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Welcome to Seen. Where the art world meets the real world. Every two weeks we sit down with emerging and established artists to offer a genuine glimpse into their lives and minds - all in an authentic and totally straightforward manner. Carrie Scott is your host. After two decades working as a curator and art historian, Carrie firmly believes in the transformative power of art. If it"s seen.

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00:44:28

Matthew Lusk on Belonging, Art as Resistance and the...

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2026/09/22

Artist Matthew Lusk talks with Carrie Scott about art practice, community, and the American dream - and how getting diagnosed with ADHD changed everything about how he sees himself as a maker. Matthew is a sculptor, painter, installer, and builder working across media. He's spent the last few years reviving the Goudy Wildlife Club in Newburgh, New York, and building Winter Ours - a makeshift community center born during the pandemic. He's obsessed with questions about belonging, resistance,

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00:39:24

Ben Mazey on Quitting Fashion Design at Kenzo to Make...

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2026/08/18

Artist Ben Mazey was seven years into a career as design director at Kenzo in Paris when the pandemic hit. Stranded in Sydney with an empty apartment and an at-home clay kit, he decided to pretend he was on a self-directed artist residency. He never really stopped. In this episode, Carrie Scott talks with the ceramic artist about his unlikely path from fashion to sculpture, and the deceptively simple rules that shape his practice: a 20-by-50-centimeter rectangle of clay, manipulated just five ways

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00:28:11

Chloe Wise on Lettuce Chandeliers, Bread Handbags and...

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2026/07/14

This week, we're visiting artist Chloe Wise in her Manhattan studio. In this episode: the shift from painting a specific person to painting an archetypal woman, the biological necessity of laughter, the problem with calling women's success an Instagram story, and what Chloe made in 2019 that accidentally predicted the pandemic. It's a conversation about humor, vulnerability, the reverse ready-made, and why the best art might just be the stuff that evades description. Carrie's verdict at the end: she

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00:46:39

Suzannah Sinclair: The Artist the Art World Forgot to...

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2026/06/30

Carrie first encountered Suzannah Sinclair's work twenty-some odd years ago - Playboy pinups painted on wood, seductive and complicated and genuinely risky - and put her work in a show about women looking at women. Then they lost touch. This episode is the final part of their reunion.Suzannah is a painter's painter who built a real career in New York and Boston before leaving it all for rural Maine, two kids, and a ten-by-twelve studio. She's had gallery representation and lost it. She's been in

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00:37:31

Suzannah Sinclair: From Playboy Pinups to Egg Tempera...

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2026/06/30

Twenty years ago, Suzannah Sinclair was one of the most talked-about young painters around - making seductive, complicated paintings of Playboy pinups on wood that had the art world paying attention. Then she left New York, moved deep into rural Maine, had children, lost her gallery representation, and largely disappeared from the conversation.But she never stopped painting.In this two-part conversation, Carrie catches up with Suzannah after two decades — talking about the early work and why it

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00:32:40

Fair Play Art Fair: Ryan Stanier on Free Booths, Nude...

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2026/06/22

What if exhibiting at an art fair was completely free? That's the question Ryan Stanier - founder of The Other Art Fair - decided to actually answer.After 100 editions and a decade-plus of watching artists get squeezed by rising costs, Ryan stepped away, and then launched Fair Play Art Fair: 70 carefully selected artists, zero booth fees, £20 visitor tickets, and a revenue model that only works if the art sells.In this episode of Behind the Seen, Carrie and Ryan get into the full story: how The

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00:29:16

Avant Arte CEO Mazdak Sanii: The Next Generation of...

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2026/06/11

Download Avant Arte's New Generation Report: https://avantarte.com/insights/articles/new-generation-survey-2026 This year’s findings show that younger collectors are becoming an increasingly active economic and philanthropic force, spending meaningfully on artworks, visiting museums frequently, and demonstrating a growing appetite to financially support institutions.Mazdak Sanii didn't grow up in the art world. He grew up practicing French horn six hours a day, writing his dissertation on

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00:37:33

Jonathan Schwartz (Atelier 4): The Art Handler Who...

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2026/06/02

Jonathan Schwartz is the founder of Atelier 4, one of the most trusted names in art handling and shipping worldwide. But his entry into the business was less than auspicious - he answered an ad to drive art cross-country despite not really being a driver, worked for what he calls "a pirate outfit," and came home from vacation to find maggots in the sink.That was 36 years ago.Since founding Atelier 4 in 1989, Jonathan has built a company known for handling the art world's most precious and

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00:34:16

Painter Lottie Cole on Interiors, Forgotten Women...

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2026/06/01

What does a room reveal about the life lived inside it? For painter Lottie Cole, the answer is: everything.Lottie joins Carrie to talk about her new show at Long & Ryle Gallery in London - an exhibition of interiors inspired by Anglo-Irish novelist Elizabeth Bowen, whose famous family home, Bowen's Court, was sold and demolished by a farmer who wanted only its timber. The story of that house - and Bowen's relationship to it - became the beating heart of a new body of work that asks what we

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00:45:25

Phillip Toledano on AI, Deceit & Why Photography Was...

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2026/05/19

Carrie Scott sits down with conceptual artist Phillip Toledano to unpack his most audacious project yet - a show at Fotografiska Berlin attributed to a photographer who doesn't exist. We get into AI, historical surrealism, the death of photographic truth, and why his most provocative work is also his most personal.Explore Phillip's work: https://mrtoledano.com/ Join our mailing list: https://mailchi.mp/seen/waitlist⁠Follow us on Instagram:⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠https://www.instagram.com/watchseenart⁠About

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00:53:33

Painter Suzy Spence: The Hunt, the Bride, and the Widow

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2026/05/04

Painter Suzy Spence spent 35 years making work in New York before trading the city for a sprawling Vermont studio - and she never stopped being radical. In this conversation, we dig into her summer show at the Bundy Museum, the feminist politics woven into equestrian imagery, and why the best paintings should be, in her words, hopefully indescribable.Explore Suzy's work: https://suzyspence.com/ Join our free art newsletter:⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://mailchi.mp/seen/waitlist⁠⁠If you want to connect with

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00:42:01

How Anastasia Samoylova Photographed Her Way to The Met

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2026/04/21

This week on Have You Seen?, Carrie sits down with photographer Anastasia Samoylova - a Russian-born, Miami-based artist who has spent 15 years building one of the most distinctive bodies of work in contemporary photography, largely by refusing to be intimidated by anything.They talk about Ana's project pairing her contemporary Florida images with Walker Evans's archive, which landed her a show at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. About what it means to photograph a place that owes its entire

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00:46:48

Damian Elwes: Painting the Studios Where Masterpieces...

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2026/04/07

Damian Elwes spends years researching each painting, piecing together fragments of photographs and historical evidence to recreate the exact studios where masterpieces were made. He's probably the only person alive who's visited every Picasso studio and every Matisse studio. And he sometimes teaches art historians things they don't know about the artists they study.In this conversation, we explore his reluctant journey from Harvard playwriting student to forensic art historian, the

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00:50:26

Sculptor Syd Carpenter on 50 Years of Clay, Gardens,...

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2026/03/24

Syd Carpenter has spent fifty years expanding what clay can hold and now she's expanding beyond clay altogether. With a major retrospective at the Woodmere Art Museum and three additional exhibitions on view, Carpenter is having the kind of moment most artists dream of. But talk to her for five minutes and you realize she's not looking back. She's still inventing.In this episode, Syd talks about choosing art over medicine, the teacher who gave her space to become herself, why she rejects the idea

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00:43:30

Woodcarver Dan Webb on Time, Memory & Making the...

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2026/03/10

This week, Carrie is joined by Dan Webb, a Seattle-based woodcarver whose work has been astonishing her for 20 years. Dan creates sculptures that seem impossible: hands emerging from raw timber, Mylar balloons carved from wood that say "I love you" and actually mean it, gestures frozen in material older than nations.We discuss his fifth exhibition at Greg Kucera Gallery, "Yespalier," and explore why he's dedicated himself to an ancient craft in a contemporary art world, what it means to carve

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00:25:06

Finding Joy at Frieze LA with artist Richelle Rich

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2026/03/03

Artist and LA resident Richelle Rich joins Carrie to debrief on what turned out to be a landmark week for art in Los Angeles. Fresh from days of fairs, openings, and yes, a lot of driving, Richelle gives us her honest account of Frieze LA and the constellation of events that surround it.They talk about why this year felt so different from last year's emotionally charged, post-wildfire edition; what it means for LA to transform, however briefly, into a truly international art city; and whether

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00:46:56

The Master Photographer You've Never Heard Of (But...

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2026/02/24

Shop Harold Feinstein Estate Prints: https://www.carrie-scott.com/shop?category=Harold+FeinsteinCarrie sits down with Judith Thompson as she shares the intimate story of her husband, legendary photographer Harold Feinstein - a man who didn't just capture beauty, he taught people how to see it and live it.While his contemporaries focused on grit, Harold turned his lens toward joy. His philosophy? "When your mouth drops open, click the shutter." His teaching? "Your life is your

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00:32:25

Laurie Frick: How Data Becomes Art and Why...

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2026/02/18

Artist Laurie Frick makes portraits without faces. Instead, she transforms personal data into tactile artworks made from wool felt, leather, and sandblasted glass. A former tech executive who spent 20 years in Silicon Valley, Frick has been tracking herself obsessively—sleep patterns, location data, heart rate—since the early 2000s. In this conversation, she shares her radical vision: that surveillance could become a tool for self-knowledge, what Google executives told her when she pitched them this

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00:41:26

The Art World's Bloomberg Terminal: Arthur Analytics...

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2026/02/17

Sponsored by Arthur Analytics.Join for free: https://www.arthuranalytics.com/seenartWhat happens when someone from finance marries into an art collecting family and decides the industry desperately needs better infrastructure? You get Arthur Analytics—the platform that's consolidating auction data, exhibition histories, gallery sales, and art fair previews into what can only be described as the art world's Bloomberg terminal.In this conversation, Carrie sits down with James Crichton, founder

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00:20:31

Art Basel Qatar: The Truth Behind the Hype with Tina...

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2026/02/09

Art advisor Tina Corinteli joins Carrie from Doha to give us the unfiltered take on Art Basel's experimental new format. No traditional booths. Museum-style flow. All costs covered. Sounds dreamy, right?Tina breaks down what really happened: the stunning presentations (Sadie Coles!), the sales situation (complicated), and whether galleries would return if Basel wasn't footing the bill. Plus, she reveals what this fair was actually designed to do—and spoiler: it's not about moving

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