The Art Show

Great conversations with visual artists, gallery and museum directors and curators.

Plus, V& A curator Victoria Broackes on pop culture exhibitions, and what is a bookwork?

Naomi Hobson grew up on some of the most beautiful country on the continent, Cape York Peninsula in far north Queensland, and is named after the hoop pine that grows there. Her southern Kaantju and Umpila culture has always been a driving force in her art, from bold expressive paintings to ceramics and photography. Her series Adolescent Wonderland features teenagers in her small community of Coen, displaying their humour, creativity and brilliance. First aired March 2023.

My Thing is ...the Persian poet Hafez. Artist Ali Tahayori always returns to the lyrical poetry of the master Hafez for inspiration in both life and art. Ali works with sparkling hand-cut mirrors that reference the traditional Iranian craft of Āine-Kāri. Through light and mirror, he explores transcendent moments and what it means to be queer and diasporic. First aired February 2023.

The 2023 Vermeer exhibition at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam was the largest ever assembled of the artist's works. Gregor Weber is a curator and Vermeer biographer and tells producer Rosa Ellen about where Vermeer might have got hold of a camera obscura to achieve his brilliant illusion of perspective. First aired May 2023.