The Art Angle

Re-Air: The Black Art Visionary Who Secretly Built the Morgan Library

25 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We thought we’d revisit an episode we recorded earlier this year about one of the more fascinating and under-known figures in American art history. ...

Re-Air: How the Art World in Ukraine’s Besieged Capital Are Fighting Back

18 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Five months into the conflict, the brutal, horrific war in Ukraine grinds on, with no end in sight. And while Ukrainian men and women are fighting, an...

Re-Air: Marina Abramović on How Her Artistic Method Can Change Your Life

11 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Over the years, we’ve been very fortunate to have some bona fide legendary artists on this show, from Ai Weiwei to Judy Chicago to Anish Kapoor to E...

How Virgil Abloh Changed the Contemporary Art World

04 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The world rarely sees a creative dynamo on the level of Virgil Abloh—or one harder to quantify. A trained architect, who was born to Ghanian immigra...

What Is the Metaverse? And Why Should the Art World Care?

29 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Have you ever wanted to live a different kind of life, in a different kind of place? What if this other place gave you the power to do or be almost an...

Why Artist Jayson Musson Is Clowning a Humorless Art World

21 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Jayson Musson has a unique status in the art world: he has the persona and perspective of an outsider, but he's also something of an artist's artist. ...

What Does the Future of NFTs Look Like Now?

14 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It might be the dog days of summer here in New York, but over in the metaverse, we are firmly in the depths of crypto winter. When NFT NYC, the worl...

Re-Air: Art, Lies, and Instagram: How Catfishing ‘Collectors’ Duped the Art World

07 Jul 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Well, the hot summer season is upon is, and while the Art Angle team is taking some r&r this week we thought we’d offer you some refreshment in the ...

Re-Air:The Secret Codes of World-Class Art Auctions, Demystified

30 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This past may New York hosted what is probably the biggest auction season ever selling more than $2.7 billion worth of art. Last week, the traveling c...

Why Art Biennial Superstars Exist in a Parallel Universe

23 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

You're heard quite a bit about biennials on the Art Angle recently—the Whitney Biennial, the Venice Biennial, and, most recently, Documenta, which c...

How Kennedy Yanko Welded Her Way to Art Stardom

17 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Kennedy Yanko is not afraid to take up space this week. This week, the Brooklyn-based sculptor unveiled her largest work yet at Art Basel, a 20 foot ...

How Documenta Became the World’s Most Controversial Art Show

09 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

How much can an art show do? That’s a question at the heart of documenta, the sprawling exhibition that touches down in Kassel, Germany every five y...

The Scandalous Rise and Fall of Art Dealer Inigo Philbrick

02 Jun 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Not too long ago, Inigo Philbrick was one of the best-connected dealers in the art world. The son of a museum director and the protege of legendary ga...

How Artificial Intelligence Could Completely Transform Art

26 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

As we all know, there's a tremendous amount of attention that's being paid lately to NFTs and their whiplash market oscillations. Are NFTs good? Bad?...

Want to Wear a Basquiat? Inside the Big Business of Artist Merch

19 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Today, Jean-Michel Basquiat is unquestionably one of the most recognizable and beloved artists on the planet. A native New Yorker of Haitian and Puert...

Nari Ward on How to Make a True Portrait of New York City

12 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

The Jamaican-born, Harlem-based artist Nari Ward was barely out of his 20s when he exploded onto the New York art scene in 1993 with Amazing Grace, a...

The Secret Codes of World-Class Art Auctions, Demystified

05 May 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Get your paddles ready: New York is about to kick off what may be the biggest auction season ever. Over the next two weeks, as much as $2.6 billion wo...

Is the Venice Biennale Any Good? Here’s What Three Art Critics Think

28 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

At long last, this week the 59th Venice Biennale has officially thrown itself open to the world in Italy. The Biennale is always a big event for the a...

Is Fractional Art Investing the Future of the Market? Or a Scam?

21 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

So want to buy a Picasso? No, it's too expensive? Want to buy a teensy-weensy, tiny little microscopic flack of a Picasso? That sounds better, doesn't...

How a Mysterious Whitney Biennial Confronts Our Moment

14 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's biennial season in a big bi-annual year. The Toronto Biennial just opened, the Venice Biennale opens next week, and around the corner are the G...

The Whole Bored Ape Yacht Club Phenomenon, Explained

07 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Just around one year ago, two literary bros from Miami decided to launch a business venture. It was a couple weeks after Beeple’s Everydays had so...

Special Preview: Toyin Ojih Odutola on Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso

03 Apr 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We're sharing a special preview of a podcast I’ve been enjoying, Talk Easy with Sam Fragoso, from Pushkin Industries. Talk Easy is a weekly intervie...

Cecilia Alemani on Her Venice Biennale for an Anxious Era

31 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This April, after a punishing two years apart during the pandemic, the whole art community will gather together on the magical watery isle of Venice f...

How Afghanistan’s Artists Are Making Their Way in Exile

25 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

In August 2021, the world watched in horror as U.S. troops withdrew, and the Taliban retook control of Afghanistan, with over 600,000 displaced people...

How the Art World in Ukraine’s Besieged Capital Are Fighting Back

17 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

On February 24, just three short weeks before this recording the world as we knew it was utterly upended by the Russian army’s invasion of the Easte...

How to Become a Successful NFT Artist

10 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Ask fans of crypto and NFTs why they think blockchain is such a revolutionary technology, and it probably won’t be long before they mention large-sc...

Marina Abramovic on How Her Artistic Method Can Change Your Life

03 Mar 2022

Contributed by Lukas

These days as contemporary art continues to pervade pop culture, there are art stars i.e. the talents who captivate the attention of art professionals...

Jennie C. Jones on Why You Should Listen to Her Paintings

25 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Right now at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City, there's an exhibition of paintings on view that might remind you of the postwar abstractions of p...

The Black Art Visionary Who Secretly Built the Morgan Library

17 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

It's Black History Month, and we wanted to take the opportunity to devote this episode to the story of a Black museum leader. We know that people of c...

How Lucy Lippard and a Band of Artists Fought US Imperialism

10 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If you were out and about in 1984, you might have noticed a striking poster wheatpasted everywhere. It featured two heroic silhouettes pulling down a ...

Art, Lies, and Instagram: How Catfishing ‘Collectors’ Duped the Art World

03 Feb 2022

Contributed by Lukas

This week’s story begins with an art purchase made like so many others... . A collector notices his peers talking up an artwork on Instagram, so he ...

Her Family's Art Was Stolen During World War II. Here's How She Got It Back

27 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Yesterday, a sumptuous portrait of a woman with a confident regard and rouged cheeks, porcelain skin, and a powdered up do reminiscent of cool whip, h...

How the Met’s Astonishing Surrealism Show Rewrites Global Art History

21 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

If, perhaps, someone in a trench coat who was smoking a pipe and had a gigantic eyeball for a head were to approach you a street on a particularly sun...

How the Artist Pension Trust Became a Gigantic Fiasco

13 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Everyone knows the dirty little secret of the dog-eat-dog art market, which is that while an artist creates the artwork, the vast majority of the valu...

6 Predictions on How the Art Industry Will Transform in 2022

06 Jan 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Here we are, at the beginning of a new year, a time that, at least in the past, used to be full of hope and anticipation, but after the last two years...

Re-Air: How NFTs Are Changing the Art Market as We Know It

30 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We did it, 2021 is in the can. We are about to finally make the transition into what is hopefully going to be a great, exciting, and healthy 2022. He...

The Most Astounding Archaeology Revelations of 2021 (Can You Dig It?)

23 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

’Tis the season, once again, it's The Art Angle Christmas episode. Can you believe we made it through another one of these incredibly intense pandem...

From Handbags to Hard Cash, How Dealers Woo the Artists They Want to Rep

16 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The art market is a notoriously woolly place where deals are done with hushed shakes behind closed doors. This of course applies to auctions, art sale...

A Gossip Columnist Walks Into a Bar at Art Basel Miami Beach

09 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Last week, fresh panic spread around the globe as a new COVID variant of unknown power called Omicron came into view, threatening to potentially plung...

Where Do NFTs Go From Here? An Interview With Christie’s Noah Davis

02 Dec 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The NFT market exploded this spring and has kept on exploding all year long. Artnet News Editor-In-Chief Andrew Goldstein is joined on the show by on...

Re-Air: How High-Tech Van Gogh Became the Biggest Art Phenomenon Ever

25 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, those of us who live in the United States are celebrating Thanksgiving. For many of us that means a lot of family time. For Artnet News Exe...

Introducing the Art Angle

22 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

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, ...

How an Art Collective Brings Artworks From the Past Back to Life

18 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For artists, writers, and musicians, copyright is an invaluable safeguard, protecting intellectual property of original works of authorship. But event...

How the CryptoPunk OGs Lit the Fuse for the NFT Boom

11 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In 2017 Canadian software developers, Matt Hall, and John Watkinson debuted what would become a landmark project in the early crypto art movement, the...

How a Fiery Breakup Sparked the Biggest Art Auction in Decades

04 Nov 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week we aren't so much going down to earth as we are climbing up into the art market stratosphere, where only the wealthiest collectors reside. ...

Why Horror Movies Keep Haunting the Art World

28 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If you consider yourself a dedicated fan of contemporary art, then you're probably no stranger to watching things onscreen that the average person wou...

Judy Chicago on How to Build a Lasting Art Career

21 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If you are familiar with the artist Judy Chicago, chances are you associate her with one piece: her magnum opus The Dinner Party, an epic work of ins...

5 Technologies That Will Transform the Art World by 2030

14 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, we're hopping into a time machine and traveling to the not so distant future to answer this question, how will the technological tools bein...

Elusive Artist Ryoji Ikeda Wants You to Bask in His Data-Verse

07 Oct 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s hard to describe the experience of a work by Ryoji Ikeda. The Japanese artist has worked as an experimental musician, performer, researcher, an...

How Art Basel Did (and Didn't) Change After a Two-Year Hiatus

30 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

An art industry ritual returned after an unprecedented hiatus: on a Monday evening last week, art advisors, dealers, and collectors ceremoniously file...

Writer Roxane Gay on What Art Can Teach Us About Trauma and Healing

23 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For the 100th episode of the Art Angle, Artnet News’s Style Editor, Noor Brara had the pleasure of speaking with critically acclaimed author, profes...

Keltie Ferris and Peter Halley on the Mysterious Joys of Making a Painting

16 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Artists Peter Halley and Keltie Ferris first met sometime in the mid-2000s, at the height of the abstract painting revival. Halley, a pioneering Neo-C...

How Facebook and the Helsinki Biennial Share a Vision for the Art World’s Future

14 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Some of the most impactful stories to surface this past year have revolved around three major issues affecting the world as a whole: there’s a worse...

Artists in Residence at the World Trade Center Reflect on 9/11

10 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week marks the 20th anniversary of the attacks on the World Trade Center in New York. Thousands of people who worked at the trade center or who w...

Genesis Tramaine on How Faith Inspires Her Art

02 Sep 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For centuries, Western art-making centered around religious imagery during the middle ages and Renaissance icons. Altar pieces and stained glass wind...

The Bitter Battle Over Bob Ross's Empire of Joy

26 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Love him or laugh at him, Bob Ross is absolutely one of America’s best known painters. A quarter century after he died in 1995, a Bob Ross Experien...

How Monaco and Accra Are Spinning the Art World in Opposite Directions

19 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s late August, and for the first time in two years, it looks like the fall art season could be jam-packed with major in-person art-market events–...

How Britney Spears's Image Inspired Millennial Artists

12 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

I'm sure you've heard it: For the past few months, the U.S. news media has been following the saga of pop star Britney Spears and the unusual conserva...

How the Medicis Became Art History's First Influencers

05 Aug 2021

Contributed by Lukas

If you're a fan of Italian Renaissance art and you were in New York right now, The Metropolitan Museum of Art has a treat for you. It's called The Me...

How Two Painters Helped Spark the Modern Conservation Movement

29 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Right now there is a powerful, highly ambitious, and deeply relevant art show in New York that weaves together the histories of conservation and Ameri...

The Hunter Biden Art Controversy, Explained

22 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This episode is devoted to Hunter Biden. Why? If you read the news, click on any cable network or walk down the street. You've probably heard that ev...

Legendary Auctioneer Simon de Pury on Monaco, Hip Hop, and the Art Market’s New Reality

15 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This week, the subject of our show is less a story and more of a phenomenon, and his name is Simon de Pury. A legendary auctioneer who has actually be...

18-Year-Old NFT Star Fewocious on How Art Saved His Life (and Crashed Christie's Website)

08 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Last month, a new name entered the art discussion when a suite of five digital artworks sold in a special sale at Christie's auction house in New York...

Re-Air: How Photographer Dawoud Bey Makes Black America Visible

02 Jul 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The Art Angle team is taking this week off, but we'll be back July 9 with a new episode. In the meantime, here's one of our favorite recent episodes, ...

Tyler Mitchell and Helen Molesworth on Why Great Art Requires Trust

24 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Today one of the swiftest rising stars in the art world is a 26-year-old wunderkind photographer who is equally comfortable shooting heads of state fo...

How High-Tech Van Gogh Became the Biggest Art Phenomenon Ever

17 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Unless you are living under a particularly out of touch rock, you’ve probably heard of the immersive Van Gogh craze that is currently sweeping the g...

How Much Money Do Art Dealers Actually Make?

10 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We’ve all seen the movie with the glamorous art dealer, maybe a villain who lives in a cutting edge palatial home, drives an impressive car and spea...

Shattering the Glass Ceiling (Re-Air): How Collector Catherine Levene Went From an Art Startup to Running One of America’s Top Media Companies

07 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

We wanted to make sure you had a chance to check out a very special new podcast miniseries we’ve rolled out. It’s called Shattering the Glass Ceil...

Shattering the Glass Ceiling (Re-Air): Curator Lauren Haynes on Working to Forge a Fuller Story of American Art

03 Jun 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For the past couple of weeks, we’ve been running a little experiment here at the Art Angle—namely our first-ever breakout mini-series, called Shat...

What Does the Sci-Fi Art Fair of the Future Look Like?

27 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s a cliche to say that going to greater China is a bit like visiting the future, where technology is threaded into every aspect of daily life in ...

How Kenny Schachter Became an NFT Evangelist Overnight

21 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As much of the art world is beginning to rebound from the pandemic, the art market got a major shot in the arm itself: in little more than a week, New...

How Breonna Taylor's Life Inspired an Unforgettable Museum Exhibition

14 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Right now, there's an exhibition at the Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky, that is gaining international attention for a tragic reason. That’...

Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Art Dealer Mariane Ibrahim on the Power of the Right Relationships

12 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the final installment of our mini-series Shattering the Glass Ceiling, Artnet News's art and design editor Noor Brara spoke with pioneering galleri...

'Art Detective' Katya Kazakina on How She Lands Her Epic Scoops

07 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The biggest story at Artnet HQ this week is not, as you might imagine, the opening of the first IRL art fair in more than a year, it's the launch of A...

Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Curator and Author Legacy Russell on Rebuilding Art Institutions From Within

05 May 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In the third episode of the Art Angle's podcast miniseries "Shattering the Glass Ceiling," Artnet News's London editor Naomi Rea spoke to curator and ...

How Frieze Managed to Put Together the First Art Fair of the Pandemic

30 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

You know the scene at the end of Bong Joon-ho's 2013 film Snowpiercer where they leave the hellish bullet train and see that the frozen Tundra is s...

Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Art Collector and Media Executive Catherine Levene On Empathetic Leadership

27 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The second installment of this four-part podcast miniseries features Artnet News senior writer Sarah Cascone's interview with art collector and media ...

Shattering the Glass Ceiling: Curator Lauren Haynes on Working to Forge a Fuller Story of American Art

22 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Welcome to Shattering the Glass Ceiling, a podcast from the team at the Art Angle where we speak to boundary-breaking women in the art world and beyon...

The Art Angle Presents: Shattering the Glass Ceiling

19 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As we begin to emerge into the new realities of 2021, the challenges of the past year have made vividly clear the importance of having leaders in all ...

How Photographer Dawoud Bey Makes Black America Visible

15 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This month, the murder trial of former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin for the death of George Floyd has brought the racial justice protests ...

KAWS Is the World's Most Popular Artist. Why?

08 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Art shows are a thing again! At least in New York, at least for now, and at least in the socially distanced way that we've come to see as normal. But ...

How the Pandemic Totally Changed the Art Market

01 Apr 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Amazingly enough, it's now the spring of 2021. That means the weather is warming, the grass is greening, and the little buds are drinking in the cool ...

How NFTs Are Changing the Art Market as We Know It

26 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As we all now know, NFTs are the talk of the art world these days—they're everywhere. It's gotten to the point where you can't have a simple convers...

Lorraine O'Grady on the Social Castes of the Art World

18 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

This month, as the world limps its way toward spring and, hopefully, a gradual return of normality, the Brooklyn Museum has opened a show called “Lo...

Re-Air: Why Artist Trevor Paglen Is Doing Everything He Can to Warn Humanity About Artificial Intelligence

12 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In fall 2019, a new app called ImageNet Roulette was introduced to the world with what seemed like a simple, fun premise: snap a selfie, upload it to...

What Will Be the Fate of the Benin Bronzes?

04 Mar 2021

Contributed by Lukas

The story of the Benin Bronzes is one of the bloodier, more shameful chapters in the history of the Western world’s "encyclopedic" museums. Looted...

The Haunting History of the Benin Bronzes

25 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

For decades, one of the most urgent moral debates in the museum world has revolved around restitution, with art institutions around the world facing d...

The Surprising Lessons of FDR’s New Deal Art Programs

18 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Shockingly enough, we are now coming up on the one year anniversary of the lockdown of the United States. At this point last year, a creeping dread ha...

5 Steamy, Whirlwind Romances That Changed Art History

11 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

In case you’ve forgotten—in which case, shame on you!—Valentine’s Day is right around the corner again, and we here at the Art Angle are all a...

Kickstarter Founder Perry Chen on Art in the Age of Hypercomplexity

04 Feb 2021

Contributed by Lukas

It’s no secret that today we live in a world of dizzying, gobsmacking, and ever-intensifying complexity. Everything from the computers we carry in o...

MoMA Curator Paola Antonelli on Design for the Post-Pandemic World

29 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Right now, one of the most talked-about issues at hand for members of the international workforce is: what comes next? For those of us fortunate enoug...

Artist Daniel Arsham on How He Built a Creative Empire

21 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

When he was just 12 years old, Daniel Arsham had a near-death experience. Living in Florida with his parents, Hurricane Andrew struck in 1992, caree...

8 Predictions on How the Art World Will Shift in 2021

14 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

No one could have foreseen the giant boomerang of a year that was 2020. With its trifecta of health, financial, and social crises, it could not have b...

Can Art Help End the Era of Mass Incarceration?

08 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

Right now, more than 2 million people are living behind bars in prisons across America. California's San Quentin Prison is currently at 117 percent ca...

Re-air: The New Yorker's Peter Schjeldahl on His Adventures in Life as an Accidental Art Critic

01 Jan 2021

Contributed by Lukas

As 2020 draws to a close, the Art Angle team is taking some time off to reboot for the new year and prepare for a lineup of exciting new episodes. In ...

The Art Angle Presents: A Star-Studded Art History Game Show (With Kids!)

24 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

What happens when you pair three-to-six year-old children with esteemed art-world figures to play an art-historical guessing game? For our final episo...

Jeffrey Deitch on How to Succeed in the Art Industry

18 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Jeffrey Deitch is that rare type of creative who has a keen understanding of business: he holds an undergraduate degree in art history from Wesleyan U...

I Survived Zombie Art Basel Miami Beach

10 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

Every December for the better part of the past two decades, a throng of well-heeled dealers, collectors, artists, celebrities, publicists, and lookie ...

Why Awol Erizku Is So Much More Than Just Beyoncé’s Baby Photographer

04 Dec 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The journey to becoming one of the most acclaimed photographers of his generation—at the tender age of 32—wasn't exactly a straight line for Awol ...

Re-air: The Rise and Fall of Anne Geddes, Queen of Baby Photography

25 Nov 2020

Contributed by Lukas

The Art Angle team is taking this week off for Thanksgiving, but we thought we'd share one of our favorite episodes from the past year to see you thro...