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
Machine Drawing and The Sex Life of Stone
What does a historic bark painting from Arnhem Land have to do with manganese, the metal that makes lustrous gold and liquid black ceramic glazes? It’s one of the tangents in American interdisciplina…
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Wed 10 Jul 2024
How do you capture African fashion? And When Solidarity is Not a Metaphor
Fashion is not a luxury; it’s a crucial part of the social fabric of many African countries. Capturing this diversity in an exhibition was the monumental task for Christine Checinska, the Senior Cura…
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Wed 03 Jul 2024
What happened to Thailand's Ban Chiang relics? Plus Judy Watson's life of art
A culture that flourished 3,500 years ago in Thailand. They made jewellery and ceramics, not war. You may never have heard of Ban Chiang —That’s possibly because the objects that tell the story of t…
00:54:03 |
Wed 26 Jun 2024
Alphonse Mucha and the popularity of Art Nouveau
Great conversations with visual artists, gallery and museum directors and curators.
00:54:07 |
Wed 19 Jun 2024
Laura Jones wins the Archibald portrait prize + Jeremy Deller
Big-name conceptual artist - four words you don’t often hear together. But Jeremy Deller is one - he’s a household name in Britain, but a few years back he sparked controversy here when he made giant…
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Wed 12 Jun 2024
Remembering trailblazing artist Destiny Deacon
We remember the life of the iconic artist Destiny Deacon, with curator Natalie King, and a cast of friends who sent us voice memos. She was the first artist to creatively reuse Aboriginal kitsch - an…
00:54:06 |
Wed 05 Jun 2024
Blak art and Destiny Deacon + an Abstract friendship
Kimberley Moulten, an adjunct curator at Britain's Tate gallery, specialising in First Nations art and Kate ten Buuren, a Taungurung curator, walk us through the public installation Blak Infinite fo…
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Wed 29 May 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…
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Wed 22 May 2024
John Akomfrah at the Venice Biennale + mentors in art and life + Zeno Sworder
Daniel meets the British filmmaker and artist Sir John Akomfrah, who is representing the UK at the Venice Biennale with his work Listening All Night to Rain.
Mentors can have many guises. For Miriwo…
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Wed 15 May 2024
Prison, pokies and colour: Three artists who turned art into therapy
Damien Linnane was serving a prison sentence when he took up art as mental health therapy, going on to edit the magazines for prisoners Paper Chained and working on a PhD. Damien is the curator of a…
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Wed 08 May 2024
Palestinian-Saudi artist Dana Awartani + Anna Park flip the script
Saudi-Palestinian artist Dana Awartani studied at a famously conceptual art school, before learning traditional Islamic crafts and principles, like sacred geometry. Now Dana is exploring the destruct…
00:53:57 |
Wed 01 May 2024
Archie Moore wins at the Venice Biennale + Leonardo Da Vinci + Nikki Lam
Archie Moore has won the top honour at one of the world's most prestigious and oldest art festivals – the Venice Biennale-- for a monumental work showing thousands of years of family lineage, and in…
00:54:04 |
Wed 24 Apr 2024
Nicholas Mangan makes art from phosphate, coral and bitcoin
Nicholas Mangan is drawn to the stories behind some of our most contentious commodities: phosphate from Nauru, copper from Bougainville and cryptocurrency, which Nick compares to an ancient form of s…
00:54:06 |
Wed 17 Apr 2024
A graphic designer in the spotlight + Adelaide's art biennial
Visnja Brdar's art motto is “The more nothing, the better”. She is one of this country’s most internationally successful graphic designers, the child of Croatian migrants who took her solo agency fro…
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Wed 10 Apr 2024
Why Katy Hessel never stops searching for the great women artists
Katy Hessel's podcast and bestselling book on the great women artists ride the wave of interest in a parallel cannon of art, where women have long been missing. So, what sparked her work correcting t…
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Tue 02 Apr 2024
Who reaps the profits from Aboriginal art re-sold overseas?
Australia's art resale royalty scheme was supposed to help artists (or their families) get a small percentage when paintings were re-sold at auction for big bucks, particularly Indigenous artists. Bu…
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Tue 26 Mar 2024
Jennifer Higgie on the art of interviewing artists
Interviewing visual artists is just one of the things that Jennifer Higgie has mastered in her decades-long career at the helm of Frieze magazine, as a writer, reviewer and podcast host. Daniel speak…
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Tue 19 Mar 2024
An artist paints her lush Far North home, plus the secrets of Vermeer
Great conversations with visual artists, gallery and museum directors and curators.
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Tue 12 Mar 2024
Reviving a Maori artform in a new political climate + doors to an artist's life
We meet the Maori artist who’s single-handedly reviving the lost cultural tradition of barkcloth making. As a right-wing conservative government winds back the prevalence of Maori culture and the tea…
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Tue 05 Mar 2024
A Timor Leste artist heads to the Venice Biennale + a Yucky exhibition
Maria Madeira escaped the Indonesian invasion of Timor Leste in 1975, to end up in a refugee camp in Portugal. In 2005 she returned as the first artist to hold a solo exhibition there, ever. Now the …
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Tue 27 Feb 2024
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