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 who takes you to West Africa, through sound and taste
Emeka Ogboh used years of field recordings to create layered soundscapes of his hometown, Lagos in Nigeria. When he moved to Berlin, he added music and combined the sounds of both global cities in cr…
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Tue 20 Feb 2024
The power couple behind this year's Sydney Biennale
So, you're given the keys to Australia's largest visual art festival, what next? Romanian-born curator Cosmin Costinas and Colombian Inti Guerrero are the co-directors of the Sydney Biennale. The art…
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Tue 13 Feb 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…
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Tue 06 Feb 2024
David Shrigley's sublimely silly, dark universe
When you see a David Shrigley picture – at worst, you’ll chuckle, at best you’ll laugh out loud every time you think of it (which is sometimes years later.) The Shrigley universe is filled with badly…
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Tue 30 Jan 2024
Tacita Dean + Hydraulic Press Girl + conflict avocados
Tacita Dean is one of the UK's most acclaimed artists, best known for working with 16mm analogue film. Daniel speaks with her about recent work on important living artists, and her huge, mesmerising …
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Tue 23 Jan 2024
An artist paints her lush Far North home + the secrets of Vermeer
Naomi Hobson grew up on some of the most beautiful country on the continent, Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland, and is named after the hoop pine that grows there. Her southern Kaantju and …
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Tue 16 Jan 2024
In the studio with painter Prudence Flint + photos of 'Humpty Doom'
Painter Prudence Flint has a career spanning 35 years, best known for enigmatic pictures of female protagonists in surreal domestic scenes. Despite a serious local following, her paintings have prove…
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Tue 09 Jan 2024
Catherine Opie's photos chart life changing decades for LGBTQI subjects + Rosie Westbrook
Daniel speaks with the pioneering US photographer, activist and UCLA Professor Catherine Opie, whose early portraits of her genderqueer community challenged homophobia and moral panic during the heig…
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Tue 02 Jan 2024
The rise and rise of the artist-in-residence + Rosa Bonheur
When did artists begin doing ‘residencies’? From the patronage system of Renaissance Italy, to artists’ colonies of the 19th Century and the decades-long stint of an artist-in-residence at the NYC Sa…
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Tue 26 Dec 2023
Jerry Saltz says 'show up' (you big scaredy cats) + the women artists who spoke to spirits
Jerry Saltz is the Pulitzer prize-winning art critic for New York Magazine. Before he turned his hand to writing at the age of 40, he drove long-haul trucks and was a failed visual artist. Jerry rec…
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Tue 19 Dec 2023
Emily Kam Kngwarray took the art world by storm — but did it understand her?
On our final show of the year, we look at the work and career of the great Emily Kam Kngwarray. A senior Anmatyerr woman from Utopia who took up painting in her 70s, Kngwarray is arguably the most si…
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Tue 12 Dec 2023
Thomas J Price makes monuments to the real world + fairy tales in Art
In the middle of a rarefied gallery or in a busy city square, a bronze statue of a woman looms in front of you. But this figure isn’t on a plinth or striking a heroic pose: she’s an ordinary modern w…
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Tue 05 Dec 2023
Lee Miller's glamorous Surrealism and dark wartime photography
Lee Miller cut a glamorous figure among the Bohemian art circles of Paris. As a fashion model she captured the eye and heart of Man Ray; as a gifted photographer she rivalled his artistic vision, pho…
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Tue 28 Nov 2023
Meet world-building printmaker Brian Robinson + the art critic who wrote an encyclopedia
Great conversations with visual artists, gallery and museum directors and curators.
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Tue 21 Nov 2023
How psychoanalysis influenced the art of Louise Bourgeois
Motherhood, childhood wounds and Freudian nightmares preoccupied the great sculptor Louise Bourgeois, who was especially iconic to younger followers in the latter part of her life. One of them was Ph…
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Tue 14 Nov 2023
Why are hundreds of ancient Thai relics locked in legal limbo?
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…
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Tue 07 Nov 2023
Kandinsky: the visionary artist 'brought back down to earth'
Vasily Kandinsky was a pioneer of abstract painting, writing influential theories on spirituality and colour. But for all his correspondence, his inner life can be hidden to art historians, the Gugge…
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Tue 31 Oct 2023
An outback monastery hides the biggest art heist you've never heard of
The town of New Norcia in WA is a monastery in the bush, home to a community of Benedictine monks and a treasure chest of 17th and 16th c. European religious art -- all of which was stolen in a braze…
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Tue 24 Oct 2023
The artist who recreates 'petrichor' plus James Tylor and painting house flies
Catherine Sarah Young is an artist working with science to talk about the climate crisis. Most recently, she's making art about petrichor -- the smell of recent rain emanating from the earth, and wha…
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Tue 17 Oct 2023
Lonnie Holley's creative universe plus Mary Beard on how the Caesars used Art to wield power
US artist Lonnie Holley is a prolific maker of things - whether it’s his assemblages of found objects or the fluid, jazz-style improvisations of his music. He’s one of those polymath creative spirits…
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Tue 10 Oct 2023
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