Podcast Episodes

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…

4 years, 4 months ago

How to Become a Successful NFT Artist

Ask fans of crypto and NFTs why they think blockchain is such a revolutionary technology, and it probably won’t be long before they mention large-sca…

4 years, 4 months ago

Mariana Abramovic on How Her Artistic Method Can Change Your Life

These days as contemporary art continues to pervade pop culture, there are art stars i.e. the talents who captivate the attention of art professional…

4 years, 4 months ago

Jennie C. Jones on Why You Should Listen to Her Paintings

Right now at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, there's an exhibition of paintings on view that might remind you of the postwar abstractions of …

4 years, 5 months ago

The Black Art Visionary Who Secretly Built the Morgan Library

It's Black History Month, and we wanted to take the opportunity to devote this episode to the story of a Black museum leader.

We know that people of c…

4 years, 5 months ago

How Lucy Lippard and a Band of Artists Fought US Imperialism

If you were out and about in 1984, you might have noticed a striking poster wheatpasted everywhere. It featured two heroic silhouettes pulling down a…

4 years, 5 months ago

Art, Lies, and Instagram: How Catfishing ‘Collectors’ Duped the Art World

This week’s story begins with an art purchase made like so many others... .

A collector notices his peers talking up an artwork on Instagram, so he me…

4 years, 5 months ago

Her Family's Art Was Stolen During World War II. Here's How She Got It Back

Yesterday, a sumptuous portrait of a woman with a confident regard and rouged cheeks, porcelain skin, and a powdered up do reminiscent of cool whip, …

4 years, 5 months ago

How the Met’s Astonishing Surrealism Show Rewrites Global Art History

If, perhaps, someone in a trench coat who was smoking a pipe and had a gigantic eyeball for a head were to approach you a street on a particularly su…

4 years, 6 months ago

How the Artist Pension Trust Became a Gigantic Fiasco

Everyone knows the dirty little secret of the dog-eat-dog art market, which is that while an artist creates the artwork, the vast majority of the val…

4 years, 6 months ago