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One hundred episodes of spilling the art tea—and we’re still asking what makes something worth looking at.Steven Seidenberg joins Josh and Eamonn for Episode 100 of Spill The Art Tea, exploring sporting robots, robot retirement, furniture made from branches, Banksy’s boat and a market where people can bet on the past.Why are awkward robots so much more watchable than competent ones? What happens when an obsolete machine becomes a collectible? When does a branch become a design object—and can a market price tell us what really happened?🤖 Robots enter the sporting arena🔥 Robot retirement becomes a spectacle🪑 Branches become furniture🚤 Banksy’s boat and art’s consequences📈 Betting on disputed historyA conversation about usefulness, value, evidence and the stories we project onto the things around us.Thank you to every guest, listener and viewer who has joined us across 100 episodes. Here’s to keeping the conversation going.🎧 Listen on your favourite podcast platform🎙️ Follow @nuacollective for moreLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thursdays at 19:00 GMT.Read Anecdotes:https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes

West End Musical Director Joe Church joins Josh and Eamonn for Episode 99 of Spill The Art Tea.This week, Henry Rollins opens his personal punk archive for a free exhibition, we discuss an AI-at-the-Louvre story, and Michelangelo’s handwriting inspires a font you can download.We also explore the rise of audiobook walking clubs and restaurants where finding the entrance is part of the experience.🎸 Henry Rollins opens his archive🤖 AI at the Louvre✍️ Michelangelo goes digital🎧 Walk, listen and connect🚪 Dinner behind a hidden door🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platformLearn more about Joe here: Instagram: www.instagram.com/joechurchmdYoutube:  @josephchurch5606  🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Read Anecdotes:https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes

Josh and Eamonn are joined by writer Tim Charles for this week’s Spill The Art Tea.We explore research linking air pollution with suicide-related outcomes, ancient ship graffiti revealed by laser scans in Cyprus, the return of personal blogs, the debate over fencing at the Lucas Museum and the growing adult appetite for toys.🌫️ Pollution & Mental Health⛵ Bronze Age Graffiti✍️ Blogs Are Back🏛️ Lucas Museum Fences🧸 The Kidult BoomWho gets to tell their story, leave their mark and make space for play? From ancient temple walls to personal blogs and shelves of collectibles, there’s plenty to put the kettle on for.Learn more about Tim: www.instagram.com/timcharlescomedy_tcc/🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform.🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Explore Anecdotes:https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes

Josh and Eamonn are joined by Dan Leeson for Episode 97 of Spill The Art Tea.This week, Christie’s launches a dedicated Pop Culture division after a record-breaking memorabilia sale; classical musicians respond to footage filmed by astronauts; a Morgan Library exhibition traces 600 years of tarot; scientists explain why caffeine affects people differently; and two men hang their own paintings beside the Mona Lisa.Stories this week:🎸 Christie’s enters pop culture🌍 Music from outer space🔮 Tarot for uncertain times☕ Coffee and your genes🖼️ The Mona Lisa stuntA week where auction houses, ancient cards, orbital photography, genetics and museum mischief collide.🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Read our latest edition of Anecdotes — OUT NOW!https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes

Josh and Eamonn are joined by singer-songwriter Brian Horgan for Episode 96 of Spill The Art Tea.This week, Bonhams and The Dean Collection launch a new programme allowing auction sellers to share their proceeds with the artists who created the work. We visit an enormous 2,000-year-old Roman mosaic opening to the public after a 14-year restoration and explore Charlie Watts’ extraordinary private museum of drums.We also ask whether today’s technological malaise is really anything new—and whether Johnny Depp’s first major exhibition in China is about the artwork or the rehabilitation of a celebrity brand.Stories this week:💰 Artists receive a resale cut🏛️ Rome reveals a giant mosaic🥁 Inside Charlie Watts’ drum museum📱 Has technology stopped progressing?🎨 Johnny Depp’s art arrives in ChinaA week where artists’ rights, ancient conservation, musical history, technological fatigue and celebrity culture collide.🎶 Listen to Brian Horgan’s debut album, Start Again:▶️ YouTubehttps://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=Brian+Horgan+Start+Again🟢 Spotifyhttps://open.spotify.com/search/Brian%20Horgan%20Start%20Again Apple Musichttps://music.apple.com/ie/search?term=Brian%20Horgan%20Start%20Again🎟️ See Brian Horgan and his band at Whelan’s Upstairs, Dublin, on Wednesday 14 October at 8pm:https://www.whelanslive.com/event/brian-horgan/🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Read our latest edition of Anecdotes — OUT NOW!Issue 04 releasing: 2/Oct/2026https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes

Josh and Eamonn are joined by James Wellwood for Episode 95 of Spill The Art Tea.This week, we look at what happened when a New Jersey high school removed phones for the entire school day, clothing designed to camouflage its wearer from AI cameras, and the mysterious private buyer who paid $1.51 million for Abraham Lincoln’s bloodstained gloves.We also examine an extraordinary new AI video, before asking why typewriters, cassette players, instant cameras and BlackBerry-style phones are making a comeback.Stories this week:📵 Phones leave the classroom👕 Camouflage designed for AI🧤 Lincoln’s bloodstained gloves🤖 AI video’s latest breakthrough📼 The return of retro technologyA week where attention, surveillance, historical ownership and our increasingly uncertain relationship with technology collide.🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Read our latest edition of Anecdotes — OUT NOW!https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes

Josh and Eamonn discuss an artist whose digital work was mistaken for “AI slop,” why grey and beige have taken over the designed world, the SpaceX rocket that created a new crater on the Moon, Latin America’s viral aura battles, and the photographer suing Elizabeth Peyton over her Oasis painting.Stories this week include:🤖 Digital art mistaken for AI🎨 The world’s colour recession🌕 SpaceX creates a lunar crater✨ Aura battles become a competitive sport📸 The Oasis photograph behind a $1.92 million painting A week where artistic authorship, colourless consumer culture, lunar debris, viral performance and copyright law collide.🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Read our latest edition of Anecdotes — OUT NOW!https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes

Josh and Eamonn are joined by Maya Bansal for Episode 93 of Spill The Art Tea, discussing a huge study linking birth order to differences in disease risk, Sadiq Khan’s argument for keeping London’s museums free, MIT’s recyclable alternative to spandex, whether sauna training could help people cope with heatwaves, and the scientists using OnlyFans to fund decades of marmot research.Stories this week include:🧠 Birth order and health risks🏛️ The case for keeping museums free♻️ A recyclable alternative to spandex🔥 Saunas as preparation for heatwaves🦫 Marmots take over OnlyFans A week where public culture, sustainable fashion, human health and some remarkably enterprising rodents collide.🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Learn more about Maya here: www.instagram.com/mayakaurbansal/Read our latest edition of Anecdotes — OUT NOW!https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes

Josh and Eamonn are joined by Matt Hancock for Episode 92 of Spill The Art Tea, discussing an architectural restorer fighting Rome's graffiti problem, a museum exhibition recreating the scents of Ancient Rome, why major museums are increasingly teaming up to buy artworks, an artist selling trash collected outside Taylor Swift's wedding, and Gagosian retreating from gallery spaces in London and Basel.Stories this week include:🎨 Rome's graffiti battle🏛️ The scents of Ancient Rome🤝 Museums sharing artworks🗑️ Taylor Swift wedding trash📉 Gagosian closes gallery spaces A week where art conservation, ancient smells, celebrity garbage and the economics of the international art market collide.Learn more about Matt here:https://www.instagram.com/deco.luxe.music/ ⁨@DECO-LUXE⁩  Pre-save Matt's new music here:https://ditto.fm/mellow-deco-luxe?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Read our latest edition of Anecdotes — OUT NOW! https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotesCalling all creatives:Submit your article before September 1st to be included in our next issue of Anecdotes email: [email protected]

Josh and Eamonn are joined by April Brucker for Episode 91 of Spill The Art Tea, discussing schools testing pepper-spraying drones as part of emergency response plans, artists taking AI companies including Google, Meta and Anthropic to court over copyright, a museum that accidentally became an internet sensation thanks to whale-themed one-star reviews, an artist suing Instagram over alleged censorship, and a new typeface designed to make AI scraping far more difficult.Stories this week include:🚁 Pepper-spraying drones in schools⚖️ Artists sue AI companies🐋 A museum goes viral from one-star whale reviews📱 An artist takes Instagram to court🔤 A font designed to "poison" AIA week where creativity, copyright, technology, artificial intelligence, and internet culture collide in ways that are shaping the future of the creative industries.🎧 Listen to the full podcast on your favourite platform🎙️ More episodes at @nuacollectivewww.nuacollective.comLove Art ♥️ Support ArtistsSPILL THE ART TEA: YouTube, Thurs 1900 BST.Learn more about April here:Youtube:  @AprilBruckerComedy  Website: www.aprilbrucker.tvBuy her book: www.amazon.com/dp/B0H3TW6ZJ1Read our latest edition of Anecdotes — OUT NOW!https://nuacollective.ie/anecdotes-nua-art-magazine/