Podcast Episodes

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 3 months, 3 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 4 months 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 months, 1 week 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 4 months, 2 weeks 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 4 months, 3 weeks 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 5 months 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 5 months, 1 week 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 5 months, 2 weeks ago

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 5 months, 3 weeks 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 5 months, 4 weeks ago