Kenny interviewed Francis Naumann on February 2026Published: February, 2026Duration: 1:41:09
E.A.T. Engadin Art talks x I.C.E. St. Moritz 2026: Abstract Speed
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The Baer Faxt Live from Art Basel 2025
Artist, writer, and lecturer Kenny Schachter joined The Baer Faxt’s Founder and CEO Josh Baer for The Baer Faxt Live from Art Basel 2025, recorded live from Basel on the fair's VIP opening day. In this freewheeling conversation, Schachter and Baer discuss the staying...
A Good Faith Exchange: 37:42 with Kenny Schachter. (Life is Short. Do You!) Unedited
In his first lecture since suffering spinal cord surgery, this talk pinpoints the parallels between recovering from life changing injury and forging a career in a post-gallery art world. The University of Coimbra, Department of Art, April 30th, 2024
Kenny Schachter on AI, art, and staying self-taught
Kenny Schachter is not your typical art world professional — and he doesn’t claim to be. A self-taught curator, artist, and writer based in New York, Schachter has spent over three decades challenging the boundaries between art, technology, and commerce with a blend...
Is Kenny Schachter “Punching Up”?
Kenny Schachter , Reigning vice of social media (cropped Hogarth) 1 , 2025 , Robotically rendered to oil on canvas , 28 by 46.5 in. (KSC009) © Kenny Schachter. Photo by Cary Whittier. Courtesy of the artist and Jupiter Contemporary, Miami Beach, FL When you’re a young...
An Alpine art safari through the Engadin with artist Kenny Schachter
It’s a bright and sunny day in the Engadin valley when we meet Kenny Schachter at Villa Flor in S-chanf. Uncompromisingly outspoken, Kenny has made more than a handful of enemies in the multi-billion-dollar dream factory that is the contemporary art market. Like a...
Karsten Greve interviewed by Kenny Schachter
Kenny interviewed Karsten Greve on January 2025Published: January 7, 2025Duration: 1:06:53
Back in the saddle
In his first lecture since suffering spinal cord surgery, this talk pinpoints the parallels between recovering from life changing injury and forging a career in a post-gallery art world. The University of Coimbra, Department of Art, April 30th, 2024
Kunstplaats Vonk Podcast: Kenny Schachter in conversation with Lies Serdons
Kenny Schachter is an artist, curator, art dealer, and critic from New York City. This episode turned out to be a special one for me. There is so much information in Kenny's head that after this hour-long conversation, I felt like I had only scratched the surface....
Kenny Schachter in conversation with Noah Becker
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Keep Hope Alive Lecture
In conjunction with the exhibit at Franciso Carolinum - Linz, Austria September 2023 to January 28, 2024
Bad Education Podcast: The Performative Turn in Art Criticism
Watch full 3:05:00 Marathon version direcrtly at the Bad Education Youtube channel
MARS AI ART TODAY: Kenny Schachter in conversation with Mars Eve
Kenny Schachter – Living in a Digital World, Technology and Free Speech
Meet Kenny Schachter. Kenny Schachter is many things in the art world – critic, artist, dealer, you name it. But he would tell you first he's an outsider. Published: August 2, 2023Show: Ready, Go! | Season 1 | Episode 11Host: Anthony RondinoneDuration: 57 min.*** You...
The Ledge: Kenny Schachter
Kenny Schachter is an artist, critic, writer, and art dealer. He has decades of experience in the art world and his outlook and experience are second to none. He has written critical articles for many prestigious publications, done podcasts, interviews, art shows, and...
What Matters: Kenny Schachter
Published: June 26, 2023Show: What Matters | Season 1 | Episode 6Host: Julio FelixDuration: 53 min*** You can also listen on Apple podcast
Kenny Schachter “Outsiders”
Kenny Schachter is many things in the art world - critic, artist, dealer, you name it. But he would tell you first he's an outsider. Is he though? In this episode, Anna and Kenny connect by feeling like an outsider in the art world. Published: June 20, 2023Show: Kenny...
Kenny Schachter in conversation with Hazel Dooney
Kenny Schachter shares a glimpse of his fascinating mind. He is an artist, curator, lecturer in art history, digital art, and art and economics; and writer of a notorious column at artnet.com, with a book on NFTs coming out in November. Kenny's exhibition Slow Food is...
Philosophy with Kenny Schachter
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150 Media Stream @ EXPO CHICAGO: Kenny Schachter in conversation with Bianca Bova
Introduction: 00:01 - 03:34Conversation: 03:35 - 46:30Q & A: 46:34 - 59:45 Friday, April 14th, 2023 at 150 N Riverside Plaza, Chicago "Chicago is, was, will be…" by NYC based artist Kenny Schachter is an immersive video installation created with Artificial...
ART + TECH TODAY
IGTV Live: Conversation with Tina Feng
Tea with SG
Kenny Schachter @kennyschachter is an art world hybrid--artist, critic, journalist, curator, dealer, NFT expert... We focus specifically on his video work for much of this conversation, as we'll showcase a few of the hundreds he's made over the years this Friday...
SVA Senior Workshop – Lecture 4
* This is 1 of the 7 lectures given to SVA Senior Students from March 17th - April 28th, 2020, in New York.
SVA Senior Workshop – Lecture 3
* This is 1 of the 7 lectures given to SVA Senior Students from March 17th - April 28th, 2020, in New York.
Why “NFTism” is life itself: Interview with Kenny Schachter
Kenny Schachter. Money Money Money, 2021>American artist Kenny Schachter (1961-), currently based in New York, has been creating artworks, organizing exhibitions in museums and galleries, and teaching at universities for more than 30 years. Art lawyer Yayoi Shionoiri...
Hit the Road. Kenny Schachter: Holiday from Hell
Es Vedrà is a monumental rock formation in Ibiza said to radiate healing powers and a sense of tranquility. I visited the Spanish island retreat in July to attend an exhibition by the painter Eva Beresin who I discovered on Instagram three years ago, and who has...
SVA Senior Workshop – Lecture 2
* This is 1 of the 7 lectures given to SVA Senior Students from March 17th - April 28th, 2020, in New York.
SVA Senior Workshop – Lecture 1
* This is 1 of the 7 lectures given to SVA Senior Students from March 17th - April 28th, 2020, in New York.
It’s all good. Or not. NFTs and the Art Market
A conversation with Artist/Curator/Writer/Dealer, Kenny Schachter, and New York editor of Spike Magazine, Dean Kissick, on how the emergence of NFTs in a fast-evolving digital economy is having real world impact in a drifting art market. Moderated by Sotheby's...
Art Basel: Why Kenny Schachter criticizes Mother Teresa?
«Teresa» by Kenny Schachter at Art Basel. | © Raphael RauchWhy are you putting Mother Teresa in the spotlight? Kenny Schachter*: I have been involved with digital art for 30 years. Crypto art enables me to sell my art. Otherwise, I'm very critical of crypto art. It's...
What is NFTism? Kenny Schachter
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Kenny Schachter on Taking the Art World to Task
Published: April 20, 2022Show: Time Sensitive | Season 5 | Episode 59Hosts: Spencer Bailey and Andrew ZuckermanDuration: 1:30:00 Kenny Schachter has an insatiable appetite for all things art. The polymathic art dealer, curator, teacher, writer, critic, collector, and...
Arranging Tangerines Podcast Episode 8
Kenny Schachter & Morton St Partners: Unsafe At Any Speed
Devon Dikeou, “WHAT’S LOVE GOT TO DO WITH IT?”: Unsafe At Any Speed, 1991 Ongoing, 18 x 24 inchesRecently opened exhibition “Unsafe At Any Speed,” curated by omnipresent artist, writer, curator, and dealer, Kenny Schachter, is a return not only to his curatorial New...
Kenny Schachter’s Successes And Challenges As An NFT Artist In Web3
Veteran dealer, artist, writer, collector, curator, and lecturer. Kenny discusses his involvement in the art market, his foray into NFTs, and web3 culture NewForum Epi. VI. "We are in the middle of a digital art renaissance, the first time in history that there's...
IGTV Live: Art, NFTs & our Future
Cerebral Women Art Talks Podcast
Kenny Schachter: Art Above All
Writer, curator, lecturer and artist Kenny Schachter at his home in Manhattan, New York. Source: Felix ImWriter, curator, lecturer, artist, NFT evangelist -- Kenny Schachter is an art critic whose criticism is often directed at the art world itself. "I'll always...
Arbitrarily Deterministic Podcast: Featuring Kenny Schachter
Hosted by Kenconsumer and originally broadcast live on www.keithfem.com, Arbitrarily Deterministic focuses on the intersection between art, technology and popular culture and the people who help blur those lines. The first episode has long time art market veteran,...
A conversation with Daniel Heiss — a curator at the Center of Art and Media (ZKM) Museum in Karlsruhe.
Freakonomics: “A Fascinating, Sexy, Intellectually Compelling, Unregulated Global Market.” (Ep. 484)
The art market is so opaque and illiquid that it barely functions like a market at all. A handful of big names get all the headlines (and most of the dollars). Beneath the surface is a tangled web of dealers, curators, auction houses, speculators — and, of course,...
NBC Nightly News: Digital art dominating Miami’s famous Art Basel
Art Basel Miami Beach opens in a younger, richer, techier city
Such tech will be hard to avoid in Miami this week as artists and brands that were relatively unknown in 2019 make their presence felt. Within the fair, the curator-dealer turned non-fungible token (NFT) artist Kenny Schachter has joined forces with Galerie Nagel...
Floor is Rising NFT Podcast
[0:58 – 3:31] Kenny was introduced to NFTs in September 2020. Made art prior to NFTs but never felt comfortable calling himself an artist. After learning about NFTs, he made some NFTs and realized how revolutionary NFTs would be to the art world. Wrote about NFTs in...
Purrcast
Art World 3.0: Gallery and Fair Consolidation, Auction action, and what’s a Nft-ism (and should I care?)
ParlayMe Episode 22
Update on Crypto Mutts and NFTism
Yale Fall 2021 Talk
#SwizzArtBiz: Why Kenny Schachter loves NFTs
NFTism: Post Pump & Dump Babysim
Art World Gadfly: An Appreciation of the Art, Writing, and Life of Kenny Schachter
Dealer (1999)“Art world gadfly” is the phrase I use in my syllabus to describe Kenny Schachter (American, b. 1961, Queens, New York). His commentaries in Artnet News and other journals are required reading, and it is for his perspective on contemporary art and its...
Olive Allen, me & NFTism
Schachter-istically outspoken
Death be not proud (it is bound to happen soon er or later) Video still © Kenny SchachterGuess the riddle! He is a direct, simple, and honest person – sometimes harsh – but infinitely enjoyable. Although he doesn't take himself too seriously, he is deathly serious...
Whitehot Magazine Art World Podcast
NFTs: The booming world of digital art
This week The Cultural Frontline is looking into the art world’s latest phenomenon…NFTs or Non Fungible Tokens. And if you’re wondering exactly what that means, join Sophia Smith Galer to find out more about this new form of digital art. NFTs hit the headlines this...
The NFT Awakening, Bridging Art Worlds, and Gummy Bear Tires with Kenny Schachter
We got to have an incredibly fun chat with Kenny Schachter about his background in the traditional art world, the awakening of NFTs, and all things ART! We touch on the "pre-beeple" phase and how money has influenced the NFT space (both positively and negatively), the...
How Kenny Schachter Became an NFT Evangelist Overnight
As much of the art world is beginning to rebound from the pandemic, the art market got a major shot in the arm itself: in little more than a week, New York’s big three auction houses held a spate of absolutely mammoth art sales, bringing in a cumulative $1.3 billion...
Otis College of Art and Design Talk
IGTV Live with Yayoi Shionoiri
Art in the age of NFTism
Storming the ‘last bastion’: Angst and anger as NFTs claim high-culture status
It’s as immutable as a transaction on the blockchain: Nonfungible tokens, or NFTs, have permanently made their mark on art history. While the movement has some members of the arterati swooning at the notion of unwashed digital hordes laying siege to their domain, the...
KENNY SCHACHTER : on generosity, Zaha Hadid and unlearning, in conversation with Marko Milovanovic
KENNY SCHACHTER collects, curates, makes and writes about art. He has been curating contemporary art exhibits in museums and galleries for in excess of 20 years and has taught art history at New York University, The New School for Social Research, and Columbia...
How Can We All Make it into the Future?
Istanbul '74 Podcast Episode #45: In this episode, artist, writer, collector, curator, and all-around general provocateur Kenny Schachter talks to writer Ann Binlot about the lack of privacy dictated and defined by the social media platforms and usage of technology,...
ART ART ART PODCAST #10
Artist on Art #100: Kenny Schachter
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Private View with Maeve Doyle featuring Kenny Schachter [Part 2]
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Private View with Maeve Doyle featuring Kenny Schachter [Part 1]
E.A.T. Engadin Art talks: Conversation with Cristina Bechtler
No Reserve: Episode 3 – Art Market, Museum & Collecting Insights
University of Zurich Art Market Studies: The Art Market, The Pandemic & The US Presidential Elections
Alexa Chung and Kenny Schachter
Sotheby’s Institute of Art Lecture
Art F City Explain Me Podcast Interview: How Trumpian is the Art World?
Interview with Kenny Schachter: How Trumpian is the Art World?
The New School Talk
Tracey Emin Artist Talk on her show “Detail of Love”
Kenny Schachter Meets (Literally) Eva Beresin
The School of The Art Institute of Chicago Lecture
Istanbul Bilgi University Lecture
Magnus Class: Artworld interview
Superfine! Art Fair: The Artist Business Plan Podcast
Interview with Roya Karimi on the occasion of Khor Online Exhibition of Middle Eastern Art
Aspen Art Museum: How to… survive an art world scandal
A no-holds-barred art market interview without the interviewer
Drew University Talk
American Glutton: Kenny Schachter: Artist, Writer, Contemporary Art Curator
Ethan talks with Kenny Schachter about the habits we form as children and how to change those in adult life. They discuss the idea of taking a negative and turning it into a positive, body dysmorphia, binge eating, and trying to have control over the food that...
Yale Masters of Business of Administration Talk
Kenny Schachter
Bianca:Thanks for taking the time to talk with me today, Kenny. My favorite people in the art world to interview are the ones who have rather fluid careers, and you certainly fit the bill. You've been a dealer, a market reporter, a collector, a teacher. Kenny: And...
Talk ART: Kenny Schachter (QuarARTine special episode)
Russell & Robert meet Kenny Schachter for Talk Art's Season 6 Finale... and what better way to close this special quarantine season than with art world ROYALTY!!!! Kenny is truly a polymath - dealer, artist, writer, collector, curator, lecturer and all-round...
The Golden Age of Art Fraud: A (not so) brief history of the contemporary art market
Kenny Schachter talks to David Robbins about Accrochage and more
David Robbins: The book’s title, Accrochage, is a French term meaning a number of things: a violent clash, a car accident and, in the art world, it’s slang for a gallery exhibition made from inventory. In other words artworks that weren’t designed to go together are...
ArtLife with Avery Andon Podcast: Kenny Schachter
Avery Andon sits down with Art Journalist, Dealer and Impresario Kenny Schachter to discuss the state of the art world during the COVID-19 pandemic and predictions for the future! Also available on:
The Art Market is the Best Judge of Good Art
Position: Against We can end this before we start. The best judge of good art is simple and unequivocal: experience, education, scholarship, and passion. The market, and namely money which is what we are talking about, is a snapshot of current whims, fashions and...
Life After Art School
Our Life After Art School event on 29 June 2011 was an honest, wide-ranging discussion of issues ranging from how to deal with the vagaries of the gallery system to the importance of emotional maturity. Here’s an extract. The speakers: Kenny Schachter, Collector, art...
More Crap on the Art Market: A Lecture on Art as Asset for a Bank
Alfred Barr, the first curator at one of the very first museums of modern art (that would be the Museum of Modern Art in New York, which opened in 1929), stated that art is more important than war. I think that is a profound and telling statement especially in light...
The most groundbreaking art is coming from the East
I hate to start off on such a negative note but it’s is an absurd, jingoistic and presumptuous sentiment to even ask the question as to whether Asian or European art is more or less groundbreaking than art from any other place on the planet. Funny how American art...
Design Relationships: The ways design relates to commerce and the ways it touches people
I don't differentiate between a chair, a sculpture or a car. As Sam has said to me in the past, cars are the most ubiquitous form of design in our lives, experienced on a daily basis literally thousands of times. Yet we don't see them while driving and leave them...
The Role of the Vehicle Designer – Where is it Headed?
Re: car design, we don't notice it when we drive one, then park it and leave it. Cars are the most ubiquitous and overlooked form of design in our lives. Personally, i don't differentiate between a well done Porsche, plate or Picasso. However, much of contemporary car...
Upcoming Film on Michael Landy
A large part of Michael Landy’s career is about garbage, which is rather interesting as our lives are consumed with so much of it on a daily basis. in addition to installations Landy makes phenomenal black and white drawings that are exquisite in their detail, with...
ArtTactic Podcast
In this episode of the ArtTactic Podcast, Kenny Schachter, writer, independent curator and owner of Kenny Schachter Rove dissects the results of Sotheby's and Christie's first Major Contemporary auctions of the season, which were held last week in London. Further, he...
Alternative Investment Evening
The formal component of Antion Olaio’s art imbues painting with another dimension altogether for there are figurative paintings with overlaid text, accompanied by a music video sing-along. These multi-media constructions function as story telling devices with built-in...
BBC One: Art in Troubled Times
The big moment for publicly funded art in Britain was the Second World War. "Something absolutely remarkable happened during the war", says actor Simon Callow. "The theatre suddenly was right at the heart of society." After the war, the idea of "art for all" led to...
Basquiat
QUESTIONS ASKED TO ADDRESS: 1. Should we be glorifying art that at it's inception flourished by desecrating and mutilating public and private property. 2. How did it really happen overnight that a guy living on the streets becomes the toast of New York society and the...
Contemporary Curatorial Practice Panel at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (San Francisco)
SQUARE TIMES The art world appears to be the most backward thinking, anti laissez-faire environment in which to implement projects; compared even to the accounting or legal realms. Information, contacts, and resources are guarded like state secrets. The de rigueur...
The Do-It-Yourself Dealers
IT IS RAINING ON THE MORNING OF MAY 3, nasty, chilly showers that add a smell of damp to the scant charms of the shabby-genteel Gramercy Park Hotel. The third annual Gramercy International Contemporary Art Fair will officially open here at 6, and by noon Kenny...
