Our guest the owner of Off The Wall Gallery in Houston – Mimi Sperber. Mimi has been cracking at the art business for thirty-aeight years. In that time, she’s probably forgotten more then many art dealers will ever get the chance to lean.
Mimi and I first got to know each other in the early aughts when I started handling Ronnie Wood’s art career. Off The Wall was one of the earliest galleries to take on the art. It’s also what brought me out to Houston for the first time. It was then I learned two things. First, Mimi is a force to be reckoned with. Her palpable love for the art that she handles and equally deep feelings for the people she sells to drives her every day become a better art dealer then the day before. The second – I’m not built for Houston in the summertime.
Before we dive deep into our interview, I will share a bar-side story about my brief but vivid existential crisis. As I had to tangle with a fellow art dealer’s case for there being no difference between what we do and what any other luxury sales person does. Moreover, how art dealers who don’t get this suffer from the delusion of being something more. I’m not going to spoil where my internal struggle with this took me, But prepare yourself for a bit of up and down and meeting the “yelley” side of Danny.
Along the way I’ll also be sharing with you the story of the man who would be the superhero of the art business, if we had such things. The tale of Paul Durand-Ruel. An art dealer, who 140 years ago, singlehandedly insured that we would know these impressionist painters today as masters. And how without his championing of their art, they may have been lost to the trash-heap of art history.
And after all this, we end the show with a call out to those of you who are enjoying the show, to give a little art dealer love back. No, not money something much more important:
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So until next time my art-dealing brothers and sisters:
May the gallery gods make the coconuts fall at your feet.
Danny Stern
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Off The Wall Gallery
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Right Time, Right Art. Guest David Fahey of Fahey Klein Gallery.
"Looking for weird people creating weird things" - Guest Ruth Ann Thorn - The other half.
Is Sacha Baron Cohen Calling The Gallery World “S***T”? Guest: Cristy Cones
Galleries pricing art by the keystone rule and other fun ways to lose a business.
Big Art Sales…Because Of and Despite Our Best Efforts – Guest: Jim Hartley, Pt. 2
How the Iranian Revolution Started a Storied Career in Art. – Guest Jim Hartley Pt. 1
Everything I Needed to Know About Art Dealing I Learned in Kindergarten - Guest Alex Salazar Pt 2.
21- Are Millennials Not Buying Art, Or Just Not From You? - Guest Ruth-Ann Thorn Pt 1
Selling Art Off of a Gym’s Wall? – Guest Alexander Salazar
What in the Gallery Is Telling Them Not to Buy from You? - Guest Richard Perry, Part II
“I Demand Complete Loyalty” from the Collector – Guest Dewey Graff
Gallery Staffing: The Achilles Heel to the Art Biz. - Guest Heidi Leigh, Pt. 2
Who killed the “cool” in the art business? - Guest Richard Perry, owner of Centaur Gallery in Las Vegas
The Rolling Stones Art Dealing Lesson & Guest Heidi Leigh Of AFA Gallery
Is Old School Art Dealing The Only School? - Bob Chase Pt II -
Nim Vaswani - An Art Dealer By Any Other Name
Gallery owner Thad Markham Pt II: Why killing to join a gang is like selling art?
Bridgette Mayer: A Personal Tale Of Survival and Redemption
Tony Pernicone - An Odyssey in the Art Business.
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