For this summer episode, I’m joined by The Art Daddy for their first-ever interview.
The Art Daddy is a New York City-based art and culture reporter, critic, educator and artist who has spent more than a decade covering the contemporary art world.
Their writing has appeared in The Art Newspaper, ELLE, ARTnews, Artnet News and many other publications, and they have taught and lectured at universities across the United States.
They studied performance art at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and minored in Women’s Studies. That background remains central to The Art Daddy, which they see not simply as a media platform, but as an extension of their artistic practice.
Across Substack and Instagram, The Art Daddy combines reporting and criticism with gossip, satire and cultural analysis. Often described as the TMZ of the art world, the platform looks beyond official narratives to examine the personalities, hierarchies and power structures shaping contemporary art.
I am, of course, a middle-aged white man working within the art world, precisely the demographic that frequently appears in Art Daddy’s criticism. This gave us a particularly open, self-aware and entertaining starting point.
We talk about the art market, generational shifts in taste and power, the problem with middle-aged men, and the often invisible labour dynamics sustaining the art world. We also get into the individuals, behaviours and hypocrisies that frustrate The Art Daddy most, and much more.
It is candid, intelligent and very funny. Perfectly relaxed summer listening, but certainly not without bite.
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