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
Meet the Tennant Creek Brio — a thrilling new voice in art
Tennant Creek Brio is a collective of artists who met in a men’s art therapy group. Their latest show Shock and Ore is generating serious buzz. Plus, hear from the winners of this year's vibrant Nati…
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Wed 10 Aug 2022
A call to heroines + Michaye Boulter's seascapes + Joel Sherwood Spring
Singing stars, anti-apartheid activists, writers and mavericks are among the Southern African women honoured by visual artists in a new exhibition, And she was wearing trousers: a call to our heroine…
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Tue 02 Aug 2022
Artists head to 'Europe's most divided city' in Kosovo + how do you judge a landscape art prize?
Curator Petrit Abazi fled Kosovo as a child with his parents and now heads a contemporary art centre in Darwin. This month he’s returned to the city of his birth, Mitrovica, where Albanians and Serbs…
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Wed 27 Jul 2022
'It was like I'd been plugged into the mains': Bruce Munro's lights + the search for a Hong Kong street artist
Bruce Munro is the hugely popular light installation artist who filled the foreground of Uluru with a Field of Light. He talks to Daniel about his career, new show and early encouragement from Kevin …
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Wed 20 Jul 2022
What's left unsaid at this Picasso blockbuster? Plus, Snuff Puppets work with Ukrainian refugees
Can you separate the misogynist from the art? If you walk around the winter blockbuster The Picasso Century at the National Gallery of Victoria, you’d be forgiven for thinking that this wasn’t a live…
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Wed 13 Jul 2022
Richard Bell at Documenta 15, Sebastian di Mauro, and 1980s New York artist Edward Brezinski finally finds his 15 minutes of fame
Richard Bell is one of the few individual artists curated into Documenta 15, the highly-anticipated global survey of contemporary art. This year, for the first time, it’s been dominated by artists an…
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Wed 06 Jul 2022
Daniel Boyd's solo show, Sally Ryan's Holy Family, and reclaiming Arnhem Land's art
A conversation with artist Daniel Boyd whose work has focussed on reframing Eurocentric images from Australia's past. Plus, Sally Ryan discusses her latest commission, a giant oil painting of Jesus, …
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Wed 29 Jun 2022
Chiharu Shiota's epic threads, Wura Ogunji and a history of light in Art
Have you ever walked through an epic entanglement of red cotton thread, by the artist Chiharu Shiota? The Japanese installation and performance artist takes Daniel through The Soul Trembles, an exhib…
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Wed 22 Jun 2022
Colour is my medium: David Sequeira, colourblind art and the magic of Autochrome
Why artist and curator David Sequeira doesn't believe in just a 'pop of colour'.
How a colour-blind artist adapted to colours he couldn't perceive. And how glasses that allow colour-deficient people…
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Wed 15 Jun 2022
Tattoos, watercolour with eX-de-Medici + Angelica Mesiti at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris
We start the show at the Parade for the Moon in Melbourne's Chinatown, part of the city's RISING festival.
Then Daniel speaks with tattoo and visual artist eX-de-Medici about her intense and detailed…
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Wed 08 Jun 2022
Abdullah brothers, Leeroy New and the return of a William Barak painting
Daniel chats with artist brothers Abdul-Rahman and Abdul Abdullah, who are close in life but not so much in their art. However, thorny issues unite them in Land Abounds, their new joint exhibition.
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Wed 01 Jun 2022
Kiki Smith, Kirtika Kain and Reclaim the Earth at the Palais de Tokyo
The American artist Kiki Smith talks about tapestry and her long career.
My Art Crush: painter and printmaker Kirtika Kain makes tactile work about the oppression and unrecorded history of Dalit peo…
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Wed 25 May 2022
Blak Douglas wins the Archibald, NFT artist Beeple and embroidered organs that get personal
How often does a political artwork fall into the national spotlight during a federal election? Hear from Archibald portrait prize winner Blak Douglas.
Plus, an Italian art exhibition that puts NFT ju…
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Wed 18 May 2022
The Venice Biennale: electric sounds, new voices and open borders
Greetings from the 22nd La Biennale di Venezia, in Italy!
The Venice Biennale is known as the Olympics of the art world, complete with golden awards, stunning achievement and sometimes, disappointme…
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Wed 11 May 2022
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…
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Wed 04 May 2022
First Nations Canadian artist Rebecca Belmore, Sally Smart's dance-inspired studio and Yuki Kihara's Paradise Camp
Rebecca Belmore is one of Canada's most important artists and is now having her first Australian solo show.
Plus, visit Sally Smart's studio, inspired by one of the most influential dance companies o…
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Wed 27 Apr 2022
Marco Fusinato, Lala Deen Dayal and an art gallery mines its collection for queer stories
Marco Fusinato is representing Australia at the 2022 Venice Biennale with work for 'monstrous times'.
Plus, artworks that tell queer stories selected from the collection of the National Gallery of Vi…
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Wed 20 Apr 2022
Victor Ehikhamenor + Benin bronzes, pottery in a midnight garden and Nathan Beard's tropical fruit
Victor Ehikhamenor is one of Nigeria’s most prominent artists and calls for the Benin bronzes, the looted cultural treasures of Edo State, to be repatriated. So what did he do when he was asked to ma…
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Wed 13 Apr 2022
David Noonan's mystery collage and Hoda Afshar on the people possessed by the wind
David Noonan makes intriguing black-and-white collage of people in often liminal states. But despite their evocative drama, his pictures don't tell a story.
Plus, Hoda Afshar's photographic project S…
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Wed 06 Apr 2022
Home truths: Ian Strange, Sera Waters and spotlight on feminist artist Frances Phoenix
Ian Strange uses entire houses -slated for demolition- as his canvas, exploring the symbolism of 'home' through eras of unaffordability and urban development.
Plus, meet Irish artist Sean Lynch onsit…
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Tue 29 Mar 2022
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