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Finnish artist Tove Jansson lived a richly unconventional life as a visual artist and writer and is best known as the creator... more
Since 2008 CoUNTess has been commenting and reporting on art institutions, prizes and journalism, exposing the unequal gender representation in... more
In 1989 photographer Anne Zahalka recreated a well-known painting of stylised, muscular white Australians frolicking on the beach, into a... more
Badiucao is a Chinese-Australian political cartoonist and artist who makes work primarily about China's human rights record and role in international... more
Painter Prudence Flint has a career spanning 35 years, best known for enigmatic pictures of female protagonists in surreal domestic... more
Maree Clarke is a key figure in the reclamation and revival of South East Australian Indigenous art, over a three-decade career. For... more
When did artists begin doing ‘residencies’? From the patronage system of Renaissance Italy, to artists’ colonies of the 19th Century and... more
Gunditjmara artist Hayley Millar Baker sets her latest film work at the witching hour, when the spirit world and physical... more
Pierre Bonnard was a key artist in a movement that came after Impressionism: Les Nabis. Influenced by the flat colour... more
Daniel Browning travels to London's Tate Modern, to speak with artist Richard Bell about his ongoing installation Embassy, inspired by... more
Artist Louise Zhang uses a multi-hued palette and traditional Chinese symbols to explore the horror genre, spiritual beliefs and her own cultural history, on her... more
Indian conceptual artist Mithu Sen talks about the idea of 'radical hospitality' and how she pokes fun at the art world's... more
Mark Valenzuela makes magical sculptural installations based on a military upbringing and living in two worlds - Australia and the Philippines.... more
Julia Gutman won Australia's most prestigious painting prize for a portrait sewn with fabric. She chats to guest host Rosa Ellen... more
The Portrait of Mai (Omai) by Sir Joshua Reynolds depicts a youthful Polynesian man who visited England in the 1770s... more
Charmaine Papertalk Green writes poetry inspired by individual paintings of the late Nyoongar artist Shane Pickett. The ancient Greeks called this... more
Daniel speaks with the pioneering US photographer, activist and UCLA Professor Catherine Opie, whose early portraits of her genderqueer community challenged... more
Environmental artist Janet Laurence tells us the story behind her latest exhibition, based on life-changing trips to Antarctica and Iceland. Plus, fashion... more
It’s a bit like the art world State of Origin: two rival cities go head to head with big exhibitions... more
On this highlights episode of the show, Daniel speaks to guests Sally Scales and Nici Cumpston about the meteoric rise... more
2023 is going to be the year of AI art. If you’ve been playing around with text-to-image apps like DALL-E... more
What can a new Andy Warhol exhibition teach us about social media and the cult of celebrity? Plus, an artist... more
Hoda Afshar on the impact of protest art and photography in the Women, Life, Freedom uprising in Iran. Plus, the... more
On this episode, two artists and two very different takes on place and belonging. Callum Morton focuses on the built environment... more
Dylan Mooney's work celebrates young Black characters embodying queer love. And he does it in a bold, heartfelt graphic style that... more
Jennifer Higgie talks about her new book on women artists and the spirit world. Plus, Daniel visits the largest collection... more
2023 is going to be the year of AI art. If you’ve been playing around with text-to-image apps like DALL-E... more
Five years ago, Texta Queen was riding high with a mid-career survey show, that should have marked a significant achievement for... more
Jerry Saltz is the Pulitzer prize-winning art critic for New York Magazine. Before he turned his hand to writing at... more
Great conversations with visual artists, gallery and museum directors and curators.
Great conversations with visual artists, gallery and museum directors and curators.
Enter the eclectic studio and thought-provoking work of the Wiradjuri installation artist Karla Dickens. Plus, we look at ‘wild clay',... more
Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian-Ukrainian photographer who captures human activity on Earth that's normally too big to perceive, except through aerial photography.
Cressida Campbell is best known for beautiful scenes of domestic interiors and still life arrangements, achieved through an intriguing technique.... more
Classicist Mary Beard examines art inspired by the lives and excesses of the Caesars, who wielded power in cruel and immoral ways.
You know the Japanese superstar artist Yayoi Kusama for her polka dots and infinity mirror rooms, and giant spotted pumpkins.
A trash-talking episode of The Art Show. We live on a planet choking on post-consumer waste and single-use plastics, so is... more
Dame Barbara Hepworth is a revered figure in British art, who has never had a dedicated solo show in Australia. Her... more
We meet a member of Taring Padi, the Indonesian artists' collective at the centre of an art controversy at Documenta... more
British filmmaker Phil Grabsky is responsible for a prolific number of documentaries about famous artists, often in collaboration with large museums.... more
We look at the love story between two of modern art's greats: Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns... but is it... more
Australian-born Polly Borland is best known for photographing kink sub cultures, Nick Cave and the late Queen, but she has also... more
In the 1960s Vivienne Binns scandalised critics with her joyfully sexual paintings of giant genitalia and Dada-inspired pop art. But instead... more
Paul Yore's colourful artworks riff off pop culture, queer identity, religion and politics. In 2014, he was embroiled in a... more
Kara Walker is one of America’s most significant living artists, known for cut-paper silhouettes and gigantic public sculptures, using the... more
Edward Burtynsky is a Canadian-Ukrainian photographer who hangs out of helicopters to capture aerial scenes of rapid industrialisation and destruction, on Earth.... more
Drew Berry is a biomedical animator, who brings to life microscopic molecular processes in vivid colour. He’s won an Emmy for... more
One year on since the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, we speak to Adelaide-based Hazara artist and poet Elyas Alavi and photographer and... more
Fifty years ago, a stunning glacial outwash lake in southwest lutruwita/Tasmania disappeared under an inundation of river water for a hydro-electric... more
Tennant Creek Brio is a collective of artists who met in a men’s art therapy group. Their latest show Shock and Ore... more
Singing stars, anti-apartheid activists, writers and mavericks are among the Southern African women honoured by visual artists in a new... more
Curator Petrit Abazi fled Kosovo as a child with his parents and now heads a contemporary art centre in Darwin.... more
Bruce Munro is the hugely popular light installation artist who filled the foreground of Uluru with a Field of Light.... more
Can you separate the misogynist from the art? If you walk around the winter blockbuster The Picasso Century at the... more
Richard Bell is one of the few individual artists curated into Documenta 15, the highly-anticipated global survey of contemporary art.... more
A conversation with artist Daniel Boyd whose work has focussed on reframing Eurocentric images from Australia's past. Plus, Sally Ryan... more
Have you ever walked through an epic entanglement of red cotton thread, by the artist Chiharu Shiota? The Japanese installation... more
Why artist and curator David Sequeira doesn't believe in just a 'pop of colour'. How a colour-blind artist adapted to... more
We start the show at the Parade for the Moon in Melbourne's Chinatown, part of the city's RISING festival. Then Daniel... more
Daniel chats with artist brothers Abdul-Rahman and Abdul Abdullah, who are close in life but not so much in their... more
The American artist Kiki Smith talks about tapestry and her long career. My Art Crush: painter and printmaker Kirtika Kain makes... more
How often does a political artwork fall into the national spotlight during a federal election? Hear from Archibald portrait prize... more
Greetings from the 22nd La Biennale di Venezia, in Italy! The Venice Biennale is known as the Olympics of the art... more
What do artists think about when making huge public art? Lindy Lee is making the most expensive work commissioned by... more
Rebecca Belmore is one of Canada's most important artists and is now having her first Australian solo show. Plus, visit Sally... more
Marco Fusinato is representing Australia at the 2022 Venice Biennale with work for 'monstrous times'. Plus, artworks that tell queer stories... more
Victor Ehikhamenor is one of Nigeria’s most prominent artists and calls for the Benin bronzes, the looted cultural treasures of... more
David Noonan makes intriguing black-and-white collage of people in often liminal states. But despite their evocative drama, his pictures don't... more
Ian Strange uses entire houses -slated for demolition- as his canvas, exploring the symbolism of 'home' through eras of unaffordability... more
Colombian artist Carolina Caycedo gives voice to rivers dammed for huge hydroelectric projects. What happens when the art world turns its... more
Aunty Elaine Russell has legendary status in her home town of Sydney. She was an artist and storyteller who inspired... more
British filmmaker and installation artist Isaac Julien on his latest works: a spellbinding interpretation of Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi... more
Jennifer Herd is a Mbarbarrum artist and founding member of Brisbane's proppaNOW art collective.
Floods have ravaged art galleries and studios in northern New South Wales. We hear from a gallery director and artist... more
Dianne Jones is a provocative photo-media artist who manipulates images from colonial art to give prominence to Indigenous people.
The goddess of love has reigned supreme through Western art, but her roots are darker, more ancient and shape-shifting than... more
Laurel Nannup is a Noongar artist and elder who grew up near Pinjara in Western Australia. As part of the... more
Who makes up “the canon” in Art today? A new book picks 50 artists from around the world, and across... more
Julie Gough is a Trawlwoolway artist whose practice often refers to her family's experiences as Tasmanian Aboriginal people and is... more
Patricia Piccinini is Australia’s foremost artist exploring the relationship between humanity and technology, and the ethical tensions it inspires in the... more
Julie Dowling is considered one of Australia's greatest exponents of the family portrait, but always with an Indigenous focus.
Vivienne Binns shocked critics in the 1960s with her joyful paintings of giant genitalia and Dada-inspired assemblages. Now aged 81,... more
Know My Name Series Two: interviews with Indigenous women artists from the ABC archives. In this episode meet Fiona Foley,... more
How does mindfulness stimulate artists? Meet the artists and curators of a new exhibition exploring mindfulness and meditation, called Presence... more
Enter the eclectic studio and thought-provoking work of the Wiradjuri installation artist Karla Dickens. Plus, is the Aboriginal flag, now freed... more
How has social media giant Instagram changed how we experience art? Experts, artists and critics weigh in on the photo... more
Anne Wallace paints film-like scenes of intimacy and psychological tension that speak to iso life and the female gaze. Plus, the... more
The rediscovery of Hilma af Klint's abstract paintings has taken the art world by storm, but what meaning can we... more
Performance art tests the limits of the body and the gallery space. Fiona Kelly McGregor's latest book relives its bracing... more
What if the use of white in classical sculpture was just a construct? For the ancient Greeks and Romans, sculptures... more
Franklin Sirmans is the curator of Family: Visions of a Shared Humanity, an exhibition of video works by renowned Black American, British... more
The enduring power of Jeffrey Smart's urban wastelands, and his comparatively beautiful life in Tuscany, as told by the late... more
US artist Doug Aitken looks to the future through the hyperconnected present, in New Era.| Plus, enter the studio of Robert... more
We take stock of NFTs and hear from three people invested in the future of tokens, including Jonathan Zawada, collaborator... more
Christopher Pease wanted to create his own visual language, one that spoke to European art tradition and the hidden iconography... more
A history of feminist art in Australia, painting western Tasmania and ice from a warming planet, at COP26.
The goddess of love has reigned supreme through Western art, but her roots are darker, more ancient and shape-shifting than... more
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Christopher Pease wanted to create his own visual language, one that spoke to European art tradition and the hidden iconography of his... more