heliumTALK #44: Jonathan LeVine - Part Five (english edition)

After a longer quiet period Jonathan and I have managed to talk
again in our ongoing series of conversations about the art world.
We talk about the current status of our galleries and about the
very early beginnings, we go from our huge shows back in the days
to the mega shows of today, we look at the changes and the new art
corporations as we call them, and ponder if we want to be a part of
this or not. We also try to answer the question of a listener about
opening a gallery today, like, if it makes sense in the first place
or what’s to consider, and doing this we both start to disagree and
get provocative, it really becomes a bit of a rant. But hey, this
one was pretty difficult, from a technological standpoint. We had
to switch platforms three times, because nothing really seems to
properly work for these long-distance conversations. It all worked
out fine in the end but postproduction was a bear and I edited a
lot in this one. To make it more fun though I decided to turn this
episode into a different kind of show, inserting some music by
Jonathans band Cyclone Static and picking up the guitar myself at
the studio.