The Artsy Podcast

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
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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:
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The 10 Best Booths at Frieze Seoul 2025
The 10 Best Booths at The Armory Show 2025

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

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7 Artists to Follow at Foundations 2025

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

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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