Collector Talk: A Desire to Collect Pieces of History

Splitting his time between California and Milan, Jason Swartz has rich experience in the global music festival business as well as in tech and social media. He started collecting contemporary art four years ago with a work by Tschabalala Self, which was then donated to MOCA Los Angeles last year. He has also?donated?other artists’ works to the collections of the Hammer Museum, Pérez Art Museum Miami, and others. He is currently on the Acquisitions?Committee at MOCA Los Angeles.

LARRY’S LIST talked to Jason about how he started from being obsessed with fossils as a kid to collecting contemporary art; his wish to have a unique and easily accessible space to exhibit part of his collection; why getting to know artists is a big part of the passion; how his expertise in tech and social media helps his art collecting; and how social media is influencing the art market during and after the pandemic.??

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