Podcast Episodes

Re-Air: The Rise of the Red Chip Art World

When we first aired this episode about red chip art a few months back, it captured a cultural and art market phenomenon hiding in plain sight. My colleague Annie Armstrong mapped out a world of Cyber…

Published on 2 months, 1 week ago

The Round-Up: Tech’d Out Museums, Art Basel Takeaways, and Adrien Brody's Awesomely Awful Art

It’s the end of June. It’s hot. And it’s time to take a look back at the hot art stories of the last month.

Today the Art Angle team has picked out three items. On the agenda:

—The announcement of a …

Published on 2 months, 2 weeks ago

Why Does Culture Feel Stuck?

The Los Angeles–based trend forecaster and writer Sean Monahan is known for his sharp takes on the zeitgeist. Over the past decade, his cultural insights have routinely gone viral—most famously when …

Published on 2 months, 3 weeks ago

How Does an Emerging Gallery Make It Now?

We’re on the cusp of the 2025 edition of Art Basel—the flagship fair held each June in Basel, Switzerland. More than 200 galleries from around the world gather to present works spanning the 20th and …

Published on 2 months, 4 weeks ago

The Art World's Octopus Teacher

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 of Miriam Simun, who currently has an exhibition about her Institu…

Published on 3 months ago

A Crypto Billionaire's Lawsuit, Koons’s Hulk Blasts Back,' the Art Basel Awards

It's been a minute, but we're back with our Round-Up episode, where we parse and discuss some of the biggest stories going on around the art world, and it's really good to be back into this format ag…

Published on 3 months, 1 week ago

The New Rules of Subculture

There is nothing that Artnet’s Art Critic Ben Davis likes better than finding a name for a phenomenon that’s all around him, but that he doesn’t have a name for yet. The writer and theorist Nadia Asp…

Published on 3 months, 2 weeks ago

How to Curate a Life: Lessons From 3 Art World Tastemakers

Spring art week just wrapped in New York City. Known for its extravagant floral displays and signature oysters and champagne, TEFAF is the fair with a vibe. This year, 91 exhibitors from 13 countries…

Published on 3 months, 3 weeks ago

How Painters Today Are Reframing… the Frame

Almost by definition, the frame of a picture is something that you are not supposed to notice.

But if you go to the art galleries to look at paintings now, you might get a very different sense of wha…

Published on 4 months ago

Megastar Artist Kent Monkman Is Rewriting Colonial Narratives on Canvas

Kent Monkman is one of the most vital and provocative voices in contemporary painting. Based between Toronto and New York, and a member of the Fisher River Cree Nation in Treaty 5 Territory, Monkman …

Published on 4 months, 1 week ago