Podcast Episodes

Why Does Culture Feel Stuck?

The Los Angeles–based trend forecaster and writer Sean Monahan is known for his sharp takes on the zeitgeist. Over the past decade, his cultural insights have routinely gone viral—most famously when …

Published on 6 months ago

How Does an Emerging Gallery Make It Now?

We’re on the cusp of the 2025 edition of Art Basel—the flagship fair held each June in Basel, Switzerland. More than 200 galleries from around the world gather to present works spanning the 20th and …

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

The Art World's Octopus Teacher

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 of Miriam Simun, who currently has an exhibition about her Institu…

Published on 6 months, 2 weeks ago

A Crypto Billionaire's Lawsuit, Koons’s Hulk Blasts Back,' the Art Basel Awards

It's been a minute, but we're back with our Round-Up episode, where we parse and discuss some of the biggest stories going on around the art world, and it's really good to be back into this format ag…

Published on 6 months, 3 weeks ago

The New Rules of Subculture

There is nothing that Artnet’s Art Critic Ben Davis likes better than finding a name for a phenomenon that’s all around him, but that he doesn’t have a name for yet. The writer and theorist Nadia Asp…

Published on 7 months ago

How to Curate a Life: Lessons From 3 Art World Tastemakers

Spring art week just wrapped in New York City. Known for its extravagant floral displays and signature oysters and champagne, TEFAF is the fair with a vibe. This year, 91 exhibitors from 13 countries…

Published on 7 months, 1 week ago

How Painters Today Are Reframing… the Frame

Almost by definition, the frame of a picture is something that you are not supposed to notice.

But if you go to the art galleries to look at paintings now, you might get a very different sense of wha…

Published on 7 months, 2 weeks ago

Megastar Artist Kent Monkman Is Rewriting Colonial Narratives on Canvas

Kent Monkman is one of the most vital and provocative voices in contemporary painting. Based between Toronto and New York, and a member of the Fisher River Cree Nation in Treaty 5 Territory, Monkman …

Published on 7 months, 3 weeks ago

Re-Air: How Textiles Took Over the Art World

This week we are running a re-air of an interview with the curator and writer Elisa Auther about the fascinating history of fiber art and its recent rise. The show we mentioned in the episode, woven …

Published on 8 months ago

Trump: Cultural Offensive or Offensive Culture?

To say that the last few months have been chaos in the United States would most definitely be an understatement. Since Donald J. Trump's return to office in January, an angry culture war, divisive po…

Published on 8 months, 1 week ago