Josh and Eamonn are joined by Enrique Hernandez for Episode 89 of Spill The Art Tea, discussing newly rediscovered John Lennon drawings making their public debut, the opening of Dataland—an AI art museum in Los Angeles, the world's first AI-designed vaccine, why humans naturally prefer walking counter-clockwise, and scientists baking sourdough using 5,000-year-old Egyptian yeast.

Stories this week include:

🎸 John Lennon's early artwork

🤖 Dataland AI museum opens

💉 The first AI-designed vaccine

↩️ Why humans walk counter-clockwise

🍞 Bread baked with ancient Egyptian yeast

A week where creativity, technology, archaeology, and science all collide in the most unexpected ways.

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Josh and Eamonn are joined by Regina Linke for Episode 88 of Spill The Art Tea, discussing the Met’s new free membership for New York SNAP recipients, the Welsh cave markings now identified as Britain’s oldest known cave art, the latest Belgian lead in the Louvre heist investigation, the nostalgic return of “’90s butter mom” culture, and Martin Scorsese’s defence of AI-generated storyboards in film preproduction. The Met announced its new Explorer Membership on June 2, 2026, and researchers say the red cave stripes in Wales are around 17,100 years old. Meanwhile, the Louvre investigation reportedly picked up a Belgian lead, and Scorsese’s comments about using AI storyboards triggered backlash from artists and film workers.  

Stories this week include:
🏛️ Met free memberships for SNAP recipients🖍️ Britain’s oldest cave art in Wales💎 another Louvre heist update🧈 the return of ’90s parenting vibes🤖 Scorsese defending AI in film

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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/