Podcast · 68 episodes
The Art Angle, page 3
by Artnet News · English
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 Magician Who Became an ArtistJeanette Andrews, a former professional magician turned museum artist, argues that magic is a technical craft and an expressive medium for ideas about perception, misinformation, attention, and…23 Oct 2025 · 41 min · 14 chapters
Art World Infamy: Inigo Philbrick – Nowhere to Run (Ep. 4)The disappearance, arrest, prosecution, and aftermath of art dealer Inigo Philbrick’s alleged multi-year art-market fraud, framed as an “art crime” and white-collar money scheme during COVID-era…21 Oct 2025 · 39 min · 17 chapters
Manga Mania Gets Its Big Museum MomentThe Art Angle episode interviews curator Nicole Coolidge-Roumeniere about Art of Manga at the DeYoung Museum (San Francisco), arguing manga belongs in fine-art museums and explaining how manga’s…16 Oct 2025 · 44 min · 21 chapters
Art World Infamy: Inigo Philbrick – Flight Risk(Ep. 3)The disappearance of art dealer Inigo Philbrick (“Flight Risk”) after a 2019 fraud scandal, and the lawsuits, asset freezes, and market damage that followed.14 Oct 2025 · 34 min · 18 chapters
The Silent Emergency Facing MuseumsMuseums face a “silent emergency” driven by shrinking public funding, declining trust, politicization, and post-pandemic attendance shortfalls in the West; private museum instability tied to real…9 Oct 2025 · 37 min · 21 chapters
Art World Infamy: Inigo Philbrick – Golden Boy (Ep. 2)The rise and fallout of Inigo Philbrick (“Golden Boy”), a young American who ran Jay Jopling’s secondary-market operation and later his own ventures, amid London’s 1990s YBA boom and the 2000s…7 Oct 2025 · 44 min · 15 chapters
Art World Infamy: Inigo Philbrick – Asset Class (Ep. 1)The rise and alleged fraud behind art dealer Inigo Philbrick, focusing on how “assetization” and murky, handshake-based transactions enabled multiple investors to claim ownership of the same artwork,…2 Oct 2025 · 24 min · 9 chapters
The Round-Up: Looted Art Exposed in House Listing, Jeff Koons Back With His Ex, and $13M For 'Conan' Cover ArtMonthly Art Angle roundup covering (1) Argentina’s charges over concealed Nazi-looted art found via a house listing, (2) Jeff Koons switching gallery representation back to Gagosian after a four-year…25 Sep 2025 · 32 min · 18 chapters
A Turning Point for the Art Market?Katya Kazakina discusses Artnet News’ Mid-Year Review 2025 and her cover story “The Storm Hits the Art Market,” arguing the art market is in a serious, ongoing downturn (fourth year of contraction…18 Sep 2025 · 44 min · 14 chapters
The Round Up: Live From New YorkLive “Art Angle Roundup” from Independent 20th Century (early Sept art fairs in New York). Three segments: (1) Venice Biennale U.S.11 Sep 2025 · 1 h 5 min · 29 chapters
Why We Need New Art InstitutionsThe episode argues that cultural/art institutions are being hollowed out by “platform” logic (centralized, algorithm-driven systems like Artsy and social media).4 Sep 2025 · 40 min · 18 chapters
Re-Air: The Art World's Octopus TeacherRe-air of The Art Angle interview with artist Miriam Simoon about her exhibition and workshops at Art Space Recess in Brooklyn, “Institute for Transhumanist Cephalopod Evolution.” The episode centers…28 Aug 2025 · 38 min · 19 chapters
Is This the Museum World's Favorite Artist?Cara Romero’s rise as a museum favorite artist and how her photography centers Indigenous self-representation, humor, and “indigenous futurisms,” with a focus on her color, staged tableaux, and key…21 Aug 2025 · 41 min · 18 chapters
Why This New Art Trend Feels So FamiliarThe episode explains the “parapastoral,” a new strain of contemporary pastoral painting that uses rural imagery but makes it uncanny and politically charged—neither nostalgic nor safe.14 Aug 2025 · 28 min · 16 chapters
Re-Air: What Makes Spine-Tingling Art? Aesthetic Chills: ExplainedThe episode explains “aesthetic chills” (frisson)—spine-tingling emotional reactions to art, music, film, fiction, and sometimes nature—arguing they occur at “circuit-jumping” moments when emotional…7 Aug 2025 · 33 min · 16 chapters
The Round-Up: Johnny Depp Does Modigliani, Labubu Mania, and a Weird Idea for the Venice BiennaleA monthly art-industry roundup covering Johnny Depp’s biopic Modi (Modigliani), U.S. Pavilion uncertainty for the Venice Biennale, and the LeBubu collectible craze at Art Basel.31 Jul 2025 · 46 min · 21 chapters
There Is Not One Art World. There Are (at Least) FiveAndrea Fraser’s essay “The Field of Contemporary Art, A Diagram” argues the contemporary art world is fragmenting into autonomous subfields with conflicting criteria of value and different “games” of…24 Jul 2025 · 48 min · 17 chapters
Why No One Trusts Art Prices AnymoreThe art market’s pricing logic is breaking down—prices for living artists have inflated, confidence is falling, and buyers increasingly treat prices as “vibes” or “mood” rather than data.17 Jul 2025 · 38 min · 26 chapters
How the Post-Pandemic Generation Is Changing Digital ArtHow post-pandemic digital art is shifting from “online vs IRL” toward internet-shaped real life, and how younger artists build meaning through subcultures, performance, and physical presentation.10 Jul 2025 · 38 min · 22 chapters
Re-Air: The Rise of the Red Chip Art WorldRe-air of Artnet News’ “The Art Angle” episode analyzing “red-chip art,” a chrome, cartoonish, consumer-toy aesthetic driven by online hype, editions, and crypto/collectible culture, often treated as…3 Jul 2025 · 27 min · 13 chapters