The Art Angle
Episodes
How Raphael Made—and Unmade—the Renaissance
02 Apr 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Raphael is one of those names that everyone knows. He is the prince of painters, a master of the High Renaissance. And the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...
Whitney Biennial Trends, a New Baroque Art Star, and Banksy Unmasked
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Spring is upon us. March has seen a burst of big art events—the true start of a busy year. This week, Kate Brown and Ben Davis are joined by senior ...
Are We Entering a Post-Individual Era of Art?
19 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The New Museum opens its new building this week. And it’s doing so with a big show called “New Humans: Memories of the Future,” about how artist...
Kim Gordon Was Always an Artist First
12 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Kim Gordon—artist, musician, writer, and co-founder of the iconic rock band Sonic Youth—is one of the most restlessly creative figures in American...
The Young Painter Curators Are Rushing to Work With
05 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The Whitney Biennial is here. That would be the Whitney Museum’s big curated show which every two years brings together dozens of artists, always cl...
The Art Boom in the Middle East, Are Old Masters Cool Now?, and a Fresco Fracas in Italy
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
It’s time for our monthly news roundup where we discuss some of the biggest stories emerging in the art world. On the heels of the first-ever Art Ba...
What Epstein's Emails Tell Us About the Art Market
19 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There are many ways to read the vast trove of documents tied to the convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in priso...
An Artist's Guide to Psychedelic Mushrooms
12 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
There is an enduring association with creative experiment and psychedelic experiences. Recently, psychedelics have become more mainstream, explored no...
How the Debates Over Art, Race, and Tech Have Changed
05 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
If you had to pick two conversations that defined the last 10 years in art, one would certainly be about digital culture and online life. The other wo...
A Venice Biennale Meltdown, the Prado Is Too Popular, and a $2.7M Speed Painting?!
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Here we are, already at the end of the first month of the new year. That means it’s time to do the first Art Angle Round-Up of 2026, where, as is cu...
How the 21st Century Broke Culture
22 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
The first quarter of the 21st century is now behind us. Yet a pervasive sense of cultural stagnation persists: many observers and participants feel th...
Can Brainrot Be Art? Beeple Thinks So
15 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
In art right now, it's hard to avoid talking about Beeple. That, of course, is the alias of Charleston-based Mike Winkelmann, known to millions of fol...
Where Art Insiders Are Placing Their Bets in 2026
08 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
At the top of 2025, the outlook for the art industry was pretty bleak, and people’s worst fears were, in some cases, more than realized. By now, if ...
Re-Air: Why No One Trusts Art Prices Anymore
01 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
As we close out another bumpy year in the art market, we are revisiting a recent episode that looks at one of the factors in play: the erosion of logi...
Re-Air: How Painters Today Are Reframing… the Frame
25 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
We love to do deep dives into trends that we are noticing in painting and the trend of “Bordercore” was one of our best-loved from the year, so we...
Why This Famed Art Writer Turned to True Crime
18 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chris Kraus is one of the most well-known contemporary art writers. She is also an important taste-maker, co-editor of independent publisher Semiotext...
The Round-Up: 2025’s Highs, Lows, and WTFs
11 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It's that time of year again, the time when everything comes to a close. And as such, we are doing our special edition of the Roundup, taking a look b...
The Magic of 'The Artist's Way'
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Millions of people know The Artist's Way. First published in 1992, the book began as notes for a class that its author, Julia Cameron, taught on creat...
Re-Air: Uncovering the Louvre’s Hidden Stories
27 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
You've been hearing a lot about the Louvre lately. Last month, thieves broke into the Paris Museum in broad daylight when the museum had just opened ...
A Long, Strange Trip Through the New York Gallery Scene
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last year, Jack Hanley—one of New York’s most beloved and idiosyncratic gallerists— announced he would close his gallery after 37 years in busin...
Do We Still Need All-Woman Art Shows?
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Before the idea of feminism took shape, there was what writers once called “the woman question.” The phrase comes from the querelle des femmes—a...
The Dramatic Story of Nigerian Modernism
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nigerian modern art is having a moment. In London, the Tate has opened a critically acclaimed exhibition, called “Nigerian Modernism,” featuring m...
The Round-Up: Louvre Heist!, Europe's Art Market Reboot, and the Queasy Art of Sora
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
It’s been a really dizzyingly busy October, and as is customary, we are ending the month by talking about three of the biggest topics. We have a pal...
The Magician Who Became an Artist
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
One of the things Ben Davis likes about contemporary art is that he is always learning new things, because art spaces are always bringing new ways of ...
Art World Infamy: Inigo Philbrick – Nowhere to Run (Ep. 4)
21 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
Manga Mania Gets Its Big Museum Moment
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Manga is surely one of the most beloved and influential types of culture in the world. And while there’s long been a thriving international fandom a...
Art World Infamy: Inigo Philbrick – Flight Risk(Ep. 3)
14 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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)
07 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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)
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 h...
A Turning Point for the Art Market?
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 fo...
The Round Up: Live From New York
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, politi...
Re-Air: The Art World's Octopus Teacher
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 octopus? Maybe...
Is This the Museum World's Favorite Artist?
21 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 her first b...
Why This New Art Trend Feels So Familiar
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In art history, the pastoral has long offered a vision of nature as sanctuary—Arcadian meadows, idyllic countrysides, and timeless landscapes painte...
Re-Air: What Makes Spine-Tingling Art? Aesthetic Chills: Explained
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 thrilled you?...
The Round-Up: Johnny Depp Does Modigliani, Labubu Mania, and a Weird Idea for the Venice Biennale
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
There Is Not One Art World. There Are (at Least) Five
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 tha...
Why No One Trusts Art Prices Anymore
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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. As w...
How the Post-Pandemic Generation Is Changing Digital Art
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 picked...
Why Does Culture Feel Stuck?
19 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ins...
How Does an Emerging Gallery Make It Now?
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
The Art World's Octopus Teacher
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
How to Curate a Life: Lessons From 3 Art World Tastemakers
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 at painting...
Megastar Artist Kent Monkman Is Rewriting Colonial Narratives on Canvas
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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?
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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, algo...
What’s Holding Women Back in the Arts—And How Can We Fix It?
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Re-Air: Why Is Rococo Art Making a Comeback?
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Who's Behind the Changing Tastes in the Art Market?
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 t...
The Extraordinary Life (and Afterlife) of Art's 'Jazz Witch'
06 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Austi...
The Round-Up: L.A.'s Art Scene Rallies, an Art Fraudster Speaks, a Fugly 'Van Gogh'
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 ab...
The Glorious, Tortured Imagination of Caspar David Friedrich
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Identity politics” is among the most contentious terms in recent debates about art. And now, the most powerful people in the United States are bl...
There's a Lot to Say About the 'Small Art' Trend
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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 Brow...
The Round-Up: Censorship Surges, David Lynch's Art, and the Met's Video Game
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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?
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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? To a...
How the Getty Museum Survived L.A.'s Fires
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Last weekend, warnings to evacuate were issued to the suburban westside neighborhood of Brentwood, which includes the esteemed Getty Center, home to o...
What Makes Spine-Tingling Art? Aesthetic Chills: Explained
09 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Can you think of a work of art that truly thrilled you? Maybe you can—and if you can, maybe it even literally made you shiver, or sent a chill up yo...
Re-Air: Is There Anything Miranda July Can't Do?
02 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The filmmaker, artist, and writer Miranda July has worked across such a variety of media over the years, one might say it is almost hard to categorize...
Re-Air: Lucy Lippard On a Life In and Out of Art
26 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
But Lippard has also been much more than a writer. She curated “Eccentric Abstraction” in 1966, helping to define what would come to be called pos...
The Round-Up: 2024—The Year in Art
19 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 special guest to pa...
Re-Air: How Warhol’s Handmade Art Shaped His Famed Pop Factory
15 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
With his themes of repetition and appropriation, Andy Warhol’s work can seem mass produced. He was prone to say that his assistants did his work fo...
Why Is Rococo Art Making a Comeback?
12 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
Can Machine Vision Replace Art Expertise?
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Say the words "artificial intelligence" or simply, "A.I." in an art setting, and people think of either cutting-edge, new media art, or of misinformat...
Re-Air: A Reporter Goes Undercover in the Art World
27 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The contemporary art world is nothing if not confusing. It is simultaneously deeply frivolous, and takes itself way too seriously. Its business dealin...
What Is Orphism, History's Most Enigmatic Art Movement?
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In the early 1900s, art movements within the then-burgeoning category of modern art were exploding in multiple directions, and among them was a strand...
A Famous Novelist's Alternate Art World
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
As a novelist, Jonathan Lethem is basically a genre all his own. His books mash up literary fiction and pulp into disorienting but engaging combinatio...
What New Is There to Say About Leonardo da Vinci?
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Legendary documentary filmmaker Ken Burns is famous for his deep dives into topics of American history, ranging from the American Revolution, Benjamin...
Re-Air: The One Word That Explains Art Now
03 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Re-Air from August 15,2024 There’s so much culture now that it can be hard just to keep up, let alone to think about it all as a whole… but that o...
The Round-Up: Van Gogh Soupers Get Jail, Art Market in Flux, Elon Musk's Copycat Problems
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 parse some o...
How Textiles Took Over the Art World
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Contemporary art comes in many shapes and forms, but close your eyes and think of what an artist looks like and nine times out of 10, I bet you are st...
A Damning Appraisal of Art World Elitism
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Few creative works ever managed to get the weird pathologies and unique characters of the art world quite right. But journalist and author Hari Kunzru...
The Brooklyn Museum Is Turning 200. What’s Next?
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Over the past 200 years, a museum in New York has quietly grown to become one of the city's most esteemed cultural institutions. You might think I'm t...
Is There Anything Miranda July Can't Do?
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The filmmaker, artist, and writer Miranda July has worked across such a variety of media over the years, one might say it is almost hard to categorize...
The Round-Up: Lowry Leaves MoMA, the Artists All Over Museums, a Long Lost Gentileschi
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It is time once again for our Round Up episode for the month of September, where we talk about some of the most interesting and timely art news storie...
K-Culture Chronicles: Inside Korea’s Art Boom
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
At the start of September, a massive chunk of the international art world descended on South Korea for a bounty of high-profile art offerings. The mar...
The Great Art Market Reset
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you've been keeping an eye on the art market, you know that the industry has been going through some turbulent times... there's really no other way...
Thurston Moore and Jamie Nares on Art, Rock, and Art Rock
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thurston Moore is one of the most famous names in rock. With Kim Gordon and Lee Ronaldo, he formed Sonic Youth, one of the definitive art rock bands.....
The Round-Up: Michael Jackson Auction Drama, a Russian Artist Freed, Banksy's 'Zoo Period'
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
We are back this week with our monthly roundup, where we talk through some of the big stories that are making waves in the art world. Today co-hosts K...
Re-Air: Andrew Bolton, The Reanimator: Life, Death, and Sleeping Beauties at the Met
22 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There is a lot to unpack—literally and figuratively—in the Metropolitan Museum’s Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion” which closes on Septe...
The One Word That Explains Art Now
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There's so much culture now that it can be hard just to keep up, let alone to think about it all as a whole... but that only makes the effort to find ...
The New Style of Artist Career
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
What is the future of an art career? Where do you look to find relevant new culture? And as an artist, where do you find collaborators and fans in a...
Decoding the Ancient Sculpture That Defines Olympic Athleticism
01 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It is mid-summer and as always there a lot of exciting things going on in Paris, but this year is special as it sets the stage for the Summer Olympic ...
The Round-Up: That Trump Photo, a Beheaded Sculpture, the 'Ladies-Only' Picasso Controversy
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
It is time, once again for our monthly roundup where we talk about three of the big stories of the month. In the summer sometimes the art news slows...
How a '90s Cult Novel Is Still Inspiring Artists
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
The Gladstone gallery director Alissa Bennett was one of a legion to fall under the thrall of Donna Tartt’s 1992 novel The Secret History. A years-s...
Art's New Yen for Psychoanalysis
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Art and psychoanalysis have had a very long and intense relationship over the years, and it makes sense that these two fields would be drawn to one an...
Re-Air: Why Adriano Pedrosa Sees His Venice Biennale As ‘Paying a Debt’
03 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Summer is in full swing, which means that crowds from the world over are heading on vacation and many of them are descending in huge numbers into one ...
The Round-Up: Basel Breakdown, Art and Algorithms, Remembering Barbara Gladstone
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Although the art business world may be on holiday right now, we're still pounding the (international) pavement to bring you a report of the most impor...
An Artist Pushing the Limits of Her Audience
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
If you've seen the artworks of Marianna Simnett, you know that it is not easy to forget them. The multidisciplinary artist who works between film, ...
Can the Art Trade Become More Sustainable?
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
There's no denying that we live in an era of crisis, from geopolitical strife to economic squeezes and widening wealth disparity. Looming behind all o...