Podcasts

Masterpiece [Re]discovery 2022. Photo: Ben Fisher Photography, courtesy of Masterpiece London

The Masterpiece podcast: episode three

This episode explores an ancient funeral stele, Marie Antoinette’s breast bowl, and how digital technologies are helping to preserve Egyptian heritage sites

4 Jul 2022
A 19th-century engraving of Jane Austen, likely derived from a portrait of c. 1810 by Cassandra Austen. Photo: Everett Collection Historical/Alamy Stock Photo

The Masterpiece podcast: episode two

An insight into sculpture at this year’s fair, a rediscovered early copy of Austen’s ‘Emma’ and an Italian jeweller’s obsession with Etruria

2 Jul 2022
A Beautiful Despair

The Masterpiece podcast: episode one

Sophie Barling talks to dealers and artists about the works on show at this year’s Masterpiece London fair

29 Jun 2022

The Apollo Awards podcast: Sam Spike on collecting NFTs

Art historian Sam Spike speaks to Gabrielle Schwarz about how non-fungible tokens have transformed collecting and why not everything needs to be minted

19 May 2022
Sofia Garcia

The Apollo Awards podcast: Sofia Garcia on the NFT market

The founder of digital gallery ARTXCODE speaks to Gabrielle Schwarz about different types of NFT and the role of the curator within the digital space

19 May 2022

The Apollo Awards podcast: Rafaël Rozendaal on creating NFTs

The Dutch-Brazilian artist Rafaël Rozendaal speaks to Gabrielle Schwarz about the freedom of making art on the internet and the process of minting NFTs

19 May 2022

The Art of Life: Adam Foulds

The novelist Adam Foulds talks about three of his favourite works of art, and how incorporating the National Gallery into his most recent novel was ‘an act of homage’

19 Jan 2022

The Art of Life: Maaza Mengiste

The novelist Maaza Mengiste talks to Sophie Barling about the three works of art that mean the most to her – and how she sees every image as a self-portrait

6 Jan 2022

The Art of Life: Charlotte Higgins

The journalist and author Charlotte Higgins talks to Sophie Barling about the three works of art that mean the most to her

21 Dec 2021

The Apollo 40 Under 40 Art & Tech podcast: collecting and technology

The gallerist Kelani Nichole and Jessica Oralkan, co-founder of a digital museum for collectors, discuss how new technologies are transforming collecting

13 Dec 2021
Blume photo: Walter Mussi; McCarthy photo: Cam McLeod

The Apollo 40 Under 40 Art & Tech podcast: the ethics of tech

Clara Blume, a cultural diplomat for Austria, and the US artist and programmer Lauren Lee McCarthy talk to Gabrielle Schwarz about the future of big tech

9 Dec 2021
Cheng photo: Rachel Rose; Kudsk Steensen photo: Pablo Castagnola

The Apollo 40 Under 40 Art & Tech podcast: the art of gaming

Ian Cheng and Jakob Kudsk Steensen talk to Gabrielle Schwarz about using video-game engines to create their art

3 Dec 2021

The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Mohamad Hafez

The Syrian-born, US-based artist talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about his sculptural dioramas of cities ravaged by war – and offers a message of hope for the future

31 Mar 2020

The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Mahmoud Khaled

The artist talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about how an upbringing in Egypt has shaped his work exploring gender, queer desire, politics and power

28 Jan 2020

The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Mohamed Elshahed

The writer and researcher has written a comprehensive new history of modern architecture in Cairo

2 Dec 2019
Rayyane Tabet in front of Steel Rings (2013–), from the series The Shortest Distance Between Two Points (2007–).

The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Rayyane Tabet

The Beirut-based artist talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about his fascination with the lives of objects

22 Oct 2019
Simon Denny

The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Simon Denny

The Berlin-based artist talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about his latest project exploring data and resource mining

5 Aug 2019
Shoair Mavlian

The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Shoair Mavlian

Shoair Mavlian, director of Photoworks, talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about all things photography

7 Jun 2019

The Apollo podcast: object lessons

Thomas Marks talks to Ann-Marie Richard from Sotheby’s Institute of Art about the artistry and endurance of great objects – and the skills we need to appreciate them fully

30 May 2019
Ben Vickers

The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Ben Vickers

The Serpentine’s Chief Technology Officer talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about Bitcoin, Benedictine monks and more

30 Apr 2019
Russell Tovey

The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Russell Tovey

The actor talks to Gabrielle Schwarz about his ‘addiction’ to collecting art – from Tintin to Tracey Emin

22 Mar 2019

The Apollo podcast: the rise and rise of the LA art world

Thomas Marks talks to Jonathan T.D. Neil from Sotheby’s Institute of Art about LA’s rapidly expanding art scene – and whether it’s sustainable

7 Feb 2019
Erika Balsom

The Apollo 40 under 40 podcast: Erika Balsom

Gabrielle Schwarz talks to the critic and scholar Erika Balsom about her experience working between the worlds of art and cinema

10 Jan 2019

The Apollo podcast: social media and the art market

Thomas Marks talks to Paul Melton from Sotheby’s Institute of Art about the impact of Instagram and other social media platforms on the art market

14 Dec 2018