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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.
Episodes
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The Round-Up: Frieze's Expansion, Pollock's NFTs, and Barbenheimer's Impact
It used to be that the art news slowed down in the summer months, but these days, it seems like the art news never takes a break. So we're trying something a…
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A Security Guard's Love Letter to the Metropolitan Museum of Art
It’s every art lovers dream. To be alone, after hours, inside one of the world’s most august art museums. Away from the throngs of selfie-stick-wielding…
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How Meow Wolf Turned Into an Unlikely Art Juggernaut
The company’s origins are the stuff of legend. A scrappy band of Santa Fe artists with a penchant for building fantastical installations from mounds of trash…
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The Stunning Fall of Lisa Schiff, Art Advisor to the Stars
Just about everyone who works in the New York art world knows Lisa Schiff, an art advisor to the rich and famous who worked with celebrities like Leonardo…
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Inside the Controversy Over Hannah Gadsby's 'Pablo-matic' Show
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Pablo Picasso. To mark the occasion, an international event called Picasso Celebration has been organized…
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Why This A.I. Art Pioneer Thinks Text-to-Image Generators Are Killing Creativity
When artificial intelligence first arrived in the art world in 2017, it was received warmly and with open arms. A.I.-generated works by artists like Obvious…
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Jenny Holzer on the Raw Power of the Well-Wrought Phrase
Over the past five decades, American artist Jenny Holzer has been engaging in thought-provoking interventions into public space that unflinchingly address…
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What Is Hypersentimentalism? 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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James Murdoch on His Vision for Art Basel and the Future of Culture
In the Covid summer of 2020, the art world was jolted by a very different kind of drama when reports surfaced that MCH Group, the Swiss corporation best known…
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Among the Spiders With Mind-Bending Artist Tomas Saraceno
In the studio of Argentine artist Tomás Saraceno, there’s an expected sound—vibrations of a spider working on its web—a sound normally imperceptible to the…
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The Art Angle Presents: How the Intersection of Art, Design, and Technology Is Evolving
The landscape of technological advancement in the art and design world is constantly evolving at a rapid pace. In recent years, we have witnessed the emergence…
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What Does Connoisseurship Mean in the Digital Age?
What is connoisseurship, and what does it mean in the present day when Chat-GPT or even plain old Google can answer nearly any art historical question with a…
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Google’s A.I. Art Guru on the New Age of Disruption
The arrival of A.I. will profoundly change the art world—if it hasn't already. A.I.-generated works have proliferated with the rise of A.I. art generators and…
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What Is ‘Quantitative Aesthetics,’ and How Is It Changing Art?
One of the most exciting things about being an art journalist is that art as a subject is ridiculously protean: what it looks like is always changing, how we…
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An Oral History of Ryan McGinley’s ‘The Kids Are Alright,’ 20 Years Later
February 2023 marked the 20th anniversary of photographer Ryan McGinley’s seminal exhibition “The Kids Are Alright” at the Whitney Museum of American Art…
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Re-Air: How A.I. Is Changing the Business of Being an Artist
Today in the spring of 2023, it feels almost impossible to escape news, rumors, debates, think pieces, open letters, diatribes, scandals, lawsuits, or almost…
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How Roy Lichtenstein Became a Super-Villain to Comic Book Artists
When you hear the name Roy Lichtenstein, an artistic style immediately comes to mind. In the early 1960s, Lichtenstein’s use of comic books as an inspiration…
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How Does Data Give You the Edge in the Art Market?
The art market of today is a thriving global industry with a diverse community of buyers and sellers from all over the world who compete privately, and often…
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Re-Air: Are Climate Activists’ Art Attacks Helping or Hurting Their Cause?
In recent months, headlines around the world have blared the news of a startling new trend of activism where protesters physically attack famous artworks with…
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Re-Air: Why Vermeer’s Many Secrets Are Now Coming to Light
Next to the Mona Lisa, Johannes Vermeer’s Girl With a Pearl Earring is quite possibly the most famous portrait of all time. The 17th-century painting inspired…
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How the Heist Movie ‘Inside’ Turns Art Into a Thief’s Salvation
In a new feature film called Inside, an art heist goes terribly wrong for a thief named Nemo. Nemo is played by the world-renowned actor Willem DaFoe…
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The Triumphant, Tragic Life of Nazi-Era Artist Charlotte Salomon
All around Europe, there are small brass bricks inlaid into the ground before the front doors of apartment buildings and houses. These bricks are like a…
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Hito Steyerl on Why the Metaverse Has Already Failed
Given the manifold political, climate, and technological crises unfolding just two months into 2023, one wonders if that ominous future our species so fears is…
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The Art Angle Presents: How Three Artists Envision What a Goddess Means Today
In ancient mythology, figures like Athena and Aphrodite were exalted as paragons of virtue, strength, and beauty. Artnet and Cadillac invited three artists to…
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Hilma af Klint Pioneered Abstract Art. But That Is Only Part of Her Story
The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint died nearly 80 years ago in relative obscurity, but you might not immediately realize this if you look her up today. Her…
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What Is Afrofuturism, and Why Is It So Relevant Today?
One art movement has become a household name in a way that few recent art movements can match. This is Afrofuturism. From the Metropolitan Museum of Art…
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Marc Spiegler on the Evolution of the Art Business (and Life After Art Basel)
For Art Basel, the most well known art fair in the world, the fourth quarter of 2022 marked the end of one era, and the beginning of another. In early…
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Pussy Riot’s Nadya Tolokonnikova on Art, Activism, and Vladimir Putin
Born in Norilsk, an industrial Siberian town inside the Arctic Circle, Nadya Tolokonnikova was just 18 when she moved to Moscow and became a founding member of…
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What Can the Art World Learn From an Occult Practitioner?
Here at Artnet, we typically look to thorough data and the hard facts to tell us what to make of the wily, unpredictable art world. But every now and then…
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4 Predictions on How the Art Industry Will Transform in 2023
Well, it's happened again. Tim Schneider has gone prophetic, again. At the beginning of every year, our trusted art business editor goes through the Sisyphean…
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Why the Very Serious Artist Paul Chan Is Taking a Breather
Anyone who's driven by a car dealership in the U.S. has probably seen them: Inflatable nylon figures with smiley faces, bending and twisting in the breeze…
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Re-Air: What Is the Metaverse? And Why Should the Art World Care?
Well, what do you know? The year of 2022 has officially come to a close, and here at The Art Angle, we are in a reflective. It was an amazing year for the…
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An End-of-Year Art-World Quiz Show Extravaganza
Well, the end of the year is upon us and it is also the end of an era here at Artnet News. Our fearless executive editor, Julia Halperin, is leaving her post…
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Is Progress in the Art World Just a Mirage?
Inside the art world, one of the defining narratives of the past decade has been a renewed push for gender and racial equity. Much of the attention in this…
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Are Climate Activists’ Art Attacks Helping or Hurting Their Cause
On October 14, two activists, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland, walked into the National Gallery in London and threw a can of tomato soup on Van Gogh’s…
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Jerry Saltz on What It Takes to Be an Art Critic Today
What does it mean to be an art critic today? How do you choose what to write about and how do you even choose what to look at in an age where seeing art in…
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The Art Angle Presents: How Four Mexican Photographers Captured the Maya Riviera’s Raw Beauty
This special episode of the Art Angle is produced in partnership with Belmond. Recently, four photographers got a dream assignment. They were dispatched into…
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How the Rubells Built an Empire Out of Minting Art Stars
What do Sterling Ruby, Oscar Murillo, Kennedy Yanko, and Aomoako Boafo have in common? Beyond being some of the most sought-after contemporary artists of the…
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Why Vermeer’s Many Secrets Are Now Coming to Light
You've seen it. A woman in a blue turban set against a black background looking over her shoulder like you just called her name. She's wearing a heavy pearl…
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How the Lucas Museum Plans to Tell Riveting Stories Through Art
It’s been a challenging few years for art museums. But Sandra Jackson Dumont, the director and CEO of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art in Los Angeles, has…
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How—and Why—Paul Allen Built His Billion Dollar Art Collection
A glittering forest with a floor covered in leaves by Gustav Klimt. A country road painted with psychedelic purples, greens, and pinks by David Hockney. A…
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How A.I. Is Changing the Business of Being an Artist
In the borderlands between art and technology, no single development has sucked up more oxygen this year than the rise of image generators powered by…
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Can Artists Beat Flippers at Their Own Game?
"Flipping" was once a dirty word in the art market. But that is no longer the case. Over the past decade, speculative reselling has become big business as the…
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Can Art Basel Make Paris the World’s Art Capital Once Again?
The art world was caught by surprise earlier this year when it came to light that Paris’s long-standing art fair, FIAC, was being ousted from its precious…
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Why the Art World Is Such Hard Place to Be a Parent
A brand-new publication, penned by the London-based critic and Artnet contributor Hettie Judah, is trying to tear down a dusty old myth that hangs around in…
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‘Hope’ Poster Artist Shepard Fairey on Art and Activism Today
Few living artists have created an artwork as instantly recognizable as Shepherd Fairey’s Hope poster, which has become the stuff of legend as the face of…
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How the Universe Taught Wolfgang Tillmans to Make Art
When visitors go to see Wolfgang Tillmans’s new retrospective at the museum of modern art, one of the first things they'll likely notice is that few pictures…
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Rick Lowe on How Art Can Solve Real-World Problems
The year was 1990, and artist Rick Lowe had invited a group of high school students into a studio. Standing surrounded by his billboard size paintings, one of…
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How K-Pop and Connoisseurship Made Seoul a New Art Capital
Last week, the art industry descended on Seoul, South Korea, for the inaugural edition of Frieze art fair’s Asian outpost. It was a major affair, packed with…
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Re-Air: Why Art Biennial Superstars Exist in a Parallel Universe
This year was a big one for biennials with the Whitney Biennial in New York, the Venice Biennale in Italy and Documenta in Kassel, Germany as well as many…
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Re-Air: The Black Art Visionary Who Secretly Built the Morgan Library
We thought we’d revisit an episode we recorded earlier this year about one of the more fascinating and under-known figures in American art history. Her name…
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Re-Air: How the Art World in Ukraine’s Besieged Capital Are Fighting Back
Five months into the conflict, the brutal, horrific war in Ukraine grinds on, with no end in sight. And while Ukrainian men and women are fighting, and dying…
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Re-Air: Marina Abramović on How Her Artistic Method Can Change Your Life
Over the years, we’ve been very fortunate to have some bona fide legendary artists on this show, from Ai Weiwei to Judy Chicago to Anish Kapoor to Ed Ruscha…
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How Virgil Abloh Changed the Contemporary Art World
The world rarely sees a creative dynamo on the level of Virgil Abloh—or one harder to quantify. A trained architect, who was born to Ghanian immigrants and…
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What Is the Metaverse? And Why Should the Art World Care?
Have you ever wanted to live a different kind of life, in a different kind of place? What if this other place gave you the power to do or be almost anything…
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Why Artist Jayson Musson Is Clowning a Humorless Art World
Jayson Musson has a unique status in the art world: he has the persona and perspective of an outsider, but he's also something of an artist's artist…
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What Does the Future of NFTs Look Like Now?
It might be the dog days of summer here in New York, but over in the metaverse, we are firmly in the depths of crypto winter. When NFT NYC, the world’s largest…
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Re-Air: Art, Lies, and Instagram: How Catfishing ‘Collectors’ Duped the Art World
Well, the hot summer season is upon is, and while the Art Angle team is taking some r&r this week we thought we’d offer you some refreshment in the form of…
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Re-Air:The Secret Codes of World-Class Art Auctions, Demystified
This past may New York hosted what is probably the biggest auction season ever selling more than $2.7 billion worth of art. Last week, the traveling circus…
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Why Art Biennial Superstars Exist in a Parallel Universe
You're heard quite a bit about biennials on the Art Angle recently—the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennial, and, most recently, Documenta, which comes once…