In this episode, we are speaking with Jon Gray, one of the cofounders of the Bronx based collective Ghetto Gastro. Founded in 2012, Ghetto Gastro is a cooking advocacy collective that ignites conversations about race, class, and inclusion via the medium of food. The collective is committed to feeding, inspiring, and growing young entrepreneurs in...
In this episode, we are speaking with Erling Kagge. Based in Oslo, Norway, Erling is a lawyer, publisher, writer, and explorer and has been an art collector for over 30 years. He is the first person to ever surmount the Three Poles; the North Pole, the South Pole, and the Summit of Mount Everest. His collection champions young emerging artists...
In this episode, we were in Taipei to speak with Leo Shih. Leo's collection originates in the 1990s and ranges from first-generation Chinese oil painters to contemporary work, with a focus on Chinese and Taiwanese artists.
In the eighteenth episode of Collect Wisely, we are speaking with Alain Servais. Based in Belgium The Servais Family Collection features several hundred works from international artists working in a variety of mediums with one notable distinction, there are no paintings. The collection is housed in a converted factory in Belgium, called the Loft....
In the seventeenth episode of Collect Wisely, we are speaking with Tiqui Atencio. Based in London, New York, and Monaco, Tiqui is a passionate collector in pre-Columbian, Latin American and Contemporary Art. She founded and chairs the Tate’s Latin American Acquisitions Committee and is chairwoman of the Guggenheim Museum’s International Director’s...
In the sixteenth episode, we are speaking with Robert Tsao. Bob is one of the world’s leading collectors of Chinese art and antiquities, his collection ranges from Neolithic jades and porcelain to contemporary art. Tsao sits on the board of trustees of San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum Foundation and has an extraordinary collection in the heart of...
For the one year anniversary of Collect Wisely and our fifteenth episode we are speaking with Gary Yeh. Gary discovered his passion for art in high school and pursued it throughout college. While studying at Duke University, he served as a co-chair of the student advisory board at the Nasher Museum of Art and launched a virtual art gallery. Gary...
In this episode we are in Taipei speaking with renowned collector and philanthropist Budi Tek, who has dedicated his collection of contemporary art to the rest of the world. Budi began collecting in 2004 and went on to build the Yuz Collection, which consists of contemporary art from the East and West, with a significant focus on Chinese...
In the 13 th episode of Collect Wisely we are speaking with Pamela Joyner. Based in San Francisco, Pamela and her husband Fred Giuffrida’s collection consists of over 400 works, with a primary focus on abstract works by artists of the African diaspora from the 1940’s onward. The collection is widely recognised as one of the most significant...
London-born artist Antony Gormley seems to feel at home among Renaissance masters, whose works often tackle the same topics that he finds himself embracing some 500 years later. Varying the aesthetic and metaphysical results of the humanist subject matter that Gormley tackles could be seen as difficult, but over the course of ten years and three...
We talk to the British artist as he shows his sculptures with ancient works in the Florentine museum, and we zoom in on the tiny art works made in Elizabethan and Jacobean times that are the subject of a major show at the National Portrait Gallery in London.
In the twelfth episode of Collect Wisely we are speaking with Howard Rachofsky from Dallas. A life-long Texan, Howard along with his wife Cindy, has played a profound role in catapulting Dallas into a leading centre for the collection and presentation of international contemporary art. The Rachofsky Collection has great depth in Post-War art...
Coinciding with our participation in Zona Maco, this episode of Collect Wisely is a conversation with Pablo Sepúlveda, who is based in Mexico City. Pablo is a founding partner of the architecture firm Legorreta Sepúlveda Arquitectos. His collection includes works on paper, photography and sculpture.
In this episode of the Collect Wisely podcast, we spoke with Boston based collector, Manuel de Santaren. With a particular focus on emerging artists, Manuel’s collection focuses on time-based works including video and performance, as well as photography. Manuel has been President of the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation in Miami since 2017. He...
In the tenth episode of Collect Wisely we are speaking with Tiffany Zabludowicz. Born in London and now based in New York City, Tiffany was introduced to art at a young age, two years after she was born her parents founded the Zabludowiz Collection. Tiffany runs and curates the Times Square Space, which hosts exhibitions within the rotating...
Creating a series of major new paintings, Tschäpe's inaugural at Sean Kelly features canvases with increased scale and intensity. Expansive fields of color capture and reflect the alternately bold and delicate gestures the artist employs in their making. These suggestive, dreamlike landscapes are defined by a dynamic tension between the loose...
Jill and Peter are active participants on the boards at a number of institutions; Jill is Chairman of the Board at the Public Art Fund, and a board member at the New Museum and the Museum of Modern Art. Peter chairs the Board of Overseers at CalArts and is an emeritus Trustee at Lincoln Center, where he chaired the public art program. The couple...
In June we spoke with sisters Monique and Myriam Vanneschi while in Basel for the 49 th edition of Art Basel. The sisters, who are based in The Netherlands, discussed their varied interests and the dynamics of collecting individually and together for their family collection.
In this episode we have with us, Rodney Miller. Based in New York City, Rodney’s collection of contemporary art reflects his interest modern and contemporary African American and African art of the diaspora. Rodney serves on the board of trustees at The Studio Museum Harlem and is on the board of the University of Indiana’s business school. His...
Today we are speaking with Ron Pizzuti who is based in Columbus, Ohio. He and his wife Ann’s collection reflects their passion for contemporary art and has been amassed over the past 40 years. Ron serves on the board of trustees for the Wexner Center Foundation and is an honourary trustee of the Columbus Museum of Art. In addition, their...
The third episode of Collect Wisely was recorded live at Frieze New York, May 2, 2018 with Marieluise Hessel Artzt.
In this episode of Collect Wisely, we spoke with Paul Marks live from Frieze New York. Paul has served on the Contemporary Curatorial Committee and acquisitions at the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Board of Directors for the Art Gallery of York University, the Power Plant, and the MOCCA Collections Committee.
In the inaugural episode of the Collect Wisely podcast, Sean Kelly spoke with collector J. Tomilson Hill who serves on the boards of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Friends of the High Line amongst others. Mr. Hill discusses what connoisseurship means to him, the role of the collector, his personal approach, and advice to those starting to...
The second episode of Collect Wisely was recorded live at Frieze New York, on May 2, 2018. Greg Miller is the President of the Board of Directors at White Columns, an art book publisher and a prolific art collector.
