoul, Gwangju Biennale (with Vivienne Chow)

    This week, Georgina and Tom are joined by journalist Vivienne Chow, for a look at the Korean and wider Asian art markets. They discuss Frieze Seoul after 5 editions, and how perhaps now after the boom in 2022, galleries are increasingly playing the long game, opening spaces, hiring local teams and staging pop-ups rather than parachuting in to sell. Vivienne also reports from the Gwangju Biennale, and the row over the naming of Taiwan's pavilion that led China to withdraw. And finally, quiet spread of Russian galleries into Korean fairs... Enjoy! Check out Vivienne's new Substack, Cultural Fulcrum, where she is making sense of the forces shaping art, culture and power, with Asia at the centre of the global conversation. _______________________________________________________ ✉️Email questions at hello@theartmarketpodcast.com _______________________________________________________ Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.

  5. Sep 18

    22. Does Belgium have the best art market in the world?

    Episode 22 is the the show's first city deep-dive, and Tom and Georgina chose Belgium, to answer question: is Belgium really home to more art collectors per capita than anywhere on earth? Tom went to Brussels for Brussels Art Week to understand why through conversations with the Belgian heads of Christie's and Sotheby's, gallerists, collectors and fair organisers, he unpicks what makes Belgian collecting distinctive and the harder truths - the "lasagna" of overlapping language-based bureaucracy, a nightmare in public cultural funding. Our conclusion. Brussels is perhaps one of the most undervalued art city in the world. Enjoy! Link to 'Brussels City Guide for Art Lovers' ______________________________________________________ ✉️Email questions at hello@theartmarketpodcast.com _______________________________________________________ Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.

  6. Sep 11

    21. Building an Art World from scratch in Uzbekistan + the Art Business Conference

    Episode 21 sees Georgina back from Uzbekistan, where a state-driven push is trying to conjure a cultural destination, and maybe even an art market, almost from nothing. She reports on the new Centre for Contemporary Arts in Tashkent and unpacks their ambitious plans: four new museums, a five-year partnership with Qatar, and talk of an art fair in a country with almost no galleries. In the second half, fresh from chairing the Art Business Conference in London, Georgina reports back on the most interesting elements of the conference. From hedge-fund quant Igor Tulchinsky rumoured multi-million pound sponsorship of the British Museum's Bayeux Tapestry show, and other findings the Art Business is talking about today. Enjoy! ___________________________________________________ ✉️Email questions at hello@theartmarketpodcast.com ___________________________________________________ Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.

  7. Sep 4

    20. Is There Such a Thing as a "Bad" Gallery? Plus, Exodus at Phillips

    It's our 20th episode-versary! This week, Georgina and Tom tackle the contentious question of how do you tell a good gallery from a bad one? They set out what a primary market gallery is really selling collectors, and then get into the murkier territory of galleries making investment claims, the sleight of hand some galleries use to make artists seem more impressive than they are, and the sale of posthumous prints worth a fraction of their true price, and why looking at an artist's CV is perhaps the single most useful thing to check on any gallery's website. In the second half, with Bonhams pushing its buyer's premium to 30%, they turn to the news of a senior-leadership exodus at Phillips, and tell the history of the perennial third auction house, from Bernard Arnault's costly guarantees to its dominance in watches and young contemporary markets. Enjoy! _________________________________________________________ ✉️Email questions at hello@theartmarketpodcast.com _________________________________________________________ Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.

  8. Aug 28

    19. How to Fail at Disrupting the Art Market (with Tim Schneider)

    In Episode 19 of the Art Market Podcast, Georgina and Tom are joined by one of the great thinkers in the art market, Tim Schneider, the journalist and author of The Great Reframing⁠, and writer of the long-running ⁠The Gray Market⁠. Tim joins Georgina and Tom to dissect some of the dynamics of the art market today, including: Why the gallery world is a 'matching market', like Hollywood, Birkins, and Ferraris - not a retail market.Why outsiders from tech and finance keep trying, and failing, to "disrupt" the art market.Why the hoped-for $93 trillion Great Wealth Transfer might have been oversold.Whether AI is pushing young buyers towards Modern Art and Old Masters.And finally, the death of journalism and where good art-market information actually lives now. Enjoy! _______________________________________________________ ✉️Email questions at hello@theartmarketpodcast.com⁠ _______________________________________________________ Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.

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The Art Market Podcast is a weekly deep dive into the global art world, hosted by Georgina Adam and Tom Forwood, that pulls back the curtain on auctions, galleries, collectors and the money behind the masterpieces. Georgina and Tom draw on their years of insider knowledge, offering a clear-eyed perspective to bring you what's really going on in one of the world's most fascinating, seductive and opaque industries.

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