To understand the inner workings of the art world, especially as it plays out in New York City, you need to know Debi Wisch. She’s the Emmy-nominated art documentary producer of The Price of Everything, The Art of Making It and Pretty Dirty, which are widely regarded as provocative, clear-eyed depictions of the modern art scene and its most prominent players. She’s also a private collector, an influential advocate of emerging artists, and a board member of Film at Lincoln Center. Her next film Monuments, inspired by the exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, is already in the works.
In other words, she does what very few can. Maybe being Canadian helps (she’s originally from Winnipeg), but she’s found a way to climb inside the mysterious bubble that is the art market, crack it open and make movies about it that actually make it to the silver screen. “It's more accessible than people think. Oh, art is on a pedestal. No, it's not,” she insists, before detailing the myriad ways in which to access it.
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