With a focus on the contemporary art scene in Naarm / Melbourne, we're here to showcase art and culture. Contributors and presenters interview, review, and cover current and upcoming exhibitions, practices and everything in between. Art Smitten is the place for expanding your knowledge of art! Art Smitten is a SYN Media Podcast.
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In this episode, Afrina shares an interview with Irish-Palestinian artist Yosef Phelan @yosefphelan who explores identity and familial histories through hand drawn animations, audio recordings and short film. We also discuss works from the current exhibition Wurrdha Marra at NGV Australia, Daniel Spoerri's Prose Poems (1959-60), and went on a tangent about the impact of community radio. Art…
For our final episode of the season, the Art Smitten team are reflecting on music that reminds us of works of art … 💭🎶 Every week we celebrate visual art experiences through the audio medium of radio, so we can't wait to celebrate this tension and explore how our senses collide and inform one another 💌 Artworks discussed: David Hockney, We Two Boys Together Clinging, 1961. Matilda Davis,…
In this episode we will be exploring Radical hope as a way to live, make and create during times of uncertainty. We discuss the current exhibition 'Inter-narratives of hope: building catastrophe resilience' curated by Isabella Hone-Saunders and Paul Boy as part of the MADA curator-in-residence program. Isabella joined us in the studio to chat with us all about the project! Also, Mio shares the…
Art Smitten is dishing up a special on 'art speak' and the vernacular we use when talking about art 🗣️🗣️🗣️ The team will be reflecting on a recent attempt by the National Gallery of Art in Washington to Gen Z-ify art history. We will also be reflecting on John Berger's influential series 'Ways of Seeing' and discover what the heck ekphrasis means!?!!?!? 🤎🤎Tune in Mondays at 3-5pm on SYN…
For this week's episode of Art Smitten ~ we are looking to the world around us and discussing how nature inspires artistic practice 🔍🐛🐜🌷🐦 ⬛ The team visited the Potter Museum of Art's current exhibition 'a velvet ant, a flower and a bird', and will be speaking to Pippa Milne all about the show! Art Smitten airs Mondays 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia Image: Ingela Ihrman, Waterlily Amazonica,…
We are putting the SMITTEN into Art Smitten this week as we discuss art that act as measures of devotion <3 🏹 During the show we will be joined by Isabel from the State Library of Victoria to discuss the current exhibition 'Rebel Heart: Love Letters and Other Declarations' ✍️ Jen also discusses the conceptual art of Felix Gonzalez-Torres in the art that has us smitten segment and we briefly chat…
This episode explores the bed and our rooms as sites for artistic expression + resistance 💭 🛌 Speaking first to George @cinnam0nros3 about their essays on Beside Oracle before hearing about an upcoming group exhibition curated by Nina @nini.beani titled 'forever bedroom' 🤍🤍🤍 Art Smitten airs 3-5pm Mondays on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia ☁️ Image courtesy of Nina Seeburg. See omnystudio.com/listener…
The long weekend is the perfect time to tick off all those movies on your watchlist - so that's exactly what we will be talking about on today's show! 📽️ Tyra talks about Vietnamese film 'Bunny!!' (2026), Astra speaks to 'Wanda' (1970), Afrina reflects on her recent trip to Taiwan and the team discuss recent comments made by Timoth e Chalamet dissing the opera and ballet ... Art Smitten airs live…
Get out of your house and onto the streets for today's episode of Art Smitten 🗞️ In our episode, we will be discussing the streets as inspiration featuring a discussion about Mierle Laderman Ukeles, Death in Brunswick (1990) and a special conversation with Savannah from City Gallery. 📸 Their exhibition 'On The Streets Where I Live' features the work of Viva Gibb who photographed neighbourhoods…
Astra speaks with Ben, the programmer for Fed Square's Open Air! Hear them speak in detail about the uniqueness of outdoor cinematic experiences, public space activation and the films on offer for the 2026 program. Art Smitten airs 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
