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
How are a new generation of diasporic Australian artists working with their cultural material?
The histories our families share can be in the stories we tell, the food we eat, the objects that are passed down from one generation to the next. Finding our own place in those histories can be diff…
01:09:58 |
Tue 26 Nov 2024
Radical textiles and experimental idiocy
A time-travelling, multi-regional journey through the histories of ceramics that explores how contemporary artists are politicising this elemental medium.
Nell has said that “all my life is a practi…
00:54:08 |
Tue 19 Nov 2024
Reframing the portrait
The self-portrait is perhaps the most ubiquitous image of the modern era, but how do contemporary artists use the portrait, not just to reflect themselves or their subject, but to shift our understan…
01:14:02 |
Tue 12 Nov 2024
Playgrounds and powerful women: the role of art in the public space
Public art comes with big price tags and excites popular opinion, but what does it actually take to produce such large work and how does art change our experience of the public sphere?
Justene Willi…
00:54:07 |
Tue 05 Nov 2024
Marc Newson's art inspirations and the story of Lucky Kwong
Australian designer Marc Newson has helped to define the shape of our world today. But what are the artworks that inspired his approach and shaped his world?
NGV Curator Laurie Benson takes you into…
00:54:04 |
Tue 29 Oct 2024
Tim Winton explores the Australian landscape and Lucienne Rickard brings audiences to tears
Tim Winton is one of Australia's greatest writers, but this year he found himself at the centre of the art world when Laura Jones' portrait took out the Archibald Prize. From his earliest experiences…
00:54:06 |
Tue 22 Oct 2024
Whitney director emeritus Adam Weinberg and an art partnership in the Blue Mountains
Adam Weinberg ran the Whitney Museum of American Art, one of New Yorks most iconic art spaces, for over 20 years. And he is a quintessential New Yorker.
More artful poetry from millennial slashie Ja…
00:54:04 |
Tue 15 Oct 2024
Art scandals, art couples and art poets
One of the most salacious art scandals to hit the global art market is that of the Wildensteins. Author and journalist Rachel Corbett brings us her New York Times investigation of this secretive and …
00:54:05 |
Tue 08 Oct 2024
Author Markus Zusak on art; the immersive, mysterious work of Angelica Mesiti; the art of poetry; a ruinous studio visit
Curator and art writer Micheal Do is sitting in for Daniel Browning for the next five weeks.
Author Markus Zuzak takes us back to 2005, to a wintery day in Vienna where an artwork by a little known …
00:54:07 |
Wed 02 Oct 2024
The influence of Japanese ukiyo-e + Gina Rinehart's picture drama
Cressida Campbell and Margaret Preston (1875-1963): two beloved printmakers inspired by Ukiyo-e, the Japanese woodcut genre whose influence swept through western art. Rosa speaks to Cressida and Geel…
00:54:04 |
Wed 25 Sep 2024
Helen Molesworth on death of Carl Andre + Olana Janfa + Brent Harris
Helen Molesworth is a curator and writer who became widely known for her hit podcast Death of an Artist, about the artist Ana Mendieta, whose husband sculptor Carl Andre was charged then acquitted of…
00:54:04 |
Wed 18 Sep 2024
Alphonse Mucha: star of the Art Nouveau movement
This week it's The Art (Nouveau) Show!
Flowers, peacocks and sensuous drapes. Bejewelled women entwined in billowing hair and that classic black outline, that turns the dreamy into the bold – the NE…
00:54:04 |
Wed 11 Sep 2024
Ramesh Nithiyendran's inner sanctum and Jack Wilkie-Jans on If Not Critical
Over the past decade, Ramesh Nithiyendran has become one of the most visible artists of his generation and one of the most hardworking with his signature emoji-like, wildly coloured and often multipl…
00:54:06 |
Wed 04 Sep 2024
That’s not a medium! Art made from unusual material
Sasha Huber is Swiss-Haitian… but she lives and works in Finland. She’s got a truly interdisciplinary practice - but she does have one particular medium, that’s quite unusual - in fact, it’s hard to …
00:53:39 |
Wed 28 Aug 2024
Street art in ascendence; the art of RONE and Manda Lane
The artist RONE was always attracted to street art's impermanence. He's since moved beyond street art and into large scale installations, involving space, sound, music, light and large scale art piec…
00:54:04 |
Wed 21 Aug 2024
Joyful ceramics, the NATSIAAs and a glimpse of Renaissance Europe
Ceramicist Vipoo Srivilasa’s work is beautiful, playful and highly technical…and he’s having a moment, featuring in several exhibitions this year including the MAKE Award, Generation Clay and re/JOY.…
00:54:06 |
Wed 14 Aug 2024
The "master of time" Hiroshi Sugimoto + the much prized lutruwita landscape
Hiroshi Sugimoto's sublime black and white photographs capture subjects as diverse as polar bears and landscapes, to portraits of Princess Diana – but they're not what they seem. Called 'master of ti…
00:54:06 |
Wed 07 Aug 2024
Black Modernism with Huey Copeland + cartoonist Mandy Ord
Art historian Huey Copeland is hard at work on what he says will be “the first gender-balanced and racially integrated history of Western modernism”. Daniel speaks with Huey about the overlooked stor…
00:54:06 |
Wed 31 Jul 2024
Kelly Koumalatsos + abstract painter Lesley Dumbrell + Claudia Nicholson
Three women and three artists with three very different ways of looking at the world: Kelly Koumalatsos has a book (Madjem Bambandila) that charts three and half decades of her art practice (includi…
00:54:12 |
Wed 24 Jul 2024
Iris van Herpen: the Dutch fashion designer who sculpts clothing
She’s an artist whose medium is fashion. Dutch designer Iris van Herpen is an innovator, remaking high fashion to be wearable art - fabric is almost plastic in her hands, moulding and shaping it so t…
00:54:06 |
Wed 17 Jul 2024
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