Phillips Auction House Launches ART MATTERS@home, a live digital adaptation featuring live streamed discussions in which Arnold Lehman, Senior Advisor and Director Emeritus of the Brooklyn Museum, will speak informally with artists, gallery owners, museum directors and curators, collectors and critics about their studios or homes. The series which debuted April 28, 2020 with a conversation with New York-based artist Deborah Kass, continues weekly on Tuesdays at noon for 20 weeks throughout spring and summer, thirty-minute one-man episodes will feature Lehman in conversation with many well-known friends from the art world, such as famed artists Ai Weiwei and Judy Chicago and graffiti legend Lee Quiñones; film producer and Andy Warhol protégé Vincent Fremont; President and CEO of the Metropolitan Museum Daniel Weiss; gallery owner Marianne Boesky; and Phillips CEO Edward Dolman, among many others to be announced.
The videos will be posted weekly via Facebook and the podcasts will be available on Phillips.com and most podcast streaming platforms.
Arnold Lehman said, “Phillips has always been engaged with our art world community in new and unique ways. Born out of our physically and socially distanced environment in which we are all currently trying to interact, ART MATTERS@home offers our audience possible insights into the personalities, ideas, work and opinions of a variety of art world figures. Everyone I will be speaking to is friends and the idea of this program is not so much an interview but rather a relaxed chat over a cup of coffee, tea or vodka!! While our ART MATTERS panel discussions and live interviews focused on important issues from the historical or contemporary art world, ART MATTERS @ home is less about the many important things my guests did, but rather about what they might do that afternoon. “
