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’Spill the Art Tea’ - Nua Collective’s weekly art news round up podcast broadcast live every Thursday on YouTube. Catch up on all your favourite podcast apps. Hosted by Eamonn B Shanahan and Josh Stein featuring special guests weekly! www.nuacollective.com.
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Grab a cuppa — this week’s Spill the Art Tea is a quick-fire round with Josh Stein and Eamonn B. Shanahan, where the art world meets the absurd:
🌻 World’s Tallest Sunflower – A 10-metre floral skyscraper grown in Indiana and dedicated to Ukraine.
🎧 Serj Tankian’s Sound Paintings – System of a Down’s frontman makes art you can actually listen to.
🐌 Picasso Snail – Scientists name a micro-snail after the Cubist master for its twisted geometry.
🤖 Giant Human-Driven Robot – Japanese engineers bring mech art to life (slowly, and very loudly).
💋 The GILF Economy – The rise of older creators on OnlyFans and what it says about power, age, and art.
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This week artist Brian Baker joins Eamonn B. Shanahan and Josh Stein to Spill the Art Tea. From malfunctioning robot athletes to glowing succulents and the world’s fastest camera, Episode 61 is equal parts sci-fi, slapstick, and serious reflection.
🤖 Robot Games – Beijing hosts the first Humanoid Robot Olympics (and the fails are glorious).
🛡️ Hackers vs Artists – Threats to ransom artist data into AI training sets.
🌱 Glow-in-the-Dark Succulents – Rechargeable plants that could light your home.
📸 MIT’s Light Camera – A trillion frames per second to film light itself.
💭 ChatGPT’s Identity Crisis – From “synthetic brain” to internet’s busiest replacement.
📌 Episode highlights include Brian’s take on how tech fails often reveal more about art and humanity than the polished successes, Josh’s riffs on whether the robot games are the Olympics or a slapstick circus, and Eamonn’s crack that the freediver story from last week made art school crits feel short by comparison.
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This week Irish Artist Karen Ebbs Spills the Art Tea with Eamonn B Shanahan and Josh Stein. Our stories today push the boundaries of endurance, art, and perspective:
🌊 Breathless Record – Croatian freediver holds his breath for 24 minutes (longer than an art school crit).
🔮 Fractals at 50 – How repeating patterns changed science, tech, and even digital art.
🤖 AI Student Flynn – The world’s first AI officially enrolled in art school.
🌍 Tiny Dot Earth – NASA’s Psyche spacecraft captures Earth and Moon from 180 million miles away.
🌻 Van Gogh Museum – Could Amsterdam’s most famous museum really close without more government support?
Join us for wild records, cosmic images, and some existential art questions as we Spill the Art Tea.
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Karen is currently exhibiting at 'An Outer Reflection of an Inner Reality' showing at the DLR Lexicon, Dun Laoghaire, Dublin until 9th November.
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This week on Spill the Art Tea we’re joined by guest artist Deirdre Burke for a lively dive into the latest art world stories:
🎸 A Van Halen guitar sells for $2 million — but is it art, or just rock memorabilia?
🏛️ Contemporary galleries face a slow death — are we witnessing the end of an era?
🤝 The artist–gallery split arrangement — time for a new deal?
📺 YouTube steps up to protect creators — but is it enough?
🏸 Killer badminton spin designed by AI — has tech finally gone too far?
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Hey friends! We're trying something FRESH this week with our monthly Spill the Art Tea - QUICK CUPPA edition.
This week on Spill the Art Tea (Ep 58), we dive into some wild and wonderful stories:
☀️ A 2000-year-old sun hat discovered by archaeologists – the original fashion statement?
🏠 Mark Rothko’s former East Village home and studio is up for sale – would you live where he brooded?
👜 A $10M Hermès Birkin bag finds its mystery buyer – Japanese entrepreneur Shinsuke Sakimoto.
🎨 A David Wojnarowicz mural resurfaces in Kentucky after 40 years, only to be hidden again.
🤖 San Francisco’s underground robot cage fights bring engineers, hobbyists, and spectacle seekers together.
Join us for a fast, funny, and caffeinated look at the art world’s quirks, scandals, and unexpected headlines.
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Spill the Art Tea featuring special guest Beth S. Robertson! Here’s what’s on the agenda:
🚩 Mexico City Museum Protest – Activists confront a major contemporary art museum over gentrification links.
💎 $150K Labubu Dolls – Why these rare vinyl toys are fetching diamond-ring prices at auction.
🍆 Eggplant Art Heist – Visitors swipe produce from a Suzann Victor installation in Singapore.
🪸 Martian Coral Discovery – NASA finds billion-year-old reef-like formations on the Red Planet.
🏝️ Welsh Island Fortress for Sale – Your own Bond villain hideout for £3 million.
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This week on Spill the Art Tea, actor and French artist Ivan Arlaud joins us to talk through some wild cultural headlines:
🏰 A man smashes the Stone of Destiny glass case in Edinburgh Castle.
🚀 We accidentally cover a rocket launch… thinking it was solar science.
🧠 Scientists sneak AI prompts into academic papers to game peer review.
🎨 Celebrity painters get ranked and roasted — from Stallone to Liu.
💋 And a Coldplay kiss cam exposes more than just PDA — a full-blown affair.
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This week on Spill the Art Tea, Therese Maher joins us to unpack the wildest headlines in the art world—from the launch of George Lucas’s Narrative Art Museum in LA, Ed Sheeran's carpark paintings making headlines, the Bayeux Tapestry's 900-year homecoming, and the stunning ZWO Astro Photo shortlist. We also ask: should we cry for this Evita?
🌠 The Force is strong with George Lucas's LA museum
🎨 Ed Sheeran's "Cosmic Carpark Paintings"
🧵 Bayeux Tapestry returns to England after 900 years
🌌 ZWO Astro Photo Shortlist unveils celestial beauty
🎭 And should we shed a tear for the latest Evita?
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This week on Spill the Art Tea, singer-songwriter Aaron Smith from MacRua joins us to discuss the headlines that have the art world buzzing—from a pink Picasso protest and the "Grand Theft Culture" movement to ponies in cardigans, the Bezos wedding backlash in Venice, and the fascinating world of molecular ballet. Tune in as we unpack these wild stories!
🖼️ Pink paint meets Picasso in Montreal
🎮 "Grand Theft Culture": Gaming for stolen art
🐴 The adorably artistic ponies of Scotland
💰 Billionaire bash sparks Venetian backlash
🔬 When science meets movement: The molecular ballet
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This week on Spill the Art Tea, actor Rónán P. Byrne joins us to unpack the wildest headlines in the art world—from the Gen Z print-buying boom to a spontaneous Louvre strike, a smashed €100k crystal chair, and a LEGO forgery ring copying Ai Weiwei’s work. We also dive into France’s decision to hike museum prices for non-EU visitors—and wonder: who really gets access to culture in 2025?
🖼️ Gen Z snapping up prints like it’s fashion week
🪧 The Louvre closes mid-tour?!
🇫🇷 France doubles down on tourist museum fees
💺 One man, one chair, one €100k disaster
🧱 And a LEGO crime wave hits Ai Weiwei fans
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It’s Episode 50! We’re spilling five hot cups of art tea — from 200-year-old erotic condoms and shady rediscoveries to the visual language of crystals. Plus, we feature Nua Collective’s own Katrina Tracuma, discussing her upcoming exhibitions.
This week’s stories:
🟡 Wrap it before you Rijks it – The Rijksmuseum’s 200yo erotic condom giveaway
🟡 Dead, Ignored, and Now Profitable – Inside the “Rediscovery Industrial Complex”
🟡 The World's Smallest Violin
🟡 Mother Earth’s USB Stick – Crystals as nature’s data visualisation
🟡 Paintings from the Beyond – Hilma af Klint, mysticism, and supernatural geometry
👤 Featured Artist: Katrina Tracuma
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This week on Spill The Art Tea, we’re joined by Christian May, Director of Channel Islands Pride in Jersey 🇯🇪, to chat queer visibility, cultural leadership, and why the arts matter more than ever. We also break down a whirlwind of art stories: Olympic ice dancers call out gender rules ⛸️, the new Pope stans Van Gogh ✝️🎨, Damien Hirst reflects on therapy and wealth 💰🦈, and the ancient pigment Egyptian Blue makes a 21st-century comeback 🔵⚡
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Actor and multi-instrumentalist Brian Raftery joins us for a jam-packed episode as we dive into the week’s wildest art stories—from AI agents threatening blackmail to a photographer arrested at his own opening. Plus: a Sotheby’s sale that didn’t exactly break records, an Irish hotel mystery note, and a Dumas auction flip that paid off big time.
Story List
🪙 Sotheby’s Spring Sale – Giacometti tops the night, but the market stays cautious
🏨 The Hotel Wall Note Mystery – A wartime time capsule from 1943 Cork
🖼️ Dumas Sells Big – Miss January hits $5.1M, from a $22K buy
🤖 Anthropic’s AI Blackmail Drama – When simulated agents go full villain
🚔 Isaac Wright Arrested – NYPD shows up at a photographer’s own show
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t’s Episode 47 and we’re celebrating in style with super special guest Stuart Semple (@stuartsemple / @culturehustle) — artist, activist, and all-round icon. We chat first-hand about his ongoing legal battle with the Klein estate, his upcoming immersive installation in Jersey Zoo, and why creative freedom still matters.
PLUS, we serve up this week’s art stories with a side of sass:
– 🎂 Tate Modern turns 25… but has it swapped depth for dopamine?
– 🖼️ Art fairs reveal a widening price gap — is blue-chip dominance slipping?
– 🥔 A €1 million photo of a potato… and yes, it’s kind of amazing
– 🗽 A Black woman superhero lands in Times Square, and trolls can’t cope
– 🧫 Mould invades museums — it’s bad for art and worse for people
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🎤✨ This week on Spill the Art Tea, we’re joined by the dazzling Derby Browne @derbybrownesinger for a singer-soaked art round-up! 🎶
💰 $7M Kobe jersey?!
🖍️ Rothko gets scratched by a toddler?!
🍆 Medieval penis debate?!
🦁 Gladiators vs lions in York?!
Yep, we’ve got the full gallery of weird, wild, and wonderful. Catch the episode now on YouTube or wherever you get your podcasts!
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This week on Spill The Art Tea, performer and producer Jade Johnson joins us for a whirlwind tour through the latest art world headlines.
We talk:
🎨 Tate’s audience crisis – is “woke” curation to blame or is the art world just out of touch?
📜 A 700-year-old Chinese scroll that just sold for $32 million (and it’s not even AI-generated).
🌌 Light pollution from satellites — are we photobombing the cosmos?
👶 Tokyo’s 21-month-old abstract art prodigy — baby’s first solo show?
🏛️ Trump’s executive order for granite statues in a sculpture park of American “heroes” – yes, this is real.
💬 We spill the tea — from gallery elitism to paint-splattered toddlers.
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Debbie Hickey joins us for Episode 43 to spill the art tea on everything from romantic AI companions to ancient Egyptian treasures found by toddlers, lawsuits over decaying Ferraris, democracy museums turned casinos, and a full-body scan of the Titanic wreck.
🧠 Are we falling in love with machines?
👶 What would you do if your toddler found a 3,000-year-old artifact?
🎲 And what happens when a museum of democracy gets bumped for blackjack tables?
We’re diving deep with photographer Debbie Hickey and this week’s art and culture stories you don’t want to miss.
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It’s Episode 42 and we’ve got the kettle boiling with returning fave Ben Griffiths joining us to stir the art pot once more! From BASE-jumping off Notre-Dame to a $25 Renoir, and from unearthing forgotten feminist frescoes to landscaping a 25-acre Van Gogh homage — we’re talking about art that’s wild, overdue, or wonderfully accidental.
Plus: What’s the latest with the Sagrada Família’s bold new façade? And can you really plant your way into a painting? All that, and a few unexpected giggles, in this week’s spill. ✨
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Welcome to Episode 41 of Spill the Art Tea – your weekly dose of unfiltered art world commentary.
🎙️ This week, we’re joined by the brilliant Tess Martin, an internationally celebrated animator known for her hand-crafted and experimental storytelling. Tess spills all on her creative process, the fluidity of working across borders, and why animation deserves a permanent seat at the high-art table.
📰 The week’s hottest art stories, including:
✨ E.T. phones Sotheby’s – Spielberg’s iconic animatronic alien is going under the hammer for millions. Is pop culture officially museum-worthy?
⏳ Rome limits your art time – The Galleria Borghese now gives you just 60 minutes to soak up centuries of art. Is this smart preservation or tourist tyranny?
🏛️ Should museums in the US be free? – With some institutions spending over $60 per visitor, new data fuels the debate on making art accessible for all.
🎨 Flannery O’Connor’s hidden art – The famed author turns out to have been a closet painter too. We love a multidisciplinary queen!
🎪 Art market or circus act? – One wine critic draws hilarious (and maybe accurate?) parallels between auction houses and big-top drama.
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his week on Spill the Art Tea, it’s a special Mother’s Day episode — and Eamonn is joined by the woman who started it all… his mam, Susan Doyle! 💐👩👦
Here’s what’s brewing in the art world:
🏛️ Sotheby’s x Pace – The auction house and gallery giant are teaming up. Is it a new model or market monopoly?
📱 Pokémon Privacy Problems – Saudi Arabia’s stake in Niantic has critics asking: who’s really catching who?
⚖️ Lisa Schiff Sentenced – The celeb art adviser goes down for a multimillion-dollar fraud. What does this mean for trust in the art world?
🔥 Can Porn Be Art? – Erika Lust thinks so. We talk ethical erotica, feminist filmmaking, and where art meets intimacy.
🚗 Cybertruck Gets Trashed – Brooklyn’s Fola Fia plans to turn Tesla’s “ugly duckling” into mobile protest art. Elon, take notes.
Expect big laughs, warm vibes, and even warmer takes as Susan spills the tea with us on this milestone 40th episode! 🎉☕
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