Art Lovers Forum Podcast

Everyone in the art world needs to know Leslie Weissman. She knows the ins and outs of the creative and business side of art better than most. She is an artist, collector, advisor, curator, pop-up gallerist, lecturer, educator, networker, and avid reader. What’s more, she is very close to her husband Michael and children.

None of this is an exaggeration. I’m a friend of hers and I see her in action. She has boundless energy for ev...

Welcome to Art Lovers Forum.  This episode of Art Lovers Forum is dedicated to the late Rosa de la Cruz who was one of the leading art collectors in the United States. I am talking to Ibett Yanez del Castillo, Director of the Emerson Dorsch Gallery in Miami, who worked side-by-side with Rosa and Carlos for 19 years. This is probably one of the most intimate and detailed interviews you will ever hear about Rosa. Ibett thinks about ...

Cris Sweeny and Claire Lardner, owners of Frameworks in Miami for the last 30+ years, have started a new division in their company that offers one-of-kind art pieces that are becoming increasingly popular everyday. Appropriately called LS Art Consulting, Sweeny and Lardner are experts in designing the most captivating, yet appropriate custom art works in the fields of hospitality, cruise lines, d...

Artist Laura Shabott is a well-known, multi-media artist and actress, but should be the Ambassador for Provincetown, Massachusetts, the New England town located at the extreme tip of Cape Cod. Laura sounds like she is reciting poetry when she describes the small coastal resort which has a year-round population of 4,000 and then grows to 60,000 or higher in the summertime. Often called "PTown, the...

I met Melanie Baer Schwartz a few months ago during a Fountainhead Arts trip to Detroit. She is the Director of Sales at Library Street Collective, one of the most creative art galleries in the nation. The minute I met her I knew this is what I needed from a gallerist. She was well informed, willing to share her knowledge, very inspirational and super friendly. She made our experience visiting the Library Street Collective and buy...

Thanks to Robert Fontaine, Lincoln Road is once again a meaningful and exciting destination for serious art collectors. He recently moved his blue chip art gallery, The Robert Fontaine Gallery, to the legendary outdoor mall, because of the ever-increasing foot traffic. It’s also steps away from the world-famous Art Basel and all of the art fairs that pop up annually.

Robert Fontaine is going to add a certain new pizzazz to the are...

If you want to expand your horizons in the art world, listen to this episode of Art Lovers Forum. I am speaking to Dianne Beal, an independent curator and private art dealer in Washington D.C., Paris and Miami.

She is absolutely a well-known specialist of non-conformist art. Let’s put it this way, the bipartisan political power couple, Mary Matalin and James Carville, are just two of her celebrity status clientele. 

Dianne has dev...

Tomas Redrado is one of the youngest gallery owners in the United States. He became a gallerist in his homeland of Buenos Aires during the pandemic because he felt it was a period in all of our lives when we could try new things. He was just starting his career in foreign affairs when the world went into lockdown. He couldn’t travel so he turned to his love of art. Tomas was friendly with a number of artists who he really admired ...

Welcome To Art Lovers Forum.  I met Pauline Shender a few years ago at Fountainhead Arts, an art residency in Miami. We are both members. She is a few decades younger than me but when I see her, I feel like I am looking at myself at her age. However, I’m far more brash, she is much more sophisticated.

Pauline has been studying contemporary art since 2012. What started as a curiosity about contemporary art has turned into a meaning...

Welcome To Art Lovers Forum.  This is a podcast conversation about pop art in the 1960’s and 1970’s that includes drugs, infidelity, dementia and everything else that makes a real juicy story.  If you are involved in art you may know some of this already, but today I have Jonathan Scull on Art Lovers Forum who is going to tell us all about Ethel and Robert Scull, the most talked about  Pop Art co...

I feel like I know Evelyn Politzer forever. I have been seeing her yarn, thread, and fabric exhibits all over Miami for years, especially airline terminals, parks, and a vast array of galleries.  Her work makes you stop and stare. You can’t believe what this woman can do with soft hand-dyed fibers to create unconventional pieces ranging from small two-dimensional tapestries to monumental projects. She is definitely a pioneer in th...

I’m thrilled to be interviewing Jeanne Jaffe today because she is not the typical artist that I usually meet. She has been creating art for 40 years and continues to put out more work than most people half her age. She is a true inspiration for folks who have something to say.

Jeanne is a multi-disciplinary artist working in installation, sculpture, and stop motion animation. Her work is influenced by an interest in language, lite...

Most people refer to Bianca Bosker as the New York Times best-selling author of Cork Dork and, most recently, Get the Picture.

I refer to Bianca as the most self-assured writer alive who doesn’t mind putting herself in vulnerable and embarrassing situations if it means she gets to write kick ass books that shake up entire industries for the better. Most of the folks I know would never allow themselves to be in an inferior position...

This is the first Art Lovers Forum I am doing extemporaneously. I usually have a prepared introduction with a list of questions. I guess my free spirited, number 13 episode, is appropriate for the art explorer I am about to interview. Avi Ivan has traveled to 69.1 per cent of the earth studying art. The list of places he has traveled to will be published in my blog: www.digidame.com. I met Avi in...

Marla Rice founded the Rice Polak Gallery in 1992 and holds a prominent place in Provincetown, Massachusetts as one of the primary venues for contemporary art. The gallery represents a select group of emerging and established artists whose work is both contemporary and contemplative. 

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