A conversation between Noah Becker and Kendell Geers on restoring the power of artists to the centre of the art system.

Noah Becker has built a career at the intersection of art, music and publishing. In 2005, he founded Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, now one of the longest-running independent platforms for contemporary art criticism.

Twenty years later, The Best in the Art World, his new anthology with Michael Maizels, brings together key voices from the magazine and offers a sharp snapshot of how contemporary art and its discourse have evolved.

Beyond publishing, Becker is also an active painter and a distinctive voice on the art world itself, using social media to question how value, visibility and influence are shaped today.

This conversation explored how the art ecosystem is changing, and what it means for artists navigating a system increasingly driven by markets, institutions and media.