The Art Show

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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.

Episode Date
Helen Molesworth on death of Carl Andre + Olana Janfa + Brent Harris
Sep 18, 2024
Alphonse Mucha: star of the Art Nouveau movement
Sep 11, 2024
Ramesh Nithiyendran's inner sanctum and Jack Wilkie-Jans on If Not Critical
Sep 04, 2024
That’s not a medium! Art made from unusual material
Aug 28, 2024
Street art in ascendence; the art of RONE and Manda Lane
Aug 21, 2024
Joyful ceramics, the NATSIAAs and a glimpse of Renaissance Europe
Aug 14, 2024
The "master of time" Hiroshi Sugimoto + the much prized lutruwita landscape
Aug 07, 2024
Black Modernism with Huey Copeland + cartoonist Mandy Ord
Jul 31, 2024
Kelly Koumalatsos + abstract painter Lesley Dumbrell + Claudia Nicholson
Jul 24, 2024
Iris van Herpen: the Dutch fashion designer who sculpts clothing
Jul 17, 2024
Machine Drawing and The Sex Life of Stone
Jul 10, 2024
How do you capture African fashion? And When Solidarity is Not a Metaphor
Jul 03, 2024
What happened to Thailand's Ban Chiang relics? Plus Judy Watson's life of art
Jun 26, 2024
Alphonse Mucha and the popularity of Art Nouveau
Jun 19, 2024
Laura Jones wins the Archibald portrait prize + Jeremy Deller
Jun 12, 2024
Remembering trailblazing artist Destiny Deacon
Jun 05, 2024
Blak art and Destiny Deacon + an Abstract friendship
May 29, 2024
The influence of Japanese ukiyo-e + Gina Rinehart's picture drama
May 22, 2024
John Akomfrah at the Venice Biennale + mentors in art and life + Zeno Sworder
May 15, 2024
Prison, pokies and colour: Three artists who turned art into therapy
May 08, 2024
Palestinian-Saudi artist Dana Awartani + Anna Park flip the script
May 01, 2024
Archie Moore wins at the Venice Biennale + Leonardo Da Vinci + Nikki Lam
Apr 24, 2024
Nicholas Mangan makes art from phosphate, coral and bitcoin
Apr 17, 2024
A graphic designer in the spotlight + Adelaide's art biennial
Apr 10, 2024
Why Katy Hessel never stops searching for the great women artists
Apr 02, 2024
Who reaps the profits from Aboriginal art re-sold overseas?
Mar 26, 2024
Jennifer Higgie on the art of interviewing artists
Mar 19, 2024
An artist paints her lush Far North home, plus the secrets of Vermeer
Mar 12, 2024
Reviving a Maori artform in a new political climate + doors to an artist's life
Mar 05, 2024
A Timor Leste artist heads to the Venice Biennale + a Yucky exhibition
Feb 27, 2024
The artist who takes you to West Africa, through sound and taste
Feb 20, 2024
The power couple behind this year's Sydney Biennale
Feb 13, 2024
Helen Molesworth on death of Carl Andre + Olana Janfa + Brent Harris
Feb 06, 2024
David Shrigley's sublimely silly, dark universe
Jan 30, 2024
Tacita Dean + Hydraulic Press Girl + conflict avocados
Jan 23, 2024
An artist paints her lush Far North home + the secrets of Vermeer
Jan 16, 2024
In the studio with painter Prudence Flint + photos of 'Humpty Doom'
Jan 09, 2024
Catherine Opie's photos chart life changing decades for LGBTQI subjects + Rosie Westbrook
Jan 02, 2024
The rise and rise of the artist-in-residence + Rosa Bonheur
Dec 26, 2023
Jerry Saltz says 'show up' (you big scaredy cats) + the women artists who spoke to spirits
Dec 19, 2023
Emily Kam Kngwarray took the art world by storm — but did it understand her?
Dec 12, 2023
Thomas J Price makes monuments to the real world + fairy tales in Art
Dec 05, 2023
Lee Miller's glamorous Surrealism and dark wartime photography
Nov 28, 2023
Meet world-building printmaker Brian Robinson + the art critic who wrote an encyclopedia
Nov 21, 2023
How psychoanalysis influenced the art of Louise Bourgeois
Nov 14, 2023
Why are hundreds of ancient Thai relics locked in legal limbo?
Nov 07, 2023
Kandinsky: the visionary artist 'brought back down to earth'
Oct 31, 2023
An outback monastery hides the biggest art heist you've never heard of
Oct 24, 2023
The artist who recreates 'petrichor' plus James Tylor and painting house flies
Oct 17, 2023
Lonnie Holley's creative universe plus Mary Beard on how the Caesars used Art to wield power
Oct 10, 2023
85,000 oyster shells at Sydney Opera House and an Impressionist video game
Oct 03, 2023
Spencer Tunick's naked crowds plus fossil fuel sponsorship in the arts
Sep 27, 2023
Care ethics + can joining an art collective make you happier?
Sep 20, 2023
Newell Harry sparks connections + Jim Moginie's Colour Wheel + the Whitely Art Scandal
Sep 13, 2023
Photographer Hoda Afshar: from Manus Island to whistleblowers and Iran's uprising
Sep 06, 2023
Kara Walker stirs the pot with nightmarish visions of Antebellum America
Aug 30, 2023
Art mirrors life in the work of these fiction authors + the ethnographic vision of Gary Lee
Aug 23, 2023
NATSIAA awards showcase the best of Australian Indigenous art
Aug 16, 2023
Tove Jansson's Moomins and the perfect art of picture framing
Aug 09, 2023
She's got your number: 15 years of the Countess project + Gail Mabo + Mayco Naing
Aug 02, 2023
Anne Zahalka turns her lens on her archive + gritty industrial scenes —in needlepoint
Jul 26, 2023
Chinese-Australian dissident artist Badiucao + Anna Emina El Samad
Jul 19, 2023
Prudence Flint's character studies + a beginner's guide to art openings
Jul 12, 2023
Maree Clarke looks deep into a rich material + Ida Sophia bears witness and Frida Kahlo returns to Australia
Jul 05, 2023
The rise and rise of the Artist-in-Residence
Jun 28, 2023
Hayley Millar Baker in Shadow Spirit + Marc Chagall at The Jewish Museum
Jun 21, 2023
An introduction to Pierre Bonnard, misty seascapes and Marikit Santiago
Jun 14, 2023
Richard Bell takes his Embassy to UK's Tate Modern + what happens when an artist puts you in charge of their estate?
Jun 07, 2023
Louise Zhang on colour, the frying pan studio and Zico Albaiquni
May 31, 2023
Mithu Sen on being a provocateur, GPS Art and Danelle Bergstrom's Swedish journey
May 24, 2023
Mark Valenzuela, inside Vermeer's world and photos of 'Humpty Doom'
May 17, 2023
Julia Gutman wins the Archibald Prize and finding the real Clarice Beckett
May 09, 2023
A famous portrait tells an uncomfortable story + artists take over a sewerage plant
May 03, 2023
Why Charmaine Papertalk Green writes poetry about the work of one artist
Apr 26, 2023
'It felt radical at the time': Catherine Opie's photos chart life changing decades for LGBTQI subjects
Apr 18, 2023
Janet Laurence goes to Antarctica and an art space faces an uncertain future
Apr 11, 2023
Melbourne Now and Sydney's The National: different outlooks on Australian art
Apr 04, 2023
Betty Muffler: the artist healing country, plus the artist and the iPhone miniature
Mar 28, 2023
How will AI change our understanding of Art?
Mar 21, 2023
What would Andy Warhol do with social media? Be an influencer.
Mar 14, 2023
Women, Life, Freedom: art from Iran's female-led uprising
Mar 07, 2023
An artist paints her lush Far North home + a city's hidden 'bits of Brutalism'
Feb 28, 2023
Dylan Mooney's hero lovers and Ali Tahayori's poetic mirror works
Feb 21, 2023
The women artists who spoke to spirits and were left out of the canon
Feb 14, 2023
How will AI change our understanding of Art?
Feb 07, 2023
What Texta Queen did next + thinking through pink + Marian Tubbs
Jan 31, 2023
Jerry Saltz says: 'Show up' (You big scaredy-cat babies) + imagine a city with monuments to women?
Jan 24, 2023
Kiki Smith on tapestry, Kirtika Kain explores Dalit oppression + women street photographers
Jan 17, 2023
David Noonan's mystery collage and Hoda Afshar on the people possessed by the wind
Jan 10, 2023
Isaac Julien's marvelous entanglement + tattoos and watercolour with eX de Medici
Jan 03, 2023
Karla Dickens' fearless found objects + clay gone wild
Dec 27, 2022
Edward Burtynsky, painting the Holy Family and Dennis Golding's Redfern.
Dec 20, 2022
Alexander McQueen's spectacular art and high stakes fashion + how do you make an exhibition about the air itself?
Dec 13, 2022
How Cressida Campbell makes things beautiful + what do we think of Sydney Modern?
Dec 06, 2022
Imants Tillers on his credo and why he had to 'fire' his parents, and mixed reactions to climate activism in galleries
Nov 29, 2022
Mary Beard on how the Caesars used Art to wield power, plus why did climate activists target a Gustav Klimt?
Nov 22, 2022
Inside Yayoi Kusama's world with Stephanie Rosenthal, plus Nalini Malani + Katie West
Nov 15, 2022
Art that's rubbish: why more artists are using post-consumer waste
Nov 08, 2022
What to know about the great Barbara Hepworth, an artist asks for family stories + fish traps, re-told
Nov 01, 2022
'Shaken to the core': the Indonesian art collective at the centre of the Documenta 15 controversy + Bertie Blackman
Oct 25, 2022
Filming art for the big screen, sewing my feminist muse and soulful bird portraits
Oct 18, 2022
Jasper Johns and Robert Rauschenburg's creative and romantic partnership
Oct 11, 2022
Polly Borland on her pivot to sculpture and how it felt to photograph the Queen
Oct 04, 2022
The radical work of Vivienne Binns + when did people start smiling in western Art?
Sep 28, 2022
After censorship scandal, Paul Yore returns with joyful, trademark trash
Sep 21, 2022
Kara Walker stirs the pot with nightmarish visions of Antebellum America
Sep 14, 2022
Edward Burtynsky, how to draw hands + an artist goes to Burning Man
Sep 07, 2022
Why viruses can have style and molecules look beautiful
Aug 31, 2022
Afghan artists on Taliban anniversary, and how to start drawing?
Aug 24, 2022
The lake that vanished + Rachel Griffiths + Catherine Woo
Aug 17, 2022
Meet the Tennant Creek Brio — a thrilling new voice in art
Aug 10, 2022
A call to heroines + Michaye Boulter's seascapes + Joel Sherwood Spring
Aug 02, 2022
Artists head to 'Europe's most divided city' in Kosovo + how do you judge a landscape art prize?
Jul 27, 2022
'It was like I'd been plugged into the mains': Bruce Munro's lights + the search for a Hong Kong street artist
Jul 20, 2022
What's left unsaid at this Picasso blockbuster? Plus, Snuff Puppets work with Ukrainian refugees
Jul 13, 2022
Richard Bell at Documenta 15, Sebastian di Mauro, and 1980s New York artist Edward Brezinski finally finds his 15 minutes of fame
Jul 06, 2022
Daniel Boyd's solo show, Sally Ryan's Holy Family, and reclaiming Arnhem Land's art
Jun 29, 2022
Chiharu Shiota's epic threads, Wura Ogunji and a history of light in Art
Jun 22, 2022
Colour is my medium: David Sequeira, colourblind art and the magic of Autochrome
Jun 15, 2022
Tattoos, watercolour with eX-de-Medici + Angelica Mesiti at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris
Jun 08, 2022
Abdullah brothers, Leeroy New and the return of a William Barak painting
Jun 01, 2022
Kiki Smith, Kirtika Kain and Reclaim the Earth at the Palais de Tokyo
May 25, 2022
Blak Douglas wins the Archibald, NFT artist Beeple and embroidered organs that get personal
May 18, 2022
The Venice Biennale: electric sounds, new voices and open borders
May 11, 2022
Public art, toppled monuments and the statue in the crate
May 04, 2022
First Nations Canadian artist Rebecca Belmore, Sally Smart's dance-inspired studio and Yuki Kihara's Paradise Camp
Apr 27, 2022
Marco Fusinato, Lala Deen Dayal and an art gallery mines its collection for queer stories
Apr 20, 2022
Victor Ehikhamenor + Benin bronzes, pottery in a midnight garden and Nathan Beard's tropical fruit
Apr 13, 2022
David Noonan's mystery collage and Hoda Afshar on the people possessed by the wind
Apr 06, 2022
Home truths: Ian Strange, Sera Waters and spotlight on feminist artist Frances Phoenix
Mar 29, 2022
The artist defending rivers, a Russian art museum forced to react and Dennis Golding's Redfern
Mar 22, 2022
Know My Name S2 ep 7: Elaine Russell
Mar 21, 2022
Isaac Julien, Leda and the Swan retold and why you should know Thanakupi
Mar 15, 2022
Know My Name S2 ep 6: Jennifer Herd
Mar 14, 2022
Flooded art galleries, Stanislava Pinchuk on Ukraine and celebrating Ethel Spowers
Mar 08, 2022
Know My Name S2 ep 5: Dianne Jones
Mar 07, 2022
A history of Venus in Art, the artist who lives on a boat and Yul Scarf
Mar 01, 2022
Know My Name S2 ep 4: Laurel Nannup
Feb 28, 2022
The new 'canon', Renaissance woman Lavinia Fontana and Atong Atem's collage vision
Feb 22, 2022
Know My Name S2 ep 3: Julie Gough
Feb 21, 2022
Patricia Piccinini's mutants light up a ballroom, My Art Crush and Thea Anamara Perkins
Feb 15, 2022
Know My Name S2 ep 2: Julie Dowling
Feb 14, 2022
The radical work of Vivienne Binns
Feb 08, 2022
Know My Name S2 ep 1: Fiona Foley
Feb 07, 2022
The art of mindfulness and women street photographers
Feb 01, 2022
Karla Dickens' fearless found objects, the Aboriginal flag as an artwork and clay gone wild
Jan 25, 2022
How Instagram has changed how we see and experience art
Jan 18, 2022
Anne Wallace and the Beijing Silvermine
Jan 11, 2022
Hilma af Klint, the art of the book cover and Mary Tonkin's immersive landscapes
Jan 04, 2022
Endurance act: performance art in Australia
Dec 28, 2021
Breaking the myths of whiteness in classical sculpture
Dec 21, 2021
Video art in the wake of Black Lives Matter, surreal fake food and plein air in the Build Up
Dec 14, 2021
Life with Jeffrey Smart and Natalya Hughes takes on the shrink's couch
Dec 07, 2021
Doug Aitken, Robert Andrew's machines with ochre residue and the lost Leonardo da Vinci
Nov 30, 2021
NFTs: next gen, reclaiming Bougainville and being an 'unwilling inspiration'
Nov 23, 2021
Christopher Pease layers Nyoongar iconography over colonial vistas
Nov 16, 2021
Doing Feminism, painting riverscapes and polar ice art at COP26
Nov 09, 2021
A history of Venus in art with Bettany Hughes
Nov 02, 2021
Cocktails with a curator, art on the news and Matisse in the Pacific
Oct 26, 2021
Know My Name episode 6: Rosalie Gascoigne
Oct 25, 2021
Know My Name episode 5: Mari Funaki
Oct 24, 2021
Know My Name episode 4: Margaret Olley
Oct 23, 2021
Know My Name episode 3: Ivy Shore
Oct 22, 2021
Know My Name episode 2: Gwyn Hanssen Pigott
Oct 21, 2021
Know My Name episode 1: Grace Cossington Smith
Oct 20, 2021
Public art, toppled monuments and the statue in the crate
Oct 19, 2021
'We perpetuate this myth of not having a history': taking art beyond black-white terms
Oct 12, 2021
Fifty years of the Western Desert art movement, Leigh Bowery, Mari Katayama and Darwin street art
Oct 05, 2021
Goya, Tik Tok art history and wine that draws
Sep 29, 2021
Renaissance amnesia, Vernon Ah Kee, and a mysterious Sydney painting
Sep 22, 2021
How Instagram has changed how we see and experience art
Sep 15, 2021
Maree Clarke, collages of protest and Craig Ruddy's studio
Sep 08, 2021
What two Hazara artists feel about Afghanistan, and a new art movement is forged in metal
Sep 01, 2021
Cooking Sections art collective, Kathy Temin's fake fur and Ian Fairweather in China
Aug 25, 2021
Anne Wallace, a mystery tomb fresco and art from Western Arnhem Land
Aug 18, 2021
Hilda Rix Nicholas, the art of the book cover and the NATSIAAs
Aug 11, 2021
Mapping a lost Beirut and the return of stolen 'living gods'
Aug 04, 2021
Endurance act: performance art in Australia
Jul 28, 2021
Breaking the myths of whiteness in classical sculpture
Jul 21, 2021
Artist Dale Harding joins forces with mother Kate, and a war photographer snaps the climate crisis
Jul 14, 2021
Betty Muffler: the phenomenal artist healing country
Jul 07, 2021
Surrealists at sea, fake food, and the Beijing Silvermine
Jun 30, 2021
The wondrous Hilma af Klint, Tania Ferrier's angry underwear and the question of portraiture
Jun 23, 2021
Goya, Tik Tok art history and wine that draws
Jun 16, 2021
Portrait of a nation: the Archibald at 100
Jun 09, 2021
'Frankenstein was a really bad parent': Patricia Piccinini's mutants light up a ballroom
Jun 02, 2021
Behind the portraits of the cult 'Aussie' poster series
May 26, 2021
Finding Australia's lost impressionist, and the beauty in gumnuts
May 19, 2021
'It lit a fire in me': How Atong Atem flips the ethnographic gaze
May 12, 2021
Hostile topographies, the iPhone miniature and museums in the age of COVID-19
May 05, 2021
'It's a sculpture' — understanding and protecting Australia's oldest art
Apr 28, 2021
'This is Aotearoa's First of everything' — Yuki Kihara goes to the Venice Biennale
Apr 21, 2021
Khadim Ali's Invisible Border
Apr 14, 2021
Candid camera: William Yang on his life in photography
Apr 07, 2021
Vernon Ah Kee and Liz Ann Macgregor
Mar 30, 2021
Yhonnie Scarce, Dirty Three's Mick Turner, and the joy of zines
Mar 23, 2021
Robert Owen, shoemaker Claire Best and the crazy world of NFTs
Mar 16, 2021
Four women artists tackling the environmental and body issues of the everyday
Mar 09, 2021
Kay Rufai's smiling boys, lush landscapes and the secret history of tattoos
Mar 02, 2021
Hoda Afshar and Clarice Beckett
Feb 23, 2021
Rescue dogs and the good life: the art of Lucy Culliton
Feb 16, 2021
Love stories of 20th century art
Feb 09, 2021
The long journey to Slow Art
Feb 02, 2021
Refik Anadol: the artist bringing AI dreams to life
Jan 26, 2021
Sandra Hill on art and reconciliation
Jan 19, 2021
Sebastian Smee on criticism during COVID
Jan 12, 2021
Art and creativity in Papua New Guinea
Jan 05, 2021
Jerry Saltz on How to Be an Artist
Dec 29, 2020
Lindy Lee and Areej Nur
Dec 22, 2020
Confronting our fraught family histories
Dec 15, 2020
Olafur Eliasson's disappearing glaciers
Dec 08, 2020
What does access look like in the arts?
Dec 01, 2020
Lisa Hilli on how her black experience shapes her creativity
Nov 24, 2020
Judy Watson on using beauty to confront Australia's colonial history
Nov 17, 2020
Polly Borland: 'The difficult things have to be looked at'
Nov 10, 2020
Griselda Pollock: 'It's a delusion to think you make any progress'
Nov 03, 2020
Kay Rufai on creating change with black boy joy
Oct 27, 2020
Michael Zavros on Money, Migration and Mannequins
Oct 20, 2020
Hetti Perkins and Australia's 40,000 year history of artists as cultural activists
Oct 13, 2020
Brook Andrew is leading artists in urgent times
Oct 06, 2020
Lindy Lee on finding belonging as an artist
Sep 30, 2020
Olivia Laing on loneliness and repair
Sep 23, 2020
Art and creativity in Papua New Guinea
Sep 16, 2020
Del Kathryn Barton on the dangers of losing touch with our child selves
Sep 09, 2020
Abdul-Rahman Abdullah on family, religion and animals
Sep 02, 2020
Aretha Brown on confidence in activism and art
Aug 26, 2020
John Kaldor on what's next and who he's excited by now
Aug 19, 2020
Jasmine Togo-Brisby on creating South Sea spaces
Aug 12, 2020
Body talk: Julie Rrap's creative journey around the female form
Aug 05, 2020
An African Australian art collective making space where there was none
Jul 29, 2020
Sebastian Smee on criticism during COVID
Jul 22, 2020
Hisham Matar on art, grief and healing
Jul 15, 2020
Maree Clarke on maintaining cultural practices
Jul 08, 2020
Liz Ann Macgregor on running the most popular contemporary art museum in the world
Jul 01, 2020
Djon Mundine on creating Aboriginal memorials
Jun 24, 2020
Callum Morton on monuments, art and activism
Jun 17, 2020
Lisa Hilli on how her black experience shapes her creativity
Jun 10, 2020
Marking skin with Julia Mage'au Gray
Jun 03, 2020
Sandra Hill on art and reconciliation
May 27, 2020
Del Kathryn Barton on the dangers of losing touch with our child selves
May 20, 2020
Helen Grace on art and friendship
May 13, 2020
Recovery and resilience with Latai Taumoepeau
May 06, 2020
Olafur Eliasson's disappearing glaciers
Apr 29, 2020
Critiquing the 'colonial propaganda' in our museums
Apr 22, 2020
Jerry Saltz on How to Be an Artist
Apr 15, 2020