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A history of Venus in Art, the artist who lives on a boat and Yul Scarf

Author
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Published
Tue 01 Mar 2022
Episode Link
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/the-art-show/xx/13776394

The goddess of love has reigned supreme through Western art, but her roots are darker, more ancient and shape-shifting than you'd expect.
Historian and TV presenter Prof Bettany Hughes joins Daniel to tell the surprising history of Venus/Aphrodite.
Plus, a seascape painter who lives on a yacht, and step into the studio of Yul Scarf, who uses ceramics, old bricks and the revived tech of QR codes, to explore questions of colonialism.

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