The Baer Faxt Podcast
The Baer Faxt Podcast explores the inner workings of the global art industry through exclusive interviews with key players. It is produced by The Baer Faxt, a leading news source for art world insiders that began in 1994 as a faxed newsletter. The podcast covers topics such as auctions, galleries, and market trends, offering insights from firsthand experience on the salesroom floor. Listeners can also subscribe to the newsletter at thebaerfaxt.com.
Episodes
What Makes A Collector? With Mary Stanley & Josh Baer at Atlanta Art Fair
When Mary Stanley started her Young Collectors Club in Atlanta in 2006, it had two members. It now has 300, around 75 of them serious collectors. Josh Baer, who ran a New York gallery forty years ago, recalls having maybe one client in the entire city....
Nobody Loves Their Microsoft Stock: Mark Bell & Josh Baer on Art & Value at Atlanta Art Fair
Mark Bell is Chief Strategy Officer and Head of Family Office Solutions at Balentine, which manages around $9.5 billion for 300 families, and for a long time has taught a course at Emory on art as an emerging asset class. He thinks art is a financial a...
Art Criticism, Community, and Humor with Sarah Higgins & Josh Baer ahead of Atlanta Art Fair
Sarah Higgins has curated more than 40 exhibitions for institutions like MOCA Georgia and the Zuckerman Museum of Art, and led Art Papers, the country's longest-running nonprofit art journal, since 2018. This year, Higgins is the guest curator of the A...
Why Sports Stars Are Buying Art—Gardy St. Fleur & Josh Baer ahead of Atlanta Art Fair
If anyone can speak to the rising interest in art among sports stars, it's art advisor Gardy St. Fleur, whose education-first, community-centric approach has made him the person athletes call first. Over the course of his career, he's built a practice ...
Art Galleries Are Still Not OK—Now What? With Marc Spiegler & Amy Cappellazzo
Art Galleries Are Still Not OK—Now What? In the latest episode of The Baer Faxt Podcast, Josh sits down with Marc Spiegler, Cultural Strategies Consultant, former CEO of Art Basel and author of the New York Times piece that set the art world talking, a...
Artist Trevor Paglen on The Baer Faxt Live from Art Basel 2026
Artist Trevor Paglen joins host Josh Baer at Art Basel Basel to talk about his curatorial vision for Zero 10 (co-curated with Eli Scheinman), Art Basel's initiative reframing what "digital art" actually means, and why the answer might surprise you. The...
Art Basel CEO Noah Horowitz on The Baer Faxt Live from Art Basel 2026
Art Basel CEO Noah Horowitz joins host Josh Baer on the opening day of Art Basel Basel to talk about how the organization is adapting its platform fair by fair—from the Basel Exclusive initiative (withholding marquee works from preview PDFs to re-energ...
Dealer David Schrader on The Baer Faxt Live from Art Basel 2026
David Schrader—the S in PDS (Pace Di Donna Schrader Galleries)—joins host Josh Baer on the opening day of Art Basel Basel, his first fair as an exhibitor after decades as a collector and head of private sales at Sotheby's. They cover what surprised him...
Art Advisor Erica Samuels on The Baer Faxt Live from Art Basel 2026
Art advisor Erica Samuels joins Josh Baer on the floor at Art Basel for a candid conversation about how the best advisors actually work — from building client PDFs and curating "mini collections" to navigating conflicts when two clients want the same p...
The Art of the Court with Jonas Wood & John McEnroe
Love art, AND sport? Well, we have a doozy for you. The Baer Faxt Podcast is back with two icons: artist Jonas Wood and tennis legend John McEnroe, on the occasion of Jonas' exhibition of tennis paintings at Gagosian Beverly Hills. What do a painter an...
First Dibs on Contemporary Art in Thailand with Purat “Chang” Osathanugrah
Host Josh Baer talks with Purat “Chang” Osathanugrah, a collector, business leader, educator, and founder of Dib Bangkok, Thailand's first major international art museum. Tune in to hear about Thailand's artistic landscape, the transformative role Dib ...
From Idyllic Switzerland and Beyond with Rachel Lehmann
Host Josh Baer is joined by storied gallerist, Rachel Lehmann, co-founder of Lehmann Maupin, as the gallery celebrates its 30th year in business. Tune in to hear about her early days in Lausanne, a saucy Jeff Koons show, how the gallery has evolved and...
To the Stars with Ahmed Mater
Host Josh Baer is joined by preeminent contemporary Saudi Arabian artist, Ahmed Mater in Doha during the inaugural edition of Art Basel Qatar to discuss everything from artistic and cultural expression in the region, Mater’s return to painting, and mor...
Saud Alkhater, The Baer Faxt Live from Doha 2026
On the occasion of the inaugural Art Basel Qatar, The Baer Faxt sat down with a bevy of guests with ties to the region including Qatar's own Saud Alkhater, a young collector. Alkhater tells us about the fateful exhihibition organized by Qatar Museums t...
Jean-Paul Engelen, The Baer Faxt Live from Doha 2026
On the occasion of the inaugural Art Basel Qatar, The Baer Faxt sat down with a bevy of guests with ties to the region including Jean-Paul (JP) Engelen, Director at Acquavella and former Americas president at Phillips auction house. Before spending a d...
Princess Alia Al-Senussi, The Baer Faxt Live from Doha 2026
On the occasion of the inaugural Art Basel Qatar, The Baer Faxt sat down with a bevy of guests with ties to the region including Princess Alia Al-Senussi, PhD, a cultural strategist, art world advisor, academic and lecturer with Libyan roots. Alia has ...
Mariët Westermann, The Baer Faxt Live from Doha 2026
On the occasion of the inaugural Art Basel Qatar, The Baer Faxt sat down with a bevy of guests with ties to the region including Mariët Westermann, Director and CEO of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, who have world class museums in New...
Baer With Me: Looking Back, Looking Forward
The Baer Faxt Podcast is back with our first episode of 2026! In the spirit of the new year, we brought together some of New York’s great arts writers—Kenny Schachter, Tim Schneider along with our editor Taylor Dafoe and founder Josh Baer—for a roundta...
Jeff Poe-s in a Pod
The Baer Faxt Podcast is back again with the inimitable Jeff Poe, long time friend of the pod, formerly of Blum & Poe. In this episode, we get a temperature check on the market, discuss Alma Allen for the US Pavilion in Venice, selling at auction, and ...
On Course with Rirkrit Tiravanija
In this episode of The Baer Faxt Podcast, renowned artist Rirkrit Tiravanija heads to the golf course with host Josh Baer in Doha, Qatar, to shoot the shot—and talk all things market, arts education and of course, his association with relational aesthe...
Isaac Julien: The Baer Faxt Live from London 2025
Sir Isaac Julien CBE RA, filmmaker and installation artist, sat down with The Baer Faxt’s Founder and CEO Josh Baer for the second edition of The Baer Faxt Live from London 2025, recorded live during Frieze week. Tune in to hear insights from Isaac Jul...
Emanuela Tarizzo: The Baer Faxt Live from London 2025
Emanuela Tarizzo, Director of Frieze Masters, joined The Baer Faxt’s Founder and CEO Josh Baer for the second edition of The Baer Faxt Live from London 2025, recorded live during Frieze week. Tune in to hear Tarizzo discuss what sets Frieze Masters apa...
Ed Dolman: The Baer Faxt Live from London 2025
Ed Dolman, founder of Dolman Partners LLP and former CEO of Phillips and Christie’s, joined The Baer Faxt’s Founder and CEO Josh Baer for The Baer Faxt Live from London 2025, recorded live during Frieze London. Hear Dolman discuss his journey from port...
Pilar Ordovas: The Baer Faxt Live from London 2025
Pilar Ordovas, founder of Ordovas, joined The Baer Faxt’s Founder and CEO Josh Baer for The Baer Faxt Live from London 2025, recorded live during Frieze London. Tune in to hear Ordovas’ temperature check on London’s art scene, it’s robust sense of comm...
Art, Cars and Luxury with Shelby Myers
In this episode Shelby Myers, the Global Head of Private Sales at RM Sotheby’s, joins Josh Baer to discuss the world of collectible cars and whether or not the art world should be branding itself as luxury—or not.
Gallerists Anna Walker Skillman & Jonathan Carver Moore at Atlanta Art Fair
Rounding out our coverage of this year’s Atlanta Art Fair, we invited gallerists Anna Walker Skillman (Co-Founder and Creative Director of Jackson Fine Art) and Jonathan Carver Moore (Founder and Director of Jonathan Carver Moore) for a remote conversa...
High Museum's Randall Suffolk at Atlanta Art Fair
While the second edition of the Atlanta Art Fair is in full swing, we spoke remotely with Randall Suffolk, Director of the High Museum of Art. Tune in as Suffolk and Josh Baer discuss Atlanta’s emergence on to the global art stage, how museums can orie...
Collector Hassan Smith at Atlanta Art Fair
With Atlanta Art Fair opening Thursday September 25th, we invited noted collector, founder of Ellaby Holdings LLC, and Atlanta local Hassan Smith to the studio for a conversation on his life and collection, where they discuss Atlanta’s growth in the gl...
Art and Media with Michael Ringier
For this month’s episode, we met up in Basel with Michael Ringier, Chairman of the Board at Ringier—one of the largest and oldest media companies in Europe—and a prominent art collector in his own right. We spoke about the evolving media landscape as R...
Kamel Mennour: The Baer Faxt Live from Art Basel 2025
Kamel Mennour, Founder and President of Galerie Mennour joined The Baer Faxt’s Founder and CEO Josh Baer for The Baer Faxt Live from Art Basel 2025, recorded live from Basel on the fair's VIP opening day. Tune in as Mennour shares his feelings from an ...
Born of Fire with Shirin Neshat
In this episode, we were privileged to join acclaimed visual artist Shirin Neshat in her Brooklyn studio. Tune in as Neshat, in conversation with The Baer Faxt CEO Josh Baer, shares her experiences as an artist-in-exile from her early days in New York ...
Art Advisor Amanda Love: The Baer Faxt Live from Art Basel 2025
Advisor, Collector, and Philanthropist Amanda Love joined The Baer Faxt’s Founder and CEO Josh Baer for The Baer Faxt Live from Art Basel 2025, recorded live from Basel on the fair's VIP opening day. Watch as Love shares how Australia's art scene has g...
Kenny Schachter: The Baer Faxt Live from Art Basel 2025
Artist, writer, and lecturer Kenny Schachter joined The Baer Faxt’s Founder and CEO Josh Baer for The Baer Faxt Live from Art Basel 2025, recorded live from Basel on the fair's VIP opening day. In this freewheeling conversation, Schachter and Baer disc...
MCA Chicago with Madeleine Grynsztejn
In this episode, host Josh Baer speaks with Madeleine Grynsztejn, director of the MCA Chicago. In part one of the conversation, Baer and Grynsztejn discuss the past, present, and future of the MCA, Grynsztejn’s experience becoming a museum director aft...
Art in Saudi Arabia with Mohammed Hafiz
In this episode, host Josh Baer speaks with ATHR Gallery and ATHR Foundation co-founder Mohammed Hafiz. In part one of the conversation, Baer and Hafiz engage with core questions related to the art of Saudi Arabia, tackling both its local and internati...
Baer With Me: The Baer Faxt Turns 30 (Part 3)
Join us for the final part of our special three-part episode of Baer With Me as The Baer Faxt celebrates its 30th anniversary! Hosted by Luyang Jiang, listen as Josh Baer tackles the issues facing the art market today, alongside candid answers to art w...
Baer With Me: The Baer Faxt Turns 30 (Part 2)
Join us for Part Two of a special three-part episode of Baer With Me as The Baer Faxt celebrates its 30th anniversary! Hosted by Luyang Jiang, listen as Josh Baer tackles the issues facing the art market today, alongside candid answers to art world que...
Adam Sender: How I Built My Art Collection—And Why I Sold It (Part 2)
In this episode, guest Adam Sender continues his discussion with host Josh Baer, sharing stories from his years as one of the world’s foremost collectors, the factors that led to his decision to sell a large portion of his collection, and how he feels ...
Baer With Me: The Baer Faxt Turns 30 (Part 1)
Join us for a special three-part episode of Baer With Me as The Baer Faxt celebrates its 30th anniversary! Hosted by The Baer Faxt President Luyang Jiang, tune in to hear Josh Baer recount memories and insights from the last three decades, alongside ca...
Adam Sender: How I Built My Art Collection—And Why I Sold It (Part 1)
In this episode, the renowned collector Adam Sender invited us into his Miami home for a conversation with our host Josh Baer. In this special two-part episode, Sender charts his course from his middle class roots on Long Island, to being one of the mo...
Barbara Castelli on 25 years at Castelli Gallery
In this episode, our host Josh Baer speaks with guest Barbara Castelli, President of the legendary Castelli Gallery for the past twenty five years. In part one of the conversation, Castelli discusses her origins with the gallery, the importance of her ...
Jeff Poe: A Year After Retiring from the Art World
In this episode, our host Josh Baer speaks with returning guest, the ex-Blum and Poe Founder Jeff Poe. In part one of the conversation, Jeff discusses on the present and future states of the market, how galleries and artists can adapt to survive, and i...
Takashi Murakami & An Open Letter
In this episode, our host Josh Baer speaks with artist Takashi Murakami. In part one of the conversation, Murakami explains how he's built his global, multifaceted career, and reflects on his open letter in response to our episode with Jeff Poe. Then, ...
Summer Edition
In this episode, we take a look back at some of our team's favorite moments from the past year and a half of The Baer Faxt Podcast. Join us as our host, Josh Baer, founder of The Baer Faxt, talks through highlights and epic stories from our exclusive, ...
Alicja Kwade
In this episode, our President and Executive Producer Luyang Jiang visits artist Alicja Kwade in her Berlin studio. In the first part of the conversation, Alicja shares how she relates to the art market as an established artist, and her advice for youn...
Alexander S. C. Rower
In this episode, Josh sits down with Alexander S. C. Rower, President of the Calder Foundation (and the artist’s grandson), at the Foundation’s offices in Chelsea, New York. Listen as Rower shares his personal journey fostering his grandfather’s legacy...
Baer with Me: Hong Kong
This episode marks the one-year anniversary of The Baer Faxt Podcast, and the second episode of Baer with Me, our mini-series of The Baer Faxt Podcast hosted by our President, Luyang Jiang, with market insights from Josh Baer. On the last day of our bu...
Art Advisor, Auction Extraordinaire Jussi Pylkkänen
Jussi Pylkkänen joins Josh for his first sit-down interview since leaving his role as Global President of Christie's after nearly 40 years to start his own independent advisory, Art Pylkkänen. Jussi reveals the secret art of the auctioneer, sharing his...
Melissa Chiu: 10 Years at the Hirshhorn
Josh sits down with Melissa Chiu, Director of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden on the occasion of the museum's 50th anniversary, and the 10th anniversary of her tenure as Director. Listen as Melissa reflects on the unique role of the national ...
Baer with Me: 2024 Predictions
Baer with Me is our new mini-series of The Baer Faxt Podcast, building on our past episodes featuring Josh Baer's insights on the current state of the art market. Hosted by Luyang Jiang, our President and Executive Producer of our Podcast, Baer with Me...
Da Vinci’s Salvator Mundi and Fair Warning! With Loïc Gouzer
Josh sits down with Loïc Gouzer on the occasion of the relaunch of his single-lot auction platform, Fair Warning, this week. Listen as Loïc reveals his motivations for building the unique auction app as a response to the current state of the auction wo...
Art Market Correction?
Another gallery seems to be shutting down every few weeks, and everyone’s talking about an art market correction, but the art fairs must go on. For this episode, Josh Baer and Luyang Jiang were on the road in London for Frieze art fair and the London a...
Jeff Poe's Split
In this episode, Blum & Poe co-founder Jeff Poe discusses his decision to step back from the gallery, after 30 years helping put LA on the map as an art city. Listen as Jeff gets candid about his experiences building a gallery amidst the art world's ev...
The Art Market Now
Curious about what's been going on with the art market? Auction results in the first half of 2023 paint a picture of a market undergoing a correction of some kind, but all may not be as it seems in the secretive world of auctions. In this midyear revie...
Is The Art World a Mess? With Critic Jerry Saltz
Jerry Saltz debates Josh Baer about the value of art, why auction houses are "a pox," and how the art world got to be "the f***ing mess that it is," in this candid conversation between a Pulitzer-prize winning art critic and a veteran art advisor. Jerr...
Art Fairs: Part 2 with Daniel Hug and David Chau
Art Basel and Frieze may get all the press, but they’re far from the only players in the business of art fairs. In part 2 of our special two-part double episode on art fairs, we’re diving into corners of the art fair world you don’t often hear about. O...
Art Fairs: Part 1 with Lauren Taschen and Bettina Korek
In this special two-part double episode of The Baer Faxt Podcast, we sit down with the people behind four different leading art fairs from around the globe: Lauren Taschen, who consulted on show management for Art Basel Miami Beach, Bettina Korek, the ...
Inside the Auctions with Collector Howard Rachofsky and Sophia Cohen
What’s it like to spend millions of dollars at a contemporary art auction? Is there a danger zone where young artists’ prices blow up too quickly? Is it still possible to buy low and sell high? And just what is an auction guarantee anyway? Step behind ...
Beeple: What is the Future of Digital Art?
Josh Baer sat down with Beeple for the first episode of The Baer Faxt Podcast during the opening of his immersive new B.20 museum in Charleston, South Carolina earlier this month to ask him how his vision for the future of digital art and NFTs has chan...
Trailer: The Baer Faxt Podcast
On our new podcast, The Baer Faxt team unpacks the inner workings of the global art industry through exclusive, candid interviews with artists, collectors, dealers, and other key players in the business as they offer their perspectives on art and the m...
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