New York symposium

Get your ticket for Talking Galleries New York 2022 here.

The Barcelona-based nonprofit Talking Galleries and the art advisory firm Schwartzman & Associates, with Loring Randolph as Programming Director, announce the first edition of its New York art world symposium.  

Taking place on April 4 and 5, 2022, at the Gilder Lehrman Hall at The Morgan Library & Museum, the conference will tackle the significant issues facing the art world today, with an international roster of nearly 50 top-level speakers.

By bringing together museum directors, gallerists, curators, artists, scholars, journalists, non-profit leaders, auction house and art fair executives, the program will debate topics such as the impetus for institutional change in art museums; New York City’s position in the art world; responses to the turmoil in recent political and the climate crisis; developments in the art infrastructures of Africa and East Asia; trends in gallery practices; the ongoing rise of data-driven art sales; innovations in patronage; and the impact of digital art technologies.

Marking its first major in-person meeting since the onset of the pandemic, Talking Galleries New York will provide an invaluable occasion for exchange and debate around the art ecosystem after the two-year disruption.

An international roster of top-level speakers:
With the participation of Carla Acevedo-Yates (Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago), Yto Barrada (Artist), Joeonna Bellorado-Samuels (Jack Shainman / We Buy Gold), Charlotte Burns (Studio Burns), Nicole Calderón (Calderón), Marek Claassen (ArtFacts / Limna), Christopher Cozier (Artist), Sarah Douglas (ARTnews), Maximilíano Durón (ARTnews), Lonti Ebers (Amant), Touria El Glaoui (1-54 Contemporary African Art Fair), Emi Eu (STPI Singapore), Elizabeth Dee (Independent Art Fair / John Giorno Foundation), Jason Farago (New York Times), Luise Faurschou (ART 2030), Victoria Gandit Lelandais (LITO), Melanie Gerlis (Financial Times), Marc Glimcher (PACE Gallery), Thelma Golden (The Studio Museum in Harlem), Andrew Goldstein (Artnet News), Michael Govan (Los Angeles County Museum of Art), Suzanne Gyorgy (Citi Private Bank), Kathy Halbreich (Robert Rauschenberg Foundation), Julia Halperin (Artnet News), Allison Janae Hamilton (Artist), Ebony L. Haynes (52 Walker | David Zwirner), Sara Hermann (Centro León), Marguerite Hoffman (Art Collector, philanthropist), Noah Horowitz (Sotheby’s), Ayana V. Jackson (Artist), Sandra Jackson-Dumont (Lucas Museum of Narrative Art), Daudi Karungi (Afriart Gallery), Kibum Kim (Commonwealth and Council), Maria Lanko (Ukranian Pavilion, 59th Venice Biennale), Othman Lazraq (MACAAL), Alex Logsdail (Lisson Gallery), Sara Ludy (Artist), Bernard Lumpkin (Art collector, patron, educator), Evan Moffitt (Writer), Farah Nayeri (New York Times), Nicholas Olney (Kasmin Gallery), Rahraw Omarzad (Professor, artist, curator), Lindsay Pollock (Whitney Museum of American Art), Jan Prasens (The Fine Art Group), Filipa Ramos (Ph.D., writer, curator), Magnus Renfrew (ART SG & Taipei Dangdai), Tim Schneider (Artnet News), Victoria Siddall (Gallery Climate Coalition), Amar Singh (Art patron, activist), Tavares Strachan (Artist), Nicola Vassell (Nicola Vassell Gallery), and Diya Vij (Creative Time).

Get your ticket for the symposium here.  Download the program here.

About Talking Galleries
Talking Galleries is a Spanish non-profit think tank dedicated to generating knowledge and fostering debate regarding art galleries and the global art market. Founded in 2011, it holds an annual symposium in Barcelona and organises talks and conferences internationally, bringing together leading figures and newcomers to the art world to debate the possible impact of current challenges, share experiences, raise concerns, and re-think existing models.

About Schwartzman & Associates
Schwartzman & Associates was established in mid-2021 in offices in New York City’s Dia Art Foundation building. Serving the full spectrum of individuals and organizations, private and public, and involved in forming, assessing, or rethinking the possibilities of art collections, S&A is committed to a highly personal, dialogue-based process, providing a new and more elastic model of what an art advisory service can do and how it may function. In addition to offering the highest level of traditional advisory services to art collectors, S&A is an incubator for the short- and long-term health and evolution of a rapidly changing art ecosystem.

For further information, please contact: talking [​at​] talkinggalleries.com.