# art angle — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover art angle. Page: Feed: --- ## What's New in New York Art? _2026-08-13 · The Art Angle_ We’re in the hot dog days of August, awaiting the new art season to kick off in September. In the meantime, I thought we might take the temperature of art in New York, looking at two big museum shows that opened earlier ruin the year, and that seek to highlight new voices from the city. So, we will be talking about “Greater New York,” the important show at MoMA PS1 in Queens that once every five… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ART2535603228.mp3) ## Here's Where the Art World Eats _2026-08-06 · The Art Angle_ At the end of last year, Annie Armstrong stepped down as Artnet's gossip columnist after filing 198 Wet Paint columns over the span of more than four years. Gabi Vidal-Irizarry has picked up the mantle. Annie departed the art world for the food world to write for Caper Media, an enterprising new startup that aims, in its words, "to tell the inside story of the restaurant business in New York."… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ART3018623767.mp3) ## An Untold History of the Art Market _2026-07-30 · The Art Angle_ The art market is a famously opaque place, a world of handshake agreements and big-dollar private deals. How does it actually operate, and how has it changed over the centuries? In a richly researched new book titled Trading Beauty: Art Market Histories from the Altar to the Gallery, Valentina Castellani provides surprising answers, drawing on a long and storied career in the industry. She's… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ART6655394529.mp3) ## Re-Air: The Magic of ‘The Artist’s Way’ _2026-07-23 · The Art Angle_ In this re-air of an episode from last year. Ben Davis speaks with Julia Cameron, the author of The Artist's Way. It is a somewhat unusual subject for us, but it's also been an episode that's been very meaningful to a lot of listeners. And in case you're wondering, Ben started doing morning pages to prepare for the interview, and six months later, and he has stuck with it. Millions of people know… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ART6308228453.mp3) ## Welcome to the Society of the Psyop _2026-07-16 · The Art Angle_ It is a time of disorienting, sometimes surreal shifts in the worlds of politics and technology. There aren’t too many artists who you might trust as a guide, but Trevor Paglen is one of them. Paglen has long functioned as an artist-researcher, with a fascination for pushing to the outer limits of what is seen or known. His work has often not just responded to but anticipated major conversations… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ART6245312301.mp3) ## The Case for M.C. Escher _2026-07-09 · The Art Angle_ There are only a very few artists from the 20th century who are truly household names, figures like Salvador Dalí, Frida Kahlo, and Andy Warhol. The name M.C. Escher is certainly on that short list. Escher’s impact on the wider culture may be as big, or even bigger that of those other figures, even as he remains somewhat hard to classify as an artist. Born Maurits Cornelis Escher, the Dutch artist… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ART7493396076.mp3) ## How Doug Aitken Thinks in Music _2026-07-02 · The Art Angle_ 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. The work unfolds across multiple screens, following different characters as they move through desert scenes, freeways, and other landscapes in flux. What binds those worlds and… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ART8503298649.mp3) ## How to Make a Sculpture With Sound _2026-06-25 · The Art Angle_ 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, and musical performance of one kind of another is everywhere in and around the art. Ben Davis wanted to dig into this “sonic turn” in art, if that’s what it is—and the artist Tarek… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ART5190257785.mp3) ## What Does It Take to Keep Art Basel on Top? _2026-06-18 · The Art Angle_ 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 course. Its 290 exhibitors include all the top galleries of the world. It's a place where you can see and buy museum-quality Picassos and Warhols next to still-wet-paint by emerging… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ART1909837501.mp3) ## [Brisk AI News Briefings (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/iF799dT5foJV) _2026-06-18 · **Sponsored**_ Read AI summaries and listen to audio briefings for top stories. ## Roberta Smith Still Has Notes _2026-06-11 · The Art Angle_ 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 revered, she is known above all for close looking, precise description, and a style that’s accessible but serious. In 2019, she won the Rabkin Award for Lifetime Achievement. Smith… [Listen](https://www.podtrac.com/pts/redirect.mp3/pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/ART4349168249.mp3)