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
Mark Valenzuela, inside Vermeer's world and photos of 'Humpty Doom'
Mark Valenzuela makes magical sculptural installations based on a military upbringing and living in two worlds - Australia and the Philippines. Plus, we hear from the curator of the Rijksmuseum's blo…
00:53:56 |
Wed 17 May 2023
Julia Gutman wins the Archibald Prize and finding the real Clarice Beckett
Julia Gutman won Australia's most prestigious painting prize for a portrait sewn with fabric. She chats to guest host Rosa Ellen about her winning work and the gendered view of textiles and craft. Pl…
00:54:06 |
Tue 09 May 2023
A famous portrait tells an uncomfortable story + artists take over a sewerage plant
The Portrait of Mai (Omai) by Sir Joshua Reynolds depicts a youthful Polynesian man who visited England in the 1770s and spent time on James Cook’s third voyage. The work has been the subject of UK g…
00:54:07 |
Wed 03 May 2023
Why Charmaine Papertalk Green writes poetry about the work of one artist
Charmaine Papertalk Green writes poetry inspired by individual paintings of the late Nyoongar artist Shane Pickett. The ancient Greeks called this genre 'ekphrasis'. Plus, sculptor Heather B. Swann t…
00:54:02 |
Wed 26 Apr 2023
'It felt radical at the time': Catherine Opie's photos chart life changing decades for LGBTQI subjects
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…
00:54:02 |
Tue 18 Apr 2023
Janet Laurence goes to Antarctica and an art space faces an uncertain future
Environmental artist Janet Laurence tells us the story behind her latest exhibition, based on life-changing trips to Antarctica and Iceland. Plus, fashion designer Kiel Rogers on why a sense of being…
00:54:07 |
Tue 11 Apr 2023
Melbourne Now and Sydney's The National: different outlooks on Australian art
It’s a bit like the art world State of Origin: two rival cities go head to head with big exhibitions showcasing the best of Australian contemporary art and design. The prize? Your attention, column …
00:54:03 |
Tue 04 Apr 2023
Betty Muffler: the artist healing country, plus the artist and the iPhone miniature
On this highlights episode of the show, Daniel speaks to guests Sally Scales and Nici Cumpston about the meteoric rise of the Pitjantjatjara artist Betty Muffler. Betty is a ngangkari (a traditional …
00:53:50 |
Tue 28 Mar 2023
How will AI change our understanding of Art?
2023 is going to be the year of AI art. If you’ve been playing around with text-to-image apps like DALL-E 2 or Stable Diffusion, you know how remarkable the technology is and how fast it’s moving. UN…
01:00:00 |
Tue 21 Mar 2023
What would Andy Warhol do with social media? Be an influencer.
What can a new Andy Warhol exhibition teach us about social media and the cult of celebrity? Plus, an artist spends a year working at a 1930s Georgian mansion in Adelaide, making artwork about its ec…
01:00:00 |
Tue 14 Mar 2023
Women, Life, Freedom: art from Iran's female-led uprising
Hoda Afshar on the impact of protest art and photography in the Women, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran. Plus, the unconventional life of 19th Century painter Rosa Bonheur, and painter Marikit Santiago…
01:00:00 |
Tue 07 Mar 2023
An artist paints her lush Far North home + a city's hidden 'bits of Brutalism'
On this episode, two artists and two very different takes on place and belonging. Callum Morton focuses on the built environment and Naomi Hobson is deeply embedded in the natural landscape.
01:00:00 |
Tue 28 Feb 2023
Dylan Mooney's hero lovers and Ali Tahayori's poetic mirror works
Dylan Mooney's work celebrates young Black characters embodying queer love. And he does it in a bold, heartfelt graphic style that is proving irresistibly popular with audiences. Plus, Ali Tahayori o…
01:00:00 |
Tue 21 Feb 2023
The women artists who spoke to spirits and were left out of the canon
Jennifer Higgie talks about her new book on women artists and the spirit world. Plus, Daniel visits the largest collection of artworks by the Victorian medium Georgiana Houghton, held at a spirituali…
01:00:00 |
Tue 14 Feb 2023
How will AI change our understanding of Art?
2023 is going to be the year of AI art. If you’ve been playing around with text-to-image apps like DALL-E 2 or Stable Diffusion, you know how remarkable the technology is and how fast it’s moving. UN…
01:00:00 |
Tue 07 Feb 2023
What Texta Queen did next + thinking through pink + Marian Tubbs
Five years ago, Texta Queen was riding high with a mid-career survey show, that should have marked a significant achievement for the artist. Instead, it resulted in a kind of burnout with the whole …
01:00:00 |
Tue 31 Jan 2023
Jerry Saltz says: 'Show up' (You big scaredy-cat babies) + imagine a city with monuments to women?
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…
01:00:00 |
Tue 24 Jan 2023
Kiki Smith on tapestry, Kirtika Kain explores Dalit oppression + women street photographers
Great conversations with visual artists, gallery and museum directors and curators.
01:00:00 |
Tue 17 Jan 2023
David Noonan's mystery collage and Hoda Afshar on the people possessed by the wind
Great conversations with visual artists, gallery and museum directors and curators.
01:00:00 |
Tue 10 Jan 2023
Isaac Julien's marvelous entanglement + tattoos and watercolour with eX de Medici
01:00:00 |
Tue 03 Jan 2023
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