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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 matters most in museums, the market, and much more.
Episodes
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- Inside Central Asia’s Big Art Boom · 42 minCentral Asia has a deep artistic heritage, from Silk Road craft traditions to a vibrant early 20th century avant-garde. But Soviet rule left a legacy that included the repression…
- Iris Van Herpen Is Fashioning a New Reality · 27 minIris van Herpen is a fashion designer, but it’s a title that barely captures the scope of her imagination. Her practice reaches far beyond the runway, drawing on everything from…
- London! Paris! Rome? The Round Up Goes International · 48 minIt has been a whirlwind few weeks for the art industry in Europe. First, Frieze London and Frieze Masters alighted in Regent’s Park, and a bevy of satellite fairs opened all over…
- The Urgent Lessons of the ’90s Culture Wars · 51 minIt is not a happy time to be an arts advocate in the United States. The last year has seen the real threat of eliminating the National Endowment for the Arts, and the spectacle…
- Inside the Scrappy SoHo Gallery That Made Art History in the Aughts · 36 minIf you are in New York this month, I have to insist that you make it over to the 41 Cooper Gallery at Cooper Union in the East Village, where an absolutely thrilling group show…
- Let’s Talk About Lee Krasner (and Jackson Pollock) · 53 minOne of the major museum events of the fall is called "Krasner and Pollock, Past Continuous," at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. It brings together 120 artworks by two…
- The Past, Present, and Future (??) of Website Art · 40 minWhat does it mean to make art on the internet? It's not a new question, but it's far from a settled question. From very early on in the history of the World Wide Web, artists…
- NYC Gallery Blitz, the Lucas Museum Arrives, a Messy Art Divorce · 45 minFor many, many reasons, it has been several months since we have done one of our Art Angle chat-casts, where we assemble writers to talk about a few different news stories on the…
- Re-Air: Arthur Jafa's Radical Theory of Readymade Art · 47 minThis is a re-air of my interview with the artist Arthur Jafa. It came out earlier in the year, but with his much-anticipated career retrospective, Arthur Jafa, I Am Tony, now…
- Why Are Museum Wall Texts So Bad? · 42 minThe humble wall label at an art exhibition has a funny status. It feels, on the one hand, like a side note or an afterthought. On the other, it is a first point of contact and…
- The Etruscans Made Astonishing Art. Why Aren't They Better Known? · 36 minThe ancient Romans called the Mediterranean mare nostrum, "our sea." But before the Romans rose to power, the Etruscans had extensive trade networks in the area and controlled…
- Why Artists Keep Turning to Tarot · 37 minArtists and creatives have been fascinated with tarot for over 600 years. Recently, that fascination has resurfaced in a big way, showing up everywhere from museum walls to…
- Welcome to the World of Julio Torres and Martine Gutierrez · 38 minJulio Torres and Martine Gutierrez share a knack for building worlds and characters that operate on their own wonderful, absurdist logic. Throw them together, add some sea water…
- What's New in New York Art? · 38 minWe’re in the hot dog days of August, awaiting the new art season to kick off in September. In the meantime, I thought we might take the temperature of art in New York, looking at…
- Here's Where the Art World Eats · 44 minAt the end of last year, Annie Armstrong stepped down as Artnet's gossip columnist after filing 198 Wet Paint columns over the span of more than four years. Gabi Vidal-Irizarry…
- An Untold History of the Art Market · 44 minThe art market is a famously opaque place, a world of handshake agreements and big-dollar private deals. How does it actually operate, and how has it changed over the centuries?…
- Re-Air: The Magic of ‘The Artist’s Way’ · 29 minIn this re-air of an episode from last year. Ben Davis speaks with Julia Cameron, the author of The Artist's Way. It is a somewhat unusual subject for us, but it's also been an…
- Welcome to the Society of the Psyop · 47 minIt is a time of disorienting, sometimes surreal shifts in the worlds of politics and technology. There aren’t too many artists who you might trust as a guide, but Trevor Paglen…
- The Case for M.C. Escher · 28 minThere are only a very few artists from the 20th century who are truly household names, figures like Salvador Dalí, Frida Kahlo, and Andy Warhol. The name M.C. Escher is certainly…
- How Doug Aitken Thinks in Music · 28 minDoug Aitken’s new installation Lightscape has just landed at the Shed in New York. It is many things at once: a seven-screen film, an immersive environment, and a stage for live…
- How to Make a Sculpture With Sound · 36 minSome of the most important visual artist working today are sound artists. It seems that sound in general has been growing in importance at the museum recently. Exhibitions come…
- What Does It Take to Keep Art Basel on Top? · 49 minThis week the art world descends on Basel, a Swiss city on the Rhine River, where the latest edition of the world's most important modern and contemporary art fair is taking…
- Roberta Smith Still Has Notes · 40 minRoberta Smith is the exemplar of popular art criticism. For almost four decades, Smith was a familiar voice on the arts pages of the New York Times, serving for many of those…
- Re-Air: How Raphael Made—and Unmade—the Renaissance · 39 minThis week we're re-airing a favorite episode featuring Kate Brown interviewing Ben Davis about the “Raphael: Sublime Poetry” blockbuster at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The…
- Arthur Jafa's Radical Theory of Readymade Art · 47 minArthur Jafa is probably the most revered artist of the last decade. Born in 1960, in Tupelo, Mississippi, he came up through the world of cinema. But Jafa also found his way into…
- How Is Arts Patronage Changing? · 38 minDuring fair week in New York in mid-May, Andrew Russeth had the high pleasure of moderating a panel about the state of arts philanthropy at TEFAF New York. Joining him on stage…
- Does L.A's Bold New LACMA Museum Work? · 39 minLos Angeles has a new museum. Or a new vision for an old one. One of the most important museums in the country, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has just debuted a…
- The Most Provocative Performance in Venice · 50 minAt the Venice Biennale, every two years, we expect big things from the artists picked to represent their countries. But I'm not sure anyone can quite prepare themselves for the…
- What Biennials Reveal About the Art World · 31 minWe talk a lot about biennials. Art is in some ways a very local, in-person thing. Yet artists and creators and writers are also part of a global conversation, looking at and…
- Re-Air: The Young Painter Curators Are Rushing to Work With · 41 minThis interview with the painter Taina H. Cruz first came out for the opening of the Whitney Biennial, and on the occasion of the opening of Greater New York at MoMA PS1, where…
- One of the Art Market's Biggest Secrets, Revealed · 37 minWhat a difference 12 months makes! After years of declining sales in the auction realm, there are finally signs of life. The Artnet Intelligence Report: The Year Ahead 2026…
- The Philosopher Who Predicted Our Post-Literate Art Moment · 44 minThe average metropolitan person now is exposed to more media in a single day than someone a few generations ago would absorb in a lifetime. Amid the deluge of hot takes and…
- How Raphael Made—and Unmade—the Renaissance · 39 minRaphael is one of those names that everyone knows. He is the prince of painters, a master of the High Renaissance. And the Metropolitan Museum of Art has given him the full…
- Whitney Biennial Trends, a New Baroque Art Star, and Banksy Unmasked · 43 minSpring is upon us. March has seen a burst of big art events—the true start of a busy year. This week, Kate Brown and Ben Davis are joined by senior writer Eileen Kinsella to…
- Are We Entering a Post-Individual Era of Art? · 45 minThe New Museum opens its new building this week. And it’s doing so with a big show called “New Humans: Memories of the Future,” about how artists rethought what it means to be…
- Kim Gordon Was Always an Artist First · 36 minKim Gordon—artist, musician, writer, and co-founder of the iconic rock band Sonic Youth—is one of the most restlessly creative figures in American culture. Over the past four…
- The Young Painter Curators Are Rushing to Work With · 40 minThe Whitney Biennial is here. That would be the Whitney Museum’s big curated show which every two years brings together dozens of artists, always closely watched by critics and…
- The Art Boom in the Middle East, Are Old Masters Cool Now?, and a Fresco Fracas in Italy · 37 minIt’s time for our monthly news roundup where we discuss some of the biggest stories emerging in the art world. On the heels of the first-ever Art Basel Qatar, we will be…
- What Epstein's Emails Tell Us About the Art Market · 42 minThere are many ways to read the vast trove of documents tied to the convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in prison in 2019. The Epstein files…
- An Artist's Guide to Psychedelic Mushrooms · 29 minThere is an enduring association with creative experiment and psychedelic experiences. Recently, psychedelics have become more mainstream, explored not just for their far-out…
- How the Debates Over Art, Race, and Tech Have Changed · 42 minIf you had to pick two conversations that defined the last 10 years in art, one would certainly be about digital culture and online life. The other would be about race, racism…
- A Venice Biennale Meltdown, the Prado Is Too Popular, and a $2.7M Speed Painting?! · 41 minHere we are, already at the end of the first month of the new year. That means it’s time to do the first Art Angle Round-Up of 2026, where, as is custom, we’ll review some of the…
- How the 21st Century Broke Culture · 39 minThe first quarter of the 21st century is now behind us. Yet a pervasive sense of cultural stagnation persists: many observers and participants feel that creativity across the…
- Can Brainrot Be Art? Beeple Thinks So · 44 minIn art right now, it's hard to avoid talking about Beeple. That, of course, is the alias of Charleston-based Mike Winkelmann, known to millions of followers for digital images…
- Where Art Insiders Are Placing Their Bets in 2026 · 43 minAt the top of 2025, the outlook for the art industry was pretty bleak, and art insiders' worst fears were, in some cases, more than realized. By now, if you're paying any…
- Re-Air: Why No One Trusts Art Prices Anymore · 38 minAs we close out another bumpy year in the art market, we are revisiting a recent episode that looks at one of the factors in play: the erosion of logic when it comes to the price…
- Re-Air: How Painters Today Are Reframing… the Frame · 32 minWe love to do deep dives into trends that we are noticing in painting and the trend of “Bordercore” was one of our best-loved from the year, so we decided to revisit it this…
- Why This Famed Art Writer Turned to True Crime · 42 minChris Kraus is one of the most well-known contemporary art writers. She is also an important taste-maker, co-editor of independent publisher Semiotext(e), which played a key role…
- The Round-Up: 2025’s Highs, Lows, and WTFs · 49 minWe are back this week with our monthly edition of the Art Angle Round-up, where co-hosts Kate Brown and Ben Davis are joined by a guest to parse some of the biggest headlines in…
- The Magic of 'The Artist's Way' · 29 minMillions of people know The Artist's Way. First published in 1992, the book began as notes for a class that its author, Julia Cameron, taught on creative self-discovery or, as…
