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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
The Art AngleHow Kenny Schachter Became an NFT Evangelist Overnight
As much of the art world is beginning to rebound from the pandemic, the art market got a major shot in the arm itself: in little more than a week, New York’s…
The Art AngleHow Breonna Taylor's Life Inspired an Unforgettable Museum Exhibition
Right now, there's an exhibition at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, that is gaining international attention for a tragic reason. That’s because…
The Art AngleShattering the Glass Ceiling: Art Dealer Mariane Ibrahim on the Power of the Right Relationships
In the final installment of our mini-series Shattering the Glass Ceiling, Artnet News's art and design editor Noor Brara spoke with pioneering gallerist…
The Art Angle'Art Detective' Katya Kazakina on How She Lands Her Epic Scoops
The biggest story at Artnet HQ this week is not, as you might imagine, the opening of the first IRL art fair in more than a year, it's the launch of Artnet…
The Art AngleShattering the Glass Ceiling: Curator and Author Legacy Russell on Rebuilding Art Institutions From Within
In the third episode of the Art Angle's podcast miniseries "Shattering the Glass Ceiling," Artnet News's London editor Naomi Rea spoke to curator and author…
The Art AngleHow Frieze Managed to Put Together the First Art Fair of the Pandemic
You know the scene at the end of Bong Joon-ho's 2013 film Snowpiercer where they leave the hellish bullet train and see that the frozen Tundra is starting to…
The Art AngleShattering the Glass Ceiling: Art Collector and Media Executive Catherine Levene On Empathetic Leadership
The second installment of this four-part podcast miniseries features Artnet News senior writer Sarah Cascone's interview with art collector and media executive…
The Art AngleShattering the Glass Ceiling: Curator Lauren Haynes on Working to Forge a Fuller Story of American Art
Welcome to Shattering the Glass Ceiling, a podcast from the team at the Art Angle where we speak to boundary-breaking women in the art world and beyond about…
The Art AngleThe Art Angle Presents: Shattering the Glass Ceiling
As we begin to emerge into the new realities of 2021, the challenges of the past year have made vividly clear the importance of having leaders in all areas of…
The Art AngleHow Photographer Dawoud Bey Makes Black America Visible
This month, the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd has brought the racial justice protests of the…
The Art AngleKAWS Is the World's Most Popular Artist. Why?
Art shows are a thing again! At least in New York, at least for now, and at least in the socially distanced way that we've come to see as normal. But it's…
The Art AngleHow the Pandemic Totally Changed the Art Market
Amazingly enough, it's now the spring of 2021. That means the weather is warming, the grass is greening, and the little buds are drinking in the cool rain. But…
The Art AngleHow NFTs Are Changing the Art Market as We Know It
As we all now know, NFTs are the talk of the art world these days—they're everywhere. It's gotten to the point where you can't have a simple conversation with…
The Art AngleLorraine O'Grady on the Social Castes of the Art World
This month, as the world limps its way toward spring and, hopefully, a gradual return of normality, the Brooklyn Museum has opened a show called “Lorraine…
The Art AngleRe-Air: Why Artist Trevor Paglen Is Doing Everything He Can to Warn Humanity About Artificial Intelligence
In fall 2019, a new app called ImageNet Roulette was introduced to the world with what seemed like a simple, fun premise: snap a selfie, upload it to a…
The Art AngleWhat Will Be the Fate of the Benin Bronzes?
The story of the Benin Bronzes is one of the bloodier, more shameful chapters in the history of the Western world’s "encyclopedic" museums. Looted from the…
The Art AngleThe Haunting History of the Benin Bronzes
For decades, one of the most urgent moral debates in the museum world has revolved around restitution, with art institutions around the world facing demands…
The Art AngleThe Surprising Lessons of FDR’s New Deal Art Programs
Shockingly enough, we are now coming up on the one year anniversary of the lockdown of the United States. At this point last year, a creeping dread had begun…
The Art Angle5 Steamy, Whirlwind Romances That Changed Art History
In case you’ve forgotten—in which case, shame on you!—Valentine’s Day is right around the corner again, and we here at the Art Angle are all atwitter.We just…
The Art AngleKickstarter Founder Perry Chen on Art in the Age of Hypercomplexity
It’s no secret that today we live in a world of dizzying, gobsmacking, and ever-intensifying complexity. Everything from the computers we carry in our pockets…
The Art AngleMoMA Curator Paola Antonelli on Design for the Post-Pandemic World
Right now, one of the most talked-about issues at hand for members of the international workforce is: what comes next? For those of us fortunate enough to work…
The Art AngleArtist Daniel Arsham on How He Built a Creative Empire
When he was just 12 years old, Daniel Arsham had a near-death experience. Living in Florida with his parents, Hurricane Andrew struck in 1992, careening across…
The Art Angle8 Predictions on How the Art World Will Shift in 2021
No one could have foreseen the giant boomerang of a year that was 2020. With its trifecta of health, financial, and social crises, it could not have been…
The Art AngleCan Art Help End the Era of Mass Incarceration?
Right now, more than 2 million people are living behind bars in prisons across America. California's San Quentin Prison is currently at 117 percent capacity…
The Art AngleRe-air: The New Yorker's Peter Schjeldahl on His Adventures in Life as an Accidental Art Critic
As 2020 draws to a close, the Art Angle team is taking some time off to reboot for the new year and prepare for a lineup of exciting new episodes. In the…
The Art AngleThe Art Angle Presents: A Star-Studded Art History Game Show (With Kids!)
What happens when you pair three-to-six year-old children with esteemed art-world figures to play an art-historical guessing game? For our final episode of…
The Art AngleJeffrey Deitch on How to Succeed in the Art Industry
Jeffrey Deitch is that rare type of creative who has a keen understanding of business: he holds an undergraduate degree in art history from Wesleyan…
The Art AngleI Survived Zombie Art Basel Miami Beach
Every December for the better part of the past two decades, a throng of well-heeled dealers, collectors, artists, celebrities, publicists, and lookie loos…
The Art AngleWhy Awol Erizku Is So Much More Than Just Beyoncé’s Baby Photographer
The journey to becoming one of the most acclaimed photographers of his generation—at the tender age of 32—wasn't exactly a straight line for Awol Erizku. Born…
The Art AngleRe-air: The Rise and Fall of Anne Geddes, Queen of Baby Photography
The Art Angle team is taking this week off for Thanksgiving, but we thought we'd share one of our favorite episodes from the past year to see you through this…
The Art AngleWhy New York’s Art Scene Will Reign Supreme Post-COVID
The news cycle for the past seven months has been dominated by staggering data points that seek to quantify the scope of the pandemic's effects on the United…
The Art AngleHow Does the Art World Feel About Joe Biden’s Victory?
Well, it finally happened. Former vice president Joe Biden and his running mate, Kamala Harris, have won the United States presidential election. They ran on…
The Art AngleHow Pepe the Frog Explains America's Toxic Politics
When San Francisco-based artist Matt Furie created a zine in 2005 featuring a rag-tag group of immature adolescent animals, including a heavy-lidded frog named…
The Art AngleEd Ruscha and Jimmy Iovine on How Art Can End the Trump Era
One of the most salient images of America's tattered democracy is Ed Ruscha's Our Flag, a startling painting of Old Glory, shredded and flapping against a dark…
The Art AngleHow Frida Kahlo Can Change Your Life (for Better or Worse)
Frida Kahlo is, by every metric, one of the most famous artists in the world. Recently the priciest Latinx painter at auction, she has also been the subject of…
The Art AngleThe Painter and the Poet: A Tragic Love Story
Through October 24, Galerie Lelong in New York is presenting "Gate to the Blue," a striking show of paintings by the late artist Ficre Ghebreyesus that opens a…
The Art AngleCould TikTok Save a Broken Art World?
For many emerging artists, social media platforms have become an indispensable platform for jumpstarting their careers. But years after Instagram sparked its…
The Art AngleWhat New York's Art World Looks Like Post-Lockdown
To call the mood of this past spring in the New York art world "apocalyptic" would hardly be an exaggeration. Although it was on March 22 that the rapid spread…
The Art AngleHow a Powerhouse Hollywood Agency Is Turning Artists Into Stars
It used to be that even the biggest, brawniest Hollywood talent agencies restricted their clientele to... well, Hollywood. That meant actors, filmmakers…
The Art AngleHow the World Health Organization Is Using Art to Fight the Pandemic
Ask the average informed citizen what the responsibilities of the World Health Organization are, and they're likely to name initiatives like funding medical…
The Art AngleFuturist Doug Stephens on What Art Dealers Can Learn From the Retail Revolution
In a July 2020 article published in the Business of Fashion, Canadian futurist Doug Stephens opined on the likely realities of the commercial ecosystem that…
The Art AngleRe-air: The Unbelievable True Story of the Mystical Painter Agnes Pelton
Art history thrives on stories of fearless visionaries leaving behind the lives they’ve known to embark on journeys into uncertain lands for personal…
The Art AngleThe Secret Art History of Burning Man
Today, practically everyone on earth knows about Burning Man, the countercultural extravaganza that draws tens of thousands of true believers to a barren…
The Art AngleHow Rupert Murdoch's Son Became Art Basel's Savior
Earlier this summer, rumors emerged that a member of the Murdoch media dynasty—most (in)famous for building the far-right Fox News—may be sniffing around a…
The Art AngleHow the Wellness Revolution Just Arrived in the Art World
A blue neon sign reading "You Belong Here" has become a new kind of beacon in Long Beach, California recently. The light sculpture by artist Tavares Strachan…
The Art AngleArt Critic Jerry Saltz on Why It's Time to Build a New Art World
It's not often that you find an art critic—or anyone, for that matter—who can claim upwards of 400,000 Instagram followers, a Pulitzer Prize, and appearances…
The Art AngleHow Black Women Are Leading a Grassroots Art Revolution
Just days into the start of 2020, CityLab published an article analyzing which major American cities are the best, and the worst, for Black women residents…
The Art AngleHow the Heck Did Auction Houses Just Sell Almost a Billion Dollars in Art During a Global Pandemic?
Each May, as the flowers bloom and the evening light lingers, the world's largest auction houses hold their marquee spring sales in New York, enabling…
The Art AngleHow Hank Willis Thomas Is Making Politics an Art Form
Hank Willis Thomas is a busy man. The 44-year-old photographer, sculptor, filmmaker, and writer was already a force within the rarefied world of visual art…
The Art AngleThe Unsettling Truth Behind What Columbus Monuments Really Stand For
In cities across the world over the past month, activists have been taking aim at symbols of oppression in the form of monuments: splashing them with paint…
The Art AngleMeet the Smithsonian Curator Who Turns Protesters’ T-Shirts Into National Treasures
Although 2020 isn't even halfway done yet, the worldwide health crisis and the global uprising over civil rights already guarantee that this year will be one…
The Art AngleWhy Artist Trevor Paglen Is Doing Everything He Can to Warn Humanity About Artificial Intelligence
In fall 2019, a new app called ImageNet Roulette was introduced to the world with what seemed like a simple, fun premise: snap a selfie, upload it to a…
The Art AngleFour Artists on the Front Lines of the George Floyd Protests
As American citizens entered Memorial Day weekend this year, the nation was already in turmoil. Nearly 100,000 lives had been lost to a colossal public-health…
The Art AngleThe Rise and Fall of Anne Geddes, Queen of Baby Photography
Picture this: a doughy, apple-cheeked infant nestled in between the soft petals of a dew-kissed flower, sound asleep, like the start of a real-life fable…
The Art AngleChina’s Most Adventurous Museum Director on Global Art’s Post-COVID Future
In late January, Philip Tinari, the director of Beijing's pioneering UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, was in Davos, Switzerland for the latest outing on the…
The Art AngleYouTube’s No-Nonsense Art Guru on How to Unlock Your Inner Artist
How many times have you heard someone in a museum scoff "I could do that" in the presence of a solid-black canvas or an obtuse conceptual installation? You're…
The Art AngleHow Marina Abramović Became the Center of a Vast Satanic Conspiracy Theory
Just when you thought the spring of 2020 couldn't get any weirder, a Microsoft ad starring performance artist Marina Abramović caught the attention of…
The Art AngleThe New Yorker's Peter Schjeldahl on His Adventures in Life as an Accidental Art Critic
In his 2019 essay "The Art of Dying," acclaimed critic Peter Schjeldahl describes Patsy Cline's voice as "attending selflessly to the sounds and the senses of…
The Art AngleAi Weiwei on the Coronavirus, China, and Art's New Role
Ai Weiwei is not shy about tackling the big issues. Despite winning international acclaim for his interdisciplinary, boundary-pushing art, the Chinese-born…
The Art AngleHow Photography Is Being Revolutionized in the Coronavirus Era
Today, Antwaun Sargent is known as the preeminent critical and curatorial voice for one of the most important movements in contemporary photography. Along with…