Frieze Masters Podcast
Episodes
Episode 6: Twisted Classic | Glenn Brown on Collecting, Displaying and Distorting Old Masters
02 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
'Every time you put a mark on a painting and you can't take it off, you are running the risk of destroying the painting,' says artist Glenn Brown. ...
Episode 5: Fashion As Art | Émilie Hammen & Elizabeth Way
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Is fashion art? Curators Émilie Hammen, Elizabeth Way and Arturo Galansino discuss the overlapping histories of fashion and art, and how contemporary...
Episode 4 | The Last Mughals | William Dalrymple
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'Bahadur Shah Zafar writes poetry in six different languages and through the sheer brilliance of his example, he provokes this last great renaissance...
Episode 3 | Black Atlas | Edward George & Matthew Harle
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The Image of the Black archive at The Warburg Institute comprises more than 30,000 images documenting representations of people of African descent fr...
Episode 2 | An Encounter in Spiritual Spaces: Mark Rothko and Fra Angelico | Christopher Rothko & Carl Strehlke
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Mark Rothko visited Fra Angelico's frescoes at the convent of San Marco in Florence, he was 'overwhelmed,' recounts his son, the psychologist...
Episode 1: Confessions in the Museum | Tracey Emin, Nicholas Cullinan & Arturo Galansino
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'My discovery of early Renaissance art was completely by accident in the National Gallery, by just walking down a few more stairs...I'd stay there f...
Episode 7: Plastic Power | Abraham Thomas, Nathalie du Pasquier & Annabelle Selldorf
17 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'When you make a painting, you want to make a good painting. You are more interested in the composition of the things, than in the precise descriptio...
Episode 6: Pictorial Language & Poetic Translations | Glenn Ligon, Zoé Whitley & Dia al-Azzawi
10 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'If I can let the viewer stand in front of my painting and question – if they can ask a question – this is success.' – Glenn Ligon How does...
Episode 5: The State We're In | Mark Leckey, Jenny Waldman & Polly Staple
03 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
'What's left for art? Art can offer ritual and ceremony, a communal place where bodies can gather. It's a place where things can happen visually, mus...
Episode 4: Spatial Intelligence | Nairy Baghramian, Glenn Lowry & Julian Rose
20 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'Isn't to exhibit to historicize?' – Julian Rose Artist Nairy Baghramian, Director of the Museum of Modern Art Glenn Lowry and historian Julian...
Episode 3: The Power of Painting | Gabriele Finaldi, Jan Dalley & Shirazeh Houshiary
13 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'The viewer makes the painting alive. Without the viewer, that thing doesn't exist.' – Shirazeh Houshiary What happens to our understanding of ...
Episode 2: Faces of Community | Barbara Walker, Ming Smith & Lou Stoppard
06 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'You have an idea and it goes off in another direction and you either pull it back or you go on the journey. I knew I wanted to make some portraits,...
Episode 1: Good Governance | Chris Bryant MP, Jeremy Deller and Victoria Siddall
29 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'What do we want the UK to look like in 10 years, 20 years, 50 years in terms of culture?' – Victoria Siddall The first episode of the 2024 Frieze M...
Episode Eight: On Context | Gilbert & George & Dr Nicholas Cullinan
26 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
'Sex, death, race and religion' – these are the topics that the London-based artists Gilbert and George announced they wanted to cover in this talk ...
Episode Seven: On Interiors | Mandy El-Sayegh, Flavia Frigeri & Valerie Cassel Oliver
19 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The London home of Galerie Thaddeus Ropac is a traditional eighteenth-century Mayfair townhouse, once home to the Bishop of Ely. But for artist Mandy...
Episode Six: On Space | Rachel Whiteread & Briony Fer
12 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The year 1993 marked a watershed for the famous Turner Prize, when it was awarded for the first time to a woman. That artist was Rachel Whiteread and ...
Episode Five: On Power | Thomas J Price & Dr Gus Casely-Hayford
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In On Power, London-based multidisciplinary artist Thomas J Price is in conversation with Dr Gus Casely-Hayford, the inaugural Director of V&A East. ...
Episode Four: On Studios | Arlene Shechet & Sheena Wagstaff
15 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2023, Frieze Masters fair sought to break the artist's studio open to a new audience with a new section, Studio, curated by Sheena Wagstaff – the...
Episode Three: On Photography | Tim Walker & Jerry Stafford
08 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
On Photography asks what it means today for an artist to work with a living, breathing icon, like the actress Tilda Swinton. Tim Walker, the noted art...
Episode Two: On Display | Shirin Neshat, Jamie Fobert, Dr Nicholas Cullinan
07 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In On Display, artist Shirin Neshat is in conversation with Jamie Fobert, the architect of London's newly reopened National Portrait Gallery, and its...
Episode One: On Rebellion | Maggi Hambling & Sarah Lucas
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2005, British artists Maggi Hambling and Sarah Lucas met at the historic Colony Room Club in London's Soho. There, they discovered that they shared...
Anthea Hamilton & Nicholas Cullinan
24 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Frieze Masters presents this conversation with Anthea Hamilton & Nicholas Cullinan in partnership with Studio Voltaire @studiovoltairelondon. Their co...
Love Lucian: The letters and early life of Lucian Freud
16 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Frieze Masters presents Love Lucian: The Letters and Early Life of Lucian Freud in partnership with the Freud Museum (@freudmuseum) . This episode fe...
Kamala Ibrahim Ishag & Hans Ulrich Obrist
09 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Frieze Masters presents this conversation with Kamala Ibrahim Ishag and Hans Ulrich Obrist in partnership with the Serpentine (@serpentineuk). To cele...
Doron Langberg & Nicholas Cullinan
16 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frieze Masters presents this conversation with Doron Langberg & Nicholas Cullinan, Director of the National Portrait Gallery in London. Their convers...
Zadie Xa & Vivien Zhang
05 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frieze Masters presents this conversation with Zadie Xa & Vivien Zhang in partnership with Whitechapel Gallery (@whitechapelgallery). Their conversat...
Andra Ursuţa & Jeremy Deller
28 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frieze Masters presents this conversation with Andra Ursuţa & Jeremy Deller in partnership with David Zwirner Gallery (@davidzwirner). Their conver...
Amy Sherald, Ekow Eshun & Jenni Sorkin
18 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frieze Masters presents this conversation with Amy Sherald, Ekow Eshun and Jenni Sorkin in partnership with Hauser & Wirth (@hauserwirth). The panel...
Tyler Mitchell & Zoé Whitley
11 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Frieze Masters presents this conversation with Tyler Mitchell & Zoé Whitley in partnership with Gagosian (@gagosian). Their conversation explores Mi...