Every day you run into artists on the streets in SoHo or other creative people you want to do something with. There's nothing to match that chance encounter.
What I hope is I'll eventually be seen as an actual individual, not as some abstraction - an art dealer running a museum.
We're in a post-conceptual era where it's really the artist's idea and vision that are prized rather than the ability to master the crafts that support the work. Today, our understanding of an artist is closer to a philosopher than to a craftsman.
Art, film, fashion, music are all going on and interacting simultaneously. And L.A. is very receptive to that fusion.
Celebrity has become, for better or worse, an art form. An artist can use themselves as a medium to become a celebrity as a walking work of art.
Effective fund-raising is based on relationships.
From 1940 to the present, the art world and particularly Los Angeles, has undergone a transformation not unlike the Italian Renaissance.
Andy Warhol defined Pop Art.
Many of the museum directors who make an impact personally curate exhibitions.
There is a constant ebb and flow in art historical reputations. The reputation of even the greatest figures like Picasso are in flux.
One of the biggest things happening in the art world is this idea of expansion. No one embodies this aspect of what art is becoming better than James Franco.