This week on Spill The Art Tea, Katherine Klimitas joins us for a lineup that swings from true-crime cinema to textile history to conceptual fruit nonsense and a fish species that has apparently been ignoring men for 100,000 years.

We’re talking about the Louvre jewel robbery getting the film treatment with Romain Gavras, Frank Stella’s collection of Diné textiles going on public display, claims around lithium and Alzheimer’s prevention, the latest theft of Maurizio Cattelan’s banana at the Centre Pompidou-Metz, and the Amazon molly — an all-female fish whose genetics keep baffling scientists. It’s crime, craft, brain chemistry, conceptual art, and accidental feminist marine mythology in one episode.  

Stories this week include:
🎬 Louvre heist film adaptation🧵 Frank Stella’s Diné textile collection🧠 lithium and Alzheimer’s debate🍌 Cattelan’s banana stolen again🐟 the all-female Amazon molly

Love Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Learn more about our guest Katherine:Website: https://kakartnola.com/http://instagram.com/kakartnolaRead our latest edition of Anecdotes - OUT NOW!https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes-nua-art-magazine/

This week on Spill The Art Tea, author Aaron Ryan joins us for a lineup that moves from art-world grief to ecological design, creativity research, market absurdity, material science, and AI photographic ethics. We’re talking about the death of Jerry Gogosian, wind turbines painted like warning snakes to protect birds, research linking arts engagement to slower aging, Kalshi turning art auctions into prediction markets, near-Kevlar silk engineered from silkworms, and a New York gallery defending its AI-generated version of Ansel Adams’s Moonrise. Culture remains incapable of behaving normally. Stories this week include:🕯️ Jerry Gogosian dead at 30🐍 wind turbines painted to save birds🎨 creativity linked to slower aging📈 art market prediction betting🧵 Kevlar-like silk🖼️ AI Ansel Adams controversy🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Learn more about our guest Aaron RyanWebsite: https://authoraaronryan.com/https://www.instagram.com/authoraaronryan/Latest book: https://amzn.eu/d/07IGtHB9Read our latest edition of Anecdotes - OUT NOW!https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes-nua-art-magazine/

This week on Spill The Art Tea, Peter Pepper joins us for a lineup that swings from blockbuster mythology to disaster memorabilia to artist admin and pop-history pilgrimage.We’re talking about the Lucas Museum opening with a Star Wars vehicle exhibition, Titanic artifacts potentially heading to auction, the strangest moments from the 2026 Met Gala red carpet, the rise of the proposed “A-Corp” business model for artists, and London getting an official Beatles fan experience at 3 Savile Row. It’s film culture, fashion spectacle, legal structure, heritage, and nostalgia all elbowing for space in the same episode. Stories this week include:⭐ first Lucas Museum show: Star Wars🚢 Titanic artifacts may go to auction🫠 Met Gala weirdness📊 WTF is an A-Corp?🎸 London gets a Beatles museum🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BSTLearn more about our guest Peter Pepper:Website: https://www.peterpepper.net/https://www.instagram.com/peterpepperlinktr.ee/peterpepper.officialRead our latest edition of Anecdotes - OUT NOW!https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes-nua-art-magazine/

This week on Spill The Art Tea, Rosie Tran joins us for a lineup that veers from tiny truck gardens to jousting nostalgia to Keith Haring on wheels.We’re talking about Japan’s miniature kei truck garden contest, the revival of California’s Medieval Times as a camp immersive-night-out phenomenon, two rare Keith Haring art cars going on view in New York, a website that turns the current time into color, and Sotheby’s auction of more than 70 Stephen Curry-worn sneakers. It’s design, spectacle, performance, digital poetics, and collectible culture doing what it does best: becoming far stranger once you look closely. Stories this week include:🚚 Japanese mini truck gardens🏰 Medieval Times in its comeback era🚗 Keith Haring art cars in NYC⏰ a website that turns time into color👟 70+ Steph Curry sneakers at Sotheby’s🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Learn more about our guest Rosie Fran:'Rosie Tran Presents...' - Watch now on Amazon Prime: https://www.amazon.com/Rosie-Tran-Presents/dp/B0FWLCD24PWebsite: https://www.rosietran.com/https://www.instagram.com/outoftheboxrosielinktr.ee/funnyrosieRead our latest edition of Anecdotes - OUT NOW!https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes-nua-art-magazine/

This week on Spill The Art Tea, Kiira Benz joins Eamonn and Josh for a lineup that has everything: stolen treasure returned home, Maurizio Cattelan turning confession into audience participation, Michelangelo landing in a New Jersey mall, Pharrell selling a Triceratops online for $5.5 million, and China launching a nationwide museum audit after a major collections scandal. It is heritage, spectacle, retail, religion, bureaucracy, and a dinosaur with a luxury resale aura. In other words: culture remains incapable of acting normal. Stories this week include:🏺 stolen Romanian golden helmet returned📞 Cattelan’s hotline for sinners🛍️ an immersive Sistine Chapel in a New Jersey mall🦖 a $5.5 million Triceratops sale on Joopiter🏛️ a nationwide audit of Chinese museums🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Learn more about our guest Kiira Benz:Double Eye Studios: https://www.doubleeye.co/https://www.instagram.com/kiirabenz/https://www.youtube.com/@UCPgv4vV3JJgZDMff2CgKxQA Read our latest edition of Anecdotes - OUT NOW!https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes-nua-art-magazine/

This week on Spill The Art Tea, Tara Connaghan joins us for a lineup that swings from protest sculpture to humanitarian design to cosmic administration.We’re talking about a gold toilet sculpture installed near the Lincoln Memorial, modular playgrounds built for children in disaster zones, the UN office responsible for asteroid alerts and orbital diplomacy, what science says about the best sleeping position, and the strange full-circle moment of Andy Warhol’s former Factory becoming a Uniqlo store in Union Square. Stories this week include:🚽 golden toilet protest art🛝 modular playgrounds for disaster zones☄️ the UN’s outer space office😴 the best sleeping positions👕 Warhol’s Factory becomes Uniqlo🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Learn more about our guest Tara Connaghan:https://www.sessionetiquette.com/https://www.instagram.com/tarafiddle/Read our latest edition of Anecdotes - OUT NOW!https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes-nua-art-magazine/

This week on Spill The Art Tea, Jonathan Schüßler joins us for a lineup that veers from swashbuckling history to museum policy to rocks with suspiciously good facial expressions.We’re talking about the possible discovery of D’Artagnan’s long-lost skeleton in Maastricht, the UK government’s proposal to charge international visitors for access to national museum collections, a lightning-fast theft of Renoir, Cézanne, and Matisse paintings in Italy, Japan’s gloriously odd museum of face-like rocks, and Jeff Koons designing anniversary bottles for Evian. The stories draw on reporting from ARTnews, The Guardian, government sources, This Is Colossal, and Evian’s campaign materials. Stories this week include:⚔️ D’Artagnan’s skeleton?🏛️ museum fees for tourists🎨 a three-minute art heist🪨 Japan’s face-rock museum💧 Jeff Koons x Evian🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Learn more about our guest Jonathan Schüßler:https://www.jonathanschuessler.com/https://www.instagram.com/jonathan_schuessler/https://www.chuzlaire.com/Read our latest edition of Anecdotes - OUT NOW!https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes-nua-art-magazine/

This week on Spill The Art Tea, Rupali Kumbhani joins us for a properly strange mix of film ethics, auction fever, museum disaster, algorithmic bureaucracy, and plushies with gastrointestinal trauma.We’re talking about Val Kilmer’s posthumous AI performance in As Deep as the Grave, Christie’s record-breaking $94.5 million Jim Irsay memorabilia sale, the catastrophic vandalism at Seattle’s Chihuly Garden and Glass, a museum HVAC grant reportedly cancelled after ChatGPT flagged it as DEI-related, and the weirdly compelling world of chronic-illness plushies. The stories pull from reporting by Reuters, AP, Christie’s, ARTnews, Seattle Police, People, Fortune, and brand materials from Plushie Dreadfuls. Stories this week include:🤖 Val Kilmer’s AI resurrection🎸 Christie’s pop-culture auction madness💥 catastrophic damage at Chihuly🌀 ChatGPT versus museum HVAC🧸 plushies for chronic illness🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Learn more about our guest:Rupali Kumbhani: https://www.rupaali.com/Read our latest edition of Anecdotes - OUT NOW!https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes-nua-art-magazine/

This week on Spill The Art Tea, Alexandra Beller joins us for five stories that feel like history, science, and the arts got locked in a room together and started improvising.We’re talking about ancient board games as designed cultural objects, whether you could survive on a single food, the emotional crash after intense creative work, the theory that the Oracle of Delphi was literally breathing trance-inducing gas, and NASA’s very practical menu for Artemis II’s trip around the Moon. The episode pulls from recent and archival reporting in Smithsonian Magazine, Popular Science, Hyperallergic, and NASA materials. Stories this week include:🎲 Ancient table games🥔 Single food forever?🎨 Creative hangovers🔮 Delphi huffing🌕 Moon menu🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Learn more about our guest:Alexandra Beller: https://www.alexandrabeller.com/Read our latest edition of Anecdotes - OUT NOW!https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes-nua-art-magazine/

This week on Spill The Art Tea, Mark Firehammer joins us for a lineup that feels gloriously unhinged: books with synchronised soundtracks, freelancers fighting for survival, furniture made from shredded bank notes, a Whitney Biennial videogame anyone can play, and a Turner watercolour stepping back into public view after more than two centuries.We’re getting into where art, design, tech, money, and creative burnout all collide — which, frankly, is increasingly every corner of the culture world.Stories this week include:📚🔊 Books plus audio tracks💸😵‍💫 The brutal state of freelance💷🪑 Bank notes turned into furniture🎮🖼️ A Whitney Biennial videogame🌧️🖌️ Turner back on show for the first time since 1799🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Learn more about our guest:Mark Firehammer: www.markfirehammer.comRead our latest edition of Anecdotes - OUT NOW!https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes-nua-art-magazine/