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Reading the Art World
Welcome to "Reading the Art World," a podcast series featuring authors of new books about art, design, galleries, museums and the art market. Join host Megan Fox Kelly—art advisor, avid reader and Former President of the Association of Professional Art Advisors—as she interviews the minds behind new books about how we experience art and see the art world. Special thanks to Bob Golden for our music.
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Episodes
- Reading the Art World
Wanda Corn
For the 50th episode of Reading the Art World, host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Wanda Corn, Professor Emerita at Stanford University, about her latest book…
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Kevin Salatino
For the 49th episode of Reading the Art World, host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Kevin Salatino, chair and Curator of Prints and Drawings at the Art Institute…
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Great Art Books for the Summer
Summer has a way of making room for the kind of reading that gets crowded out the rest of the year — not lighter reading, necessarily, but slower reading. A…
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Ruth Bernard Yeazell
For the 47th episode of Reading the Art World, host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Ruth Bernard Yeazell, Sterling Professor of English at Yale University, about…
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Georgina Adam
For the 46th episode of Reading the Art World, host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Georgina Adam, editor-at-large of The Art Newspaper, about her new book NextGen…
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William E. Wallace
For the 45th episode of Reading the Art World, host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with William E. Wallace, an internationally recognized authority on Michelangelo…
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András Szántó
For the 44th episode of Reading the Art World, host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with András Szántó—cultural strategist, writer, and longtime observer of museums and…
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Francine Snyder
For the 43rd episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Francine Snyder, Director of Archives at the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation…
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Matthew Affron
For the 42nd episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Dr. Matthew Affron, Muriel and Philip Berman Curator of Modern Art at the…
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Holiday Art Books 2025: A Gift Guide for Art Lovers
Join art advisor Megan Fox Kelly for a special holiday episode featuring her annual selection of art books worth giving—and keeping for yourself. This year's…
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Megan Fontanella
In the 40th episode of our "Reading the Art World" podcast, Megan Fox Kelly speaks with the Guggenheim's Megan Fontanella, Curator of Modern Art and…
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Susan Davidson
For the 39th episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Susan Davidson, curator and art historian, about her landmark book "Tom…
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Summer's Great Art Books
Summer invites a different kind of attention — the kind that lets you sit with something longer, look more closely, and linger on a page. In this special…
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Ian Wardropper
For the 37th episode of “Reading the Art World,” host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Ian Wardropper, author and former director of The Frick Collection, about his…
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Sarah Roberts
For the 36th episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Sarah Roberts, curator of the landmark exhibition "Amy Sherald: American…
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Michael Findlay
For the 35th episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with influential art dealer Michael Findlay about his captivating memoir…
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Sebastian Smee
For the 34th episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Sebastian Smee, Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic for The Washington Post and…
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Art Books for Holiday Gifting
Join art advisor Megan Fox Kelly for a special holiday podcast episode. The holiday season, with its whirlwind of glittering lights and celebratory clamor…
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Mary Morton & Kimberly Jones
For the 32nd episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Mary Morton, Curator and Head of the Department of French Paintings, and…
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Diana Seave Greenwald
For the 31st episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Diana Seave Greenwald, curator of the exhibition “Manet: A Model Family” at…
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Gary Garrels
For the 30th episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Gary Garrels, curator of the exhibition “Willem de Kooning and Italy” and…
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Richard Shiff
For the 29th episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Richard Shiff, art historian and author of “Writing after Art,” published by…
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Selections for Summer
Join art advisor Megan Fox Kelly for a special podcast episode in which she shares three titles from her must-read list of recent art books and provides…
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Eva Respini
For the 27th episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Eva Respini, author of “Simone Leigh,” published by DelMonico Books in…
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Martin Gayford
For the 26th episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Martin Gayford, author of “Venice: City of Pictures,” published by Thames &…
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Leslie Ramos
For the 25th episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Leslie Ramos, author of “Philanthropy in the Arts: A Game of Give and Take,”…
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Natasha Degen
For the 24th episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Natasha Degen, author of "Merchants of Style: Art and Fashion After Warhol,"…
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Joanna Moorhead
For the 23rd episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Joanna Moorhead, the author of "Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora…
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Richard Lacayo
For the 22nd episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Richard Lacayo, author of “Last Light: How Six Great Artists Made Old Age a…
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Diana Seave Greenwald
For the 21st episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Diana Seave Greenwald, whose latest book, "Isabella Stewart Gardner: A Life,"…
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Susan Davidson
For the 20th episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Susan Davidson, author of “Robert Motherwell: Pure Painting,” published in…
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Amy Whitaker & Nora Burnett Abrams
For the 19th episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Amy Whitaker and Nora Burnett Abrams, authors of the new book, “The Story of…
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Daniel Weiss
For the 18th episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Daniel Weiss, author of "Why the Museum Matters" published in 2022 by Yale…
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Ruth Fine
Renowned curator, scholar, and author Ruth Fine takes us behind the scenes of the creation of Frank Stewart’s Nexus: An American Photographer’s Journey, 1960s…
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András Szántó
How are museums physically adapting to a fast-paced, globally-minded world? Join art advisor and Reading the Art World host, Megan Fox Kelly, as she sits down…
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Courtney J. Martin
Join art advisor and Reading the Art World host, Megan Fox Kelly, for an in-depth interview with the Paul Mellon Director of the Yale Center for British Art in…
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Jerry Saltz
For the fourteenth episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Jerry Saltz, author of “Art Is Life: Icons and Iconoclasts, Visionaries…
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Michael Findlay
For the thirteenth episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Michael Findlay, author of The Value of Art: Money, Power, Beauty…
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Gareth Harris
For the twelfth episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Gareth Harris, Chief Contributing Editor of “The Art Newspaper” and the…
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Emily A. Beeny
In this episode, art advisor and Reading the Art World host, Megan Fox Kelly, speaks with Emily A. Beeny, curator at The Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco and…
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Marguerite Steed Hoffman & Gavin Delahunty
For the tenth episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Marguerite Steed Hoffman and Gavin Delahunty about the new book, “Amor…
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Todd Bradway
For the ninth episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Todd Bradway about his book, "Landscape Painting Now: From Pop Abstraction…
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András Szántó
For the eighth episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with András Szántó about his new book, “The Future of the Museum: 28 Dialogues”…
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Sarah Roberts and Katy Siegel
For the seventh episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Sarah Roberts and Katy Siegel about their new book, “Joan Mitchell,” which…
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Bernard Lumpkin
For the sixth episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Bernard Lumpkin about the book, “Young, Gifted and Black,” which shines a…
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Melanie Gerlis
For the fifth episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Melanie Gerlis, art market columnist for The Financial Times…
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Mary Rozell
For the fourth episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Mary Rozell, the Global Head of the UBS Art Collection and the author of…
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Georgina Adam
For the third episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with journalist and art market expert Georgina Adam, whose new book, "The Rise…
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Michele Robecchi: Phaidon Contemporary Artist Series
For the second episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Italian-born, London-based writer and curator Michele Robecchi…
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Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian
In the first episode of "Reading the Art World," host Megan Fox Kelly speaks with Tiqui Atencio Demirdjian, a Venezuelan-born collector who has chaired…