11:10 am - 11:50 am Keynoters

The State of the Art 
and Luxury Auction Market

Clare McAndrew
Founder, Arts Economics
 

Guillaume Cerutti
Chief Executive Officer
Christie's International

Brief Break
 

12:00 pm - 1:00 pm

Market Update

• Maureen Bray, Executive Director
  Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA)
   
• Benjamin Mandel, Global Strategist,
  Multi-Asset Solutions,
  J.P. Morgan Asset Management
   
• Clare McAndrew, Moderator
  Founder, Arts Economics

20-minute Session: Dance Fitness

Join Certified Fitness Instructor and Trainer Paul Eugene for some dance fitness fun!

Paul Eugene
Producer, Fitness Instructor

 2:00 pm - 2:50 pm

Hip Hop to Haute:
Street Fashion meets
the Luxury Good Market

Panelists will discuss the primary market for limited edition luxury goods and the rising Auction Market. Lauren Amos of WishATL established one of the first outlets for Limited Edition Sneakers and clothing, Kathleen Guzman of Managing Director of Heritage Auctions has been at the forefront of making a market for Luxury Handbags and Urban Art at Auction, and Neil Wright, Head of Collaborations & Experiential, Complex Networks

• Lauren Amos
  Owner, Wish Atlanta Boutique
   
• Neil Wright
  Head of Collaborations & Experiential - Complex Networks
   
• Kathleen Guzman, Moderator
  Senior Vice President & Managing Director, Heritage Auctions, New York

Brief Break

3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Concurrent Connoisseurship Sessions

1. Travel Posters: Armchair Voyaging Around the World

Join Nicholas Lowry, Swann Auction Galleries,
for a glorious, vicarious journey through the history of Travel posters, and how the market is changing in the time of Covid.

Nicholas D. Lowry
President, Principal Auctioneer, and Director, Department of Vintage Posters
Swann Auction Galleries

2. The Principles of Celebrity Value
Laura Woolley, AAA
Owner and President, The Collector's Lab

4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Afternoon Networking Sessions

Our Masters of Ceremony, Lark Mason, AAA and Alasdair Nichol, will lead the group through a series of fine and decorative art questions, providing two possible answers. Attendees will be asked to choose the correct answer by touching their heads or by touching their shoulders to indicate their response

1. Networking Session:
Head and Shoulders

Lark Mason, AAA, Master of Ceremonies
Owner & President, iGavel, Inc.

Carmen Melián, AAA, Host
Founder, Melián Arts

2. Networking Session:
Head and Shoulders

Alasdair Nichol, Master of Ceremonies
Chairman, FREEMAN's Auction 

Deborah Spanierman, AAA, Host
President, DGS Fine Art Consultants

11:00 am - 11:10 am

11:10 am - 12:00 pm

Featured Conversation:
Museums in 2020 

Panelists are Richard Armstrong, Director of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum & Foundation, Brent Benjamin, Director of the St. Louis Museum of Art and President of the American Alliance of Museum Directors, and Franklin Sirmans, Director of the Perez Museum in Miami, address the myriad of issues that hit museums in this year nationally and internationally. From shutdowns, audience engagement, accessions and deaccession to staffing and the future!

• Richard Armstrong
  Director 
  Solomon R. Guggenheim
  Museum & Foundation
   
• Brent Benjamin
  Director
  St. Louis Museum of Art
  AAAMD, President
   
• Franklin Sirmans
  Director
  Pérez Art Museum
  
  
• Betty Krulik, Moderator
  President, Betty Krulik Fine Art Ltd.

 
12:00 pm - 12:10 pm

Brief Break
 

12:10 pm - 1:00 pm

The Contemporary African Art Market
 

The Contemporary African Art Market is a fast-growing market sector, as evidenced by increased auction exposure and record-breaking auction prices for African artists, the increasing numbers of African artists represented by the major global galleries, the proliferation of art fairs dedicated to art from the Continent, and important museum exhibitions around the world featuring their work. The panelists will discuss the exciting developments in this market. 

• Touria El Glaoui
  Founder
  1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair
   
• Mariane Ibrahim
  Founder, Mariane Ibrahim Gallery
   
• Giles Peppiatt
  Director,
  Modern and Contemporary African Art
  Bonham's, London
   
• Kristy Bryce, Moderator
  Principal, 
  Kristy Bryce Fine Art

20-minute Session: Yoga

Get your body and mind flowing with Yoga Instructor Claudia Aarts-Schreiber.

Claudia Aarts-Schreiber
Co-Owner, ChaiseFitness New Jersey

2:00 pm - 3:00 pm

The Ceramics Market: Post 1950

Garth and Mark will discuss ceramics over the last 70 years and how the market forces and the artists have propelled some ceramics to move from the craft world into the category of fine art, and how that market, both dealers and auctions, have responded. Their focus will be both on ceramic sculpture, pots/vessels, and on some of the artists that create them. 

• Garth Clark
  Art Critic, Art Historian, Curator, Gallerist, and International Art Dealer
   
• Mark Del Vecchio
  Director and Curator
   
• Cynthia D. Herbert, AAA, Moderator
  President,
  Appretium Appraisal Services LLC 

Brief Break

3:10 pm - 4:00 pm

1. Comic Books

The modern-day superhero was introduced to the world June, 1938 with Superman and Action Comics #1. After 82 years of continual comic production a once considered child’s book has evolved into a commoditized collectible equivalent to gold, oil, or the S&P 500. Learn the ins-and-outs of the comic book collecting community and how markets can change so rapidly. When is the right time to buy, sell, and what factors contribute to these market changes. Learn what makes two seemingly similar books drastically different in price, and finally learn how a comic from 2014 can be worth more than 100 different books from 1950 combined. The comic market, making every Antique Dealer scratch their head for the past 20 years. 

Travis Landry
Director of Pop Culture & Auctioneer
Bruneau & Co. Auctioneers

4:15 pm - 5:15 pm
Cocktail Networking Sessions

2. Networking Sessions:
Featuring the Chelsea Sidecar 

Neil Kaplan, DipWSET, AAA will lead us through the history and making the popular classic cocktail, a Sidecar, with all its variations.

Neil Kaplan, DipWSET, AAA
Managing Partner, Cork Counsel

Jay Grimm, Host
Owner, Jay Grimm Art Advisory

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