Downtown Dealers Podcast: Featuring Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and Alma Luxembourg - Features

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At the fourth edition of Independent 20th Century, the live conversation series Downtown Dealers continued with a special “uptown edition” episode, bringing together Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, founder of Salon 94 in New York, and Alma Luxembourg, partner at Luxembourg + Co. in New York and London, moderated by Puck’s Art Correspondent Marion Maneker. They discussed how selling art is “more like detective work” than a retail experience, how fairs offer opportunities to meet new people, and how historical art can carry contemporary relevance.

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Downtown Dealers Podcast: Featuring Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn and Alma Luxembourg - Features - Independent Art Fair

Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn is a pioneering gallerist, art advisor, and curator who founded Salon 94; a dynamic and influential gallery that has reshaped the landscape of contemporary art. Since 2002, she has expanded from her original 94th Street home-gallery to multiple locations, including the present 17,500-square-foot headquarters near the Guggenheim Museum in 2021 to a well tread public venue that boasts over 2,000 visitors a week. Known for championing artists who challenge conventions, she has elevated and mainstreamed diverse creators such as Marilyn Minter, Judy Chicago, Karon Davis, and Magdalene Odundo. Greenberg Rohatyn has redefined boundaries between art and design and introduced Salon 94 Design in 2017, showcasing radical designers and object makers from Gaetano Pesce to Rick Owens. As a board member of White Columns, Performa, and the Art Dealers Association of America, she continues to shape the direction of contemporary art and how it is experienced in the world today.

Alma Luxembourg is a partner at Luxembourg + Co. gallery (formerly Luxembourg & Dayan gallery) since 2011. Luxembourg + Co. operates both in London and New York, specialising in Post-War art. Among its various activities, Luxembourg + Co. exhibits in Art Basel, Art Basel – Hong Kong, Frieze Masters, Art Genève, TEFAF New York, and The Art Show presented by the Art Dealers’ Association of America (ADAA). The gallery’s repertoire of exhibitions spans from historical monographic displays of artists such as Marcel Duchamp (2009), Domenico Gnoli (2012), Alberto Burri (2015), César (2013), and Alberto Giacometti (2016), to contemporary displays of artists such as Richard Prince (2015), Jeff Koons (2010), and Alex De Corte (2015), among others. Among her previous positions Ms. Luxembourg was the European Director of Private Sales for Contemporary Art at Sotheby’s, London (2008 – 2011), and a Specialist in Post-War & Contemporary Art at Christie’s, London (2004 – 2008). Previously to that she worked in the office of renowned art dealer Marc Blondeau in Geneva, Switzerland (2002-2004).

Marion Maneker was previously the President of the art publications at Penske Media Corporation, the publisher of HarperBusiness and a features editor at New York Magazine. He founded Art Market Monitor which produced the Artelligence conference, podcast and newsletter. He has covered the art market for more than 25 years.