Podcast Episodes

The Round Up: Live From New York

Fans of the Art Angle know our monthly Art Angle Round-Up, where Kate Brown and Ben Davis are usually joined by a writer to talk about three topics in art. For the early September week of art fairs i…

Published on 10 hours ago

Why We Need New Art Institutions

Most of us can agree: we are living through a cultural crisis. It doesn’t come from a single source—it isn’t just algorithms, aesthetics, politics, or the economy. It’s the convergence of all these f…

Published on 1 week ago

Re-Air: The Art World's Octopus Teacher

 This is a re-air of a popular episode from earlier in the year.

Have you ever asked yourself: What do artists have to learn from the octopus? Maybe not—but the question is at the heart of the work o…

Published on 2 weeks ago

Is This the Museum World's Favorite Artist?

If you want to know which artist is having the biggest year in museums, there is one name that springs to mind for me: Cara Romero.

Since her first big breakout a decade ago at Santa Fe Indian Market…

Published on 3 weeks ago

Why This New Art Trend Feels So Familiar

In art history, the pastoral has long offered a vision of nature as sanctuary—Arcadian meadows, idyllic countrysides, and timeless landscapes painted as if untouched by human conflict or change. It i…

Published on 4 weeks ago

Re-Air: What Makes Spine-Tingling Art? Aesthetic Chills: Explained

While we are on summer break, this is a re-air of a popular episode from earlier in the year.

Can you think of a work of art that truly thrilled you? Maybe you can—and if you can, maybe it even liter…

Published on 1 month ago

The Round-Up: Johnny Depp Does Modigliani, Labubu Mania, and a Weird Idea for the Venice Biennale

It may be the dog days of summer, but the art world doesn’t take a break, and there’s plenty to talk about for our monthly roundup episode, where we parse and analyze the biggest headlines shaping th…

Published on 1 month, 1 week ago

There Is Not One Art World. There Are (at Least) Five

If you’ve been around art in the last several decades or so, you likely have heard the term “institutional critique.” This is a genre of art that turns the lens back  onto the world around the art ob…

Published on 1 month, 2 weeks ago

Why No One Trusts Art Prices Anymore

What’s a painting worth? For art world professionals, that question of price has never been easy—but lately, it’s gotten harder than ever.

As we’ve discussed on this podcast before, the art market ha…

Published on 1 month, 3 weeks ago

How the Post-Pandemic Generation Is Changing Digital Art

Every rising generation reinvents the rules of how art works. What are the new new ways of working? What kinds of spaces serve those needs? Art critic Ben Davis keeps coming back to these questions, …

Published on 2 months ago