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The Art Angle
A weekly podcast that brings the biggest stories in the art world down to earth. Go inside the newsroom of the art industry's most-read media outlet, Artnet News, for an in-depth view of what matters most in museums, the market, and much more.
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The One Word That Explains Art Now
There's so much culture now that it can be hard just to keep up, let alone to think about it all as a whole... but that only makes the effort to find…
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The New Style of Artist Career
What is the future of an art career? Where do you look to find relevant new culture? And as an artist, where do you find collaborators and fans in art as in so…
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Decoding the Ancient Sculpture That Defines Olympic Athleticism
It is mid-summer and as always there a lot of exciting things going on in Paris, but this year is special as it sets the stage for the Summer Olympic Games…
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The Round-Up: That Trump Photo, a Beheaded Sculpture, the 'Ladies-Only' Picasso Controversy
It is time, once again for our monthly roundup where we talk about three of the big stories of the month. In the summer sometimes the art news slows down, but…
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How a '90s Cult Novel Is Still Inspiring Artists
The Gladstone gallery director Alissa Bennett was one of a legion to fall under the thrall of Donna Tartt’s 1992 novel The Secret History. A years-spanning…
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Art's New Yen for Psychoanalysis
Art and psychoanalysis have had a very long and intense relationship over the years, and it makes sense that these two fields would be drawn to one another…
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Re-Air: Why Adriano Pedrosa Sees His Venice Biennale As ‘Paying a Debt’
Summer is in full swing, which means that crowds from the world over are heading on vacation and many of them are descending in huge numbers into one of the…
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The Round-Up: Basel Breakdown, Art and Algorithms, Remembering Barbara Gladstone
Although the art business world may be on holiday right now, we're still pounding the (international) pavement to bring you a report of the most important and…
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An Artist Pushing the Limits of Her Audience
If you've seen the artworks of Marianna Simnett, you know that it is not easy to forget them. The multidisciplinary artist who works between film…
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Can the Art Trade Become More Sustainable?
There's no denying that we live in an era of crisis, from geopolitical strife to economic squeezes and widening wealth disparity. Looming behind all of that is…
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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…
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The Round-Up: Auction Week Hacked!, Maurizio Cattelan's Misfire, Royally Bad Paintings
It is the exhausted end of a jam-packed month of May, and we're staring into what promises to be a similarly jam-packed June. It's overwhelming to think about…
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The Art Angle Presents: Artist Jim Denevan on Creating Massive Land Artworks That Are Here Today, Gone Tomorrow
Land art, the movement which emerged in the 1960s and 70s with artists such as Robert Smithson, Nancy Holt, and Michael Heizer erecting monumental works in…
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The Art Angle Presents: How Curator Yung Ma is Redefining Contemporary Exhibition Models
Who are the rising talents in the art world poised for greatness? Discover them in ‘Up Next’, Artnet’s popular series of profiles introducing you to key…
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What 'Good Taste' Looks Like in 2024
What is a connoisseur? Who can be one? What role do they play in shaping tastes of the art market and the large expanse of art history? There's perhaps no…
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The Art Angle Presents: How Dealer Alexander Shulan Is Building New Markets for Underrecognized Artists
Who are the rising talents in the art world poised for greatness? Discover them in ‘Up Next’, Artnet’s popular series of profiles introducing you to key…
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Andrew Bolton, The Reanimator: Life, Death, and Sleeping Beauties at the Met
There is a lot to unpack—literally and figuratively—in the Metropolitan Museum’s new Costume Institute show, “Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” which…
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Special Preview: Previously Unknown | A History of Independent
We're sharing a special preview of Previously Unknown, a podcast from our friends at Independent New York. Previously Unknown reframes and reevaluates what we…
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How Jeffrey Gibson Went from Almost Quitting Art to the Venice Biennale
As anyone who has been listening to this show recently will already know, the world's largest and most closely scrutinized art event—the Venice Biennale— is…
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The Round-Up: On the Ground at the Venice Biennale
It is time for another edition of the Art Angle Roundup, where we look at some of the biggest headlining stories of the past month. But really, let's be…
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Why Are Art Resale Prices Plummeting?
The art press is filled with headlines about trophy works trading for huge sums: $195 million for an Andy Warhol, $110 million for a Jean-Michel Basquiat, $91…
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Why Adriano Pedrosa Sees His Venice Biennale As 'Paying a Debt'
Next week, the art world will descend into the Venetian Lagoon for the Venice Biennale, the most highly anticipated art event of this year. The Brazilian…
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Two Critics on the Whitney Biennial
Every two years, the Whitney Museum of American Art returns with its signature and much-anticipated biennial. Founded in 1931, the Whitney Biennial is one of…
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The Round-Up: Damien Hirst's Formaldehyde Fail, a Photo Star Rediscovered, and Artnet News Turns 10
Well, it is the end of March, spring has sprung, and April showers are coming in fast and furious. We're back with the monthly Art Angle Round Up, where we…
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A Peek Behind the Curtain at Auction Houses
A few years back, electrifying bidding wars and monumental transactions routinely had us all on the edge of our seats in the auction room, but this sort of…
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A Reporter Goes Undercover in the Art World
The contemporary art world is nothing if not confusing. It is simultaneously deeply frivolous, and takes itself way too seriously. Its business dealings…
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James Fuentes Has His Own Playbook for Success. It’s Working.
It has been 17 years since James Fuentes first hung a shingle out under his own name. In the years since, he has carved out a unique position in the…
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The Round-Up: Museums vs Patrons, a Contested Sculpture Stars in Venice, and Koons on the Moon
On this week's episode, hosts Ben Davis and Kate Brown are joined by the newly-minted Artnet Pro editor and veteran art journalist and critic Andrew Russeth…
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The Roots of the Harlem Renaissance—and Its Power Today
The words the “Harlem Renaissance” have immense magnetism for vast numbers of people. In art history, however, the Harlem Renaissance has often been treated as…
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Inside the Art Fraud Feud of the Century
Last month, much of the art industry was transfixed on the goings-on in a courtroom in downtown Manhattan, where the Russian businessman Dimitry Rybolovlev and…
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The Enduring Obsession With Abstraction
The term “abstraction” gets thrown around a lot in the art world, usually as a vague catchall to describe an otherwise inexpressible style of painting or…
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Unexpected Ways A.I. Might Rewire Art
Artificial intelligence was one of the hottest topics in art in 2023—and we can predict that it will continue to be a major topic in 2024. We can debate…
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The Round-Up: Market Predictions, Venice Biennale Shake-Ups, and Marina Abramovic's Skincare
We are well into 2024 now, coming to the end of January, and looking back at 2023, one of our favorite innovations was this monthly round up here at the Art…
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Ishmael Reed on Basquiat Myths and Realities
The author Ishmael Reed is known as a major force in literature and has been called one of the key thinkers of multiculturalism. Born in 1938, Reed arrived…
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The Artist Behind the Art World’s Most Viral Memes
If you like art and are on Instagram, then you probably know the account @freeze_magazine—that's freeze spelled with an E, like "help me, I'm freezing," not…
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Lucy Lippard On A Life In And Out Of Art
Any short list of the most important art critics of the last decades would have to include Lucy R. Lippard. She would also be at the very top of Artnet's art…
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Re-Air: What Is Hypersentamentalism? On the New Tendency in Art
If you follow the mainstream art world, you will know that for the last decade, one of the biggest stories has been a boom in new kinds of figurative painting…
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The Round-Up: 2023's Ins And Outs
At the end of the year, it's become something of a tradition for people in all corners of the Internet to review the last 12 months and take a look to the…
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Artnet's Writers On The Art That Brings Them Joy
"Art is something that makes you breathe with a different kind of happiness." That's a quote from the great Bauhaus textile artist Anni Albers that gets shared…
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Klaus Biesenbach on Museums as Social Networks
Most loyal Art Angle followers will be familiar with the curator Klaus Biesenbach. The German-born artist made his mark in Berlin in the 1990s, founding the…
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The Round-Up: A Buyer's Art Market, Italy's Tolkein Furor, and the Blackest, Blackest Black
Well, we made it to the end of the year (almost!), and we are back at the Art Angle with our monthly Round Up, where we bring together some of our esteemed…
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How an Exclusive NYC Cult Influenced the Post War Art Scene
"I was like reborn," the art critic Clement Greenberg once remembered, "it was the most important event in my life." The event in question was his encounter…
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How to Look at the Met's Blockbuster Manet/Degas Show
One of the biggest art events of the year is currently up at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. That, dare we say, once-in-a-lifetime exhibition is…
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How Artist Marcel Dzama Brings Surrealism to the Stage
Marcel Dzama has an immediately recognizable style as a visual artist, but his energy has far exceeded the realm of visual art. Born in Winnipeg, Canada in…
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Curator Helen Molesworth Looks Back on 30 Years of Art Writing
In 2018, Helen Molesworth was unceremoniously dismissed from her position as chief curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles. The move proved…
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The Art Angle Presents: What's Going On in the Asian Art Market Right Now
In today's global discourse, “Asia” often takes on an expansive, sometimes oversimplified, identity. Especially within the global art market, this vast…
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The Round-Up: London vs Paris, Criticism in the Age of 'Parasocial Aesthetics,' and More Secrets of the Mona Lisa
This week, the Art Angle is returning with this month's edition of the Round Up, featuring Artnet News Europe Editor Kate Brown, National Art Critic Ben Davis…
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How the World's First Museum Dedicated to Women's Art Is Charting a Path Forward
In December 2020, Congress approved funding for a new Smithsonian Museum dedicated to women's history to be built on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. But…
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The Art Angle Presents: Artist Conrad Shawcross and Simon de Pury on Perceptions of Time
For more than 30 years, the acclaimed British sculptor Conrad Shawcross has been preoccupied with the concept of time. Throughout a career defined by blurring…
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Fotografiska's Bold New Model For Museums
How can art institutions adapt to meet the changing cultural landscape in the coming decades, and what are the new models that will evolve to fill these needs?…
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Hal Foster on the Age of Art Theory
Hal Foster is one of the most well-known thinkers about art today. In a career that spans several decades, he is known for important much-cited books including…
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The Round-Up: A Glut of Paintings, a Fraudster's Reckoning, and an Art Prank Gone Wrong
The fall art season is now officially in full swing. We've had a big round of fairs already around the world with the Armory Show, Independent 20th Century…
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Artist Carol Bove on Curating Legendary Polymath Harry Smith
Harry Everett Smith is an odd figure to come across in an art museum. That's because he's not known primarily as a visual artist at all. For most, Harry Smith…
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Grow or Go? In an Uncertain Market, Three Art Experts Debate the Future
What does the future of the art market look like? It's a big and thorny question that cannot possibly be answered with a few simple words. From the big picture…
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What's Causing the Crisis in Art Criticism?
There are endless ways to write about art, but if you tell someone that's your job, the first thing they're likely going to think is that you write art…
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The Round-Up: The British Museum's Crisis, A.I. Art on Trial, and Dealer Beef in Montauk
We're back this week with The Roundup, where we dissect some of the biggest headlines that have been causing a stir over the last weeks in the art world and…
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Why Digital Art Lives Fast and Dies Young
Today we're going to be talking about a relatively new and novel career within art, one you might not have thought of because it didn't even really exist until…
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Why the Art Market's Struggles Spell Opportunity
So... how is the art market doing these days? If you want to know the answer, you’re in luck, because the latest issue of Artnet’s biannual Intelligence Report…
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The Pleasures and Paradoxes of Seurat's Iconic 'Sunday Afternoon'
In John Hughes's classic 1986 film Ferris Bueller's Day Off, the cohort of truant teenagers make a visit to the Art Institute of Chicago, and spend some time…
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How Surrealist Artist Leonora Carrington Carved Her Space in a Male-Dominated World
Despite being among the most-celebrated surrealists of the last century, British born artist Leonora Carrington is still overlooked as compared to her male…