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December 19, 2025Why Are Fashion and Art Such Natural Partners? (with Rejina Pyo)
For Rejina Pyo, the lines between fashion, art, and design are wonderfully blurred: “The way I design clothes is the same as designing a table or designing a space ... I’m really trying to be true to myself.”
This month, the London-based designer and artist opened Rejina Pyo 86, a new shop in Notting Hill that doubles as a gallery with curated exhibitions—an expansion of her long-running interest in bringing art and fashion together. Pyo joins Artsy’s editor in chief Casey Lesser on this episode of The Artsy Podcast for a conversation about her affinity for art and artists and why fashion and art are such ideal bedfellows.
Plus, Casey and senior art market editor Arun Kakar reflect on the past year in art, discuss insights from Artsy’s newly released Artsy Buyer Trends report, and share a few personal art highlights from 2025.
In tandem with the episode, Pyo curated a collection of artworks on Artsy, which you can explore here.
Rejina Pyo is a designer and artist, as well as the founder and creative director of her eponymous fashion label. Her new shop Rejina Pyo 86 is located at 86 Golborne Road in London.
Artists, designers, exhibitions, and institutions mentioned in this episode:
Viola Lanari
Tracey Emin
Debut exhibition at Rejina Pyo 86 featuring artists Joline Kwakkenbos, Ishbel Lowther, Alek Mechlinski, Daisy Douglas Miller, and Jiahe Zhang
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen
“As She Is” at Soho Revue, London
Chantal Joffe
Antonia Showering
Munch Museum
National Portrait Gallery
The Met
The Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A)
Leonardo da Vinci
Martin Margiela
Helmut Lang
Hussein Chalayan
Rei Kawakubo / Comme des Garçons
Jonathan Anderson
Royal Academy Graduation Show
Suleman Aqeel Khilji
Marcus Leotaud
Peter Doig
Frieze Seoul
Frieze London
Moka Lee
Jason Haam
Related Reading:
Edvard Munch collection launched by fashion designer Rejina Pyo.
The 2026 Met Gala theme is “Costume Art,”
44 min
September 15, 2025 What Can Artists Teach Us About Cooking? (with Julia Sherman)
According to Julia Sherman, cooking is a lot like painting: “ It’s a composition, it’s layering of materials… it works best when there’s contrasting flavors and textures and colors.”

The author and chef is bringing this philosophy to her latest venture as executive chef of the new restaurant at New York’s New Museum, opening this fall. On this episode of The Artsy Podcast, Sherman joins Artsy’s managing editor Olivia Horn for a conversation about how artists eat, why art institutions are leaning into dining, and what the art and food worlds can learn from each other.

Plus, Artsy editors Casey Lesser and Arun Kakar recap recent art fairs in Seoul and New York and discuss the artists who are on their radar this fall.

Julia Sherman is a chef, artist, and author of two cookbooks—Arty Parties and Salad for President. Sherman is the executive chef and director of artists’ partnerships for the restaurant opening in the expanded New Museum in the late fall of 2025.

Artists and exhibitions mentioned:
Lee Bul at the Leeum Museum of Art
Mark Bradford at Hauser & Wirth at Frieze Seoul
Bu Shi at SARAHCROWN at Kiaf
Tesfaye Urgessa at Saatchi Yates at The Armory Show
Nour Jaouda at Spike Island
RF. Alvarez at Martha at The Armory Show and Megan Mulrooney
Ambera Wellmann at Company Gallery at Hauser & Wirth
Taiki Yokote at CON_ at Frieze Seoul
Laurie Anderson
Larry Bell
Bruce Nauman
Dike Blair
Sister Corita Kent
Cammie Staros
Daniel Gordon
Ruby Sky Stiler

Related reading:
5 Artists to Discover at Kiaf 2025, South Korea’s Largest Art Fair
The 10 Best Booths at Frieze Seoul 2025
The 10 Best Booths at The Armory Show 2025

46 min
July 30, 2025 What Does It Take to Be a Rising Artist Today? (with Michaela Yearwood-Dan)
Michaela Yearwood-Dan is one of the buzziest young painters working today. This summer, her emergence as a new market star culminated in a major solo show at Hauser & Wirth in London. On this episode of The Artsy Podcast, Yearwood-Dan joins Artsy’s Casey Lesser for a conversation about her remarkable trajectory, the challenges that young artists face today, and how her new exhibition models ways for galleries to be more welcoming.

Plus, Artsy editors Arun Kakar and Olivia Horn share their summer reading and viewing recommendations and discuss what they’ve learned about the art market so far this year.

About our guest:
Throughout paintings, works on paper, ceramics, and site-specific mural and sound installations, Michaela Yearwood-Dan (B. 1994, London) endeavors to build spaces of community, abundance, and joy. Yearwood-Dan’s unique visual language intertwines lines of text with botanical motifs and draws on a diverse range of influences, including Blackness, queerness, femininity, and healing rituals.

Exhibitions, books, and artists mentioned:
Michaela Yearwood-Dan, “No Time for Despair” at Hauser & Wirth
“Hope is a dangerous thing” at P.P.O.W
Ithell Colquhoun and Edward Burra at Tate Britain
Sheida Soleimani, “Panjereh” at International Center of Photography
“A Month in the Country” by J.L. Carr
“Yoko: A Biography” by David Sheff
Foundations 2025
Kuldeep Singh
Rebekah Rubalcava
Noah Davis
Danielle McKinney

Related reading:
The Artsy Vanguard 2022: Michaela Yearwood-Dan
Contemporary Artists Are Spellbound by the History of Sex Magic
7 Artists to Follow at Foundations 2025

51 min
June 10, 2025 Can Art Thrive in the Age of AI? (with Kyle Chayka)
This spring, a wave of AI-generated imagery in the style of Japanese animation house Studio Ghibli flooded social media. The trend renewed debate about how AI affects the way we make and experience art. On this episode of The Artsy Podcast, we tackle some of those questions with New Yorker staff writer Kyle Chayka, whose book Filterworld explores the impact of online algorithms on popular culture. We discuss the homogenizing effects of social media, the evolving role of curators, and the importance of cultivating personal taste at a time when culture is mediated by machines.

Plus, Artsy editors Casey Lesser and Arun Kakar share insights on the Chinese art market from Arun’s recent visit to Beijing and preview their upcoming trip to Art Basel.

Kyle Chayka is a staff writer at The New Yorker, where he writes a column about the intersections of digital technology and popular culture. He is the author of Filterworld: How Algorithms Flattened Culture.

Key topics: AI art, ChatGPT, algorithms, social media, curation, tastemaking

Related reading:
Gallery Weekend Beijing 2025 Defies Market Gloom with Risk and Vibrancy
30 Artists Defining Queer Art Now
The Limits of A.I.-Generated Miyazaki
Why AI Art Is Winning over Young Collectors

39 min
April 30, 2025Can NFTs Inspire Mindfulness? (with Marina Abramović)
Marina Abramović built her career by testing the limits of the body. Now, she’s testing what digital art can do. On this episode of The Artsy Podcast, the groundbreaking performance artist joins us for a conversation about launching her new NFT project, bringing mindfulness to the digital realm, and using her work to reach across generational divides.
Plus, Artsy editors Casey Lesser and Arun Kakar break down everything you need to know about Frieze Week in New York—a period packed with art fairs, gallery openings, and can’t-miss museum shows.

About our guest:
Marina Abramović is perhaps the most famous performance artist working today. Employing duration, pain, danger, exhaustion, and viewer participation, she works at extremes and complicates the relationship between art and audience. Abramović exhibited at Documenta in 1977, 1982, and 1992 and at the Venice Biennale in 1976 and 1997, when she was awarded the Golden Lion. In her famous 2010 Museum of Modern Art retrospective, “The Artist Is Present,” visitors sat across from Abramović in silent communion. More recently, she became the first woman artist to stage a solo exhibition in the Royal Academy’s main galleries in the institution’s 255-year history. Abramović is the founder of the Marina Abramović Institute, which promotes performance art globally.

Key topics: NFTs, digital art, performance art, the future of museums, advice for young artists, Frieze New York

Fairs and exhibitions mentioned:
Frieze New York: May 7th–11th at The Shed
TEFAF New York: May 9th–13th at Park Avenue Armory
NADA New York: May 7th–11th at the Starrett-Lehigh Building
Future Fair: May 7th–10th at Chelsea Industrial
1-54 New York: May 8th–11th at Halo
Esther II: May 6th–10th at the Estonian House
Michael Armitage, “Crucible” at David Zwirner: opening May 8th
Antonia Showering, “In Line” at Timothy Taylor: opening May 8th
Élise Peroi, “For Thirsting Flowers” at Carvalho Park: through May 23rd
The Frick Collection
Jack Whitten, “The Messenger” at MoMA: through August 2nd

Related reading:
The Legacy of Marina Abramović’s “The Artist Is Present” Lives On with New Generations of Artists
How Digital Art Has Fared Since the NFT Boom
34 min
March 27, 2025When Will Great Women Artists Get Their Due? (with Katy Hessel)
In 1971, Linda Nochlin’s groundbreaking essay “Why Have There Been No Great Women Artists?” posed a provocative question about the role of gender in art history. Today, we know that there have been great women artists across time and cultures—but, too often, their greatness isn’t recognized by the art market.
Art historian Katy Hessel visits The Artsy Podcast for a special Women’s History Month episode to discuss the importance of talking about women’s representation in the art world, the progress that has been made towards gender parity, and the contemporary women artists she’s watching now.
Plus, Artsy editors Casey Lesser and Arun Kakar discuss the month’s art news, including the scene at TEFAF, developments in AI artwork, and standout exhibitions in London, Austin, and Hong Kong.

Katy Hessel is an art historian, curator, broadcaster, and author of The Story of Art without Men. Her upcoming book How to Live an Artful Life is out in November.

Key topics:
Gender equality in the art world
Contemporary women artists
How to start collecting art

Read:
5 Outstanding Artworks at TEFAF Maastricht 2025
Why AI Art Is Winning over Young Collectors
These 5 Women-Led Galleries Are Championing Overlooked Women Artists

Follow the artists Katy mentioned in the Artsy app:
Alice Neel
Käthe Kollwitz
Guerilla Girls
Mickalene Thomas
Hilma af Klint
Julie Mehretu
Sarah Sze
Katharina Grosse
Jenny Saville
Howardena Pindell
Flora Yukhnovich
Antonia Showering
Kate Dunn
Somaya Critchlow
Ella Walker
Charlotte Edey
Sahara Longe
Christina Kimeze
Michaela Yearwood-Dan
Anne Rothenstein
Pauline Boty
Simone Kennedy Doig
Mary Stephenson
Caroline Walker
Chantal Joffe
49 min
March 26, 2025 No. 79: From Auction Week to Art Basel, What’s Happening in the Art Market
On this episode, we take stock of the state of the art market. May was a frenzied month for the industry, with the Rockefeller and New York auctions providing key litmus tests about the health of the market. There were some objectively massive sales, including works by Picasso and Modigliani. But with big ticket works selling, why didn’t the action on the salesroom floor feel exciting? And what does that tell us about the role that expectations play when it comes to the art market? We also get a firsthand account of the sale that did electrify the art world: the $21.1 million auction of Kerry James Marshall’s Past Times at Sotheby’s. Finally, we look ahead to Art Basel in Basel, which opens to VIPs on June 12th.
31 min
May 25, 2018 No. 78: Are Selfie Museums an Affront to the Art World?
This week, our editors sit down to chat about one of the art world’s most divisive topics: “selfie museums.” We discuss what the rise of the Museum of Ice Cream, and other similar Instagram-friendly institutions, means for the art world and the meaning of the word “museum.” As experiential art continues to explode in popularity, we also discuss whether selfie-driven art is different or similar to selfie museums—even drawing on our own recent experiences visiting one of these Instagram-friendly spaces.
33 min
May 09, 2018 No. 77: Exploring the Art Market’s Best (and Worst) Practices
The United States House of Representatives is considering expanding the Bank Secrecy Act in order to make galleries and auction houses subject to federal regulation. And the entire art market is buzzing. But the rules of the art market aren’t always written by the government. Last month, the Art Business Conference hosted a panel discussion on Art Basel’s “Art Market Principles and Best Practices,” a set of internal regulations governing the conduct of galleries participating in the fair
This week, we bring you audio of that panel, along with a brief introduction. The discussion was moderated by Artsy Executive Editor Alexander Forbes and featured art advisor Elizabeth Szancer, gallerist Stefania Bortolami, and art lawyer Jo Backer Laird.
33 min
April 25, 2018 No. 76: How Is the Internet Impacting Creativity and the Arts?
For most of us, the following scenarios probably sound familiar: you’re supposed to be focusing on an important task, but instead you’re distracted by Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook; or, you’re in a museum full of art but still find yourself glued to your iPhone. This week on the Artsy Podcast, we tackle the question of how creativity and the arts are being impacted by the digital age. On one hand, we’re constantly fending off distraction; on the other, the internet has created amazing new tools for viewing art and helping artists get their work funded.
24 min

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