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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 ... Read more

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YouTube’s No-Nonsense Art Guru on How to Unlock Your Inner Artist

YouTube’s No-Nonsense Art Guru on How to Unlock Your Inner Artist

How many times have you heard someone in a museum scoff "I could do that" in the presence of a solid-black canvas or an ... Read more

14 May 2020

29mins

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Why Artist Trevor Paglen Is Doing Everything He Can to Warn Humanity About Artificial Intelligence

Why Artist Trevor Paglen Is Doing Everything He Can to Warn Humanity About Artificial Intelligence

In fall 2019, a new app called ImageNet Roulette was introduced to the world with what seemed like a simple, fun premise... Read more

12 Jun 2020

37mins

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

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

In his 2019 essay "The Art of Dying," acclaimed critic Peter Schjeldahl describes Patsy Cline's voice as "attending self... Read more

30 Apr 2020

31mins

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How Marina Abramović Became the Center of a Vast Satanic Conspiracy Theory

How Marina Abramović Became the Center of a Vast Satanic Conspiracy Theory

Just when you thought the spring of 2020 couldn't get any weirder, a Microsoft ad starring performance artist Marina Ab... Read more

7 May 2020

28mins

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

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... Read more

5 Nov 2019

21mins

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Four Predictions on How the Art World Will Transform in 2020

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 n... Read more

7 Jan 2020

25mins

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

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 w... Read more

24 Dec 2019

26mins

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

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 ... Read more

31 Dec 2019

29mins

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

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... Read more

3 Dec 2019

25mins

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

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... Read more

17 Dec 2019

24mins

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Three Ways Coronavirus Will Transform the Art World

Three Ways Coronavirus Will Transform the Art World

In the past month, the world—and by extension, the art world—has changed so drastically that it is almost unrecognizable... Read more

26 Mar 2020

37mins

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

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 thi... Read more

19 Nov 2019

24mins

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How Photography Is Being Revolutionized in the Coronavirus Era

How Photography Is Being Revolutionized in the Coronavirus Era

Today, Antwaun Sargent is known as the preeminent critical and curatorial voice for one of the most important movements ... Read more

16 Apr 2020

28mins

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How the Art World Fell Under the Spell of the Occult

How the Art World Fell Under the Spell of the Occult

You don't hear the words "witch hunt" much nowadays, unless they are being deployed by a certain US President. But the t... Read more

28 Jan 2020

26mins

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How Yayoi Kusama Became an Unlikely Pop-Culture Phenomenon

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 ... Read more

26 Nov 2019

26mins

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How an Art-Dealing Prodigy Became the Market's Most Wanted Outlaw

How an Art-Dealing Prodigy Became the Market's Most Wanted Outlaw

A man on the run, millions of dollars missing, major artworks with multiple claims to ownership: these aren't plot point... Read more

3 Mar 2020

27mins

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How Hollywood Finally Fell for the Art Market

How Hollywood Finally Fell for the Art Market

The Oscars may be over, but Hollywood is about to be overrun with a different kind of A-lister this week when the art wo... Read more

11 Feb 2020

28mins

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Is the Art World Causing a Climate Catastrophe?

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 issu... Read more

15 Dec 2019

21mins

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Is the Museum of Ice Cream the Future of Art, or Just a Sugar Rush?

Is the Museum of Ice Cream the Future of Art, or Just a Sugar Rush?

There's a buzzy new museum taking over New York, and it boasts the types of specs that would make competitors drool. Now... Read more

25 Feb 2020

26mins

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What Is Saudi Arabia Trying to Do With Contemporary Art?

What Is Saudi Arabia Trying to Do With Contemporary Art?

Some 16 months after the brutal murder of Washington Post journalist and Saudi dissident Jamal Khashoggi at the hands o... Read more

18 Feb 2020

25mins

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