The Canvas Monthly with Allan Schwartzman, Andrew Schoelkopf, Marc Payot, and an Inside Look at Sotheby's Impressionist & Modern Department
Hopefully you’re reading this email on a beach. Preferably the Mediterranean, but Montauk will do as well. Maybe you’re spearfishing with Loic, or perhaps are hanging with Derek and Dasha on the deck of a yacht somewhere…
But if you’re more like The Canvas and find yourself unlucky in summer travels- or perhaps have already returned from your sojourns abroad- then it’s likely you’re receiving this email in your borderline-illegally hot office downtown. If that’s the case then let The Canvas apologize on your employer (or client’s) behalf.
No self-respecting, worth-her-salt denizen of the art world should be forced into such a grueling existence as to find herself working on a Monday in the summer. But here we find ourselves no less… And since The Canvas has mouths to feed (okay, just one mouth) and places to go (Venice Biennale here we come!), we’ve endeavored to put together a delightfully juicy second edition of our monthly reports for you; our wonderfully devoted readers.
We spoke with Andrew Schoelkopf of Menconi + Schoelkopf, and president of the ADAA about whether the association feels a responsibility to support struggling galleries (hint: it does), if the ADAA Art Show would consider changing its fee structure for exhibitors (hint: it doesn’t need to), and his thoughts on Paula Cooper’s New York Times smackdown of David Zwirner for the poaching of the Joan Mitchell estate from Cheim & Read (hint: not loving it).
We talked with Allan Schwartzman of Art Agency, Partners for a wide-ranging and somewhat nightmare-inducing conversation about the travails currently facing many mid-size galleries and what he sees as the systemic cracks in the foundation of the market, his thoughts on galleries and auction houses encroaching on one another’s space, and his explanation for why AAP was in the news recently.
And lastly we spoke with Marc Payot of Hauser & Wirth about the gallery’s recent appointment of Liberté Nuti as International Senior Director Impressionist & Modern, what changes might now be in store for the gallery, and his thoughts on the ever-blurring line between the auction houses and the mega-galleries.
Additionally, we offer our own analysis (with thoughts from Judd Tully) of what exactly is plaguing Sotheby’s Impressionist & Modern department, a round-up of industry job listings, and a new section titled ‘Revolving Door’ where we detail the art world’s never-ending game of job hopping musical chairs.
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