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Jennie C. Jones on Why You Should Listen to Her Paintings from 2022-02-25T00:11:48
Right now at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, there's an exhibition of paintings on view that might remind you of the postwar abstractions of painters like Barnett Newman and Agnes Martin, w...
ListenThe Black Art Visionary Who Secretly Built the Morgan Library from 2022-02-17T22:30
It's Black History Month, and we wanted to take the opportunity to devote this episode to the story of a Black museum leader. We know that people of color have historically been excluded from posit...
ListenHow Lucy Lippard and a Band of Artists Fought US Imperialism from 2022-02-10T22:30
If you were out and about in 1984, you might have noticed a striking poster wheatpasted everywhere. It featured two heroic silhouettes pulling down a statue, clearly avatars of the People topping t...
ListenArt, Lies, and Instagram: How Catfishing ‘Collectors’ Duped the Art World from 2022-02-03T22:30
This week’s story begins with an art purchase made like so many others... . A collector notices his peers talking up an artwork on Instagram, so he messages the artist’s dealer and makes a purchase...
ListenHer Family's Art Was Stolen During World War II. Here's How She Got It Back from 2022-01-27T22:30
Yesterday, a sumptuous portrait of a woman with a confident regard and rouged cheeks, porcelain skin, and a powdered up do reminiscent of cool whip, hit the block at Sotheby's auction house. Titled...
ListenHow the Met’s Astonishing Surrealism Show Rewrites Global Art History from 2022-01-21T12:28
If, perhaps, someone in a trench coat who was smoking a pipe and had a gigantic eyeball for a head were to approach you a street on a particularly sunny night and ask you what surrealism was, you'd...
ListenHow the Artist Pension Trust Became a Gigantic Fiasco from 2022-01-13T22:14
Everyone knows the dirty little secret of the dog-eat-dog art market, which is that while an artist creates the artwork, the vast majority of the value of that artwork is created—and captured—by ot...
Listen6 Predictions on How the Art Industry Will Transform in 2022 from 2022-01-06T22:30
Here we are, at the beginning of a new year, a time that, at least in the past, used to be full of hope and anticipation, but after the last two years requires a deep breath and a brace for impact....
ListenRe-Air: How NFTs Are Changing the Art Market as We Know It from 2021-12-30T22:30
We did it, 2021 is in the can. We are about to finally make the transition into what is hopefully going to be a great, exciting, and healthy 2022. Here at The Art Angle, we are very excited to cele...
ListenThe Most Astounding Archaeology Revelations of 2021 (Can You Dig It?) from 2021-12-23T22:30
’Tis the season, once again, it's The Art Angle Christmas episode. Can you believe we made it through another one of these incredibly intense pandemic years? It's almost hard to believe and so we f...
ListenFrom Handbags to Hard Cash, How Dealers Woo the Artists They Want to Rep from 2021-12-16T22:30
The art market is a notoriously woolly place where deals are done with hushed shakes behind closed doors. This of course applies to auctions, art sales and art fairs, but it's also true of somethin...
ListenA Gossip Columnist Walks Into a Bar at Art Basel Miami Beach from 2021-12-09T22:18:56
Last week, fresh panic spread around the globe as a new COVID variant of unknown power called Omicron came into view, threatening to potentially plunge society back into lockdown just as we were be...
ListenWhere Do NFTs Go From Here? An Interview With Christie’s Noah Davis from 2021-12-02T22:33
The NFT market exploded this spring and has kept on exploding all year long. Artnet News Editor-In-Chief Andrew Goldstein is joined on the show by one of the guys who lit the fuse on NFTs, Noah Dav...
ListenRe-Air: How High-Tech Van Gogh Became the Biggest Art Phenomenon Ever from 2021-11-25T22:30
This week, those of us who live in the United States are celebrating Thanksgiving. For many of us that means a lot of family time. For Artnet News Executive Editor Julia Halperin, it means visiting...
ListenIntroducing the Art Angle from 2021-11-22T14:01:12
A weekly podcast that brings the biggest stories in the art world down to earth. Go inside the newsroom of the art industry's most-read media outlet, artnet News, for an in-depth view of what matte...
ListenHow an Art Collective Brings Artworks From the Past Back to Life from 2021-11-18T22:32:48
For artists, writers, and musicians, copyright is an invaluable safeguard, protecting intellectual property of original works of authorship. But eventually, no matter how jealously a large corporat...
ListenHow the CryptoPunk OGs Lit the Fuse for the NFT Boom from 2021-11-11T22:30
In 2017 Canadian software developers, Matt Hall, and John Watkinson debuted what would become a landmark project in the early crypto art movement, the CryptoPunks. Released through their company La...
ListenHow a Fiery Breakup Sparked the Biggest Art Auction in Decades from 2021-11-04T20:24
This week we aren't so much going down to earth as we are climbing up into the art market stratosphere, where only the wealthiest collectors reside. All eyes are on this tip top of the market as th...
ListenWhy Horror Movies Keep Haunting the Art World from 2021-10-28T19:25:08
If you consider yourself a dedicated fan of contemporary art, then you're probably no stranger to watching things onscreen that the average person would find bizarre, upsetting, or even downright g...
ListenJudy Chicago on How to Build a Lasting Art Career from 2021-10-21T21:03:22
If you are familiar with the artist Judy Chicago, chances are you associate her with one piece: her magnum opus The Dinner Party, an epic work of installation art featuring elaborate place settings...
ListenElusive Artist Ryoji Ikeda Wants You to Bask in His Data-Verse from 2021-10-07T15:45
It’s hard to describe the experience of a work by Ryoji Ikeda. The Japanese artist has worked as an experimental musician, performer, researcher, and art-maker, and he brings it all together for im...
ListenHow Art Basel Did (and Didn't) Change After a Two-Year Hiatus from 2021-09-30T21:28:44
An art industry ritual returned after an unprecedented hiatus: on a Monday evening last week, art advisors, dealers, and collectors ceremoniously filed into the formidable fairgrounds of Switzerlan...
ListenWriter Roxane Gay on What Art Can Teach Us About Trauma and Healing from 2021-09-23T21:26:20
For the 100th episode of the Art Angle, Artnet News’s Style Editor, Noor Brara had the pleasure of speaking with critically acclaimed author, professor, and social commentator Roxane Gay, whose wri...
ListenKeltie Ferris and Peter Halley on the Mysterious Joys of Making a Painting from 2021-09-16T23:13:42
Artists Peter Halley and Keltie Ferris first met sometime in the mid-2000s, at the height of the abstract painting revival. Halley, a pioneering Neo-Conceptualist renowned for his disciplined grids...
ListenHow Facebook and the Helsinki Biennial Share a Vision for the Art World’s Future from 2021-09-14T22:41
Some of the most impactful stories to surface this past year have revolved around three major issues affecting the world as a whole: there’s a worsening climate emergency, a global health crisis an...
ListenArtists in Residence at the World Trade Center Reflect on 9/11 from 2021-09-10T11:10
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Thousands of people who worked at the trade center or who witnessed the events of 9/11, or who lost loved ...
ListenGenesis Tramaine on How Faith Inspires Her Art from 2021-09-02T16:59:45
For centuries, Western art-making centered around religious imagery during the middle ages and Renaissance icons. Altar pieces and stained glass windows were regarded as meditative objects through ...
ListenThe Bitter Battle Over Bob Ross's Empire of Joy from 2021-08-26T18:20:39
Love him or laugh at him, Bob Ross is absolutely one of America’s best known painters. A quarter century after he died in 1995, a Bob Ross Experience debuted in Indiana last October as a site of pi...
ListenHow Monaco and Accra Are Spinning the Art World in Opposite Directions from 2021-08-19T21:04:41
It’s late August, and for the first time in two years, it looks like the fall art season could be jam-packed with major in-person art-market events––even if some of them don’t normally happen at th...
ListenHow Britney Spears's Image Inspired Millennial Artists from 2021-08-12T20:49:10
I'm sure you've heard it: For the past few months, the U.S. news media has been following the saga of pop star Britney Spears and the unusual conservatorship arrangement which prevents her from con...
ListenHow the Medicis Became Art History's First Influencers from 2021-08-05T22:04:21
If you're a fan of Italian Renaissance art and you were in New York right now, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a treat for you. It's called The Medici: Portraits and Politics, 1520-1570 and it o...
ListenHow Two Painters Helped Spark the Modern Conservation Movement from 2021-07-29T18:54
Right now there is a powerful, highly ambitious, and deeply relevant art show in New York that weaves together the histories of conservation and American art in a way most people haven't seen befor...
ListenThe Hunter Biden Art Controversy, Explained from 2021-07-22T21:05:18
This episode is devoted to Hunter Biden. Why? If you read the news, click on any cable network or walk down the street. You've probably heard that everybody is in a tizzy about the son of the presi...
ListenLegendary Auctioneer Simon de Pury on Monaco, Hip Hop, and the Art Market’s New Reality from 2021-07-15T20:16
This week, the subject of our show is less a story and more of a phenomenon, and his name is Simon de Pury. A legendary auctioneer who has actually been called the "Mick Jagger of auctions," de Pur...
ListenLegendary Auctioneer Simon de Pury on Monaco, Hip Hop, and the Art Market’s New Reality from 2021-07-15T20:16
This week, the subject of our show is less a story and more of a phenomenon, and his name is Simon de Pury. A legendary auctioneer who has actually been called the "Mick Jagger of auctions," de Pur...
ListenLegendary Auctioneer Simon de Pury on Monaco, Hip Hop, and the Art Market’s New Reality from 2021-07-15T20:16
This week, the subject of our show is less a story and more of a phenomenon, and his name is Simon de Pury. A legendary auctioneer who has actually been called the "Mick Jagger of auctions," de Pur...
Listen18-Year-Old NFT Star Fewocious on How Art Saved His Life (and Crashed Christie's Website) from 2021-07-08T20:58:32
Last month, a new name entered the art discussion when a suite of five digital artworks sold in a special sale at Christie's auction house in New York for $2.1 million. And it's a name you might no...
ListenRe-Air: How Photographer Dawoud Bey Makes Black America Visible from 2021-07-02T02:15
The Art Angle team is taking this week off, but we'll be back July 9 with a new episode. In the meantime, here's one of our favorite recent episodes, featuring photographer Dawoud Bey on the occasi...
ListenTyler Mitchell and Helen Molesworth on Why Great Art Requires Trust from 2021-06-24T21:00:22
Today one of the swiftest rising stars in the art world is a 26-year-old wunderkind photographer who is equally comfortable shooting heads of state for magazine profiles as he is putting together s...
ListenHow High-Tech Van Gogh Became the Biggest Art Phenomenon Ever from 2021-06-17T21:00
Unless you are living under a particularly out of touch rock, you’ve probably heard of the immersive Van Gogh craze that is currently sweeping the globe. In a sign of our strange times, the ninetee...
ListenHow Much Money Do Art Dealers Actually Make? from 2021-06-10T21:05:05
We’ve all seen the movie with the glamorous art dealer, maybe a villain who lives in a cutting edge palatial home, drives an impressive car and speaks with an impressive accent. That pretty much is...
ListenShattering the Glass Ceiling (Re-Air): How Collector Catherine Levene Went From an Art Startup to Running One of America’s Top Media Companies from 2021-06-07T12:18:02
We wanted to make sure you had a chance to check out a very special new podcast miniseries we’ve rolled out. It’s called Shattering the Glass Ceiling, and its dedicated to spotlighting boundary-bre...
ListenShattering the Glass Ceiling (Re-Air): Curator Lauren Haynes on Working to Forge a Fuller Story of American Art from 2021-06-03T21:28:22
For the past couple of weeks, we’ve been running a little experiment here at the Art Angle—namely our first-ever breakout mini-series, called Shattering the Glass Ceiling, dedicated to remarkable w...
ListenWhat Does the Sci-Fi Art Fair of the Future Look Like? from 2021-05-27T23:43
It’s a cliche to say that going to greater China is a bit like visiting the future, where technology is threaded into every aspect of daily life in ways that are both wondrous and scarily dystopian...
ListenHow Kenny Schachter Became an NFT Evangelist Overnight from 2021-05-21T00:53:28
As much of the art world is beginning to rebound from the pandemic, the art market got a major shot in the arm itself: in little more than a week, New York’s big three auction houses held a spate o...
ListenHow Breonna Taylor's Life Inspired an Unforgettable Museum Exhibition from 2021-05-14T13:07:20
Right now, there's an exhibition at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, that is gaining international attention for a tragic reason. That’s because the show, titled “Promise, Witness, Re...
ListenShattering the Glass Ceiling: Art Dealer Mariane Ibrahim on the Power of the Right Relationships from 2021-05-12T01:40:33
In the final installment of our mini-series Shattering the Glass Ceiling, Artnet News's art and design editor Noor Brara spoke with pioneering gallerist Mariane Ibrahim, founder of her eponymous ga...
Listen'Art Detective' Katya Kazakina on How She Lands Her Epic Scoops from 2021-05-07T00:06:14
The biggest story at Artnet HQ this week is not, as you might imagine, the opening of the first IRL art fair in more than a year, it's the launch of Artnet News Pro! After being in the works for li...
ListenShattering the Glass Ceiling: Curator and Author Legacy Russell on Rebuilding Art Institutions From Within from 2021-05-05T01:18:47
In the third episode of the Art Angle's podcast miniseries "Shattering the Glass Ceiling," Artnet News's London editor Naomi Rea spoke to curator and author Legacy Russell. Russell is currently ser...
ListenHow Frieze Managed to Put Together the First Art Fair of the Pandemic from 2021-04-30T00:34:54
You know the scene at the end of Bong Joon-ho's 2013 film Snowpiercer where they leave the hellish bullet train and see that the frozen Tundra is starting to melt and nature is coming back to life?...
ListenShattering the Glass Ceiling: Art Collector and Media Executive Catherine Levene On Empathetic Leadership from 2021-04-27T21:52:58
The second installment of this four-part podcast miniseries features Artnet News senior writer Sarah Cascone's interview with art collector and media executive Catherine Levene. Levene's 25-year c...
ListenShattering the Glass Ceiling: Curator Lauren Haynes on Working to Forge a Fuller Story of American Art from 2021-04-22T21:41:53
Welcome to Shattering the Glass Ceiling, a podcast from the team at the Art Angle where we speak to boundary-breaking women in the art world and beyond about how art has shaped their lives and care...
ListenThe Art Angle Presents: Shattering the Glass Ceiling from 2021-04-19T19:57
As we begin to emerge into the new realities of 2021, the challenges of the past year have made vividly clear the importance of having leaders in all areas of society who reflect the true diversity...
ListenHow Photographer Dawoud Bey Makes Black America Visible from 2021-04-15T18:46:19
This month, the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd has brought the racial justice protests of the last summer viscerally back into the pub...
ListenKAWS Is the World's Most Popular Artist. Why? from 2021-04-08T21:59:21
Art shows are a thing again! At least in New York, at least for now, and at least in the socially distanced way that we've come to see as normal. But it's really great news for the art museum-going...
ListenHow the Pandemic Totally Changed the Art Market from 2021-04-01T23:55:20
Amazingly enough, it's now the spring of 2021. That means the weather is warming, the grass is greening, and the little buds are drinking in the cool rain. But more to the point, it means that we'...
ListenHow NFTs Are Changing the Art Market as We Know It from 2021-03-26T01:35:10
As we all now know, NFTs are the talk of the art world these days—they're everywhere. It's gotten to the point where you can't have a simple conversation with someone without them bringing up NFTs,...
ListenLorraine O'Grady on the Social Castes of the Art World from 2021-03-18T22:26:59
This month, as the world limps its way toward spring and, hopefully, a gradual return of normality, the Brooklyn Museum has opened a show called “Lorraine O’Grady: Both/And” that provides valuable ...
ListenRe-Air: Why Artist Trevor Paglen Is Doing Everything He Can to Warn Humanity About Artificial Intelligence from 2021-03-12T00:00
In fall 2019, a new app called ImageNet Roulette was introduced to the world with what seemed like a simple, fun premise: snap a selfie, upload it to a database, and wait a few seconds for machine...
ListenWhat Will Be the Fate of the Benin Bronzes? from 2021-03-04T20:26:03
The story of the Benin Bronzes is one of the bloodier, more shameful chapters in the history of the Western world’s "encyclopedic" museums. Looted from the Kingdom of Benin in 1897 by the British i...
ListenThe Haunting History of the Benin Bronzes from 2021-02-25T22:08:48
For decades, one of the most urgent moral debates in the museum world has revolved around restitution, with art institutions around the world facing demands that masterworks in their collections be...
ListenThe Surprising Lessons of FDR’s New Deal Art Programs from 2021-02-18T22:13:55
Shockingly enough, we are now coming up on the one year anniversary of the lockdown of the United States. At this point last year, a creeping dread had begun to blanket the globe. And then in March...
Listen5 Steamy, Whirlwind Romances That Changed Art History from 2021-02-11T21:03:36
In case you’ve forgotten—in which case, shame on you!—Valentine’s Day is right around the corner again, and we here at the Art Angle are all atwitter.We just love love, particularly when it comes t...
ListenKickstarter Founder Perry Chen on Art in the Age of Hypercomplexity from 2021-02-04T21:34:40
It’s no secret that today we live in a world of dizzying, gobsmacking, and ever-intensifying complexity. Everything from the computers we carry in our pockets to the vaccines fighting the pandemic ...
ListenMoMA Curator Paola Antonelli on Design for the Post-Pandemic World from 2021-01-29T00:14:21
Right now, one of the most talked-about issues at hand for members of the international workforce is: what comes next? For those of us fortunate enough to work from home, will we persist in our paj...
ListenArtist Daniel Arsham on How He Built a Creative Empire from 2021-01-21T23:14:39
When he was just 12 years old, Daniel Arsham had a near-death experience. Living in Florida with his parents, Hurricane Andrew struck in 1992, careening across the coastal state and taking with it ...
Listen8 Predictions on How the Art World Will Shift in 2021 from 2021-01-14T20:33:04
No one could have foreseen the giant boomerang of a year that was 2020. With its trifecta of health, financial, and social crises, it could not have been predicted by even the most studied of sages...
ListenCan Art Help End the Era of Mass Incarceration? from 2021-01-08T01:30:49
Right now, more than 2 million people are living behind bars in prisons across America. California's San Quentin Prison is currently at 117 percent capacity. And with the coronavirus pandemic runni...
ListenRe-air: The New Yorker's Peter Schjeldahl on His Adventures in Life as an Accidental Art Critic from 2021-01-01T00:07:45
As 2020 draws to a close, the Art Angle team is taking some time off to reboot for the new year and prepare for a lineup of exciting new episodes. In the meantime, we've prepared this throwback fro...
ListenThe Art Angle Presents: A Star-Studded Art History Game Show (With Kids!) from 2020-12-24T18:59:40
What happens when you pair three-to-six year-old children with esteemed art-world figures to play an art-historical guessing game? For our final episode of 2020, we decided to find out. We invited ...
ListenJeffrey Deitch on How to Succeed in the Art Industry from 2020-12-18T00:30:10
Jeffrey Deitch is that rare type of creative who has a keen understanding of business: he holds an undergraduate degree in art history from Wesleyan University, and an MBA from Harvard Business Sch...
ListenI Survived Zombie Art Basel Miami Beach from 2020-12-10T22:21:02
Every December for the better part of the past two decades, a throng of well-heeled dealers, collectors, artists, celebrities, publicists, and lookie loos descend on a small stretch of Miami Beach ...
ListenWhy Awol Erizku Is So Much More Than Just Beyoncé’s Baby Photographer from 2020-12-04T00:42:26
The journey to becoming one of the most acclaimed photographers of his generation—at the tender age of 32—wasn't exactly a straight line for Awol Erizku. Born in Ethiopia and raised in the Bronx, E...
ListenRe-air: The Rise and Fall of Anne Geddes, Queen of Baby Photography from 2020-11-25T18:01:31
The Art Angle team is taking this week off for Thanksgiving, but we thought we'd share one of our favorite episodes from the past year to see you through this unconventional holiday weekend. Pict...
ListenWhy New York’s Art Scene Will Reign Supreme Post-COVID from 2020-11-20T01:26:09
The news cycle for the past seven months has been dominated by staggering data points that seek to quantify the scope of the pandemic's effects on the United States and beyond. Within the art world...
ListenHow Does the Art World Feel About Joe Biden’s Victory? from 2020-11-13T00:44:08
Well, it finally happened. Former vice president Joe Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, have won the United States presidential election. They ran on the promise of a return to democracy a...
ListenHow Pepe the Frog Explains America's Toxic Politics from 2020-11-05T00:28:40
When San Francisco-based artist Matt Furie created a zine in 2005 featuring a rag-tag group of immature adolescent animals, including a heavy-lidded frog named Pepe, he had no idea that his humble ...
ListenEd Ruscha and Jimmy Iovine on How Art Can End the Trump Era from 2020-10-29T01:43
One of the most salient images of America's tattered democracy is Ed Ruscha's Our Flag, a startling painting of Old Glory, shredded and flapping against a dark sky.
ListenHow Frida Kahlo Can Change Your Life (for Better or Worse) from 2020-10-23T00:52:10
Frida Kahlo is, by every metric, one of the most famous artists in the world. Recently the priciest Latinx painter at auction, she has also been the subject of solo shows at prestigious institution...
ListenThe Painter and the Poet: A Tragic Love Story from 2020-10-16T00:25:58
Through October 24, Galerie Lelong in New York is presenting "Gate to the Blue," a striking show of paintings by the late artist Ficre Ghebreyesus that opens a portal to his hugely complex, visuall...
ListenCould TikTok Save a Broken Art World? from 2020-10-09T03:19:58
For many emerging artists, social media platforms have become an indispensable platform for jumpstarting their careers. But years after Instagram sparked its first zeitgeist-shaping visual trends, ...
ListenWhat New York's Art World Looks Like Post-Lockdown from 2020-10-02T02:39:04
To call the mood of this past spring in the New York art world "apocalyptic" would hardly be an exaggeration. Although it was on March 22 that the rapid spread of COVID-19 pushed governor Andrew Cu...
ListenHow a Powerhouse Hollywood Agency Is Turning Artists Into Stars from 2020-09-25T01:21
It used to be that even the biggest, brawniest Hollywood talent agencies restricted their clientele to... well, Hollywood. That meant actors, filmmakers, screenwriters, and not much else. But Tinse...
ListenHow the World Health Organization Is Using Art to Fight the Pandemic from 2020-09-18T00:00:22
Ask the average informed citizen what the responsibilities of the World Health Organization are, and they're likely to name initiatives like funding medical research and coordinating with politicia...
ListenFuturist Doug Stephens on What Art Dealers Can Learn From the Retail Revolution from 2020-09-11T00:00
In a July 2020 article published in the Business of Fashion, Canadian futurist Doug Stephens opined on the likely realities of the commercial ecosystem that will emerge from the Great Shutdown. He...
ListenRe-air: The Unbelievable True Story of the Mystical Painter Agnes Pelton from 2020-09-04T00:00
Art history thrives on stories of fearless visionaries leaving behind the lives they’ve known to embark on journeys into uncertain lands for personal enrichment and artistic illumination. But few a...
ListenThe Secret Art History of Burning Man from 2020-08-28T01:39:06
Today, practically everyone on earth knows about Burning Man, the countercultural extravaganza that draws tens of thousands of true believers to a barren landscape in Nevada's Black Rock Desert eve...
ListenHow Rupert Murdoch's Son Became Art Basel's Savior from 2020-08-21T05:27:02
Earlier this summer, rumors emerged that a member of the Murdoch media dynasty—most (in)famous for building the far-right Fox News—may be sniffing around a major investment in the MCH Group, the fi...
ListenHow the Wellness Revolution Just Arrived in the Art World from 2020-08-07T04:01:50
A blue neon sign reading "You Belong Here" has become a new kind of beacon in Long Beach, California recently. The light sculpture by artist Tavares Strachan exists to welcome visitors to Compound,...
ListenArt Critic Jerry Saltz on Why It's Time to Build a New Art World from 2020-07-31T03:22:06
It's not often that you find an art critic—or anyone, for that matter—who can claim upwards of 400,000 Instagram followers, a Pulitzer Prize, and appearances on an original Bravo reality series as...
ListenHow Black Women Are Leading a Grassroots Art Revolution from 2020-07-24T04:30:08
Just days into the start of 2020, CityLab published an article analyzing which major American cities are the best, and the worst, for Black women residents. The report took into account a variety o...
ListenHow the Heck Did Auction Houses Just Sell Almost a Billion Dollars in Art During a Global Pandemic? from 2020-07-17T00:03:25
Each May, as the flowers bloom and the evening light lingers, the world's largest auction houses hold their marquee spring sales in New York, enabling perennial market leader Christie's, its arch-r...
ListenHow Hank Willis Thomas Is Making Politics an Art Form from 2020-07-10T02:39:13
Hank Willis Thomas is a busy man. The 44-year-old photographer, sculptor, filmmaker, and writer was already a force within the rarefied world of visual art before he decided to embrace politics on ...
ListenThe Unsettling Truth Behind What Columbus Monuments Really Stand For from 2020-06-26T02:12:55
In cities across the world over the past month, activists have been taking aim at symbols of oppression in the form of monuments: splashing them with paint, tagging them with graffiti, and most im...
ListenMeet the Smithsonian Curator Who Turns Protesters’ T-Shirts Into National Treasures from 2020-06-19T03:00
Although 2020 isn't even halfway done yet, the worldwide health crisis and the global uprising over civil rights already guarantee that this year will be one historians study forevermore. As challe...
ListenWhy Artist Trevor Paglen Is Doing Everything He Can to Warn Humanity About Artificial Intelligence from 2020-06-12T01:17
In fall 2019, a new app called ImageNet Roulette was introduced to the world with what seemed like a simple, fun premise: snap a selfie, upload it to a database, and wait a few seconds for machine...
ListenFour Artists on the Front Lines of the George Floyd Protests from 2020-06-05T11:46:25
As American citizens entered Memorial Day weekend this year, the nation was already in turmoil. Nearly 100,000 lives had been lost to a colossal public-health crisis, with a disproportionately high...
ListenThe Rise and Fall of Anne Geddes, Queen of Baby Photography from 2020-05-28T01:36:30
Picture this: a doughy, apple-cheeked infant nestled in between the soft petals of a dew-kissed flower, sound asleep, like the start of a real-life fable. Almost everyone who conjures that mental i...
ListenChina’s Most Adventurous Museum Director on Global Art’s Post-COVID Future from 2020-05-21T00:56:06
In late January, Philip Tinari, the director of Beijing's pioneering UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, was in Davos, Switzerland for the latest outing on the non-stop international carousel of even...
ListenYouTube’s No-Nonsense Art Guru on How to Unlock Your Inner Artist from 2020-05-14T06:30:05
How many times have you heard someone in a museum scoff "I could do that" in the presence of a solid-black canvas or an obtuse conceptual installation? You're not alone, and frankly, curator-turned...
ListenHow Marina Abramović Became the Center of a Vast Satanic Conspiracy Theory from 2020-05-07T00:44:32
Just when you thought the spring of 2020 couldn't get any weirder, a Microsoft ad starring performance artist Marina Abramović caught the attention of conspiracy peddler Alex Jones and his followe...
ListenThe New Yorker's Peter Schjeldahl on His Adventures in Life as an Accidental Art Critic from 2020-04-30T04:54:20
In his 2019 essay "The Art of Dying," acclaimed critic Peter Schjeldahl describes Patsy Cline's voice as "attending selflessly to the sounds and the senses of the words... consummate." The same cou...
ListenAi Weiwei on the Coronavirus, China, and Art's New Role from 2020-04-23T05:17:48
Ai Weiwei is not shy about tackling the big issues. Despite winning international acclaim for his interdisciplinary, boundary-pushing art, the Chinese-born artist is better known in some circles fo...
ListenHow Photography Is Being Revolutionized in the Coronavirus Era from 2020-04-16T12:33:18
Today, Antwaun Sargent is known as the preeminent critical and curatorial voice for one of the most important movements in contemporary photography. Along with its accompanying exhibition, his book...
ListenWhy Germany's COVID-19 Relief Plan Is the Envy of the Art World from 2020-04-09T04:56:41
Although the coronavirus pandemic is first and foremost a public-health emergency, it rapidly proved to be a deep financial emergency, too. With businesses and cultural institutions around the worl...
ListenThe Unbelievable True Story of the Mystical Painter Agnes Pelton from 2020-04-02T05:04:50
Art history thrives on stories of fearless visionaries leaving behind the lives they've known to embark on journeys into uncertain lands for personal enrichment and artistic illumination. But few a...
ListenThree Ways Coronavirus Will Transform the Art World from 2020-03-26T04:33:47
In the past month, the world—and by extension, the art world—has changed so drastically that it is almost unrecognizable. While the novel 2019 coronavirus continues to threaten countries around the...
ListenWhy Art and Fashion Need Each Other Now from 2020-03-19T09:11:32
For its first-ever live episode, recorded at the 2020 Armory Show, the Art Angle brought on couture wunderkind Sander Lak, the creative director of the white-hot Sies Marjan, to discuss the interse...
ListenWhat Does an Art Scene Look Like Under the Coronavirus? from 2020-03-10T14:14:05
Usually, the first weeks of March are intensely busy ones for the international art community, as they lead up to the Art Basel Hong Kong art fair: an unmissable event that galleries, museums, and ...
ListenHow an Art-Dealing Prodigy Became the Market's Most Wanted Outlaw from 2020-03-03T05:36:44
A man on the run, millions of dollars missing, major artworks with multiple claims to ownership: these aren't plot points in the latest Hollywood blockbuster, they're elements of the real-life ris...
ListenIs the Museum of Ice Cream the Future of Art, or Just a Sugar Rush? from 2020-02-25T05:53:14
There's a buzzy new museum taking over New York, and it boasts the types of specs that would make competitors drool. Now housed in a prime 25,000-square-foot building in the hip SoHo neighborhood, ...
ListenWhat Is Saudi Arabia Trying to Do With Contemporary Art? from 2020-02-18T11:30:37
Some 16 months after the brutal murder of Washington Post journalist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of state agents, the organization behind the namesake Southern California bien...
ListenHow Hollywood Finally Fell for the Art Market from 2020-02-11T06:47:42
The Oscars may be over, but Hollywood is about to be overrun with a different kind of A-lister this week when the art world descends on Tinseltown for the second edition of Frieze Los Angeles. Des...
ListenHow Jeffrey Epstein Made the Art World His Hunting Ground from 2020-02-04T13:31:45
Over the past few weeks, the long-awaited trial of former Hollywood rainmaker Harvey Weinstein has unfolded in harrowing fashion, with one after another of his accusers taking the stand to allege p...
ListenHow the Art World Fell Under the Spell of the Occult from 2020-01-28T13:38:52
You don't hear the words "witch hunt" much nowadays, unless they are being deployed by a certain US President. But the term is increasingly relevant—in a much more literal sense—to any tour through...
ListenNicolas Party on Why Being an Art Star Is Like Being in Love from 2020-01-21T09:17:39
After a period of reckoning with a less-than-inclusive art historical canon, it seems increasingly clear that viewers (and dealers) are once again ready to embrace fresh young talent from the land ...
ListenWhat Do the Protests in Hong Kong Mean for Art? from 2020-01-14T13:38:02
Above and beyond its well-established status as a global financial center, Hong Kong has spent the 21st century rapidly transforming into an international nexus for the art market: welcoming to bot...
ListenFour Predictions on How the Art World Will Transform in 2020 from 2020-01-07T07:00
Whether you ascribe to the centuries-old Georgian Calendar or slept through the clock striking midnight, ushering in a new year is often a time for reflection on what's past, and what is to come. ...
ListenHow to Understand the Radical, Viral Artworks That Defined the 2010s from 2019-12-31T13:52:18
As a barrage of retrospective pieces from countless publications (including Artnet News) made clear throughout December 2019, the opening moments of 2020 signal a new decade, not just a new year. L...
ListenHow an Artist’s $120,000 Banana Ate the World from 2019-12-24T04:25:08
At the start of December, the Art Angle team had other, loftier ideas for the show's first Christmas episode. Maybe we would dig into the most important developments in the art world this past year...
ListenNew Yorker Art Scribe Calvin Tomkins on What Makes Great Artists Tick from 2019-12-17T13:47:02
Six decades ago, an editor at Newsweek magazine summoned a young journalist named Calvin Tomkins out of the foreign-news department to interview the legendary conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp, who ...
ListenIs the Art World Causing a Climate Catastrophe? from 2019-12-15T15:38:57
For our latest episode, team Art Angle traveled to Art Basel Miami Beach to examine a much thornier and more urgent issue than the glamorous trade show's business: the art world's impact on Mother ...
ListenArt Basel Rules the Art Market. Is That a Good Thing for Art? from 2019-12-03T10:28:23
This week, what seems like the entire art industry, every luxury company, and every celebrity or status-seeker available will be traveling to south Florida for the 18th edition of Art Basel Miami B...
ListenHow Yayoi Kusama Became an Unlikely Pop-Culture Phenomenon from 2019-11-26T15:03:08
The 90-year-old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is an international sensation. Exhibitions featuring her ongoing series of “Infinity Mirrored Rooms” consistently draw tens, if not hundreds, of thousan...
ListenWho Is Sotheby's Mysterious New Owner, and What Does He Want? from 2019-11-19T14:21:06
Normally, the week following Art Basel in June sees the art market begin its downshift into the summer doldrums. But this year, on what nearly everyone expected to be a quiet Monday, the usual cycl...
ListenHans Neuendorf on 30 Years of Artnet, and What Comes Next from 2019-11-12T14:30:18
Hans Neuendorf had already built a storied career as an art dealer by the late 1980s, helping to bring Pop art from the United States to Germany, co-founding the first-ever art fair (Art Cologne), ...
ListenAnish Kapoor on "Radical" Art, China, and the Magic Paint Wars from 2019-11-05T14:28:10
Already one of the world's most renowned and visible artists, Anish Kapoor is entering new territory by opening multiple major exhibitions on opposite ends of the Earth within a few weeks of each o...
ListenWhy Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre Matters from 2019-10-30T13:33:40
To mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, the Louvre pulled out all the stops to present a blockbuster exhibition of some of the Old Master's greatest works, along with a few tech...
ListenHow MoMA Remade Itself for the Trump Era from 2019-10-27T19:33:01
After over $400 million in renovations and a multiple-month closure to the public, the Museum of Modern Art is back. National art critic Ben Davis sits down with host Andrew Goldstein to address th...
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