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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 AngleWhy Germany's COVID-19 Relief Plan Is the Envy of the Art World
Although the coronavirus pandemic is first and foremost a public-health emergency, it rapidly proved to be a deep financial emergency, too. With businesses and…
The Art AngleThe 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 AngleThree Ways Coronavirus Will Transform the Art World
In the past month, the world—and by extension, the art world—has changed so drastically that it is almost unrecognizable. While the novel 2019 coronavirus…
The Art AngleWhy Art and Fashion Need Each Other Now
For its first-ever live episode, recorded at the 2020 Armory Show, the Art Angle brought on couture wunderkind Sander Lak, the creative director of the…
The Art AngleWhat Does an Art Scene Look Like Under the Coronavirus?
Usually, the first weeks of March are intensely busy ones for the international art community, as they lead up to the Art Basel Hong Kong art fair: an…
The Art AngleHow an Art-Dealing Prodigy Became the Market's Most Wanted Outlaw
A man on the run, millions of dollars missing, major artworks with multiple claims to ownership: these aren't plot points in the latest Hollywood blockbuster…
The Art AngleIs the Museum of Ice Cream the Future of Art, or Just a Sugar Rush?
There's a buzzy new museum taking over New York, and it boasts the types of specs that would make competitors drool. Now housed in a prime 25,000-square-foot…
The Art AngleWhat Is Saudi Arabia Trying to Do With Contemporary Art?
Some 16 months after the brutal murder of Washington Post journalist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi at the hands of state agents, the organization behind…
The Art AngleHow Hollywood Finally Fell for the Art Market
The Oscars may be over, but Hollywood is about to be overrun with a different kind of A-lister this week when the art world descends on Tinseltown for the…
The Art AngleHow Jeffrey Epstein Made the Art World His Hunting Ground
Over the past few weeks, the long-awaited trial of former Hollywood rainmaker Harvey Weinstein has unfolded in harrowing fashion, with one after another of his…
The Art AngleHow the Art World Fell Under the Spell of the Occult
You don't hear the words "witch hunt" much nowadays, unless they are being deployed by a certain US President. But the term is increasingly relevant—in a much…
The Art AngleNicolas Party on Why Being an Art Star Is Like Being in Love
After a period of reckoning with a less-than-inclusive art historical canon, it seems increasingly clear that viewers (and dealers) are once again ready to…
The Art AngleWhat Do the Protests in Hong Kong Mean for Art?
Above and beyond its well-established status as a global financial center, Hong Kong has spent the 21st century rapidly transforming into an international…
The Art AngleFour Predictions on How the Art World Will Transform in 2020
Whether you ascribe to the centuries-old Georgian Calendar or slept through the clock striking midnight, ushering in a new year is often a time for reflection…
The Art AngleHow to Understand the Radical, Viral Artworks That Defined the 2010s
As a barrage of retrospective pieces from countless publications (including Artnet News) made clear throughout December 2019, the opening moments of 2020…
The Art AngleHow an Artist’s $120,000 Banana Ate the World
At the start of December, the Art Angle team had other, loftier ideas for the show's first Christmas episode. Maybe we would dig into the most important…
The Art AngleNew Yorker Art Scribe Calvin Tomkins on What Makes Great Artists Tick
Six decades ago, an editor at Newsweek magazine summoned a young journalist named Calvin Tomkins out of the foreign-news department to interview the legendary…
The Art AngleIs the Art World Causing a Climate Catastrophe?
For our latest episode, team Art Angle traveled to Art Basel Miami Beach to examine a much thornier and more urgent issue than the glamorous trade show's…
The Art AngleArt Basel Rules the Art Market. Is That a Good Thing for Art?
This week, what seems like the entire art industry, every luxury company, and every celebrity or status-seeker available will be traveling to south Florida for…
The Art AngleHow Yayoi Kusama Became an Unlikely Pop-Culture Phenomenon
The 90-year-old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is an international sensation. Exhibitions featuring her ongoing series of “Infinity Mirrored Rooms” consistently…
The Art AngleWho Is Sotheby's Mysterious New Owner, and What Does He Want?
Normally, the week following Art Basel in June sees the art market begin its downshift into the summer doldrums. But this year, on what nearly everyone…
The Art AngleHans Neuendorf on 30 Years of Artnet, and What Comes Next
Hans Neuendorf had already built a storied career as an art dealer by the late 1980s, helping to bring Pop art from the United States to Germany, co-founding…
The Art AngleAnish Kapoor on "Radical" Art, China, and the Magic Paint Wars
Already one of the world's most renowned and visible artists, Anish Kapoor is entering new territory by opening multiple major exhibitions on opposite ends of…
The Art AngleWhy Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre Matters
To mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, the Louvre pulled out all the stops to present a blockbuster exhibition of some of the Old Master's…
The Art AngleHow MoMA Remade Itself for the Trump Era
After over $400 million in renovations and a multiple-month closure to the public, the Museum of Modern Art is back. National art critic Ben Davis sits down…