Tag: Gallery
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25. Galleries pricing art by the keystone rule and other fun ways to lose a business.
YES, we’ve returned to our corner booth at the ol’ art dealer bar and we have a new episode of the Art Dealer Show show for you. Even though the break went much longer than I expected, it did not go to waste — during that time I gave the show many new tweaks. All…
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20 Selling Art Off of a Gym’s Wall? – Guest Alexander Salazar
Years ago I called Alex Salazar (this episode’s guest) to go over some increasingly complicated and continuously changing details pertaining to a show that we were working on together. One of Alex’s galleries was going to host one of our celebrity artists. And as is often the nature of working with celebs in the art…
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17 Gallery Staffing: The Achilles Heel to the Art Biz. – Guest Heidi Leigh, Pt. 2
As promised, we’ve returned with part two of our conversation with Heidi Leigh, owner of AFA Gallery in SOHO New York and Belcastel France. And if you liked part one, I can promise that you’ll love part two. When I asked Heidi “what is the toughest thing about running a gallery today?”, she replied “same…
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16 Who killed the “cool” in the art business? – Guest Richard Perry, owner of Centaur Gallery in Las Vegas
How about this for an interview starter? When this episode’s guest Richard Perry, the owner of Centaur Gallery in Las Vegas, first entered into the art business the company he built his career at had just been shut down by the IRS, the president had fled to Mexico with the accountant, and the Fed seized…
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15 The Rolling Stones Art Dealing Lesson & Guest Heidi Leigh Of AFA Gallery
As you know by Now, I love a good art dealer story. And our guest Heidi Leigh, the owner of AFA Gallery (Soho New York / Paris) has brought us some great ones. We are going follow the unlikely journey that a professional dancer in San Francisco took to become a SOHO gallerist. We’ll hear…
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13 Nim Vaswani – An Art Dealer By Any Other Name
Nim Vaswani An Art Dealer By Any Other Name If the art world has its equivalent to an old-time tent revival it would the “Road Show Company.” Since 1997, Nim Vaswani and his devoted crew of art dealers have criss-crossed the United States and beyond, putting on art shows with A-list artists inside galleries in B–level markets. Dali to…
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12 Art gallery owner Thad Markham Pt II: Why killing to join a gang is like selling art?
Are you ready for the first Art Dealer Show of the New Year? We are back with part II of my conversation with Thad Markham, the owner of Artifacts Gallery in Cambria, California and the designer/publisher of Out Of The Bowl. Last time Thad and I talked a lot about the path he took to…
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10 Tony Pernicone – An Odyssey in the Art Business.
I’ve alway been fond of the cautionary words from an unknown sage – “choose your profession before it chooses you.” These sobering words used to guid me as much as keep me up all night staring at the ceiling. This week those words of wisdom have once again found their way back in to my…
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8 – “Buying a painting is like acquiring a relationship” – Guest Theron Kabrich
It’s our first October episode of the Art Dealer Show. Which means in keeping of my 1970’s understanding of programing, we have the obligatory scary story. At least one that will send a shiver down the spines of gallery folk. In this week’s episode, we continue with part two of our conversation with Theron Kabrich,…
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4 – Theron Kabrich – Getting it right at least 51% of the time
I’ve got a great episode of the Art Dealer Show podcast this time—so good we had to break it into two parts. My guest is Theron Kabrich, co-owner of one of the art world’s more unique galleries—the San Francisco Art Exchange. Theron is personally much more than just a unique art dealer who has squeezed…