Season 3 Episode 4 with Elizabeth Dee

Giving Back is Dead

Elizabeth Dee joins Scott Stover on Giving Back is Dead for a conversation about her new non-profit initiative, the New York Gallery History Project at the Contemporary Art Library. Elizabeth holds a unique position and perspective in the New York art infrastructure as CEO and Co-Founder of the beloved Independent Art Fair. She has also been the curatorial advisor for the most important video art collection in the U.S., owned and operated an art gallery for 20 years, served as the founding director of an artist-endowed foundation, co-produced art movies, worked as an associate professor at NYU on the art market, and acted as a trustee at Mount Holyoke College Art Museum and the Filmmakers Cooperative at the New American Cinema Group.

We speak to Elizabeth about who she is and how she got to where she is today, discussing her various positions in the art world. We explore the success of the Independent Art Fairs within the context of a very crowded art fair calendar and a nervous art market. Finally, we talk about the dominance of the U.S., with New York as its capital, within the global art market.

The New York Gallery History Project "aims to showcase important and influential New York City gallery exhibitions from the past in an online archive that is free and available to all." It seeks to ensure that the historical record is accurately told and to provide scholarship for future generations of gallerists and curators.