Art World: Whitehot Magazine with Noah Becker

Rick Prol and Sobel Uribe talk to guest host Brian Leo about their work and their two person show opening at Brian Leo Projects in Chelsea, Manhattan.

Spanning the past two decades of her career, Alyssa Monks: Be Perfectly Still features the artist’s large-scale portraits, painted lushly and expressively. The exhibition is curated by SLOMA (San Luis Obispo Museum of Art) Chief Curator Emma Saperstein and is on view through November 13, 2022. Depicting the artist and those closest to her in intimate contexts, Monks’ paintings are simultaneously vulnerable and elusive, revealing her subjects in exposed positions but offering fragmented views through composition that invert foreground and background. Using semi-transparent filters of glass, vinyl, steam, water, or foliage, Monks creates surface tension that obscures the subject and disorients the viewer.

I am the descendant of Scottish & Anglo-German people all of whom were colonizers. I am a settler. I have been privileged to reside, uninvited on the traditional homeland of the Lekwungen speaking (Esquimalt & Songhees),Malahat, Pacheedaht, Scia'new, T’Sou-ke and W̱SÁNEĆ (Pauquachin, Tsartlip, Tsawout, Tseycum) peoples. I express my profound gratitude for their welcome and tolerance as I work to dismantle my colonial, patriarchal, and racist cultural biases. Please, when you see me stumble - or unaware that I am misstepping; help me learn to become better by letting me know. Huy ch q’u (Thank you)

David Norman began his career in 1985 as a specialist in the field of Impressionist & Modern Art at Sotheby’s.  He became director of the department in 1999, a World-wide Chairman for the division in 2008, and then a Vice Chairman of Sotheby’s North American.  From 2019-2022, he was Chairman of the Phillips auction house in America. David directed sales of art works from such institutions as the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Solomon R. Guggenheim, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Los Angeles County Museum as well as numerous other public and private foundations.   In the early 1990s, David pioneered and directed Sotheby’s first sales of 20th Century German art, staging the first international auction in the then unified city of Berlin.  In 2004, David oversaw the auction of the first painting to ever break the $100 million barrier, Pablo Picasso’s Garçon a la Pipe.   In 2010, he curated Sotheby’s first private selling exhibition of Modern Art in Hong Kong and Beijing.   Under his leadership and tenure, Sotheby’s not only sold the first $100 million painting, but also the first sculpture to exceed $100 million (Giacometti’s Walking Man) and the first work on paper to pass that same mark (Edvard Munch’s, The Scream).   In 2017, David acquired an early pointillist painting for the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. As a leading industry expert, David has been frequently quoted in publications such as the New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, ArtNews and Art at Auction magazine.   He has appeared on television networks such as CNBC and foreign outlets including CNN Asia, podcasts interviews for the Financial Times, China, and is a frequent contributor of articles for several online journals. One of the most recognized auction experts in the field of Impressionist & Modern Art and a trusted advisor to private collectors for over 35 years, Mr. Norman launched David Norman Fine Art, llc, to continue to advise and assist individuals and institutions worldwide.

Guest host Evan Beard talks to Mike Maizels about his book on the cross-section of art tech and finance.

An interview with Warhol in 1966.

24 yr old Bob Dylan’s televised 1965 press conference. Recorded Dec 2 1965

Willam Dafoe speaks about Julian Schnabel’s Van Gogh film.

Basquiat on TV Party (1982) talks about his experiences as the victim of discrimination. Hosted by the great Glenn O’Brien - and also deals with a racist caller.

Guest host Stephen Wozniak interviews celebrated photographer, installation artist and sculptor Sandy Skoglund on the July 22, 2022 episode of Art World: The Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art podcast. They discuss unique themes and key iconography in the work of Skoglund’s five-decade career, Sandy’s new Sandy Skoglund: Outtakes show of alternative classic photographs on view at Rule Gallery in Denver, Colorado; her landmark exhibitions with the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City; her dreams, her nightmares and her favored formative years in graduate school at the University of Iowa, among other timely topics. Skoglund’s work is currently featured in the comprehensive traveling exhibition Modern Women/Modern Vision: Works from the Bank of America Collection now through August 28th at the Denver Art Museum. Podcast Series Title: Art World: The Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art Episode Title: Wozniak Interviews Artist Sandy Skoglund Guest Host: Stephen Wozniak Guests: Sandy Skoglund Air Date: July 22, 2022 Running Time: 58 minutes