Breaking the Art World Industrial Complex: Totebag Gate, Drama & Fall Predictions, 2025

Dear Daddy by The Art Daddy

Episode notes

Hold onto your tote bags and fragile egos—The Dear Daddy Podcast is back, and Fall Fairs 2025 broke the art world industrial complex. I’m spilling the juiciest highlights, roasting the ridiculous, and dropping bold fall predictions that’ll make collectors clutch their pearls. Expect show recaps, gallery gossip, and insider tea with Brittney Fanning, Rob Dimin of Dimin Gallery, and Josh Bailer Losh—because someone actually has to say it like it is.

We dive headfirst into Totebag Gate (yes, the scandal that shook the system), grill Jack Chase and James Sundquist of U-Haul Gallery, and drag the sorry state of art criticism via my latest viral article in Art Viral Observer. Art, chaos, and opinions sharper than a gallery opening stiletto—served loud, messy, extra sassy, and unapologetically fabulous.

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the art daddyart worldartistcontemporary artdaddiesart fairs Brittney FanningJason Bailer Losh Robert Dimin