The Art Market Podcast

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  21. Building an Art World from scratch in Uzbekistan + the Art Business Conference 11.09.2026 43мин

  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 [email protected]___________________________________________________Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.
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  20. Is There Such a Thing as a "Bad" Gallery? Plus, Exodus at Phillips 04.09.2026 50мин

  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 [email protected] _________________________________________________________Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.
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  19. Tim Schneider - How to Fail at Disrupting the Art Market 28.08.2026 53мин

  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 [email protected]⁠_______________________________________________________Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.
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  18. What makes Private Museums bad? + Are Galleries really 'not OK'? 21.08.2026 52мин

  Georgina and Tom are back from their summer break with two stories that have been bubbling away in the background all summer. First, private museums: with roughly 450 to 500 now in existence, almost all built this century, and prompted by the billion-dollar Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles deciding to charge $25 entry and solicit public donations, they ask when these institutions serve the public good and when they're simply vanity projects.In the second half, they turn to Marc Spiegler's much-discussed New York Times piece, "Art Galleries Are Not Okay", and whether the former Art Basel chief is the right person to diagnose the problem, why art is not a luxury good, what is the right amount of price transparency, and why prints and editions may be the real future of collecting.Enjoy! ________________________________________________________✉️Email questions at [email protected] ________________________________________________________Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.
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  17. Compilation - Art Basel Qatar, Buyer's Premiums, Modigliani Cat Res, and Politics in Venice 14.08.2026 53мин

  The Art Market Podcast team are on summer holidays, so we have put together a special compilation of clips - four of the most popular and still relevant conversations from earlier in the year, for the new listeners who've joined along the way.Our first ever topic, Art Basel Qatar and the perennial question of whether the Gulf becomes the next great art hub. Then, why auction buyer's premiums keep climbing towards thirty percent, and the auction revenue trap that that keeps forcing them up.Next, the new Modigliani catalogue raisonné, the hundred newly accepted works, the thirteen demotions, and the lawsuits and chilled authentication that surround it.And finally, an edited highlight from the Venice Biennale special, focusing on the politics, and the Russia row that has just cost the Biennale a two-million-euro EU grant.Enjoy! ________________________________________________________✉️Email questions at [email protected] ________________________________________________________Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.
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  16. Julie Brener Davich - Aspen ArtWeek/ArtCrush/Art Fair, the Power of US Collectors, and is Pace a Precedent? 07.08.2026 38мин

  In Episode 16 of the Art Market Podcast, Tom and Georgina are joined by Julie Brener Davich, art journalist, veteran of both Christie's and Sotheby's, and author of the Substack The Appraisal, for a deep dive into the American art market beyond the coasts. Julie reports back from Aspen, where the Aspen Art Museum's new AIR festival, the Artcrush gala and a fast-growing art fair reveal a summer scene of mountaintop performances, luxury sponsors and a changing of the collector guard.Next, Julie turn to the enormous, under-reported wealth outside New York and LA – Dallas, Des Moines, New Orleans, Palo Alto.Finally, we revisit the Pace story, and Julie gives her verdict on whether the mega-gallery model is really broken, or whether one gallery (or its CEO) simply made some bad decisions and a very good soundbite.Enjoy! _________________________________________________________✉️Email questions at [email protected] _________________________________________________________Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.
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  15. Melanie Gerlis - Art as a Bad Investment, Why the Art Market has Stopped Growing, and more 31.07.2026 47мин

  In Episode 15 of the Art Market Podcast, Georgina and Tom are joined by Melanie Gerlis, art market correspondent for the Financial Times and author of such tomes as Art as an Investment? and The Art Fair Story.Melanie makes the case that art is not a good investment, and they trace the whole "art as an asset class" idea back to Peter Wilson's Times Sotheby's index and its deliberate courting of Wall Street money.They dig into the galleries that sell overvalued work to first-time buyers and what actually turns a rich person into a collector.Next, they explore the strange new economics of art fairs, where the crowds increasingly come for the selfie rather than the sale.Finally, Mel answers the big question: if the number of billionaires has tripled, why has the art market sat flat at around sixty billion for twenty years?Enjoy! __________________________________________________________✉️Email questions at [email protected] __________________________________________________________Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.
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  14. Jon Sharples - Manipulating Auctions, Gallery Collapses, Dodgy Dating, and the Artist Pension Trust 24.07.2026 45мин

  In Episode 14 of the Art Market Podcast, Georgina and Tom welcome their first ever guest: Jon Sharples, the London-based art lawyer who spends his working life at the legal coalface of the art market. They dive what auction manipulation, and the business model in which investors buy dozens of works by an unknown artist and manufacture a secondary market from nothing.Next, they turn to the wave of London gallery insolvencies, from Blain Southern to Stephen Friedman, and why artists in the UK are so badly protected when their gallery goes under: no obligation to segregate artists' funds, contracts that evaporate on insolvency, and warehouse liens artists never knew they had agreed to.Plus: the misunderstood role of Agency Law, Artist's Agent, Damien Hirst and the dodgy dated works, the collapse of the Artists Pension Trust.Enjoy! ____________________________________________________________✉️Email questions at [email protected] ____________________________________________________________Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.
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  13. Q&A Session - $50m Dinosaurs, Fraudsters, Chinese Contemporary Art, and more 17.07.2026 44мин

  In the first Question and Answers episode, Georgina and Tom open the mailbag for the first ever listener questions episode. They answer questions about Gus, the T. rex that made $50 million at auction, why is the art market so vulnerable to fraudsters? What really killed the Chinese contemporary art market? And finally, are buyer's premiums at auction houses getting out of control at nearly 30%?Enjoy! _________________________________________________________Instagram: @theartmarketpodcastEmail: [email protected] _________________________________________________________Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.
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  12. Riga Contemporary, Young Buyers and Classic Art, and Women in the Art Market 10.07.2026 41мин

  This week, Georgina reports back from Riga Contemporary in Latvia, where the stands cost only €500 (!), and asks what it takes to build an art market in a small country from nothing. She then turns to Classic Week in London, where a nineteenth-century Laocoön made £13.6 million against a £2 million estimate, and questions whether young collectors really are flooding into the Old Master market.In the second half, Tom works through a stack of recent reports on women in the art world, looking at the various headwinds and tailwinds women artist and professionals face, particularly in middle age, where half of women aged 35 to 44 are considering leaving the industry, and what the "glass escalator" has to do with any of it.Enjoy! Reports mentioned in the Episode:Women Artists Report - June 2026AWITA X artnet SurveySML Art Market Salary Report 2025The Art Basel & UBS Survey of Global Collecting 2025_________________________________________________________✉️Email questions at [email protected] _________________________________________________________Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.
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  11. London's June Art Season: Not as Hot as the Weather 03.07.2026 42мин

  In this episode, Tom and Georgina dig beneath the headlines from the June London auctions, where a £458 million total looked like a triumph, until you notice that 65% of it came from a single sale. Tom asks whether London is really back, or still stuck in a post-Brexit slump, and tells the extraordinary story of Lewis himself.Georgina reports from the more traditional end of the market, visiting the Treasure House Fair and the invitation-only Studiolo, held this year in the cloisters of Westminster Abbey.Enjoy! _____________________________________________________________ ✉️Email questions at [email protected] _____________________________________________________________Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.
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  10. Art Basel and “Basel Exclusive,” Plus Pace’s Downsizing and the Broken Gallery Model 25.06.2026 43мин

  In the 10th episode (!!) of the Art Market Podcast, Tom reports from Art Basel in Basel, quality on the floor, the new “Basel Exclusive” initiative, the spectacular Basel Social Club, and whether the original fair can hold its crown as Art Basel Paris closes in and the market deglobalises.Georgina then turns to Pace’s dramatic downsizing - fifty artists dropped and a twenty percent headcount cut – as a way into the bigger question: is the mega-gallery model fundamentally broken? Together they trace the shift from the Castelli artist-nurturer to the Gagosian business model, and why so many galleries can no longer compete. Enjoy!__________________________________________________________________✉️ Email questions at [email protected]__________________________________________________________________Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and itshidden dynamics.
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  9. Poland’s Emerging Art Market, and the Rise of the Artist’s Agent 05.06.2026 37мин

  In Episode 9 of the Art Market Podcast, Georgina reports from Art Warsaw on Poland’s remarkable transformation, a flourishing post-EU economy, serious new collectors and institutions, and world-class artists, but are some things still holding the market back?Tom then examines the growing world of the artist’s agent, from Joe Hage’s all-encompassing HENI model with Damien Hirst, Gerhard Richter, and Peter Doig, to the wave of dealers leaving mega-galleries to represent top artists directly, and what it signals about artists outgrowing the gallery system. Enjoy!__________________________________________________________________✉️ Email questions at [email protected]__________________________________________________________________Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.
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  8. The New York Mega-Auctions, and the Rise and Rise of Guarantees 22.05.2026 42мин

  In Episode 8 of the Art Market Podcast, Georgina and Tom dissect a monumental week of New York auctions – the billion-dollar SI Newhouse sale at Christie’s, the Mnuchin estate at Sotheby’s, record Rothkos, a Pollock that broke records, but also the works that quietly lost money, revealing a discriminating flight-to-safety market.In the second half, Tom takes a deep dive into third-party guarantees: where they came from, why they now cover the vast majority of evening sales, how they turn auctions into pre-sold theatre, and what might happen if a major museum one day publicly guaranteed a work. Enjoy!__________________________________________________________________✉️ Email questions at [email protected]__________________________________________________________________Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.
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  7. The Venice Biennale SPECIAL 15.05.2026 36мин

  In Episode 7 of the Art Market Podcast, Georgina and Tom dedicate the whole episode to the Venice Biennale, fresh from the opening week. They explain what a biennale actually is, how its supposedly non-commercial pavilions and museum shows have become prime selling territory, and how dealers leverage Venice’s aura of prestige, from Christie’s “Ghost Pavilion” to gallery-funded museum exhibitions repositioning market-driven artists.They also confront the politics that overshadowed this edition: the Russian and Israeli pavilion controversies, the jury resignations, the strike, and the quieter ways conflict is reshaping who collectors will buy from and who artists sell to. Enjoy!__________________________________________________________________✉️ Email questions at [email protected]__________________________________________________________________Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.
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  6. The Modigliani Catalogue Raisonné, the Artnet/Artsy Merger, and Art Monte Carlo 08.05.2026 37мин

  In Episode 6 of the Art Market Podcast, Georgina unpacks the explosive new Modigliani catalogue raisonné from Marc Restellini with its 100 newly accepted works and 13 demotions, and the high-stakes minefield of authentication, lawsuits, and chilled expert opinion.Tom then asks why so many tech “solutions” for the art market fail, using the merger of Artnet and Artsy as a lens on why the art market resists the efficiency and transparency that outsiders keep trying to impose.Finally, Georgina closes with Art Monte-Carlo, a revamped, glitzy fair now under ownership and seemingly chasing synergies between art, supercars, and luxury real estate. Enjoy!__________________________________________________________________✉️ Email questions at [email protected]__________________________________________________________________Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.
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  5. Sotheby’s Under Drahi, Art Cologne Palma, and Milan’s Art Fair Shake-Up 24.04.2026 46мин

  In Episode 5 of the Art Market Podcast, Tom takes a deep dive into what has really been happening at Sotheby’s under seven years of Patrick Drahi’s ownership, the new round of borrowing, including from clients, the securitisation of art backed loans, the leveraged real estate, and the strategic pivot from art house to luxury business.Georgina then reports back from the newly revived Art Cologne Palma Mallorca, a notably German affair on the Balearic “seventeenth state.”Finally, Tom surveys a pivotal week for Milan’s art fairs - Miart, the first Italian edition of Paris Internationale, and the scrappy upstart MEGA, set against Italy’s flat-tax regime and its new five percent VAT on art. Enjoy!__________________________________________________________________✉️ Email questions at [email protected]__________________________________________________________________Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.
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  4. Hong Kong’s Spring Auctions, South Korea’s Art Market Woes, and Next-Gen Collectors 10.04.2026 48мин

  In Episode 4 of the Art Market Podcast, Georgina and Tom explore the shifting dynamics of the Asian art market, from Hong Kong’s resilience to the rise and recalibration of South Korea. They look at the results of the Hong Kong March auctions, and whether the Asian art market is truly recovering or still under pressure. Tom then dives into the recent boom-and-bust cycle in South Korea’s art market, unpacking the surge of young collectors driven by the art-as-investment narrative.And in the final section, Georgina discusses her new book on Next Generation Collectors. How the $80+ trillion wealth transfer is reshaping the art market, why younger collectors think differently about ownership, identity, and institutions, and the growing influence of women collectors. + some book recommendations! Enjoy!__________________________________________________________________✉️ Email questions at [email protected]__________________________________________________________________Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.
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  3. Ongoing Middle East Crisis, the 2026 Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report, and TEFAF Maastricht 27.03.2026 48мин

  In Episode 3 of the Art Market Podcast, Georgina and Tom begin with the postponement of Art Dubai, and what ongoing instability in the Gulf means for the future of the Middle East as a global art hub.Next, Tom looks at the findings of the newly released UBS Art Basel Art Market Report 2026, breaking down the key trends. Why the art market remains largely flat despite headline sales, the growing dominance of ultra-high-end works ($10M+), and the decline of online art sales post-pandemic.In the final section, Georgina reports on her trip to TEFAF Maastricht, one of the world’s most important art fairs.Enjoy!__________________________________________________________________✉️ Email questions at [email protected]__________________________________________________________________Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.
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  2. The London Spring Auctions & the constant rise of Buyer’s Premiums 06.03.2026 42мин

  In Episode 2 of the Art Market Podcast, Georgina Adam and Tom Forwood break down the latest London art auctions, the first major test of the global art market in 2026. Despite geopolitical tensions and market uncertainty, the results reveal a surprising sense of resilience and relief to many. But beneath the surface, the data tells a more complex story... In the second half, Georgina and Tom deep dive into why buyer’s premiums keep rising (and whether the model is sustainable), and how auction houses compete for consignments behind the scenes.Enjoy!__________________________________________________________________✉️ Email questions at [email protected]__________________________________________________________________Subscribe for weekly episodes exploring the global art market, its players, and its hidden dynamics.