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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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How Kennedy Yanko Welded Her Way to Art Stardom
Kennedy Yanko is not afraid to take up space this week. This week, the Brooklyn-based sculptor unveiled her largest work yet at Art Basel, a 20 foot tall…
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How Documenta Became the World’s Most Controversial Art Show
How much can an art show do? That’s a question at the heart of documenta, the sprawling exhibition that touches down in Kassel, Germany every five years…
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The Scandalous Rise and Fall of Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick
Not too long ago, Inigo Philbrick was one of the best-connected dealers in the art world. The son of a museum director and the protege of legendary gallerist…
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How Artificial Intelligence Could Completely Transform Art
As we all know, there's a tremendous amount of attention that's being paid lately to NFTs and their whiplash market oscillations. Are NFTs good? Bad? A flash…
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Want to Wear a Basquiat? Inside the Big Business of Artist Merch
Today, Jean-Michel Basquiat is unquestionably one of the most recognizable and beloved artists on the planet. A native New Yorker of Haitian and Puerto Rican…
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Nari Ward on How to Make a True Portrait of New York City
The Jamaican-born, Harlem-based artist Nari Ward was barely out of his 20s when he exploded onto the New York art scene in 1993 with Amazing Grace, an…
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The Secret Codes of World-Class Art Auctions, Demystified
Get your paddles ready: New York is about to kick off what may be the biggest auction season ever. Over the next two weeks, as much as $2.6 billion worth of…
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Is the Venice Biennale Any Good? Here’s What Three Art Critics Think
At long last, this week the 59th Venice Biennale has officially thrown itself open to the world in Italy. The Biennale is always a big event for the art world…
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Is Fractional Art Investing the Future of the Market? Or a Scam?
So want to buy a Picasso? No, it's too expensive? Want to buy a teensy-weensy, tiny little microscopic flack of a Picasso? That sounds better, doesn't it?…
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How a Mysterious Whitney Biennial Confronts Our Moment
It's biennial season in a big bi-annual year. The Toronto Biennial just opened, the Venice Biennale opens next week, and around the corner are the German…
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The Whole Bored Ape Yacht Club Phenomenon, Explained
Just around one year ago, two literary bros from Miami decided to launch a business venture. It was a couple weeks after Beeple’s Everydays had sold for $69…
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Special Preview: Toyin Ojih Odutola on Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso
We're sharing a special preview of a podcast I’ve been enjoying, Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso, from Pushkin Industries. Talk Easy is a weekly interview podcast…
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Cecilia Alemani on Her Venice Biennale for an Anxious Era
This April, after a punishing two years apart during the pandemic, the whole art community will gather together on the magical watery isle of Venice for its…
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How Afghanistan’s Artists Are Making Their Way in Exile
In August 2021, the world watched in horror as U.S. troops withdrew, and the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan, with over 600,000 displaced people fleeing…
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How the Art World in Ukraine’s Besieged Capital Are Fighting Back
On February 24, just three short weeks before this recording the world as we knew it was utterly upended by the Russian army’s invasion of the Eastern European…
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How to Become a Successful NFT Artist
Ask fans of crypto and NFTs why they think blockchain is such a revolutionary technology, and it probably won’t be long before they mention large-scale data…
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Marina Abramovic on How Her Artistic Method Can Change Your Life
These days as contemporary art continues to pervade pop culture, there are art stars i.e. the talents who captivate the attention of art professionals. And…
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Jennie C. Jones on Why You Should Listen to Her Paintings
Right now at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, there's an exhibition of paintings on view that might remind you of the postwar abstractions of painters…
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The Black Art Visionary Who Secretly Built the Morgan Library
It's Black History Month, and we wanted to take the opportunity to devote this episode to the story of a Black museum leader. We know that people of color have…
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How Lucy Lippard and a Band of Artists Fought US Imperialism
If you were out and about in 1984, you might have noticed a striking poster wheatpasted everywhere. It featured two heroic silhouettes pulling down a statue…
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Art, Lies, and Instagram: How Catfishing ‘Collectors’ Duped the Art World
This week’s story begins with an art purchase made like so many others... . A collector notices his peers talking up an artwork on Instagram, so he messages…
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Her Family's Art Was Stolen During World War II. Here's How She Got It Back
Yesterday, a sumptuous portrait of a woman with a confident regard and rouged cheeks, porcelain skin, and a powdered up do reminiscent of cool whip, hit the…
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How the Met’s Astonishing Surrealism Show Rewrites Global Art History
If, perhaps, someone in a trench coat who was smoking a pipe and had a gigantic eyeball for a head were to approach you a street on a particularly sunny night…
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How the Artist Pension Trust Became a Gigantic Fiasco
Everyone knows the dirty little secret of the dog-eat-dog art market, which is that while an artist creates the artwork, the vast majority of the value of that…
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6 Predictions on How the Art Industry Will Transform in 2022
Here we are, at the beginning of a new year, a time that, at least in the past, used to be full of hope and anticipation, but after the last two years requires…
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Re-Air: How NFTs Are Changing the Art Market as We Know It
We did it, 2021 is in the can. We are about to finally make the transition into what is hopefully going to be a great, exciting, and healthy 2022. Here at The…
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The Most Astounding Archaeology Revelations of 2021 (Can You Dig It?)
’Tis the season, once again, it's The Art Angle Christmas episode. Can you believe we made it through another one of these incredibly intense pandemic years?…
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From Handbags to Hard Cash, How Dealers Woo the Artists They Want to Rep
The art market is a notoriously woolly place where deals are done with hushed shakes behind closed doors. This of course applies to auctions, art sales and art…
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A Gossip Columnist Walks Into a Bar at Art Basel Miami Beach
Last week, fresh panic spread around the globe as a new COVID variant of unknown power called Omicron came into view, threatening to potentially plunge society…
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Where Do NFTs Go From Here? An Interview With Christie’s Noah Davis
The NFT market exploded this spring and has kept on exploding all year long. Artnet News Editor-In-Chief Andrew Goldstein is joined on the show by one of the…
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Re-Air: How High-Tech Van Gogh Became the Biggest Art Phenomenon Ever
This week, those of us who live in the United States are celebrating Thanksgiving. For many of us that means a lot of family time. For Artnet News Executive…
The Art AngleIntroducing 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…
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How an Art Collective Brings Artworks From the Past Back to Life
For artists, writers, and musicians, copyright is an invaluable safeguard, protecting intellectual property of original works of authorship. But eventually, no…
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How the CryptoPunk OGs Lit the Fuse for the NFT Boom
In 2017 Canadian software developers, Matt Hall, and John Watkinson debuted what would become a landmark project in the early crypto art movement, the…
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How a Fiery Breakup Sparked the Biggest Art Auction in Decades
This week we aren't so much going down to earth as we are climbing up into the art market stratosphere, where only the wealthiest collectors reside. All eyes…
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Why Horror Movies Keep Haunting the Art World
If you consider yourself a dedicated fan of contemporary art, then you're probably no stranger to watching things onscreen that the average person would find…
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Judy Chicago on How to Build a Lasting Art Career
If you are familiar with the artist Judy Chicago, chances are you associate her with one piece: her magnum opus The Dinner Party, an epic work of installation…
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5 Technologies That Will Transform the Art World by 2030
This week, we're hopping into a time machine and traveling to the not so distant future to answer this question, how will the technological tools being…
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Elusive Artist Ryoji Ikeda Wants You to Bask in His Data-Verse
It’s hard to describe the experience of a work by Ryoji Ikeda. The Japanese artist has worked as an experimental musician, performer, researcher, and…
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How Art Basel Did (and Didn't) Change After a Two-Year Hiatus
An art industry ritual returned after an unprecedented hiatus: on a Monday evening last week, art advisors, dealers, and collectors ceremoniously filed into…
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Writer Roxane Gay on What Art Can Teach Us About Trauma and Healing
For the 100th episode of the Art Angle, Artnet News’s Style Editor, Noor Brara had the pleasure of speaking with critically acclaimed author, professor, and…
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Keltie Ferris and Peter Halley on the Mysterious Joys of Making a Painting
Artists Peter Halley and Keltie Ferris first met sometime in the mid-2000s, at the height of the abstract painting revival. Halley, a pioneering…
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How Facebook and the Helsinki Biennial Share a Vision for the Art World’s Future
Some of the most impactful stories to surface this past year have revolved around three major issues affecting the world as a whole: there’s a worsening…
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Artists in Residence at the World Trade Center Reflect on 9/11
This week marks the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Thousands of people who worked at the trade center or who witnessed…
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Genesis Tramaine on How Faith Inspires Her Art
For centuries, Western art-making centered around religious imagery during the middle ages and Renaissance icons. Altar pieces and stained glass windows were…
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The Bitter Battle Over Bob Ross's Empire of Joy
Love him or laugh at him, Bob Ross is absolutely one of America’s best known painters. A quarter century after he died in 1995, a Bob Ross Experience debuted…
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How Monaco and Accra Are Spinning the Art World in Opposite Directions
It’s late August, and for the first time in two years, it looks like the fall art season could be jam-packed with major in-person art-market events––even if…
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How Britney Spears's Image Inspired Millennial Artists
I'm sure you've heard it: For the past few months, the U.S. news media has been following the saga of pop star Britney Spears and the unusual conservatorship…
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How the Medicis Became Art History's First Influencers
If you're a fan of Italian Renaissance art and you were in New York right now, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a treat for you. It's called The Medici…
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How Two Painters Helped Spark the Modern Conservation Movement
Right now there is a powerful, highly ambitious, and deeply relevant art show in New York that weaves together the histories of conservation and American art…
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The Hunter Biden Art Controversy, Explained
This episode is devoted to Hunter Biden. Why? If you read the news, click on any cable network or walk down the street. You've probably heard that everybody is…
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Legendary Auctioneer Simon de Pury on Monaco, Hip Hop, and the Art Market’s New Reality
This week, the subject of our show is less a story and more of a phenomenon, and his name is Simon de Pury. A legendary auctioneer who has actually been called…
The Art Angle18-Year-Old NFT Star Fewocious on How Art Saved His Life (and Crashed Christie's Website)
Last month, a new name entered the art discussion when a suite of five digital artworks sold in a special sale at Christie's auction house in New York for $2.1…
The Art AngleRe-Air: How Photographer Dawoud Bey Makes Black America Visible
The Art Angle team is taking this week off, but we'll be back July 9 with a new episode. In the meantime, here's one of our favorite recent episodes, featuring…
The Art AngleTyler Mitchell and Helen Molesworth on Why Great Art Requires Trust
Today one of the swiftest rising stars in the art world is a 26-year-old wunderkind photographer who is equally comfortable shooting heads of state for…
The Art AngleHow High-Tech Van Gogh Became the Biggest Art Phenomenon Ever
Unless you are living under a particularly out of touch rock, you’ve probably heard of the immersive Van Gogh craze that is currently sweeping the globe. In a…
The Art AngleHow Much Money Do Art Dealers Actually Make?
We’ve all seen the movie with the glamorous art dealer, maybe a villain who lives in a cutting edge palatial home, drives an impressive car and speaks with an…
The Art AngleShattering the Glass Ceiling (Re-Air): How Collector Catherine Levene Went From an Art Startup to Running One of America’s Top Media Companies
We wanted to make sure you had a chance to check out a very special new podcast miniseries we’ve rolled out. It’s called Shattering the Glass Ceiling, and its…
The Art AngleShattering the Glass Ceiling (Re-Air): Curator Lauren Haynes on Working to Forge a Fuller Story of American Art
For the past couple of weeks, we’ve been running a little experiment here at the Art Angle—namely our first-ever breakout mini-series, called Shattering the…
The Art AngleWhat Does the Sci-Fi Art Fair of the Future Look Like?
It’s a cliche to say that going to greater China is a bit like visiting the future, where technology is threaded into every aspect of daily life in ways that…