Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchNari Ward on How to Make a True Portrait of New York City
The Jamaican-born, Harlem-based artist Nari Ward was barely out of his 20s when he exploded onto the New York art scene in 1993 with Amazing Grace, a…
3 years, 9 months ago
The Secret Codes of World-Class Art Auctions, Demystified
Get your paddles ready: New York is about to kick off what may be the biggest auction season ever. Over the next two weeks, as much as $2.6 billion w…
3 years, 9 months ago
Is the Venice Biennale Any Good? Here’s What Three Art Critics Think
At long last, this week the 59th Venice Biennale has officially thrown itself open to the world in Italy. The Biennale is always a big event for the …
3 years, 10 months ago
Is Fractional Art Investing the Future of the Market? Or a Scam?
So want to buy a Picasso? No, it's too expensive? Want to buy a teensy-weensy, tiny little microscopic flack of a Picasso? That sounds better, doesn'…
3 years, 10 months ago
How a Mysterious Whitney Biennial Confronts Our Moment
It's biennial season in a big bi-annual year. The Toronto Biennial just opened, the Venice Biennale opens next week, and around the corner are the Ge…
3 years, 10 months ago
The Whole Bored Ape Yacht Club Phenomenon, Explained
Just around one year ago, two literary bros from Miami decided to launch a business venture. It was a couple weeks after Beeple’s Everydays had sold …
3 years, 10 months ago
Special Preview: Toyin Ojih Odutola on Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
We're sharing a special preview of a podcast I’ve been enjoying, Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso, from Pushkin Industries. Talk Easy is a weekly interview…
3 years, 10 months ago
Cecilia Alemani on Her Venice Biennale for an Anxious Era
This April, after a punishing two years apart during the pandemic, the whole art community will gather together on the magical watery isle of Venice …
3 years, 11 months ago
How Afghanistan’s Artists Are Making Their Way in Exile
In August 2021, the world watched in horror as U.S. troops withdrew, and the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan, with over 600,000 displaced peopl…
3 years, 11 months ago
How the Artists in Ukraine’s Besieged Capitol Are Fighting Back
On February 24, just three short weeks before this recording the world as we knew it was utterly upended by the Russian army’s invasion of the Easter…
3 years, 11 months ago