All About Art

In this episode, I sat down with Nico Epstein , who is an art advisor, educator, and the founder of Collector Connoisseur . Nico has spent around 15 years building a career that has essentially touched nearly every corner of the art world. He has worked with museums, galleries, auction houses, educational organizations, and private clients and has been taking an incredibly entrepreneurial approach...

Unfiltered Frieze Survival Guide, RECORDED LIVE - on Monday evening, I sat down at Ned’s Club, a private members' club in London, with the brilliant Carrie Scott , art advisor and founder of SEEN , a next-generation art consultancy, for a live episode of All About Art in front of a wonderful audience (with champagne in hand! 🥂) With Frieze London coming up, we wanted to talk about everything...

A new (extra long) episode of All About Art with Director of the Middelheim Museum Sara Weyns and artist Monster Chetwynd In this episode, you get two interviews in one. For Sara, start from the beginning, and for Monster, you can skip to 50min 49sec . Firstly, Sara Weyns, the museum’s director and co-curator of the exhibition A Friends Making Machine featuring the works by artist Monster Chetwynd...

Creating the Shopify of Auctions with Tom Best, Founder of The Auction Collective In this episode, I sat down with Tom Best, founder and CEO of The Auction Collective . Tom came up through Christie's Auction House, where he spent six years as an auctioneer and contemporary art specialist, before doing a stint in humanitarian aid and then combining those two threads into The Auction Collective....

📺 The Television Series the Art World Can’t Stop Talking About: THE BIG DEAL with Steph McGovern A new television series has come out this month, and the Art World™️ has been TALKING about it! 👇👇👇 “The Big Deal is a high-stakes, six-part competition where seven pairs of amateur, aspiring art dealers battle to spot talent, pitch to buyers, and turn a profit in the contemporary art market to win...

In this episode, I sat down with Courtney Johnson, career strategist, social media expert, and author of ⁠Career Cheat Codes.⁠ Courtney is someone who built an audience of millions by loudly and openly sharing some hard truths about career advice: Working hard in silence is not a strategy, and it won’t get you extra “humility” points. Visibility is a skill. Knowing how to make the right people awa...

Yorkshire Sculpture Park is one of the most distinctive arts institutions in the UK, and indeed in Europe, being the largest sculpture park on the continent. Set across 500 acres of West Yorkshire countryside, it has worked with over 1,000 artists across its 49-year history, and the landscape itself is as much a part of the experience as the work within it. In this conversation, Alex takes us insi...

Arts Leadership & Institutional Innovation - Inside the Yale Schwarzman Center with Rachel Fine In this episode, I sat down with Rachel Fine, Executive Director of the Yale Schwarzman Center in the United States of America. Rachel is someone who came to arts leadership without a roadmap, as I think most of us do. She trained as a pianist and found her way into arts admin almost by accident, th...

In this episode, I explore the concepts of ‘ entrepreneurship’ and ‘ intrapreneurship’ in the arts. The two are often framed as opposites, but actually I find they they sit on a spectrum, so I also draw on my recent conversation with Ben Luke (the previous episode to this one) as a jumping-off point while bringing in some other non-art examples. Using my own experience producing All About Art inde...

In this episode, I sat down one of my dream guests… fellow podcaster Ben Luke, contributing editor of The Art Newspaper and presenter of its podcasts ‘ A brush with... ’ and ‘ The Week in Art ’. I speak to Ben about his background and the path that brought him to one of the art world’s most prominent publications. We talk about the podcasts he hosts at TAN (The Art Newspaper), how they came about,...

What exactly is a biennale, and why do they matter in the art world? In this solo episode, I’m breaking down one of the art world’s most iconic and contested formats, from its origins at the very first Venice Biennale in 1895 to the sprawling, politically charged mega-exhibitions we know today. In the episode, we move through the history of how biennales evolved from nationalist showcases into cur...

Boats passing, waves lapping along the sides of buildings in the city of canals…  and I am sitting outside the Icelandic Pavilion, peeking into the Pocket Universe created by artist  Ásta Fanney Sigurðardóttir .  For this Biennale Exclusive episode, I speak to Ásta about her work and the exhibition she created for this year’s Venice Biennale  In Minor Keys , but I also got to speak to Cecilie Ragn...

ALL ABOUT ART TURNED 5 in April !!! On April 2nd, 2021, deep in Covid lockdowns, I decided to launch the pod. Now, in 2026, here we are - with a global audience spanning over 115 countries , thousands of downloads and monthly listeners, collaborations with institutions and amazing cultural professionals, and… A BOOK DEAL. I started this podcast because I had no idea what working in the art world a...

What Is an Art Foundation, Actually? The word “foundation” appears quite frequently in the art world, but I feel like most people, including those already working in the sector, would perhaps struggle to define what one actually is. This episode attempted to tackle that definition, and it may have clarified some things, but I also think it made things more confusing. 🤪 Inspired by my recent inter...

From Collector to Founder: Elisa Nuyten on Building The Vega Foundation In this episode, I sat down with Elisa Nuyten, founder of The Vega Foundation , a Toronto-based organization dedicated to artists' film and video. I speak to Elisa about what her foundation does - supporting a medium that many of us love but that often exists in the margins of the art world. We talk about her journey from...

This week’s episode of All About Art talks about money 💶💰💸👛💷✨👩‍💻. The art world - well, in every profession I think, not just in our bubble - only speaks about it in whispers or over a few glasses of wine (if at all) but the silence around salaries and financial sustainability is actively harming people, especially those without a financial safety net behind them. Espeically now, when on l...

The Truth About Art World Careers: Inside Talent, Hiring, & Strategic Navigation with former co-managing partner of Sophie Macpherson Ltd. In this episode, I sat down with Rosie Allan, former co-Managing Partner of Sophie Macpherson, a leading recruitment firm specializing in the art market. I speak to Rosie about her journey into art world talent and recruitment, and what drew her to this par...

From Tip Jars to Patreon: Rebuilding Arts Funding from the Ground Up? This week’s episode of All About Art tackles “patronage”, but on the micro scale. You’ve surely seen it before: “Buy me a Ko-Fi!” “ Support me on Patreon !” and more - the latter of which you hear every time to tune into an episode of All About Art, because these sites allow your community to show support for the work they love...

How Curators & Artists Are Supported In The Digital Age, with Evelina Gorbačova, Head of Digital Development at FOLLOW.ART FOLLOW.ART is a platform working to reshape how artists and curators connect in the digital age - You should listen in if you are interested in working at the intersection of art and technology , working at a startup compared to more traditional roles in either tech or the...

The Great Art Fraud: Performance, Pretty Privilege & an $86 Million Scandal This week’s episode of All About Art dives into one of the biggest recent scandals in contemporary art. It’s based on my recent experience watching the BBC’s The Great Art Fraud , which chronicles Inigo Philbrick’s spectacular $86 million fraud that shook the art world to its core. I discuss a range of factors that led...

The Mind Control of Mount Making with Alex Abbott, Director of Dauphin In this episode, I sat down with Alex Abbott, Art Consultant and Director of Dauphin, a company that specializes in displays and mounts. I speak to Alex about what his company does - which a lot of you have certainly come into contact with but not been fully aware of. Alex does the unseen work of ensuring the objects we view an...

My forthcoming book Working in Art has officially beeen announced as available for pre-order, with publication coming in April 2026. So, on this week’s episode of All About Art, I walk you through what went into creating this book - the travel to 9 cities across 5 countries, the interviews with arts professionals I deeply admire, and the honest moments of self-doubt along the way. I explain why I...

New episode of ‘All About Art’: Designing a Fair Marketplace for Artists and Collectors with Bibi Zavieh, Founder of newcube In this episode, I sat down with Bibi Zavieh, Founder of newcube.art, an artist platform and art advisory. I speak to Bibi about her experiences at Christie’s and ArtNet before she ventured into entrepreneurship and launched newcube right before the covid lockdowns. I ask he...

Hot Take / Art Break: Why the Art World's Tech-Phobia Is Burning Us Out (video podcast) This week, I'm tackling a question that might make some people uncomfortable: Why does the art world resist technology? We celebrate experimentation and boundary-pushing in artistic practice, but when it comes to the everyday operations of galleries, institutions, and artist support systems, we're s...

🎙️🇮🇹 The Venice Biennale Fellowship – A Career-Changing Opportunity for Emerging Arts Professionals In this special bonus episode of All About Art, I’m sharing some incredibly exciting news: NXT GEN is partnering with the British Council to send one of our members as a Fellow on a fully funded, month-long residency to the Venice Biennale 2026! If you’re an emerging arts professional within the fir...