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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.
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The Round-Up: 2025’s Highs, Lows, and WTFs
We are back this week with our monthly edition of the Art Angle Round-up, where co-hosts Kate Brown and Ben Davis are joined by a guest to parse some...
The Magic of 'The Artist's Way'
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
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...
A Long, Strange Trip Through the New York Gallery Scene
Last year, Jack Hanley—one of New York’s most beloved and idiosyncratic gallerists— announced he would close his gallery after 37 years in business. T...
Do We Still Need All-Woman Art Shows?
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 centu...
The Dramatic Story of Nigerian Modernism
Nigerian modern art is having a moment. In London, the Tate has opened a critically acclaimed exhibition, called “Nigerian Modernism,” featuring more...
The Round-Up: Louvre Heist!, Europe's Art Market Reboot, and the Queasy Art of Sora
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 palet...
The Magician Who Became an Artist
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)
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
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 aro...
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...