If you have a sense of dejas-vu with this post, it’s because it’s a repeat of last week’s. Unfortunately, ill health forced me to cancel the program last week, so you can hear it this week instead! At 10:40 am, Laila Ellmoos continues with Part 5 of Events That Shaped Sydney and this week we […]
Category: ARTS WEDNESDAY
Arts Wednesday 20 March 2019
At 10:40 am this week, Laila Ellmoos brings us Part 4 of Events That Shaped Sydney and this week we talk about the Greycliff disaster. My special guest at 11:00 am is artist, Gemma Smith, talking about her new exhibition at the UNSW Galleries. Entitled Rhythm Sequence. It is a survey of her work since […]
Arts Wednesday 13 March 2019
At 10:40 am, Laila Ellmoos, historian with the City of Sydney, once again joins us for Part 3 of Events That Shaped Sydney and this week, the topic is the timber strike of 1929. My special guest at 11:00 am this week is Dr Sam Arnold. Sam is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Program 3 […]
Arts Wednesday 6 March 2019
Laila Ellmoos joins us at 10:40 am for Part 2 of Events That Shaped Sydney and this week the topic is the Spanish flu in the wake of World War I. At 11:00 am, I’ll play the second of the interviews I recorded in Israel, this week with Dr Micha Gross, one of the founders […]
Arts Wednesday 27 February 2019
I’m so happy to be returning to Arts Wednesday this week after quite a long break, but more of that later. Laila Ellmoos, historian with the City of Sydney, returns this week with a new 6-part series: Events That Shaped Sydney and in Part 1, we talk about the attempted assassination of Prince Alfred in […]
Arts Wednesday 6 February 2019
guest presenter – Bronwyn Rennex On Arts Wednesday today I speak to Amanda Solomon, who is co-founder of Arterie at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (RPA). Arterie is an art and health program designed to deliver the creative arts to everyone who interacts with Royal Prince Alfred Hospital. Arterie @RPA forms part of a holistic approach […]
Arts Wednesday 23 January 2019
At 10:40 am, Les Rice, Tattooist and artist, joins us for the final part of Beauty, the repeat 6-part series. Are tattoos beautiful? My special guest at 11:00 am is Dr Keith Suter, Foreign Affairs editor for Sunrise, among his many titles (including no less than 3 PhD’s!), talking about warfare today and yes, it […]
Arts Wednesday 16 January 2019
I am so looking forward to being back at the console this week. We start the show with a bit of unfinished business from last, with 2 more episodes left on Beauty and this week it’s James Franklin with Beauty and Mathematics. My special guest at 11:00 am is Andrew Tink, auth pr Honeysuckle Creek: […]
Arts Wednesday 19 December 2018
At 10:40 am, we continue with Part 4 of the repeat series on Beauty and this week, make-up artist and body builder, Rachel D’arbon is the guest. At 11:00 am, social analyst Neer Korn makes his annual return to Arts Wednesday, talking about the major studies he conducted during the course of 2018. We talk […]
Arts Wednesday 12 December 2018
At 10:40 am, we hear Part 3 of the repeat series on Beauty and this week, art philosopher Damian Freeman talks about Art and Beauty. At 11:00 am, my special guest is Peter Raissis, Curator of European Art at the Art Gallery of NSW and the gallery’s curator who worked with the team from The […]
Arts Wednesday 5 December 2018
We continue at 10:40 am with Part 2 of the repeat series on Beauty and this week, Plastic Surgeon Norman Olbourne gives us his take on what beauty is. My special guest at 11:00 am, is Beatrice Gralton, Head Curator of Visual Art at Carriageworks, talking about the latest exhibition by American artist Nick Cave, […]
Arts Wednesday 28 November 2018
This week, I am starting with a replay of Part 1 of a Six-part series I recorded almost 5 years ago, entitled Beauty. During the course of the series, I speak with a philosopher, a plastic surgeon, a make-up artist and body builder, an art theorist, a mathematician and a tattoo artist. This week I […]