The Art Boom in the Middle East, Are Old Masters Cool Now?, and a Fresco Fracas in Italy
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 Base...
What Epstein's Emails Tell Us About the Art Market
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 priso...
An Artist's Guide to Psychedelic Mushrooms
There is an enduring association with creative experiment and psychedelic experiences. Recently, psychedelics have become more mainstream, explored no...
How the Debates Over Art, Race, and Tech Have Changed
If you had to pick two conversations that defined the last 10 years in art, one would certainly be about digital culture and online life. The other wo...
A Venice Biennale Meltdown, the Prado Is Too Popular, and a $2.7M Speed Painting?!
Here we are, already at the end of the first month of the new year. That means it’s time to do the first Art Angle Round-Up of 2026, where, as is cust...
How the 21st Century Broke Culture
The first quarter of the 21st century is now behind us. Yet a pervasive sense of cultural stagnation persists: many observers and participants feel th...
Can Brainrot Be Art? Beeple Thinks So
In art right now, it's hard to avoid talking about Beeple. That, of course, is the alias of Charleston-based Mike Winkelmann, known to millions of fol...
Where Art Insiders Are Placing Their Bets in 2026
At the top of 2025, the outlook for the art industry was pretty bleak, and art insiders' worst fears were, in some cases, more than realized. By now, ...
Re-Air: Why No One Trusts Art Prices Anymore
As we close out another bumpy year in the art market, we are revisiting a recent episode that looks at one of the factors in play: the erosion of logi...
Re-Air: How Painters Today Are Reframing… the Frame
We love to do deep dives into trends that we are noticing in painting and the trend of “Bordercore” was one of our best-loved from the year, so we dec...