The Art Show
Visual artists tell you why and how they create! From studio visits, intimate interviews, and live issues, we take art out of the gallery and into your ears.
- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 48 minutes
- Episodes
- 255
- Years Active
- 2021 - 2025
The artist defending rivers, a Russian art museum forced to react and Dennis Golding's Redfern
Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo gives voice to rivers dammed for huge hydroelectric projects.
What happens when the art world turns its back on Russia's major contemporary art museum?
And Dennis Go…
00:54:07 |
Tue 22 Mar 2022
Know My Name S2 ep 7: Elaine Russell
Aunty Elaine Russell has legendary status in her home town of Sydney. She was an artist and storyteller who inspired many, and whose work has been acquired by a number of Australia's major galleries …
00:11:13 |
Mon 21 Mar 2022
Isaac Julien, Leda and the Swan retold and why you should know Thanakupi
British filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien on his latest works: a spellbinding interpretation of Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi and a portrait of 19th C. abolitionist Fredrick Douglass…
00:54:08 |
Tue 15 Mar 2022
Know My Name S2 ep 6: Jennifer Herd
Jennifer Herd is a Mbarbarrum artist and founding member of Brisbane's proppaNOW art collective.
00:07:36 |
Mon 14 Mar 2022
Flooded art galleries, Stanislava Pinchuk on Ukraine and celebrating Ethel Spowers
Floods have ravaged art galleries and studios in northern New South Wales. We hear from a gallery director and artist Megan Cope.
Plus Ukrainian-Australian artist Stanislava Pinchuk.
And a spotlight …
00:54:08 |
Tue 08 Mar 2022
Know My Name S2 ep 5: Dianne Jones
Dianne Jones is a provocative photo-media artist who manipulates images from colonial art to give prominence to Indigenous people.
00:15:05 |
Mon 07 Mar 2022
A history of Venus in Art, the artist who lives on a boat and Yul Scarf
The goddess of love has reigned supreme through Western art, but her roots are darker, more ancient and shape-shifting than you'd expect.
Historian and TV presenter Prof Bettany Hughes joins Daniel t…
00:54:08 |
Tue 01 Mar 2022
Know My Name S2 ep 4: Laurel Nannup
Laurel Nannup is a Noongar artist and elder who grew up near Pinjara in Western Australia. As part of the Stolen Generation she was taken from her mother at the age of 8 and sent to the Wanderling Mi…
00:16:02 |
Mon 28 Feb 2022
The new 'canon', Renaissance woman Lavinia Fontana and Atong Atem's collage vision
Who makes up “the canon” in Art today? A new book picks 50 artists from around the world, and across centuries, to take a meaningful snapshot of art masters.
Plus, a curator on 16th C. artist Lavinia…
00:54:08 |
Tue 22 Feb 2022
Know My Name S2 ep 3: Julie Gough
Julie Gough is a Trawlwoolway artist whose practice often refers to her family's experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people and is held in many private collections and major galleries in Australia.
00:14:56 |
Mon 21 Feb 2022
Patricia Piccinini's mutants light up a ballroom, My Art Crush and Thea Anamara Perkins
Patricia Piccinini is Australia’s foremost artist exploring the relationship between humanity and technology, and the ethical tensions it inspires in the viewer.
Plus, introducing our new segment My …
00:54:05 |
Tue 15 Feb 2022
Know My Name S2 ep 2: Julie Dowling
Julie Dowling is considered one of Australia's greatest exponents of the family portrait, but always with an Indigenous focus.
00:19:47 |
Mon 14 Feb 2022
The radical work of Vivienne Binns
Vivienne Binns shocked critics in the 1960s with her joyful paintings of giant genitalia and Dada-inspired assemblages. Now aged 81, she looks back at a vast arts practice that has never stopped ques…
00:53:45 |
Tue 08 Feb 2022
Know My Name S2 ep 1: Fiona Foley
Know My Name Series Two: interviews with Indigenous women artists from the ABC archives. In this episode meet Fiona Foley, a Badtjala artist from K'gari in Queensland
00:17:08 |
Mon 07 Feb 2022
The art of mindfulness and women street photographers
How does mindfulness stimulate artists? Meet the artists and curators of a new exhibition exploring mindfulness and meditation, called Presence of Mind.
Plus, meet Gulnara Samoilova, founder of the g…
00:54:06 |
Tue 01 Feb 2022
Karla Dickens' fearless found objects, the Aboriginal flag as an artwork and clay gone wild
Enter the eclectic studio and thought-provoking work of the Wiradjuri installation artist Karla Dickens.
Plus, is the Aboriginal flag, now freed from copyright restrictions, a work of art?
And the 'w…
00:54:07 |
Tue 25 Jan 2022
How Instagram has changed how we see and experience art
How has social media giant Instagram changed how we experience art? Experts, artists and critics weigh in on the photo sharing platform, an evolution that's allowed artists to build careers outside o…
00:54:01 |
Tue 18 Jan 2022
Anne Wallace and the Beijing Silvermine
Anne Wallace paints film-like scenes of intimacy and psychological tension that speak to iso life and the female gaze.
Plus, the found photo archive that documents China's embrace of capitalism.
00:53:59 |
Tue 11 Jan 2022
Hilma af Klint, the art of the book cover and Mary Tonkin's immersive landscapes
The rediscovery of Hilma af Klint's abstract paintings has taken the art world by storm, but what meaning can we find in her powerful, mysterious work?
Plus, artist and designer W.H. Chong on the se…
00:54:06 |
Tue 04 Jan 2022
Endurance act: performance art in Australia
Performance art tests the limits of the body and the gallery space. Fiona Kelly McGregor's latest book relives its bracing ascendancy in Sydney's queer and underground scene, and the well-known and l…
00:54:05 |
Tue 28 Dec 2021
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