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Published · transcript-backedGaurav Kapadia: belief
10 Dec 2025 Conversations with Tyler Gaurav Kapadia on New York City, Investing, and Contemporary Art
“I think you’re actually starting to see it now, where artists, more and more, when you separate the commercial aspect of someone’s art and the critical aspects, they are coalescing around a smaller group of names than you would have started with 10 or 15 years ago.”
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- Gaurav Kapadia
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- 10 Dec 2025
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- Conversations with Tyler
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…You really care. If you look at every period, in that period, it was unclear. There’s always a winnowing. There’s always almost like a Cambrian explosion that winnows down into the people that were most important. I think you’re actually starting to see it now, where artists, more and more, when you separate the commercial aspect of someone’s art and the critical aspects, they are coalescing around a smaller group of names than you would have started with 10 or 15 years ago. I expect that to continue, but honestly, my ability to predict who those names are — I’ll have educated guesses, but I’m not going to be perfect at it. Let’s say I ask you for one, and it’s not that you’re saying they’re your favorite, but most likely to end up in the canon 20, 30 years from now.…
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