Artnet News editors and writers unpack auction records, private sales, and art-world controversies.
The Art Angle treats art as a living system of money, museums, politics, scholarship, and taste. Episodes move from auction-room secrecy to Raphael, fiber art, screen culture, and cultural policy without flattening the details.
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The Art Angle is hosted primarily by Artnet News editor Andrew Russeth and writer Ben Davis, with additional episodes led by Kate Brown and, for live-event recordings, other Artnet staff such as William Van Meter. The show mixes several formats: standard interviews where an Artnet writer or outside expert unpacks a single story (private auctions, an artist estate's market, the history of picture framing); multi-guest panels recorded live at art fairs like TEFAF New York; and looser roundup episodes where Artnet News staff trade updates on recent auction results, lawsuits, and art-world controversies. Guests tend to be gallery founders, museum curators, art-market columnists, and Artnet's own reporters rather than the artists themselves, though working and historical artists are discussed extensively. Recurring subjects include the mechanics of the high-end auction market (private sales, guarantees, sealed bids), the provenance and pricing of specific blue-chip works, art fairs and gallery culture, museum exhibition and curatorial decisions, and the history of design objects and framing. The show occasionally moves outside strictly visual-art territory into adjacent cultural theory, such as an episode on internet subcultures and 'anti-memes.' Tone is journalistic and conversational rather than academic, with hosts pressing guests on concrete figures — sale prices, attendance numbers, specific lawsuits — over abstract aesthetic theory. Episodes generally run 30-45 minutes. The show suits listeners who follow the art market as a business as much as a creative field: dealers, collectors, museum professionals, and readers of Artnet News looking for an audio companion to its reporting. It functions in part as an audio extension of Artnet News's own journalism, with hosts frequently discussing their own published articles as the basis for an episode.
Made for: Art-world professionals, collectors, and Artnet News readers who want insider discussion of the auction market, gallery scene, and museum world.
What sets it apart: Unlike general art-history or appreciation podcasts, The Art Angle is produced inside Artnet News's newsroom, giving episodes direct access to market data, auction-house sources, and breaking art-world news alongside interviews.
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.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Art-world conversations reveal how taste, wealth, institutions, and cultural influence shape what receives attention.
The Art Angle turns art-world reporting into lively, informed conversation. Ben Davis, Kate Brown, William Van Meter, and Andrew Russett take turns at the microphone, moving among one-on-one interviews, editorial roundtables, and a live panel.
Secret Rothko auctions, anti-memes, and rebellious frames give your art curiosity unusually wide peripheral vision.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A clear look at how private auctions and secrecy shape the upper end of the art market.
The Art Angle reads the art market's rebound through the machinery of elite access. Andrew Russett and Artnet's Katya Kazakina begin with the brighter 2025 auction picture: fine art auction sales rose 13.3 percent to $11.7 billion, though still below the 2021 peak of $16.6…
A crisp Art Angle episode on why painters are making the frame part of the work again.
The Art Angle turns the frame from background furniture into the subject, and the conversation is strongest when it treats that shift as a material issue rather than a gimmick.
A brisk art-world panel makes curation feel like advocacy, memory, and the pleasure of the chase.
A live Art Angle panel uses New York Art Week's fair atmosphere to talk about taste, stewardship, and the thrill of pursuing art and design. William Van Meter frames the fair as a place defined by stories as much as sales, then turns to panelists whose work crosses galleries,…
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A sharp conversation about cultural ideas that gain power by staying hard to find.
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Host William Van Meter moderates a live TEFAF panel with three art-world figures: Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn of Salon 94, architect and curator Adam Charlotte-Hyman, and Alexandra Cunningham Cameron, curator of contemporary design at the Cooper Hewitt.
Host Ben Davis interviews writer and theorist Nadia Asparova about her book Anti-Memetics: Why Some Ideas Resist Spreading, published by the Dark Forest Collective.
Artnet News writer Katie White joins host Ben Davis to discuss her article 'Border Core,' examining why contemporary painters are treating the picture frame as a primary artistic element rather than a peripheral one.
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"The secrecy is incredibly attractive." Andrew Russett brings Artnet's art detective columnist Katya Kazakina onto The Art Angle to unpack private auctions, one of the art market's quietest tools.
This episode explores philosopher Willem Flusser's prescient theories about how image-based media is reshaping consciousness and art, featuring discussion of a new book analyzing his work.
This episode discusses the Metropolitan Museum of Art's blockbuster exhibition 'Raphael's Sublime Poetry', exploring the artist's impact on Western art through an interview with art critic Ben Davis.
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This episode explores the rising prominence of textile and fiber art in contemporary art through an interview with curator Elisa Arthur, examining its historical context and current museum exhibitions.
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An interview discussing the phenomenon of 'red chip art' and its place in the contemporary art market.
This episode examines gender inequity in the art industry, discussing findings from a major survey on pay, career progression, and bias.
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An interview with Katya Kazakina about how Millennials and Gen Z are reshaping the art market through a massive wealth transfer.
An interview with author Elaine Cialino about her book exploring the Louvre's secrets and history.
A monthly roundup discussing major art world stories, including a halted Michael Jackson auction, a prisoner exchange involving art, and Banksy's recent animal-themed pieces.
A re-aired episode discussing the Met's Costume Institute exhibition 'Sleeping Beauties: Reawakening Fashion' with curator Andrew Bolton.
Ben Davis interviews literary scholar Anna Kornbluh about her book 'Immediacy, or The Style of Too Late Capitalism', which analyzes contemporary culture's obsession with immediacy.
Ben Davis interviews artist Joshua Cittarella about navigating the changing art world between traditional institutions and internet culture.
An art history discussion about the Discobolus sculpture and its connection to the Olympics, featuring an interview with a galleries editor.
A roundup of three art-related news stories: the iconic Trump assassination attempt photo, defacement of a goddess statue, and an Australian art controversy.
An interview with curator Alyssa Bennett about her exhibition inspired by Donna Tartt's novel The Secret History.
An interview with psychoanalyst Jameson Webster about the relationship between art and psychoanalysis, and her new pamphlet.
An interview with curator Adriano Pedrosa about the 60th Venice Biennale exhibition 'Foreigners Everywhere'.
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This episode features an interview with curator Yung Ma about his career and innovative approaches to contemporary exhibition models at major art institutions.
This episode explores the evolving role of connoisseurs in shaping taste, the art market, and art history through a panel discussion with experts at the TAFEF art fair.
This episode features an interview with art dealer Alexander Shulan, discussing how he founded Lomax Gallery to build new markets for underrecognized artists in New York and beyond.
This episode explores the Met's 'Sleeping Beauties' fashion exhibition curated by Andrew Bolton, which uses sensory elements to reawaken archived garments while examining themes of life, death, and preservation.