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The Art Market Podcast is a weekly deep dive into the global art world, hosted by Georgina Adam and Tom Forwood, that pulls back the curtain on auctions, galleries, collectors and the money behind the masterpieces.
Georgina and Tom draw on their years of insider knowledge, offering a clear-eyed perspective to bring you what's really going on in one of the world's most fascinating, seductive and opaque industries.
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28. Cracks at Sotheby’s in the October Auctions, Pessimism at Talking Galleries, and Did the Art Market Kill Contemporary Art?
This week, Georgina and Tom cover a lot of ground. They begin with the aftermath of Art Basel Paris, forced to close early by the riots: who reimburses the dealers, the “Art Basel Paris Encore” online viewing room wheeled out as an emergenc
27. Riches and Riots at Art Basel Paris
This week, Georgina is reporting from a Paris, a city currently rattled by protests, and from Art Basel Paris (https://www.artbasel.com/paris), which pulled off a remarkable commercial week, despite announcing they are closing early in the
26. Frieze Week Special
This week, Georgina and Tom hit the road together, racing around London during Frieze Week to take the temperature of the city’s art fairs, from the biggest behemoths to the scrappy upstarts. They start at Minor Attractions (https://minorat
25. How to Sell £200 Million of Art in a Week (with Katharine Arnold)
For our Silver episode-iversary, Georgina and Tom sat down with Katharine Arnold, Christie's Vice Chairman of 20th/21st Century Art and Head of Post-War & Contemporary Art, Europe, to go behind the scenes ahead of Christie's major October s
24. ARTBO and the many Art Markets of Latin America (with Maria Sancho-Arroyo)
This week, Georgina and Tom dip their feet into the massive topic of the art market in Latin America. They are joined by Maria Sancho-Arroyo (https://www.instagram.com/maria.sanchoarroyo/), art market specialist, lecturer, and author of ¿In
23. Has Korea Survived the Hype? Frieze Seoul, Gwangju Biennale (with Vivienne Chow)
This week, Georgina and Tom are joined by journalist Vivienne Chow, for a look at the Korean and wider Asian art markets. They discuss Frieze Seoul after 5 editions, and how perhaps now after the boom in 2022, galleries are increasingly pla
22. Does Belgium have the best art market in the world?
Episode 22 is the the show's first city deep-dive, and Tom and Georgina chose Belgium, to answer question: is Belgium really home to more art collectors per capita than anywhere on earth? Tom went to Brussels for Brussels Art Week (https://
21. Building an Art World from scratch in Uzbekistan + the Art Business Conference
Episode 21 sees Georgina back from Uzbekistan, where a state-driven push is trying to conjure a cultural destination, and maybe even an art market, almost from nothing. She reports on the new Centre for Contemporary Arts (https://ccat.uz/en
20. Is There Such a Thing as a "Bad" Gallery? Plus, Exodus at Phillips
It's our 20th episode-versary! This week, Georgina and Tom tackle the contentious question of how do you tell a good gallery from a bad one? They set out what a primary market gallery is really selling collectors, and then get into the murk
19. How to Fail at Disrupting the Art Market (with Tim Schneider)
In Episode 19 of the Art Market Podcast, Georgina and Tom are joined by one of the great thinkers in the art market, Tim Schneider, the journalist and author of The Great Reframing (https://www.amazon.com/Great-Reframing-Technology-Will-Won
18. What makes Private Museums bad? + Are Galleries really 'not OK'?
Georgina and Tom are back from their summer break with two stories that have been bubbling away in the background all summer. First, private museums: with roughly 450 to 500 now in existence, almost all built this century, and prompted by t
17. REPLAY - Art Basel Qatar, Buyer's Premiums, Modigliani Cat Res, and Politics in Venice
The Art Market Podcast team are on summer holidays, so we have put together a special compilation of clips - four of the most popular and still relevant conversations from earlier in the year, for the new listeners who've joined along the w
16. Aspen Art Week, and the Power of US Collectors (with Julie Brener Davich)
In Episode 16 of the Art Market Podcast, Tom and Georgina are joined by Julie Brener Davich, art journalist, veteran of both Christie's and Sotheby's, and author of the Substack The Appraisal (https://juliebdavich.substack.com/), for a deep
15. Art as a Bad Investment, and why the Art Market has Stopped Growing (with Melanie Gerlis)
In Episode 15 of the Art Market Podcast, Georgina and Tom are joined by Melanie Gerlis, art market correspondent for the Financial Times and author of such tomes as Art as an Investment? (https://www.amazon.com/Art-Investment-Survey-Compara
14. Manipulating Auctions, Collapsing Galleries, Dodgy Dating, and the Artist Pension Trust (with Jon Sharples)
In Episode 14 of the Art Market Podcast, Georgina and Tom welcome their first ever guest: Jon Sharples, the London-based art lawyer who spends his working life at the legal coalface of the art market. They dive what auction manipulation, an
13. Q&A - $50m Dinosaurs, Fraudsters, Chinese Contemporary Art, and more
In the first Question and Answers episode, Georgina and Tom open the mailbag for the first ever listener questions episode. They answer questions about Gus, the T. rex that made $50 million at auction, why is the art market so vulnerable to
12. Riga Contemporary, Young Buyers and Classic Art, and Women in the Art Market
This week, Georgina reports back from Riga Contemporary (https://rigacontemporary.com/) in Latvia, where the stands cost only €500 (!), and asks what it takes to build an art market in a small country from nothing. She then turns to Classic
11. London's June Art Season: Not as Hot as the Weather
In this episode, Tom and Georgina dig beneath the headlines from the June London auctions, where a £458 million total looked like a triumph, until you notice that 65% of it came from a single sale. Tom asks whether London is really back, or
10. Art Basel and “Basel Exclusive,” Plus Pace’s Downsizing and the Broken Gallery Model
In the 10th episode (!!) of the Art Market Podcast, Tom reports from Art Basel (https://www.artbasel.com/) in Basel, quality on the floor, the new “Basel Exclusive” initiative, the spectacular Basel Social Club (https://baselsocialclub.com/
9. Poland’s Emerging Art Market, and the Rise of the Artist’s Agent
In Episode 9 of the Art Market Podcast, Georgina reports from Art Warsaw (https://www.artwarsaw.com/) on Poland’s remarkable transformation, a flourishing post-EU economy, serious new collectors and institutions, and world-class artists, bu
8. The New York Mega-Auctions, and the Rise and Rise of Guarantees
In Episode 8 of the Art Market Podcast, Georgina and Tom dissect a monumental week of New York auctions – the billion-dollar SI Newhouse sale at Christie’s, the Mnuchin estate at Sotheby’s, record Rothkos, a Pollock that broke records, but
7. The Venice Biennale SPECIAL
In Episode 7 of the Art Market Podcast, Georgina and Tom dedicate the whole episode to the Venice Biennale, fresh from the opening week. They explain what a biennale actually is, how its supposedly non-commercial pavilions and museum shows
6. The Modigliani Catalogue Raisonné, the Artnet/Artsy Merger, and Art Monte Carlo
In Episode 6 of the Art Market Podcast, Georgina unpacks the explosive new Modigliani catalogue raisonné from Marc Restellini with its 100 newly accepted works and 13 demotions, and the high-stakes minefield of authentication, lawsuits, and
5. Sotheby’s Under Drahi, Art Cologne Palma, and Milan’s Art Fair Shake-Up
In Episode 5 of the Art Market Podcast, Tom takes a deep dive into what has really been happening at Sotheby’s under seven years of Patrick Drahi’s ownership, the new round of borrowing, including from clients, the securitisation of art bac
4. Hong Kong’s Spring Auctions, South Korea’s Art Market Woes, and Next-Gen Collectors
In Episode 4 of the Art Market Podcast, Georgina and Tom explore the shifting dynamics of the Asian art market, from Hong Kong’s resilience to the rise and recalibration of South Korea. They look at the results of the Hong Kong March auctio
3. Ongoing Middle East Crisis, the 2026 Art Basel & UBS Art Market Report, and TEFAF Maastricht
In Episode 3 of the Art Market Podcast, Georgina and Tom begin with the postponement of Art Dubai (https://www.artdubai.ae/), and what ongoing instability in the Gulf means for the future of the Middle East as a global art hub. Next, Tom lo
2. The London Spring Auctions & the constant rise of Buyer’s Premiums
In Episode 2 of the Art Market Podcast, Georgina Adam and Tom Forwood break down the latest London art auctions, the first major test of the global art market in 2026. Despite geopolitical tensions and market uncertainty, the results reveal
1. Welcome to the Podcast! Plus, Art Basel Qatar, and Art-Backed Lending
In this very first episode of the Art Market Podcast, hosts Georgina Adam and Tom Forwood dive straight into one of the most talked-about events kicking off 2026 in the art market – the launch of Art Basel Qatar (https://www.artbasel.com/qa
