Comedian, for sale from Perrotin at Art Basel Miami Beach. Photo by Sarah Cascone.
What to know: Remember when the biggest news in art was about a piece of … fruit? In one of our earliest episodes, writers and editors who were on the ground at Art Basel in Miami Beach and watched the drama unfold report back to the Art Angle studio to discuss a truly b-a-n-a-n-a-s experience.
Listen to this for: Ideas about to talk to talk to your family members/first date/new coworker about the crazy art market. (And on that note, also check out our explainer on NFT’s here).
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
As part of the Smithsonian’s third annual (and first virtual) Women Filmmakers Festival, artist, filmmaker, and writer Mariam Ghani will join Saisha Grayson, time-based media curator at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, and Sabrina Sholts, curator of biological anthropology at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History, for a conversation about the history of pandemics. The conversation will include clips of her film
DIS-EASE, which delves into themes of illness and invasion as well as excerpts from her in-progress short
The Fire Next Time, which traces the connection between epidemics and social upheaval from the 1800s to the present. Through the end of the week, Ghani’s feature-length documentary