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This week on Spill the Art Tea,  Eamonn and Josh wade into another round of art-world drama — starting with ICE using an Anish Kapoor sculpture in a promotional photo, triggering public outrage and the possibility of a lawsuit. Because apparently even government agencies can’t resist a shiny Bean.

We look at the shutdown of Teen Vogue, closing the book on a publication that somehow balanced mascara tips with political fire.

Then it’s museum controversy as the Phillips Collection deaccessions works by O’Keeffe, Seurat and Dove, raising eyebrows across the sector.

Sotheby’s smashes expectations with a $236M Klimt sale, Ripley’s buys a Maurizio Cattelan piece and the internet is furious, and Hyperallergic asks the spicy question: is Cattelan… over?

Another week, another swirl of art, chaos, money, and questionable decisions — exactly how we like it. 🎨🍵

🗞️ Stories this week:

• ICE sparks backlash using Kapoor’s “Bean” in a Border Patrol promo

• Teen Vogue shuts down

• Phillips Collection sells O’Keeffe, Seurat & Dove works

• Klimt painting sells for $236M at Sotheby’s

• Ripley’s buys a Maurizio Cattelan artwork

• Hyperallergic asks whether Cattelan’s moment has passed

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This week on Spill the Art Tea, Eamonn and Josh dive into a fresh slate of art-world stories — from Bowie’s Aladdin Sane cover selling for a staggering £380k, to a 2,200-year-old Celtic ‘rainbow cup’ discovered in almost perfect condition.

We walk through LACMA’s refusal to recognise a newly formed workers’ union, and the bizarre case of a teen charged after allegedly sticking googly eyes onto a contemporary artwork known as the ‘Blue Blob’, Timothée Chalamet drifts through Jenny Holzer’s glowing installation City for a new Vogue shoot.

Fast-paced, cheeky, and caffeinated — just the way we serve it.

🗞️ STORIES THIS WEEK

• Bowie’s Aladdin Sane album cover sells for £380,000 at Bonhams

• 2,200-year-old Celtic ‘rainbow cup’ discovered in Germany

• LACMA declines to recognise a workers’ union

• Teen charged after sticking googly eyes on ‘Blue Blob’ artwork

• Timothée Chalamet shoots Vogue inside Jenny Holzer’s City

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This week, Eamonn and Josh are joined by Nua Collective artist Enrique Hernández, who brings a first-look preview of his work ahead of our London debut exhibition ‘Under The Same Sky’ at Candid Arts Trust (20–23 Nov).

We also dive into the biggest art stories of the week:

🧙‍♀️ Medieval Graffiti — witch marks, curses, and carved chaos

⌚ Coppola’s ultra-rare luxury watch hits auction

🏛️ The Parthenon finally revealed without scaffolding

🧠 Science confirms: going to galleries boosts wellbeing

🎻 Inside the architecture of sound with Charles Brooks’ instrument photography

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This week’s Quick Cuppa with Eamonn Shanahan and Josh Stein gets playful, political, and a little too techy for comfort. From LEGO’s hidden ideology to AI sexting and sustainable vandalism, we’re spilling the strangest brews in art and culture this week.

🧱 The Ideology of LEGO – What do plastic bricks say about capitalism, creativity, and control?

💻 Erotic ChatGPT – OpenAI tests adult mode: the internet’s most awkward love affair begins.

🎨 Columbus Statue Protest – Red paint, biodegradable guilt, and a question of legacy.

👗 Trash-to-Couture Fashion (Congo) – Turning rubbish into runway gold.

🏠 Frank Lloyd Wright’s Kalil House – DIY modernism gets its landmark moment.

📌 Episode highlights include Josh’s theory that LEGO turned from Marxist utopia to capitalist dystopia, and Eamonn’s confession that his first heartbreak was caused by ChatGPT refusing to roleplay properly.

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This Halloween, Eamonn and Josh welcome back artist and curator Ben Griffiths for a spine-tingling art world roundup! 👻

From two French museum heists in one week — including the uninsured $102M Louvre theft — to a missing Picasso, haunted AR exhibitions inside The Met, and the final code cracked at the CIA’s “Kryptos” sculpture, we’re serving a mix of mystery, mischief, and masterpieces.

Plus: Ireland makes the Artists’ Basic Income permanent, and tattoos go under the hammer — literally!

Stories this week:

1️⃣ Second French Museum Robbed After $102M Louvre Heist

2️⃣ The Louvre’s Treasures Weren’t Insured 😱

3️⃣ Indigenous Artists’ Unsanctioned AR Exhibition at The Met

4️⃣ Ireland’s Basic Income for Artists Goes Permanent

5️⃣ Artist-Designed Tattoos Auctioned at Joopiter

6️⃣ Picasso Work Missing in Transit

7️⃣ CIA Kryptos Sculpture Code Finally Solved

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This week, Lucy Lambe returns to Spill the Art Tea as Eamonn and Josh unpack a wild mix of art world stories — from a daring Louvre heist to Ozzy Osbourne’s charity artwork, guerrilla projections lighting up Los Angeles, and MoMA’s surreal Barbie collaboration with Mattel.

They also question whether the contemporary art market is finally collapsing — and announce Nua Collective’s debut London exhibition, "Under The Same Sky".

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This week, architect Hugh Ryan joins Eamonn B. Shanahan and Josh Stein to Spill the Art Tea — where we uncover everything from psychedelic palettes to prehistoric microbes.

🎨 Grateful Dead x Pantone – Introducing Stealie Red & Stealie Blue, the colours of counterculture.

🗿 Bad Public Artwork, Part Z: Tina Turner – When tributes go terribly wrong.

🤖 Murderous AI – The YouTube experiment proving even machines can develop a killer instinct.

🧬 Revived Microbes – Scientists awaken 40,000-year-old bacteria (what could possibly go wrong?).

🪶 Vulture Nests & Human History – 700 years of archaeology hidden in bird homes.

📌 Episode highlights include Hugh’s reflections on architecture as living history, Josh’s take on AI behaving like a diva, and Eamonn’s plea for a Pantone shade called “Public Art Disaster Bronze.”

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Grab a cuppa — this week’s Spill the Art Tea is a quick-fire round with Josh Stein and Eamonn B. Shanahan, where the art world meets the absurd:

🌻 World’s Tallest Sunflower – A 10-metre floral skyscraper grown in Indiana and dedicated to Ukraine.

🎧 Serj Tankian’s Sound Paintings – System of a Down’s frontman makes art you can actually listen to.

🐌 Picasso Snail – Scientists name a micro-snail after the Cubist master for its twisted geometry.

🤖 Giant Human-Driven Robot – Japanese engineers bring mech art to life (slowly, and very loudly).

💋 The GILF Economy – The rise of older creators on OnlyFans and what it says about power, age, and art.

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This week artist Brian Baker joins Eamonn B. Shanahan and Josh Stein to Spill the Art Tea. From malfunctioning robot athletes to glowing succulents and the world’s fastest camera, Episode 61 is equal parts sci-fi, slapstick, and serious reflection.

🤖 Robot Games – Beijing hosts the first Humanoid Robot Olympics (and the fails are glorious).

🛡️ Hackers vs Artists – Threats to ransom artist data into AI training sets.

🌱 Glow-in-the-Dark Succulents – Rechargeable plants that could light your home.

📸 MIT’s Light Camera – A trillion frames per second to film light itself.

💭 ChatGPT’s Identity Crisis – From “synthetic brain” to internet’s busiest replacement.

📌 Episode highlights include Brian’s take on how tech fails often reveal more about art and humanity than the polished successes, Josh’s riffs on whether the robot games are the Olympics or a slapstick circus, and Eamonn’s crack that the freediver story from last week made art school crits feel short by comparison.

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This week Irish Artist Karen Ebbs Spills the Art Tea with Eamonn B Shanahan and Josh Stein. Our stories today push the boundaries of endurance, art, and perspective:

🌊 Breathless Record – Croatian freediver holds his breath for 24 minutes (longer than an art school crit).

🔮 Fractals at 50 – How repeating patterns changed science, tech, and even digital art.

🤖 AI Student Flynn – The world’s first AI officially enrolled in art school.

🌍 Tiny Dot Earth – NASA’s Psyche spacecraft captures Earth and Moon from 180 million miles away.

🌻 Van Gogh Museum – Could Amsterdam’s most famous museum really close without more government support?

Join us for wild records, cosmic images, and some existential art questions as we Spill the Art Tea.

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Karen is currently exhibiting at 'An Outer Reflection of an Inner Reality' showing at the DLR Lexicon, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin until 9th November.

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