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How an Artist’s $120,000 Banana Ate the World
At the start of December, the Art Angle team had other, loftier ideas for the show's first Christmas episode. Maybe we would dig into the most import…
6 years, 2 months ago
New Yorker Art Scribe Calvin Tomkins on What Makes Great Artists Tick
Six decades ago, an editor at Newsweek magazine summoned a young journalist named Calvin Tomkins out of the foreign-news department to interview the …
6 years, 2 months ago
Is the Art World Causing a Climate Catastrophe?
For our latest episode, team Art Angle traveled to Art Basel Miami Beach to examine a much thornier and more urgent issue than the glamorous trade sh…
6 years, 2 months ago
Art Basel Rules the Art Market. Is That a Good Thing for Art?
This week, what seems like the entire art industry, every luxury company, and every celebrity or status-seeker available will be traveling to south F…
6 years, 2 months ago
How Yayoi Kusama Became an Unlikely Pop-Culture Phenomenon
The 90-year-old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is an international sensation. Exhibitions featuring her ongoing series of “Infinity Mirrored Rooms” con…
6 years, 3 months ago
Who Is Sotheby's Mysterious New Owner, and What Does He Want?
Normally, the week following Art Basel in June sees the art market begin its downshift into the summer doldrums. But this year, on what nearly everyo…
6 years, 3 months ago
Hans Neuendorf on 30 Years of Artnet, and What Comes Next
Hans Neuendorf had already built a storied career as an art dealer by the late 1980s, helping to bring Pop art from the United States to Germany, co-…
6 years, 3 months ago
Anish Kapoor on "Radical" Art, China, and the Magic Paint Wars
Already one of the world's most renowned and visible artists, Anish Kapoor is entering new territory by opening multiple major exhibitions on opposit…
6 years, 3 months ago
Why Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre Matters
To mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, the Louvre pulled out all the stops to present a blockbuster exhibition of some of the Ol…
6 years, 3 months ago
How MoMA Remade Itself for the Trump Era
After over $400 million in renovations and a multiple-month closure to the public, the Museum of Modern Art is back. National art critic Ben Davis si…
6 years, 3 months ago