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
Breaking the myths of whiteness in classical sculpture
What if the use of white in classical sculpture was just a construct? For the ancient Greeks and Romans, sculptures were brightly-coloured affairs, clad in vivid red gowns with red lips, and pink or …
00:53:34 |
Tue 21 Dec 2021
Video art in the wake of Black Lives Matter, surreal fake food and plein air in the Build Up
Franklin Sirmans is the curator of Family: Visions of a Shared Humanity, an exhibition of video works by renowned Black American, British and Canadian artists, including Arthur Jafa and Garrett Bradl…
00:54:05 |
Tue 14 Dec 2021
Life with Jeffrey Smart and Natalya Hughes takes on the shrink's couch
The enduring power of Jeffrey Smart's urban wastelands, and his comparatively beautiful life in Tuscany, as told by the late artist's partner Ermes De Zan.
Plus, visit the studio of Natalya Hughes as…
00:53:29 |
Tue 07 Dec 2021
Doug Aitken, Robert Andrew's machines with ochre residue and the lost Leonardo da Vinci
US artist Doug Aitken looks to the future through the hyperconnected present, in New Era.|
Plus, enter the studio of Robert Andrew, whose programmable machines imprint ochre residue and missing histo…
00:54:46 |
Tue 30 Nov 2021
NFTs: next gen, reclaiming Bougainville and being an 'unwilling inspiration'
We take stock of NFTs and hear from three people invested in the future of tokens, including Jonathan Zawada, collaborator to musician Flume.
Plus, Bruno Booth on being an 'unwilling inspiration'.
A…
00:54:03 |
Tue 23 Nov 2021
Christopher Pease layers Nyoongar iconography over colonial vistas
Christopher Pease wanted to create his own visual language, one that spoke to European art tradition and the hidden iconography of his Nyoongar ancestors.
Plus, the horses that inspire Michael Zavro…
00:53:56 |
Tue 16 Nov 2021
Doing Feminism, painting riverscapes and polar ice art at COP26
A history of feminist art in Australia, painting western Tasmania and ice from a warming planet, at COP26.
00:54:06 |
Tue 09 Nov 2021
A history of Venus in art with Bettany Hughes
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…
00:54:05 |
Tue 02 Nov 2021
Cocktails with a curator, art on the news and Matisse in the Pacific
Meet the man behind the hit YouTube series Cocktails with a Curator, from The Frick in New York.
Plus, what if the arts were on the nightly TV news, like sport?
And artists respond to Matisse's Tahi…
00:54:04 |
Tue 26 Oct 2021
Know My Name episode 6: Rosalie Gascoigne
With a bower bird's habit of collecting found objects, Rosalie Gascoigne's sculptures were inspired by her surrounding natural environment.
The final episode in this series of radio interviews with …
00:09:37 |
Mon 25 Oct 2021
Know My Name episode 5: Mari Funaki
An interview with sculptor and metal smith Mari Funaki, who was instrumental in getting Australian contemporary jewellery on the global map.
The fifth episode in a pod-only series featuring intervie…
00:08:36 |
Sun 24 Oct 2021
Know My Name episode 4: Margaret Olley
A 2009 interview with the artist Margaret Olley, two years before her death.
Part of our series featuring interviews with women artists from the ABC archives.
00:08:34 |
Sat 23 Oct 2021
Know My Name episode 3: Ivy Shore
Interviews with women artists from the ABC archives.
In 1979 Ivy Shore won Australia's richest art competition for women painters, for a portrait of trail blazing trade unionist Della Elliot.
00:07:25 |
Fri 22 Oct 2021
Know My Name episode 2: Gwyn Hanssen Pigott
Know My Name: interviews with women artists from the ABC archives.
Hear Gwyn Hanssen Pigott, one of Australia's most renowned ceramicists, speaking to the ABC’s Julie Copeland in 1994.
00:14:16 |
Thu 21 Oct 2021
Know My Name episode 1: Grace Cossington Smith
Introducing Know My Name: interviews with women artists from the ABC archives. In this episode, hear from Grace Cossington Smith. A pioneer of modernism in Australia and one of the country’s most inf…
00:13:40 |
Wed 20 Oct 2021
Public art, toppled monuments and the statue in the crate
What do artists think about when making huge public art? Lindy Lee is making the most expensive work commissioned by the NGA, and Judy Watson's bara will grace Sydney's harbour with a giant Gadigal f…
00:54:07 |
Tue 19 Oct 2021
'We perpetuate this myth of not having a history': taking art beyond black-white terms
Globally and at home, artists are engaging with the reckoning happening around race and colonisation. But where do recent migrants and refugees to Australia fit into the dialogue?
00:54:05 |
Tue 12 Oct 2021
Fifty years of the Western Desert art movement, Leigh Bowery, Mari Katayama and Darwin street art
It's 50 years since artists from Papunya began painting on board, heralding the Western Desert art movement, 'the last great art movement of the 20th Century' according to one famous critic.
Plus, an…
00:54:05 |
Tue 05 Oct 2021
Goya, Tik Tok art history and wine that draws
How does Francisco Goya help us make sense of the chaos of our contemporary world, and its depths of suffering? Then, discover art history through TikTok… and a contemporary sculpture powered by wind…
00:54:04 |
Wed 29 Sep 2021
Renaissance amnesia, Vernon Ah Kee, and a mysterious Sydney painting
Do we turn a blind eye to the aggression and militarism — and colonialism — that defined the Italian Renaissance? Plus, hear why artist Vernon Ah Kee can't ignore a distinct Australian brand of racis…
00:54:07 |
Wed 22 Sep 2021
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