Reading the Art World: a new live interview series and podcast
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We are pleased to announce Reading the Art World, a live interview and podcast series with leading art world authors launching on June 29, 2021. Reading the Art World presents interviews between Megan Fox Kelly and authors of recently released or upcoming art-centric books. The conversations will explore timely subjects in the art world, based on artists and market trends along with published art historical writing.
“As an art advisor, insightful new books are a vital force in my practice. From catalogues raisonnes and exhibition catalogues to artists’ monographs, biographies and art market analyses, they all contribute to how I work, learn and innovate,” explained Kelly. “Reading the Art World will provide an essential space for us to elevate these works. As an avid reader I’m delighted to have further reason to read more and have the opportunity to engage with the minds behind these publications.”
Reading the Art World will debut as a live streamed interview between Kelly and collector Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian, author of For Art's Sake: Inside the Home of Art Dealers (Rizzoli, October 2020) on June 29 at 12pm ET. Future episodes will feature veteran arts journalist and author Georgina Adam, author of The Rise and Rise of the Private Art Museums (Lund Humphries, September 2021), and Financial Times art market columnist Melanie Gerlis, author of The Art Fair Story: A Roller Coaster Ride (Lund Humphries, December 2021). Other talks in the series will be announced in autumn 2021.
The virtual conversations will consist of a 30-minute interview followed by a 15-minute Q&A session. The interview portion of each event will be subsequently released as a podcast available on all major hosting services in the days following the event. Once feasible, future episodes of Reading the Art World will also at times be presented in an in-person setting.
Learn more about the first “Reading the Art World” interview here.