Introducing: Here's The Thing with Alec Baldw...

The Art Grind continues as hosts Dina Brodsky and Marshall Jones welcome gallery owner, curator and art collector Louis Meisel. In this episode, Meisel delves into the gallery business in New York City and his experience as the owner of one of the oldest and most successful galle ...  Show more

Antiques dealer, art dealer, curator, interior designer, tastemaker: Belgian polymath Axel Vervoordt is one of the most respected names in design. On this episode, Dan speaks with Vervoordt on how he started selling objects as a teen, how he turned a former distillery into a worl ...  Show more

1942. Midtown. Peggy Guggenheim arrives, opens a gallery and gives hungry artists hope.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Alec looks at the art world from two angles -- from someone in it, and from someone who has observed the world from a distance. First, writer Michael Shnayerson -- his latest book, Boom, gives an exhaustive history of how today’s art market came to be. Shnayerson writ ...

What is a connoisseur? Who can be one? What role do they play in shaping tastes of the art market and the large expanse of art history? There's perhaps no better place to ask these kind of questions than at TEFAF, the many splendored Dutch fair where art, antiquities, and antique ...  Show more