Artsy’s team of editors takes you behind the scenes of the best stories in art.

For the inaugural Artsy Podcast, we talk about Ai Weiwei’s activism surrounding the current refugee crisis in Europe and delve into the issues raised by our recent—and hugely popular—story “Why the World’s Leading Photojournalists Are Ditching Their DSLRs to Shoot on Instagram.”

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No. 1: Instagram vs. The World

This week, our editors sit down to chat about one of the art world’s most divisive topics: “selfie museums.” We discuss what the rise of the Museum of Ice Cream, and other similar Instagram-friendly institutions, means for the art world and the meaning of the word “museum.” As experiential art continues to explode in popularity, we also discuss whether selfie-driven art is different or similar to selfie museums—even drawing on our own recent experiences visiting one of these Instagram-friendly spaces.

No. 78: Are Selfie Museums an Affront to the Art World?

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No. 78: Are Selfie Museums an Affront to the Art World?

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