{"id":3478,"date":"2016-03-29T17:24:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T21:24:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=3478"},"modified":"2017-04-06T04:59:49","modified_gmt":"2017-04-06T08:59:49","slug":"thea-westreich-wagner-and-ethan-wagner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/thea-westreich-wagner-and-ethan-wagner\/","title":{"rendered":"Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5596\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-3478-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/ethanandthea.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/ethanandthea.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/ethanandthea.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><figure id=\"attachment_3636\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3636\" style=\"width: 932px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3636 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Thea_Ethan_9838-by-Jason-Schmidt.jpeg?resize=696%2C538&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Thea_Ethan_9838 by Jason Schmidt\" width=\"696\" height=\"538\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Thea_Ethan_9838-by-Jason-Schmidt.jpeg?w=932&amp;ssl=1 932w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Thea_Ethan_9838-by-Jason-Schmidt.jpeg?resize=300%2C232&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Thea_Ethan_9838-by-Jason-Schmidt.jpeg?resize=768%2C593&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Thea_Ethan_9838-by-Jason-Schmidt.jpeg?resize=624%2C482&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3636\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A portrait of Thea and Ethan by Jason Schmidt<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Thea Westreich Wagner\u00a0and\u00a0Ethan Wagner\u00a0began collecting art individually in the 1980s and have continued their life-defining passion since they became a couple in the early 1990s. They recently donated some 850 works to the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Centre Pompidou. Each institution has described their donations as &#8220;transformative.&#8221; Works from their donations were on display at the Whitney from November 2015 to March 2016, and an exhibition of their gifted works will open at the Pompidou in Paris this coming June.\u00a0In 2013 Wagner and Westreich Wagner authored\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.phaidon.com\/store\/art\/collecting-art-for-love-money-and-more-9780714849775\/\"><span class=\"s2\"><i>Collecting Art for Love, Money and More<\/i><\/span><\/a><i>\u00a0<\/i>(Phaidon Press).\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Thea Westreich Wagner<b>\u00a0<\/b>worked for a number of years as a volunteer in the visual and performing arts before opening her art consultancy, Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services, in 1982. As an advisor she worked with private collectors throughout the United States and Europe, helping\u00a0build distinguished collections focused variously on modern art, contemporary art, photography, and film and video. In support of her firm\u2019s dedication to research and analysis she assembled a 13,000 volume art library, which she and her husband, Ethan Wagner, are gifting in large part to the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The couple turned over ownership of their art consultancy to two long-time colleagues in April, 2015.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Ethan Wagner<b>\u00a0<\/b>began his professional career as a senior staff member in the California Legislature. He later worked in several election campaigns. In the mid-1970s he co-founded a public-policy issue advertising firm and an election campaign firm, each of which soon attracted a nationwide clientele. In the early 2000s he sold his public affairs business interests and joined his wife, Thea Westreich Wagner, in the management of her art consulting firm. Individually and together the couple has published twenty-four artist&#8217;s books, with several new projects underway.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3637\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3637\" style=\"width: 713px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3637 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Untitled-2.jpg?resize=696%2C670&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Untitled 2\" width=\"696\" height=\"670\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Untitled-2.jpg?w=713&amp;ssl=1 713w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Untitled-2.jpg?resize=300%2C289&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Untitled-2.jpg?resize=624%2C600&amp;ssl=1 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 696px) 100vw, 696px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3637\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Produced and directed by\u2026, 2010, Ryan Gander, Ed. 3 of 3 + 1 AP<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/ethanandthea.mp3Subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | TuneIn | RSS | Click here to join mailing listThea Westreich Wagner\u00a0and\u00a0Ethan Wagner\u00a0began collecting art individually in the 1980s and have continued their life-defining passion since they became a couple in the early 1990s. 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