Frieze Masters Podcast

When Mark Rothko visited Fra Angelico's frescoes at the c onvent of San Marco in Florence, he was ' overwhelmed ,' recounts his son, the psychologist and writer Christopher Rothko. ' That's what he wanted for his viewer...

' M y discovery of early Renaissance art was completely by accident in the National Gallery, by just walking down a few more stairs ... I'd stay there for about an hour, and then I would come out, I'd close my eyes, and...

' Whe n yo u mak e a painting, yo u wan t to mak e a good painting. You are more intereste d in the composition of the thing s , tha n in the precis e description of the thing s .' – Nathalie Du Pasquier In the seventh...

'If I can let the viewer stand in front of my painting and question – if they can ask a question – this is success.' – Glenn Ligon How does the written and spoken word relate to the visual language of painting...

' What's left for art? Art can offer ritual and ceremony, a communal place where bodies can gather. It's a place where t hings can happen visually, musically, sonically, and in dance and with the voice. ' – Mark Leckey...

'Isn ' t to exhibit to historicize?' – Julian Rose Artist Nairy Baghramian , D irector of the Museum of Modern Art Glenn Lowry and historian Julian Rose all have extensive experience of presenting art in public places...

' The viewer makes the painting alive. Without the viewer, that thing doesn't exist .' – Shirazeh Houshiary What happens to our understanding of painting when we expand the canon across eras and cultures? In the third...

'You have an idea and it goes off in another direction and you either pull it back or you go on the journey. I knew I wanted to make some portraits, but I also knew I didn't want to. I wanted to create some tension.' –...

'What do we want the UK to look like in 10 years, 20 years, 50 years in terms of culture?' – Victoria Siddall The first episode of the 2024 Frieze Masters Podcast brings together Sir Chris Bryant MP, artist Jeremy...

'Sex, death, race and religion' – these are the topics that the London-based artists Gilbert and George announced they wanted to cover in this talk with Dr Nicholas Cullinan of the National Portrait Gallery. On Context...

The London home of Galerie Thaddeus Ropac is a traditional eighteenth-century Mayfair townhouse, once home to the Bishop of Ely. But for artist Mandy El-Sayegh 's 2023 exhibition 'Interiors', its spaces were transformed...

The year 1993 marked a watershed for the famous Turner Prize, when it was awarded for the first time to a woman. That artist was Rachel Whiteread and the work was House in East London. In On Space , Whiteread is in...

In On Power , London-based multidisciplinary artist Thomas J Price is in conversation with Dr Gus Casely-Hayford , the inaugural Director of V&A East. Together, they reflect on how monuments created for the public realm...

In 2023, Frieze Masters fair sought to break the artist's studio open to a new audience with a new section, Studio , curated by Sheena Wagstaff – the former Chairman of the Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at...

On Photography asks what it means today for an artist to work with a living, breathing icon, like the actress Tilda Swinton . Tim Walker , the noted artist and photographer, is joined by his long-time collaborator...