Lydia Figes on Writing Survival Notes: Life Lessons from Contemporary Artists
In this week's episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, host Adam Green speaks with Lydia Figes, author of Survival Notes: Life Lessons from Contemporary Artists, about her wide-ranging conversations with artists and what they reveal about how artists truly live and work today. They discuss why she wrote the book, what surprised her most about how artists navigate the contemporary art world, the changing role of art school, the power of mentorship and peer networks, the tension between solitude and community, and the core questions every aspiring artist should be asking. The episode offers valuable insight not only for artists, but for collectors, curators, gallerists, and anyone who wants a deeper understanding of the lived experiences shaping today’s art world.
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A Look Ahead to This Year’s Art Basel Miami Beach with Fair Director Bridget Finn
As the art world gears up for Art Basel Miami Beach, host Adam Green speaks with Bridget Finn, the fair’s director, about what to expect from this year’s edition. Bridget shares her perspective on the energy heading into Miami Art Week and how the city’s rapid growth and expanding cultural landscape are shaping the fair. She also addresses some of the biggest conversations happening in the art world today, including the pressures galleries face around the rising costs of art fairs, how her team thinks about pricing and accessibility, and what it means when long-time exhibitors decide to sit out a year. Bridget offers an inside look at how she and her team continue to evolve one of the most important fairs in the United States, from innovation and visitor experience to the artworks and presentations she is most excited for people to see.
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Dale Berning Sawa on the Louvre Heist and the Future of Museum Security
In this week's episode, host Adam Green speaks with arts and culture journalist Dale Berning Sawa, whose work has appeared in The New York Times, The Guardian, The Art Newspaper, and on her Substack at daleberningsawa.substack.com, about the shocking theft at the Louvre that has captivated the art world. Dale brings us up to speed on the latest developments in the investigation and explores the deeper questions the heist has raised, including how museums can balance public access with protecting their collections, why security systems failed, and what this reveals about the evolving role of museum staff and technology. Together they discuss what this high-profile theft says about museum culture today and what lessons institutions everywhere should take from it.
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Inside Europe’s Successful Fall Fairs with Artsy’s Arun Kakar
In this week's episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, host Adam Green speaks with Arun Kakar, Senior Art Market Editor at Artsy, about the European fall art fair season, focusing on Frieze London and Art Basel Paris. The conversation explores whether London’s strong showing this year signals a genuine comeback, how Art Basel Paris’s new Avant-Première preview affected the fair’s atmosphere, and how sales compared between the two events. Adam and Arun also highlight the most talked-about gallery and museum exhibitions across both cities and reflect on what these two weeks reveal about the evolving balance of power between London and Paris in the international art market.
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Journalist Rebecca Anne Proctor on Frieze and Art Basel’s Expansion into the Middle East
The Middle East has become one of the most ambitious regions in the world when it comes to investing in culture, mirroring its rapid expansion into sports, entertainment, and fashion. Following the announcements that Frieze will launch a new fair in Abu Dhabi in 2026 and Art Basel will debut in Doha in early 2026, questions arise about how these moves will shape the region’s growing art ecosystem. In this week's episode, host Adam Green speaks with Dubai-based journalist Rebecca Anne Proctor to unpack what these developments mean for the art world. They discuss how governments and institutions are driving cultural investment, the evolving collector base in the Middle East, and what success might look like for these new fairs in their first years.
The ArtTactic Podcast, the leading podcast on the art market, covers a wide range of topics from art investment to general topics about the global art market industry. Each episode features an in-depth interview with a key art market figure.
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