Unfiltered Frieze Survival Guide, RECORDED LIVE - on Monday evening, I sat down at Ned’s Club, a private members' club in London, with the brilliant Carrie Scott, art advisor and founder of SEEN, a next-generation art consultancy, for a live episode of All About Art in front of a wonderful audience (with champagne in hand! 🥂)

With Frieze London coming up, we wanted to talk about everything you might need to know before stepping into the madness. We unpack the current state of the art market and share practical advice on building a collection with intention, and we also talk about why collecting art is more important now than ever. We touch on some highlights Carrie is looking forward to, one of them being Cecilia Vicuña’s paintings at Lehmann Maupin’s booth (you heard it here first, folks!).

The conversation was candid and full of great recommendations, one of them being the Arthur Analytics App, which is currently free and can be used to look at what galleries are bringing to the fair. This isn’t an ad, it’s just a recommended tool Carrie mentioned in our conversation. I’ve downloaded it already, and so did many of our audience members!

It was so much fun to record live, so a huge thank you to Carrie, to everyone who came along, and, of course, to the team at Ned’s Club for hosting us.

You can follow Carrie here: https://www.instagram.com/carriescottcurates/?hl=en

And check out Ned's Club here: https://www.thened.com/london/membership

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ABOUT THE HOST:

I am an Austrian-American art historian, curator, and writer. I obtained my BA in History of Art at University College London and my MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy at Goldsmiths, University of London. My specializations are in contemporary art and the contemporary art market along with accessibility, engagement, and the demystification of the professional art sector.

SOCIALS:

• Instagram⁠ @alexandrasteinacker https://www.instagram.com/alexandrasteinacker
• and LinkedIn at ⁠Alexandra Steinacker-Clark⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-steinacker/

This episode is produced at Synergy https://synergy.tech/the-clubhouse/the-podcast-studio/

COVER ART: Lisa Schrofner a.k.a Liser⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.liser-art.com/ and Luca Laurence https://www.graffitikunst.at/

A new (extra long) episode of All About Art with Director of the Middelheim Museum Sara Weyns and artist Monster Chetwynd

In this episode, you get two interviews in one. For Sara, start from the beginning, and for Monster, you can skip to 50min 49sec.

Firstly, Sara Weyns, the museum’s director and co-curator of the exhibition A Friends Making Machine featuring the works by artist Monster Chetwynd. We talk about how it all came together, what it looks like to work curatorially with a practice as live and multifaceted as Monster’s, and how Middelheim thinks about programming for an audience that ranges from contemporary art specialists to people who have wandered in to stroll through the park.

And then you will hear from Monster Chetwynd, the artist herself. Her practice pulls together interactive performance, sculpture, painting, installation, and video. Conversation and co-creation are essential to her practice, and, in line with the title of the exhibition, through artistic creation, new friendships emerge and the energy of these connections and support systems can really be felt in her work.

Thank you Monster and Sara for coming on the podcast!

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If you love what we do, support ALL ABOUT ART on PATREON! ⁠https://www.patreon.com/allaboutart⁠

Keep up to date on Instagram @allaboutartpodcast ⁠https://www.instagram.com/allaboutartpodcast/⁠

ABOUT THE HOST:

I am an Austrian-American art historian, curator, and writer. I obtained my BA in History of Art at University College London and my MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy at Goldsmiths, University of London. My specializations are in contemporary art and the contemporary art market along with accessibility, engagement, and the demystification of the professional art sector.

SOCIALS:

• Instagram⁠ @alexandrasteinacker https://www.instagram.com/alexandrasteinacker
• and LinkedIn at ⁠Alexandra Steinacker-Clark⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-steinacker/

This episode is produced at Synergy https://synergy.tech/the-clubhouse/the-podcast-studio/

COVER ART: Lisa Schrofner a.k.a Liser⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.liser-art.com/ and Luca Laurence https://www.graffitikunst.at/

Creating the Shopify of Auctions with Tom Best, Founder of The Auction Collective

In this episode, I sat down with Tom Best, founder and CEO of The Auction Collective.

Tom came up through Christie's Auction House, where he spent six years as an auctioneer and contemporary art specialist, before doing a stint in humanitarian aid and then combining those two threads into The Auction Collective.

He started his business in 2017 as a live auction event pop-up, pivoted into online auctions during the pandemic, and has since grown into what Tom describes as the Shopify of auctions — a white-label platform that lets artists, charities, and organisations run their own auctions without having to approach a big auction house.

In this episode, we talk about how all of that actually happened, including the iterations, the pivots, the decisions around hiring and building a team, and what it looks like to raise investment for a business sitting at the intersection of tech and the art market. We talk about what it means to take a concept like Shopify and apply it to the art world, and whether that model translates when you apply it to an industry that is as relationship- and trust-driven as the art market.

This was such a transparent, fun, and eye-opening episode when it comes to auctions, start ups, and the art world. Thank you Tom for coming on the podcast!

You can follow The Auction Collective on Instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/theauctioncollective

and find out more at https://www.theauctioncollective.com/

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If you love what we do, support ALL ABOUT ART on PATREON! ⁠https://www.patreon.com/allaboutart⁠

Keep up to date on Instagram @allaboutartpodcast ⁠https://www.instagram.com/allaboutartpodcast/⁠

ABOUT THE HOST:

I am an Austrian-American art historian, curator, and writer. I obtained my BA in History of Art at University College London and my MA in Arts Administration and Cultural Policy at Goldsmiths, University of London. My specializations are in contemporary art and the contemporary art market along with accessibility, engagement, and the demystification of the professional art sector.

SOCIALS:

• Instagram⁠ @alexandrasteinacker https://www.instagram.com/alexandrasteinacker
• and LinkedIn at ⁠Alexandra Steinacker-Clark⁠ https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-steinacker/

This episode is produced at Synergy https://synergy.tech/the-clubhouse/the-podcast-studio/

COVER ART: Lisa Schrofner a.k.a Liser⁠ ⁠⁠https://www.liser-art.com/ and Luca Laurence https://www.graffitikunst.at/