Frieze Masters Talks
by Frieze
Episode 7: Sculpting as a New Humanism | Antony Gormley on how…
About this podcast
The Frieze Masters Podcast is back for 2025, bringing you seven conversations across art history curated by Arturo Galansino (Director General of Fondazione Palazzo Strozzi in Florence).
Entitled 'Woven Histories' and recorded live at Frieze Masters 2025, this year's series features artists, curators and thinkers, whose conversations weave together geographies and chronologies, and challenge us to look at history in new and unexpected ways.
Topics range from the evolving relationship between fashion and art to the role of the archive in Black history, the last Mughals and their cultural influence in India and the enduring inspiration of the old masters and renaissance art on contemporary making. Speakers include artists Tracey Emin, Glenn Brown and Antony Gormley, museum directors and curators Nicholas Cullinan, Émilie Hammen, Elizabeth Way and Carl Strehlke, and writers Edward George, Matthew Harle, Christopher Rothko and William Dalrymple.
The Frieze Masters Talks programme and the Frieze Masters Podcast are brought to you by Frieze in collaboration with dunhill.
About Frieze
Frieze is a leading global contemporary art organization, recognized for its art fairs, publications and digital presence. Founded in 1991 with the launch of frieze magazine, the brand has grown to encompass seven of the most significant art fairs worldwide in cities including Chicago, London, Los Angeles, New York and Seoul. These events attract leading artists, galleries and collectors, fostering innovative dialogues and practices within the art community. frieze magazine continues to set the benchmark for insightful art criticism and commentary, while frieze.com serves as a vital online resource. Committed to expanding the reach and understanding of contemporary art, Frieze also hosts year-round curated programs and associated initiatives, such as No.9 Cork Street, Frieze House Seoul and Frieze Connect, that enrich the cultural landscape. With a dedicated team passionate about the arts, Frieze remains at the forefront of artistic exploration and cultural discourse, connecting diverse audiences with groundbreaking artists and their work. Frieze is part of the MARI network.
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Main image credit: Hieronymus Bosch, The Garden of Earthly Delights (detail), c. 1490 - 1500. ©Photographic Archive Museo Nacional del Prado
Episodes
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- Episode 7: Sculpting as a New Humanism | Antony Gormley on how sculpture can help us reconnect our bodies and the world around us · 40 min · Season 4 Episode 7In the final episode of the 2025 Frieze Masters Podcast, artist Antony Gormley and curator Arturo Galansino discuss how sculpture can help us reconnect with our bodies and the…
- Episode 6: Twisted Classic | Glenn Brown on Collecting, Displaying and Distorting Old Masters · 33 min · Season 4 Episode 6'Every time you put a mark on a painting and you can't take it off, you are running the risk of destroying the painting,' says artist Glenn Brown. 'But that's what makes it…
- Episode 5: Fashion As Art | Émilie Hammen & Elizabeth Way · 26 min · Season 4 Episode 5Is fashion art? Curators Émilie Hammen, Elizabeth Way and Arturo Galansino discuss the overlapping histories of fashion and art, and how contemporary designers are reconfiguring…
- Episode 4: The Last Mughals | William Dalrymple · 44 min · Season 4 Episode 4'Bahadur Shah Zafar writes poetry in six different languages and through the sheer brilliance of his example, he provokes this last great renaissance in Delhi.' – William…
- Episode 3: Black Atlas | Edward George & Matthew Harle · 29 min · Season 4 Episode 3The Image of the Black archive at The Warburg Institute comprises more than 30,000 images documenting representations of people of African descent from antiquity to the civil…
- Episode 2: An Encounter in Spiritual Spaces with Mark Rothko and Fra Angelico | Christopher Rothko & Carl Strehlke · 34 min · Season 4 Episode 2When Mark Rothko visited Fra Angelico's frescoes at the convent of San Marco in Florence, he was 'overwhelmed,' recounts his son, the psychologist and writer Christopher Rothko…
- Episode 1: Confessions in the Museum | Tracey Emin, Nicholas Cullinan & Arturo Galansino · 48 min · Season 4 Episode 1'My discovery of early Renaissance art was completely by accident in the National Gallery, by just walking down a few more stairs...I'd stay there for about an hour, and then I…
- Episode 7: Plastic Power | Abraham Thomas, Nathalie du Pasquier & Annabelle Selldorf · 31 min · Season 3 Episode 7'When you make a painting, you want to make a good painting. You are more interested in the composition of the things, than in the precise description of the things.' – Nathalie…
- Episode 6: Pictorial Language & Poetic Translations | Glenn Ligon, Zoé Whitley & Dia al-Azzawi · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 6'If I can let the viewer stand in front of my painting and question – if they can ask a question – this is success.' – Glenn Ligon How does the written and spoken word relate to…
- Episode 5: The State We're In | Mark Leckey, Jenny Waldman & Polly Staple · 30 min · Season 3 Episode 5'What's left for art? Art can offer ritual and ceremony, a communal place where bodies can gather. It's a place where things can happen visually, musically, sonically, and in…
- Episode 4: Spatial Intelligence | Nairy Baghramian, Glenn Lowry & Julian Rose · 35 min · Season 3 Episode 4'Isn't to exhibit to historicize?' – Julian Rose Artist Nairy Baghramian, Director of the Museum of Modern Art Glenn Lowry and historian Julian Rose all have extensive…
- Episode 3: The Power of Painting | Gabriele Finaldi, Jan Dalley & Shirazeh Houshiary · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 3'The viewer makes the painting alive. Without the viewer, that thing doesn't exist.' – Shirazeh Houshiary What happens to our understanding of painting when we expand the canon…
- Episode 2: Faces of Community | Barbara Walker, Ming Smith & Lou Stoppard · 49 min · Season 3 Episode 2'You have an idea and it goes off in another direction and you either pull it back or you go on the journey. I knew I wanted to make some portraits, but I also knew I didn't want…
- Episode 1: Good Governance | Chris Bryant MP, Jeremy Deller and Victoria Siddall · 34 min · Season 3 Episode 1'What do we want the UK to look like in 10 years, 20 years, 50 years in terms of culture?' – Victoria Siddall The first episode of the 2024 Frieze Masters Podcast brings together…
- Episode Eight: On Context | Gilbert & George & Dr Nicholas Cullinan · 28 min · Season 2 Episode 8'Sex, death, race and religion' – these are the topics that the London-based artists Gilbert and George announced they wanted to cover in this talk with Dr Nicholas Cullinan of…
- Episode Seven: On Interiors | Mandy El-Sayegh, Flavia Frigeri & Valerie Cassel Oliver · 36 min · Season 2 Episode 7The London home of Galerie Thaddeus Ropac is a traditional eighteenth-century Mayfair townhouse, once home to the Bishop of Ely. But for artist Mandy El-Sayegh's 2023 exhibition…
- Episode Six: On Space | Rachel Whiteread & Briony Fer · 36 min · Season 2 Episode 6The year 1993 marked a watershed for the famous Turner Prize, when it was awarded for the first time to a woman. That artist was Rachel Whiteread and the work was House in East…
- Episode Five: On Power | Thomas J Price & Dr Gus Casely-Hayford · 38 min · Season 2 Episode 5In On Power, London-based multidisciplinary artist Thomas J Price is in conversation with Dr Gus Casely-Hayford, the inaugural Director of V&A East. Together, they reflect on how…
- Episode Four: On Studios | Arlene Shechet & Sheena Wagstaff · 28 min · Season 2 Episode 4In 2023, Frieze Masters fair sought to break the artist's studio open to a new audience with a new section, Studio, curated by Sheena Wagstaff – the former Chairman of the…
- Episode Three: On Photography | Tim Walker & Jerry Stafford · 48 min · Season 2 Episode 3On Photography asks what it means today for an artist to work with a living, breathing icon, like the actress Tilda Swinton. Tim Walker, the noted artist and photographer, is…
