Studio System
A Hollywood talent agency is betting big on the art world. Andrea Scott meets UTA’s Joshua Roth.
UTA’s head of fine arts, Joshua Roth, in his office in Los Angeles, 2015, in front of Alex Israel’s Self Portrait, 2014.
Roth, with Luis Flores’s piece Whatever You Want It to Be, 2015, at L.A.’s Grice Bench gallery, 2015.
Steve McQueen, Jim Berkus, Kayne West, Joshua Roth, LACMA director and CEO Michael Govan, and Elvis Mitchell, at LACMA, 2015.
Roth, at Katherine Bernhardt’s show at Venus Over Los Angeles, 2015.
Billy Al Bengston’s Herher, 1990.
Bengston, at home in Venice, California, 2014.
UTA Fine Arts clients Simon and Nikolai Haas (from left), at R & Company, in New York, 2014.
Roth, with the artist Peter Shire, at his studio in L.A.’s Echo Park.
Shire’s Plane Air III, 2007.