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From Studio Secrets to Art World Scandals: A Roundup of the Best Art Podcasts

While academic art podcasts are certainly worth a listen, most of us are looking for something a little livelier or, dare we say it, juicy.

15.02.2025 10

Observer

Nadja Sayej

The Guerrilla Girls On the Group’s Legacy and Its First Commercial Gallery Show

Thirty-five years have passed since the group posed the question, "Do women have to be naked to get into the Met Museum?”

24.01.2025 1

Observer

Nadja Sayej

An Exhibition of George Loudon’s Collection in Venice Resurrects the 17th-Century Wunderkammer

Loudon is one of the few art collectors to seriously branch out into 19th-century life sciences illustrations and models.

15.01.2025 8

Observer

Nadja Sayej

Rediscovering Southern Art From the First Half of the 20th Century at North Carolina’s Mint Museum

Thomas Hart Benton, Ploughing it Under, 1943, reworked 1964; oil on canvas, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR. 2006.73...

08.01.2025 5

Observer

Nadja Sayej

Katharina Grosse’s Park & 75 Show Explores the Power of Music Through Paint

Katharina Grosse has always been a darling of the art world. The Berlin-based artist, who rose to prominence in the 1990s, was instrumental in...

07.12.2024 4

Observer

Nadja Sayej

At One Hundred, Surrealism Is Alive and Well in Austin and Beyond

Surrealism was born in October of 1924 when French poet and critic André Breton published the Surrealist Manifesto, forever staking claim to the...

28.09.2024 4

Observer

Nadja Sayej

Berlin in the 1990s Was Revolutionary: Inside C/O Berlin’s Analogue Photo Retrospective

International photojournalists captured ample images and video clips of the fall of the Berlin Wall. And who could forget David Hasselhoff in a...

23.09.2024 1

Observer

Nadja Sayej

Gonzo Artist Ralph Steadman On Showing in Washington and Hunter S. Thompson’s Infamous Fax Machine

Welsh artist and illustrator Ralph Steadman, 88, has had not one, but many careers. Known as “the godfather of Gonzo art,” he basically invented...

09.09.2024 1

Observer

Nadja Sayej

The Must-Read Art Books to Pick Up This Fall

Most of us don’t read books the way we used to—attention spans are short, BookTok recommendations populate our shelves and audiobooks are the new...

26.08.2024 3

Observer

Nadja Sayej

Celebrity Photographer Vijat Mohindra On Shooting Plastic Girls in Plastic Worlds

Hollywood’s favorite photographer, Vijat Mohindra, is living the dream. He’s shot Kim Kardashian multiple times since 2009, to market Skims and her...

25.08.2024 2

Observer

Nadja Sayej

An Elizabeth Catlett Retrospective Is Coming to the Brooklyn Museum

If there’s one overlooked woman artist in American art history everyone should know about, it’s Elizabeth Catlett. Catlett was a badass artist, a...

20.08.2024 2

Observer

Nadja Sayej

Performance Artist Philippe Petit On Passion, Taking Risks and His Life On the Wire

The audacious French performance artist Philippe Petit probably isn’t as widely known as he ought to be. If the name rings a bell, it might be...

25.07.2024 2

Observer

Nadja Sayej