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How Doug Aitken Thinks in Music

July 02, 2026 4:00pm 27 min

Doug Aitken’s new installation Lightscape has just landed at the Shed in New York. It is many things at once: a seven-screen film, an immersive environment, and a stage for live performances. But at its heart is music. ...

How to Make a Sculpture With Sound

June 25, 2026 4:00pm 35 min

Some of the most important visual artist working today are sound artists. It seems that sound in general has been growing in importance at the museum recently. Exhibitions come with soundtracks, sculptures make noise, an...

What Does It Take to Keep Art Basel on Top?

June 18, 2026 4:00pm 49 min

This week the art world descends on Basel, a Swiss city on the Rhine River, where the latest edition of the world's most important modern and contemporary art fair is taking place. We're talking about Art Basel, of cours...

Roberta Smith Still Has Notes

June 11, 2026 4:00pm 40 min

Roberta Smith is the exemplar of popular art criticism. For almost four decades, Smith was a familiar voice on the arts pages of the New York Times, serving for many of those years as co-lead art critic. Both feared and ...

Re-Air: How Raphael Made—and Unmade—the Renaissance

June 04, 2026 4:00pm 39 min

This week we're re-airing a favorite episode featuring Kate Brown interviewing Ben Davis about the “Raphael: Sublime Poetry” blockbuster at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The show is the first comprehensive internationa...

Arthur Jafa's Radical Theory of Readymade Art

May 28, 2026 4:00pm 46 min

Arthur Jafa is probably the most revered artist of the last decade. Born in 1960, in Tupelo, Mississippi, he came up through the world of cinema. But Jafa also found his way into the art world with his difficult video wo...

How Is Arts Patronage Changing?

May 21, 2026 4:00pm 37 min

During fair week in New York in mid-May, Andrew Russeth had the high pleasure of moderating a panel about the state of arts philanthropy at TEFAF New York. Joining him on stage at the Park Avenue Armory were two leading ...

Does L.A's Bold New LACMA Museum Work?

May 14, 2026 4:00pm 39 min

Los Angeles has a new museum. Or a new vision for an old one. One of the most important museums in the country, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, has just debuted a long-awaited new building. It’s designed by the rev...

The Most Provocative Performance in Venice

May 07, 2026 3:50pm 50 min

At the Venice Biennale, every two years, we expect big things from the artists picked to represent their countries. But I'm not sure anyone can quite prepare themselves for the universe of Florentina Holzinger. After yea...

What Biennials Reveal About the Art World

April 30, 2026 4:00pm 31 min

We talk a lot about biennials. Art is in some ways a very local, in-person thing. Yet artists and creators and writers are also part of a global conversation, looking at and thinking about each other across borders, and ...

Re-Air: The Young Painter Curators Are Rushing to Work With

April 23, 2026 3:38pm 40 min

This interview with the painter Taina H. Cruz first came out for the opening of the Whitney Biennial, and on the occasion of the opening of Greater New York at MoMA PS1, where Cruz is also featured, we're resurfacing it....

One of the Art Market's Biggest Secrets, Revealed

April 16, 2026 4:00pm 37 min

What a difference 12 months makes! After years of declining sales in the auction realm, there are finally signs of life. The Artnet Intelligence Report: The Year Ahead 2026 reveals that global auction totals were up 13.3...

The Philosopher Who Predicted Our Post-Literate Art Moment

April 09, 2026 4:00pm 44 min

The average metropolitan person now is exposed to more media in a single day than someone a few generations ago would absorb in a lifetime. Amid the deluge of hot takes and commentary on today’s image culture, and its ef...

How Raphael Made—and Unmade—the Renaissance

April 02, 2026 4:00pm 38 min

Raphael is one of those names that everyone knows. He is the prince of painters, a master of the High Renaissance. And the Metropolitan Museum of Art has given him the full blockbuster treatment in a highly anticipated e...

Whitney Biennial Trends, a New Baroque Art Star, and Banksy Unmasked

March 26, 2026 4:00pm 42 min

Spring is upon us. March has seen a burst of big art events—the true start of a busy year. This week, Kate Brown and Ben Davis are joined by senior writer Eileen Kinsella to discuss some of the biggest art stories of the...

Are We Entering a Post-Individual Era of Art?

March 19, 2026 4:00pm 44 min

The New Museum opens its new building this week. And it’s doing so with a big show called “New Humans: Memories of the Future,” about how artists rethought what it means to be human through technology. It’s a topic on a ...

Kim Gordon Was Always an Artist First

March 12, 2026 4:00pm 35 min

Kim Gordon—artist, musician, writer, and co-founder of the iconic rock band Sonic Youth—is one of the most restlessly creative figures in American culture. Over the past four decades moved between mediums with an ease th...

The Young Painter Curators Are Rushing to Work With

March 05, 2026 4:00pm 40 min

The Whitney Biennial is here. That would be the Whitney Museum’s big curated show which every two years brings together dozens of artists, always closely watched by critics and public as a statement about what is importa...

The Art Boom in the Middle East, Are Old Masters Cool Now?, and a Fresco Fracas in Italy

February 26, 2026 4:00pm 36 min

It’s time for our monthly news roundup where we discuss some of the biggest stories emerging in the art world. On the heels of the first-ever Art Basel Qatar, we will be discussing the Middle Eastern art market and the r...

What Epstein's Emails Tell Us About the Art Market

February 19, 2026 4:00pm 42 min

There are many ways to read the vast trove of documents tied to the convicted sex offender and financier Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in prison in 2019. The Epstein files offer a window into the rarefied, power-b...

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