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This week on Spill the Art Tea we’re joined by guest artist Deirdre Burke for a lively dive into the latest art world stories:

🎸 A Van Halen guitar sells for $2 million — but is it art, or just rock memorabilia?

🏛️ Contemporary galleries face a slow death — are we witnessing the end of an era?

🤝 The artist–gallery split arrangement — time for a new deal?

📺 YouTube steps up to protect creators — but is it enough?

🏸 Killer badminton spin designed by AI — has tech finally gone too far?

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Hey friends! We're trying something FRESH this week with our monthly Spill the Art Tea - QUICK CUPPA edition.

This week on Spill the Art Tea (Ep 58), we dive into some wild and wonderful stories:

☀️ A 2000-year-old sun hat discovered by archaeologists – the original fashion statement?

🏠 Mark Rothko’s former East Village home and studio is up for sale – would you live where he brooded?

👜 A $10M Hermès Birkin bag finds its mystery buyer – Japanese entrepreneur Shinsuke Sakimoto.

🎨 A David Wojnarowicz mural resurfaces in Kentucky after 40 years, only to be hidden again.

🤖 San Francisco’s underground robot cage fights bring engineers, hobbyists, and spectacle seekers together.

Join us for a fast, funny, and caffeinated look at the art world’s quirks, scandals, and unexpected headlines.

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Spill the Art Tea featuring returning guest and Nua Collective artist Lucy Lambe! Here’s what’s on the agenda this week:

🦚 Peacock Lasers – Yes, scientists made frickin’ lasers out of peacock feathers.

🎨 Celebrity Painters – Why do more male celebs show off their art than women?

🚗 Glowing Tires – Goodyear’s futuristic 1960s experiment that melted under pressure.

⚡ Electron Art – A scientist turns biology into rock album covers and postage stamps.

🌊 Plastic Museum – Italy opens a museum dedicated to ocean trash and faded plastics.

Join us for absurd headlines, cultural hot takes, and creative insights as we Spill the Art Tea.

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Spill the Art Tea featuring special guest Beth S. Robertson! Here’s what’s on the agenda:

🚩 Mexico City Museum Protest – Activists confront a major contemporary art museum over gentrification links.

💎 $150K Labubu Dolls – Why these rare vinyl toys are fetching diamond-ring prices at auction.

🍆 Eggplant Art Heist – Visitors swipe produce from a Suzann Victor installation in Singapore.

🪸 Martian Coral Discovery – NASA finds billion-year-old reef-like formations on the Red Planet.

🏝️ Welsh Island Fortress for Sale – Your own Bond villain hideout for £3 million.

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This week on Spill the Art Tea, we’re joined by artist  Linda Mazzerin to explore five art-adjacent stories full of tech, ethics, culture, and controversy:

🎞️ Netflix uses AI VFX for the first time to cut production costs

💃 London’s Stripper Collective hosts empowering life drawing classes

🛷 The Rosebud sled from Citizen Kane sells for $14.75 million

📱 Coldplaygate becomes the most chaotic meme of the summer

🏺 And we ask: Should museums still be displaying mummified remains?

Get ready for a full-spectrum tea spill — from sketchpads to streaming services.

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This week on Spill the Art Tea, actor and French artist Ivan Arlaud joins us to talk through some wild cultural headlines:

🏰 A man smashes the Stone of Destiny glass case in Edinburgh Castle.

🚀 We accidentally cover a rocket launch… thinking it was solar science.

🧠 Scientists sneak AI prompts into academic papers to game peer review.

🎨 Celebrity painters get ranked and roasted — from Stallone to Liu.

💋 And a Coldplay kiss cam exposes more than just PDA — a full-blown affair.

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This week on Spill the Art Tea, Therese Maher joins us to unpack the wildest headlines in the art world—from the launch of George Lucas’s Narrative Art Museum in LA, Ed Sheeran's carpark paintings making headlines, the Bayeux Tapestry's 900-year homecoming, and the stunning ZWO Astro Photo shortlist. We also ask: should we cry for this Evita?

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This week on Spill the Art Tea, singer-songwriter Aaron Smith from MacRua joins us to discuss the headlines that have the art world buzzing—from a pink Picasso protest and the "Grand Theft Culture" movement to ponies in cardigans, the Bezos wedding backlash in Venice, and the fascinating world of molecular ballet. Tune in as we unpack these wild stories!

🖼️ Pink paint meets Picasso in Montreal

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This week on Spill the Art Tea, actor Rónán P. Byrne joins us to unpack the wildest headlines in the art world—from the Gen Z print-buying boom to a spontaneous Louvre strike, a smashed €100k crystal chair, and a LEGO forgery ring copying Ai Weiwei’s work. We also dive into France’s decision to hike museum prices for non-EU visitors—and wonder: who really gets access to culture in 2025?

🖼️ Gen Z snapping up prints like it’s fashion week

🪧 The Louvre closes mid-tour?!

🇫🇷 France doubles down on tourist museum fees

💺 One man, one chair, one €100k disaster

🧱 And a LEGO crime wave hits Ai Weiwei fans

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It’s Episode 50! We’re spilling five hot cups of art tea — from 200-year-old erotic condoms and shady rediscoveries to the visual language of crystals. Plus, we feature Nua Collective’s own Katrina Tracuma, discussing her upcoming exhibitions.

This week’s stories:

🟡 Wrap it before you Rijks it – The Rijksmuseum’s 200yo erotic condom giveaway

🟡 Dead, Ignored, and Now Profitable – Inside the “Rediscovery Industrial Complex”

🟡 The World's Smallest Violin

🟡 Mother Earth’s USB Stick – Crystals as nature’s data visualisation

🟡 Paintings from the Beyond – Hilma af Klint, mysticism, and supernatural geometry

👤 Featured Artist: Katrina Tracuma

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