Who Gets to Show Up in the Art World?

Shade by Lou Mensah

Dec 6, 20259:53Society & Culture

Shade Podcast closes out 2025 by returning to the Shade Art Review archives. This episode adapts "Oh God It's Frieze Week Again," an article I wrote in October 2023, asking: Who gets to show up in the art world? As Art B...

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