2025 TALKS PROGRAMMING ARCHIVE

The 2025 edition of Future Fair offered an intimate conversations lounge and curated tours of the fair organized by our collaborators. You can find archival footage of the conversations below.

 

New Models | Empowering Artists and Creating Entry Points for New Collectors

A conversation with with Bibi Zavieh, Founder of newcube (New York, NY), exhibiting artist Rachel Hakimian Emenaker and collector Pamela Hornik; moderated by Alexandra Steinacker, art historian, curator, writer, and founder of the All About Art podcast.

 

Matronage Salon: State of Women Artists

with exhibitor Destinee Ross-Sutton (Ross-Sutton Gallery), Eden Deering, (Director, PPOW), and Less than Half’s founder Hall W. Rockefeller.

 

Cultivating the Next Generation of Art Patrons: Engaging Millennials & Gen Z

with exhibitors Jenna Ferrey, Trotter&Sholer Gallery, Zina Reed, Director of Development at Sculpture Center, Future Fair co-founder Rachel Mijares Fick, and collector Monica Lee

 

Matronage Salon: Value and Values: Sustainably Investing in Women

with exhibitor Maryana Kaliner (KALINER), Rebecca Fine (Athena Art Finance, Yieldstreet), and Less than Half’s founder Hall W. Rockefeller

 

The Ecosystem of Collecting: Artists, Collectors, Gallerists

with exhibitors Leslie Weissman (Loft Projects), Charlotte Hailstone (Loft Projects), and Elena Platonova (PLATO), artist Vyczie Dorado and Less than Half’s founder Hall W. Rockefeller

 

Today’s Majority Minority: Latinx Power and Cultural Presence

with Aida Valdez (Founder, MAD54, Curator), exhibitor Antonio DelValle-Lago (Sabroso Projects), exhibitor Steve Rivera (CON ALTURA), and Karen Vindangos (Senior Manager of Social Media at The Met)

 

MAtronage Salon: Legacy Makers: Writing Women into Art History

with Nicole Shipley (Safe Space Pictures), Valerie Harris (independent writer and researcher), and Less than Half’s founder Hall W. Rockefeller

 
 

About the Matronage Salon

The Future Fair conversations lounge, a ‘The Matronage Salon by Less Than Half’, is dedicated to supporting women in the arts. 

Less Than Half seeks to inspire culturally-engaged women to find meaning in art as collectors and supporters of women artists. Matronage is a collecting philosophy that addresses the structures that maintain unequal gender representation in art history and the market.

The Matronage Salon programming features candid discussions with art world professionals that explore the past, present, and future position of women in the arts. Additional programming extends to topics such as curatorial approaches behind Future Fair and new economic models for contemporary art.