Hello and welcome to Masterpiece Conversations, a series of podcasts that in each episode brings together a leading curator and art dealer to offer a taste of what people are really talking about in a particular field.

I’m Thomas Marks, editor of Apollo magazine, and I’ll be your host for these discussions, in which we’re aiming to override the perceived ‘church and state’ separation between museums and the art market – or at least to explore what conversation and collaboration between them makes possible. We’ll be talking about what first drew our guests to their particular fields – and what’s really inspiring them right now about the art they’re immersed in. And we’ll dive into what the priorities are for museums and the market in that field at the moment – where they coincide and where they might productively diverge.

For this episode the focus is on contemporary sculpture. I’m delighted to be joined by Melanie Vandenbrouck, curator of sculpture at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, and by Mica Bowman, director at Bowman Sculpture, specialists in sculpture from 1860 to the present day.

It’s great to have you both with me…

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