Bonnie Brennan

additions as well.

And I saw some comments by your CEO, Bonnie Brennan, a couple of years ago, where she was saying this amazing thing about the role of Christie's as she saw it was to be in a sense, educators for new people coming to auctions.

And helping to guide those new clients, introduce them to new categories.

I just wondered if you could speak to how you see this responsibility, because Georgina and I have spoken on this podcast in various points about whose responsibility is it in this whole art market? to help collectors on their journey, bearing in mind there's lots of people out there who are quite happy to not help the collectors at all and just sell them whatever they can.

fuel everything that we do.

In fact, the greatest responsibility that we have for the art market is to make sure that the next generation really do care about art and about buying art.

And so I think that's very much what Bonnie, our CEO, how she views it.

It's a great privilege.

That's a big part of your beat.

One thing that jumped out at me was you had a conversation with Bonnie Brennan, the CEO of Christie's, and she said that she, uh, Christie's is going to launch a pop culture division.

Very much so.

What does that entail?

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