Podcast Episodes

What Does an Art Scene Look Like Under the Coronavirus?

Usually, the first weeks of March are intensely busy ones for the international art community, as they lead up to the Art Basel Hong Kong art fair: an unmissable event that galleries, museums, and ev…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

How an Art-Dealing Prodigy Became the Market's Most Wanted Outlaw

A man on the run, millions of dollars missing, major artworks with multiple claims to ownership: these aren't plot points in the latest Hollywood blockbuster, they're elements of the real-life rise,…

Published on 5 years, 9 months ago

Is the Museum of Ice Cream the Future of Art, or Just a Sugar Rush?

There's a buzzy new museum taking over New York, and it boasts the types of specs that would make competitors drool. Now housed in a prime 25,000-square-foot building in the hip SoHo neighborhood, th…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

What Is Saudi Arabia Trying to Do With Contemporary Art?

Some 16 months after the brutal murder of Washington Post journalist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of state agents, the organization behind the namesake Southern California bienni…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

How Hollywood Finally Fell for the Art Market

The Oscars may be over, but Hollywood is about to be overrun with a different kind of A-lister this week when the art world descends on Tinseltown for the second edition of Frieze Los Angeles.

Despit…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

How Jeffrey Epstein Made the Art World His Hunting Ground

Over the past few weeks, the long-awaited trial of former Hollywood rainmaker Harvey Weinstein has unfolded in harrowing fashion, with one after another of his accusers taking the stand to allege pat…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

How the Art World Fell Under the Spell of the Occult

You don't hear the words "witch hunt" much nowadays, unless they are being deployed by a certain US President. But the term is increasingly relevant—in a much more literal sense—to any tour through t…

Published on 5 years, 10 months ago

Nicolas Party on Why Being an Art Star Is Like Being in Love

After a period of reckoning with a less-than-inclusive art historical canon, it seems increasingly clear that viewers (and dealers) are once again ready to embrace fresh young talent from the land of…

Published on 5 years, 11 months ago

What Do the Protests in Hong Kong Mean for Art?

Above and beyond its well-established status as a global financial center, Hong Kong has spent the 21st century rapidly transforming into an international nexus for the art market: welcoming to both …

Published on 5 years, 11 months ago

Four Predictions on How the Art World Will Transform in 2020

Whether you ascribe to the centuries-old Georgian Calendar or slept through the clock striking midnight, ushering in a new year is often a time for reflection on what's past, and what is to come.

Her…

Published on 5 years, 11 months ago