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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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Jan 7, 2020 · 25 min
Four Predictions on How the Art World Will Transform in 2020
Whether you ascribe to the centuries-old Georgian Calendar or slept through the clock striking midnight, ushering in a new year is often a time for reflection on what's past, and what is to come. Here at Artnet News, resident business editor and...
Dec 31, 2019 · 29 min
How to Understand the Radical, Viral Artworks That Defined the 2010s
As a barrage of retrospective pieces from countless publications (including Artnet News) made clear throughout December 2019, the opening moments of 2020 signal , not just a new year. Looking back, the 2010s seem to be defined by one intense...
Dec 24, 2019 · 26 min
How an Artist’s $120,000 Banana Ate the World
At the start of December, the Art Angle team had other, loftier ideas for the show's first Christmas episode. Maybe we would dig into the most important developments in the art world this past year or examine the in Hong Kong and their . But then, we...
Dec 17, 2019 · 24 min
New Yorker Art Scribe Calvin Tomkins on What Makes Great Artists Tick
Six decades ago, an editor at Newsweek magazine summoned a young journalist named Calvin Tomkins out of the foreign-news department to interview the legendary conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp, who had allegedly left art-making in favor of playing...
Dec 15, 2019 · 21 min
Is the Art World Causing a Climate Catastrophe?
For our latest episode, team Art Angle traveled to Art Basel Miami Beach to examine a much thornier and more urgent issue than the glamorous trade show's business: the art world's impact on Mother Earth. From thousands of deep-pocketed collectors...
Dec 3, 2019 · 25 min
Art Basel Rules the Art Market. Is That a Good Thing for Art?
This week, what seems like the entire art industry, every luxury company, and every celebrity or status-seeker available will be traveling to south Florida for , the final stop on the annual art-market calendar—as well as a champagne-soaked...
Nov 26, 2019 · 26 min
How Yayoi Kusama Became an Unlikely Pop-Culture Phenomenon
The 90-year-old Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama is an international sensation. Exhibitions featuring her ongoing series of “Infinity Mirrored Rooms” consistently draw tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of visitors from all walks of life, with many...
Nov 19, 2019 · 24 min
Who Is Sotheby's Mysterious New Owner, and What Does He Want?
Normally, the week following Art Basel in June sees the art market begin its downshift into the summer doldrums. But this year, on what nearly everyone expected to be a quiet Monday, the usual cycle was disrupted by a breaking-news earthquake:...
Nov 12, 2019 · 22 min
Hans Neuendorf on 30 Years of Artnet, and What Comes Next
Hans Neuendorf had already built a storied career as an art dealer by the late 1980s, helping to bring Pop art from the United States to Germany, co-founding the first-ever art fair (Art Cologne), and putting his resources behind homegrown star-to-be...
Nov 5, 2019 · 21 min
Anish Kapoor on "Radical" Art, China, and the Magic Paint Wars
Already one of the world's most renowned and visible artists, Anish Kapoor is entering new territory by opening multiple major exhibitions on opposite ends of the Earth within a few weeks of each other this fall. On October 25, he debuted twin shows...
Oct 30, 2019 · 28 min
Why Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre Matters
To mark the 500th anniversary of Leonardo da Vinci's death, the Louvre to present a blockbuster exhibition of some of the Old Master's greatest works, along with to help viewers see his contributions in a whole new way. But do these moves manage to...
Oct 27, 2019 · 31 min
How MoMA Remade Itself for the Trump Era
After over $400 million in renovations and a multiple-month closure to the public, the Museum of Modern Art is back. National art critic Ben Davis sits down with host Andrew Goldstein to address the curators' attempts to decenter the Western canon,...

The Art Angle

Four Predictions on How the Art World Will Transform in 2020

How to Understand the Radical, Viral Artworks That Defined the 2010s

How an Artist’s $120,000 Banana Ate the World

New Yorker Art Scribe Calvin Tomkins on What Makes Great Artists Tick

Is the Art World Causing a Climate Catastrophe?

Art Basel Rules the Art Market. Is That a Good Thing for Art?

How Yayoi Kusama Became an Unlikely Pop-Culture Phenomenon

Who Is Sotheby's Mysterious New Owner, and What Does He Want?

Hans Neuendorf on 30 Years of Artnet, and What Comes Next

Anish Kapoor on "Radical" Art, China, and the Magic Paint Wars

Why Leonardo da Vinci at the Louvre Matters

How MoMA Remade Itself for the Trump Era