Podcast Episodes

The RoundUp: Censorship Surges, David Lynch's Art, and the Met's Video Game

We are back this week with our monthly edition of the Art Angle Roundup, where co-hosts Kate Brown and Ben Davis are joined by a guest to discuss some of the biggest headlines of the month. This week…

Published on 10 months, 3 weeks ago

The Vibe Shifted in Art. Now What?

We don’t need to tell anyone listening that it is a difficult and alarming political moment. You may be asking, How will art weather the storm?

To answer that question, you probably need to take stock…

Published on 11 months ago

How the Getty Museum Survived L.A.'s Fires

Last weekend, warnings to evacuate were issued to the suburban westside neighborhood of Brentwood, which includes the esteemed Getty Center, home to one of the city’s most prized art collections. Aft…

Published on 11 months, 1 week ago

What Makes Spine-Tingling Art? Aesthetic Chills: Explained

Can you think of a work of art that truly thrilled you? Maybe you can—and if you can, maybe it even literally made you shiver, or sent a chill up your spine.

This is the phenomena that is called “Aest…

Published on 11 months, 2 weeks ago

Re-Air: Is There Anything Miranda July Can't Do?

The filmmaker, artist, and writer Miranda July has worked across such a variety of media over the years, one might say it is almost hard to categorize her work. But there is actually a strong through…

Published on 11 months, 3 weeks ago

Re-Air: Lucy Lippard On a Life In and Out of Art

But Lippard has also been much more than a writer. She curated “Eccentric Abstraction” in 1966, helping to define what would come to be called post-Minimalism in sculpture. Her experimental and trave…

Published on 1 year ago

The Roundup: 2024—The Year in Art

We are back this week with our monthly edition of the Art Angle Roundup, where co-hosts Kate Brown and Ben Davis are joined by a special guest to parse some of the biggest headlines in the art world.…

Published on 1 year ago

Re-Air: How Warhol’s Handmade Art Shaped His Famed Pop Factory

With his themes of repetition and appropriation, Andy Warhol’s work can seem mass produced. He was prone to say that his assistants did his work for him and often invented different narratives in int…

Published on 1 year ago

Why Is Rococo Art Making a Comeback?

When Madame du Barry, King Louis XV’s last mistress, pleaded for “just a little moment more” before her execution in 1793, in the throes of the French Revolution, she seemed to capture the fleeting p…

Published on 1 year ago

Can Machine Vision Replace Art Expertise?

Say the words "artificial intelligence" or simply, "A.I." in an art setting, and people think of either cutting-edge, new media art, or of misinformation., hallucination, and plagiarism. But there's …

Published on 1 year ago