ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
For almost three centuries, Sotheby’s has been the place to discover the greatest stories of creativity. We’ve been the temporary custodians of some of the world’s finest treasures, which you can see on display in our galleries on any given day. Sotheby’s Talks is the podcast that celebrates art, culture, and collecting. Featuring conversations with tastemakers, collectors and luminaries from the world of art and culture, this series invites you inside the world of Sotheby’s: a place where you can find the extraordinary – including contemporary art, Old Master paintings, rare books, jewellery, and memorabilia. To step further into the world of Sotheby’s, you can visit any of our galleries around the world; they’re open to the public. For more information, visit sothebys.com.
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 16 days
Average audio length:
37 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
45 episodes
since June 17, 2025
episodic
IN THIS PODCAST 🔗
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
In this episode, we ask: when does fashion become art? Taking inspiration from Icons: 100 Extraordinary Objects from Sotheby’s History, published by Phaidon, the discussion explores how garments and objects acquire iconic status through design, craftsmanship, cultural memory, celebrity and provenan…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
This conversation marks Hassan Hajjaj's exhibition with Sotheby's titled My London Rockstars: Ends to Estates. Join the artist himself as well as curator, writer and broadcaster Ekow Eshun in a discussion moderated by Modern & Contemporary African Art specialist Hannah O'Leary. Together, they r…
In this episode, House & Garden’s Pratyush Sarup is joined by Dan Jackson, Head of Historic Buildings for Historic Royal Palaces alongside Julie Montagu, Countess of Sandwich and Custodian of Mapperton House, and Malcolm Winyard, Interior Designer who worked on Mapperton House.
Together they d…
In this episode, James Haldane, Executive Editor of Sotheby’s Magazine is joined by Daniel Carpenter, Executive Director of Heritage Crafts alongside Lucy Brown, CEO of the Hugo Burge Foundation and Louis Elton, Founder of Nations of Artisans and the British Cræft Prize.
Together, they discuss the…
In this episode, Veronique Forge-Karibian, advisor to the Milken Institute, a non-partisan economic thinktank, is joined by Natalie Livingstone, author of The Women of Nuremberg, alongside Catherine Ostler, author of The Renoir Girls, and Julia Fishel, Sotheby’s Head of Modern Day Sales. Together, …
In this episode, we explore the question: What does it mean to be an icon, and how do icons endure or transform over time? Recorded at Sotheby’s Hong Kong in May 2026, the panel brings together fashion designer Greg Lauren and Nicolas Chow, Chairman of Sotheby’s Asia, for a conversation on art, fas…
In this episode, Curatorial and Collections Director at the National Portrait Gallery Flavia Frigeri is joined by Sotheby’s Chairman of Contemporary Art, Europe, Claudia Dwek, and International Specialist of Contemporary Art, Lisa Stevenson. Their discussion traces Fontana’s radical interrogation o…
In this episode, arts broadcaster Kate Bryan is joined by Sophie de Stempel – artist and sitter for Lucian Freud – and Tom Eddison, Sotheby’s Head of Contemporary Art in London, for a conversation on four exceptional paintings that bring together Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud and Leon Kossoff at pivo…
In this episode, we ask the question: How do objects achieve iconic status? Taking inspiration from the book Icons: 100 Extraordinary Objects from Sotheby’s History, published by Phaidon, the discussion explores how a work of art can transform beyond its material form to become a universal cultural…
In this episode, which was originally recorded as a live event to celebrate the sale of the Sydney Denton: A Life Through Ceramics collection, Sotheby’s specialist Tamsin Golding Yee was joined by actor, art historian and collector Russell Tovey; Hepworth Wakefield curator Abi Shapiro and potter Fl…
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