Reading the Art World: Natasha Degen

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Listen to our latest podcast episode featuring Natasha Degen, author of Merchants of Style: Art and Fashion After Warhol, published by Reaktion Books and distributed by The University of Chicago Press. Degen’s book provides a unique perspective on the accelerating convergence of art and fashion, and highlights how Andy Warhol anticipated the merging of the art and fashion worlds as we see them today.

As fashion looks to art in its designs and its presentation and its runway shows and its marketing, then maybe there is less distinction between art and fashion. And maybe that movement between the two fields is something that is more possible now than ever before.
– Natasha Degen

Natasha Degen is Professor and Chair of Art Market Studies. She is a recognized writer and critic, having contributed to publications including The New Yorker, The Financial Times, The New York Times, Artforum, and Frieze; she serves as a member of the Editorial Board for the Journal for Art Market Studies. Among other prizes, Degen received a $30,000 art criticism award from the Andy Warhol Foundation and a Luce Scholarship which sent her to Beijing for a year. She compiled and edited The Market (MIT Press, 2013), an interdisciplinary anthology tracing the art market's interaction with contemporary practice. 

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