Art for What's in Other Advisors' Inboxes

Four advisories across three countries share contemporary artists to buy now

Good morning! After last week’s long but entirely earned celebration of my 100th newsletter issue, I thought today I would pass the mic over to my colleagues to hear their contemporary art selections.

We all know the art world (any world?) runs on relationships and much of the information about what art is available still lives in private PDFs, inboxes, and individual conversations.

For this issue, three guest advisories across three countries are bringing their selections together with mine in one place, with prices attached as always. More eyes on the work means more opportunities for artists to be seen, discussed, and bought.

Often I am asked if galleries dislike that I include prices or if I feel competitive with other art advisors for inventory. My experience has been the exact opposite on both counts! Galleries want their artists seen and shared, and a price is what turns slight interest you scroll past into a concrete inquiry.

And advisors aren't fighting over the same artworks, because we each have our own clients with their own eyes. Two of us can love the same work and it changes nothing; if anything, it has us exploring more of the artist’s practice to find exactly the right work for our clients.

Casey Monda, Sibilla Maiarelli, and I have built a collaborative group of fellow art advisors, where we brainstorm ideas, share resources, and talk through different client situations. Casey and Sibilla have excellent newsletters I highly recommend you subscribe to, each one sharing available artworks and their perspectives on the art market.

Today’s issue features three more art advisories that have personally selected artists you should be paying attention to right now. Below, you’ll find their contact information (galleries pay attention!) and a blurb about their advisories. I’m also adding my own fangirl highlights here:

• Bronwyn Hunter-Shortly (Toronto)
  I love Bronwyn’s Substack newsletter First Edition and her podcast Art Hotline with Tatum Dooley (of People’s ArtStack panel fame!). I am not an audio learner and literally the only other podcast I listen to is Smart Girl Dumb Questions hosted by my brilliant friend Nayeema Raza. So subscribe and listen to both of these podcasts if you want to learn something or if you have a two-hour drive on the Taconic.

• Talia Pockhai (London)
  I was recently introduced to Talia through Nicole Estilo Kaiser, the very cool director of London’s Public Gallery. Talia posted this incredible Substack note this week: “Because art is for everyone and gatekeeping is so archaic.” I wish there were a bigger heart button to like this! It’s the mission incarnate of what we are all trying to accomplish with our advisory practices. Cheers to breaking down opaque walls and building up the cultural capital of artists.

• Bibi Zavieh and Natalie Emmerman (Boston)
  Together they run newcube, an advisory, marketplace, and appraisal platform that I keep a very close eye on. Whether they are sharing artists at Split Level or Future Fair or helping my clients appraise artworks in their homes, the ladies at newcube are some of my favorite friendly faces to see when traveling to art fairs.

I am VERY excited to dig into the artists and artworks they recommend below. I’m also including a few works I saw last week that I want to make sure you see so scroll slowly! If anything below catches your eye, reply to this email. I’ll confirm availability and coordinate with the advisor who selected it. (Prices are USD unless otherwise noted). Enjoy!