The Art Angle
Kanal-Details
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.
Neueste Episoden
329 Episoden
Art World Infamy: Inigo Philbrick – Flight Risk(Ep. 3)
Art World Infamy is a special series from the team behind The Art Angle, investigating the scandals and schemes that have rocked the art world. In the...
The Silent Emergency Facing Museums
Museums across the globe are facing unprecedented challenges. In the West, public funding is shrinking, politics is creeping into the galleries, and i...
Art World Infamy: Inigo Philbrick – Golden Boy (Ep. 2)
Art World Infamy is a special series from the team behind The Art Angle, investigating the scandals and schemes that have rocked the art world. In the...
Art World Infamy: Inigo Philbrick – Asset Class (Ep. 1)
Art World Infamy is a special series from the team behind The Art Angle, investigating the scandals and schemes that have rocked the art world. In the...
The Round-Up: Looted Art Exposed in House Listing, Jeff Koons Back With His Ex, and $13M For 'Conan' Cover Art
It’s September, and the art world is back to business. In this month’s episode of the Art Angle Round-Up, we’re diving into the stories making headlin...
A Turning Point for the Art Market?
We’re thrilled to be able to say that the latest edition of Artnet's Intelligence Report: The Mid-Year Report 2025, has been published. It's free for...
The Round Up: Live From New York
Fans of the Art Angle know our monthly Art Angle Round-Up, where Kate Brown and Ben Davis are usually joined by a writer to talk about three topics in...
Why We Need New Art Institutions
Most of us can agree: we are living through a cultural crisis. It doesn’t come from a single source—it isn’t just algorithms, aesthetics, politics, or...
Re-Air: The Art World's Octopus Teacher
This is a re-air of a popular episode from earlier in the year.
Have you ever asked yourself: What do artists have to learn from the octo...
Is This the Museum World's Favorite Artist?
If you want to know which artist is having the biggest year in museums, there is one name that springs to mind for me: Cara Romero.
Since...
Why This New Art Trend Feels So Familiar
In art history, the pastoral has long offered a vision of nature as sanctuary—Arcadian meadows, idyllic countrysides, and timeless landscapes painted...
Re-Air: What Makes Spine-Tingling Art? Aesthetic Chills: Explained
While we are on summer break, this is a re-air of a popular episode from earlier in the year.
Can you think of a work of art that truly t...
The Round-Up: Johnny Depp Does Modigliani, Labubu Mania, and a Weird Idea for the Venice Biennale
It may be the dog days of summer, but the art world doesn’t take a break, and there’s plenty to talk about for our monthly roundup episode, where we p...
There Is Not One Art World. There Are (at Least) Five
If you’ve been around art in the last several decades or so, you likely have heard the term “institutional critique.” This is a genre of art that turn...
Why No One Trusts Art Prices Anymore
What’s a painting worth? For art world professionals, that question of price has never been easy—but lately, it’s gotten harder than ever.
How the Post-Pandemic Generation Is Changing Digital Art
Every rising generation reinvents the rules of how art works. What are the new new ways of working? What kinds of spaces serve those needs? Art critic...
Re-Air: The Rise of the Red Chip Art World
When we first aired this episode about red chip art a few months back, it captured a cultural and art market phenomenon hiding in plain sight. My coll...
The Round-Up: Tech’d Out Museums, Art Basel Takeaways, and Adrien Brody's Awesomely Awful Art
It’s the end of June. It’s hot. And it’s time to take a look back at the hot art stories of the last month.
Today the Art Angle team has...
Why Does Culture Feel Stuck?
The Los Angeles–based trend forecaster and writer Sean Monahan is known for his sharp takes on the zeitgeist. Over the past decade, his cultural insig...
How Does an Emerging Gallery Make It Now?
We’re on the cusp of the 2025 edition of Art Basel—the flagship fair held each June in Basel, Switzerland. More than 200 galleries from around the wor...
The Art World's Octopus Teacher
Have you ever asked yourself: What do artists have to learn from the octopus? Maybe not—but the question is at the heart of the work of Miriam Simun,...
A Crypto Billionaire's Lawsuit, Koons’s Hulk Blasts Back,' the Art Basel Awards
It's been a minute, but we're back with our Round-Up episode, where we parse and discuss some of the biggest stories going on around the art world, an...
The New Rules of Subculture
There is nothing that Artnet’s Art Critic Ben Davis likes better than finding a name for a phenomenon that’s all around him, but that he doesn’t have...
How to Curate a Life: Lessons From 3 Art World Tastemakers
Spring art week just wrapped in New York City. Known for its extravagant floral displays and signature oysters and champagne, TEFAF is the fair with a...
How Painters Today Are Reframing… the Frame
Almost by definition, the frame of a picture is something that you are not supposed to notice.
But if you go to the art galleries to look...
Megastar Artist Kent Monkman Is Rewriting Colonial Narratives on Canvas
Kent Monkman is one of the most vital and provocative voices in contemporary painting. Based between Toronto and New York, and a member of the Fisher...
Re-Air: How Textiles Took Over the Art World
This week we are running a re-air of an interview with the curator and writer Elisa Auther about the fascinating history of fiber art and its recent r...
Trump: Cultural Offensive or Offensive Culture?
To say that the last few months have been chaos in the United States would most definitely be an understatement. Since Donald J. Trump's return to off...
The Rise of the Red-Chip Art World
In a recent essay, Artnet writer Annie Armstrong spotlighted a chaotic new force in the art world: red-chip art. It’s the brash, chrome-dipped, algori...
What’s Holding Women Back in the Arts—And How Can We Fix It?
This week, we’re taking on a subject that affects the majority of the arts workforce— gender inequity in the industry. Women make up the backbone of t...
Re-Air: Why Is Rococo Art Making a Comeback?
When Madame du Barry, King Louis XV’s last mistress, pleaded for “just a little moment more” before her execution in 1793, in the throes of the French...
Who's Behind the Changing Tastes in the Art Market?
For the latest edition of the Artnet Intelligence Report, which is now free to download, Artnet columnist Katya Kazakina wrote a wide-ranging cover st...
Uncovering the Louvre’s Hidden Stories
The Louvre is among the largest, most-visited, and best-known museums in the world, and for nearly too many reasons to count. It’s home to some of the...
The Extraordinary Life (and Afterlife) of Art's 'Jazz Witch'
The artist Gertrude Abercrombie is not someone whose name I knew until very recently. But she’s definitely a name to know now.
Born in 1909 in A...
The Round-Up: L.A.'s Art Scene Rallies, an Art Fraudster Speaks, a Fugly 'Van Gogh'
It’s the end of February 2025, and we are back for our Roundup podcast, talking about some of the news of the month.
Today, we’re going to talk...
The Glorious, Tortured Imagination of Caspar David Friedrich
Caspar David Friedrich is considered one of the most important German painters, and his landscape works live large in the cultural consciousness in Ge...
Critics Say 'Identity Politics' Ruined Art. Here's A Better Argument
“Identity politics” is among the most contentious terms in recent debates about art. And now, the most powerful people in the United States are blamin...
There's a Lot to Say About the 'Small Art' Trend
Art comes in all shapes and sizes, of course—but recently it has been getting smaller. Or at least that is what is argued in an article by Kate Brown,...
The Round-Up: Censorship Surges, David Lynch's Art, and the Met's Video Game
We are back this week with our monthly edition of the Art Angle Roundup, where co-hosts Kate Brown and Ben Davis are joined by a guest to discuss some...
The Vibe Shifted in Art. Now What?
We don’t need to tell anyone listening that it is a difficult and alarming political moment. You may be asking, How will art weather the storm?
...