Television Programs of Interest (Sat 14th March to Fri 20th March 2009)

• US ART IN THE 21ST CENTURY: PARADOX - SERIES 4, EP 4 OF 4

The fourth season of this popular series continues the portrayal of the state of contemporary visual art in the United States. Each artist showcases their art allowing viewers to observe them at work, whilst explaining the thought processes and events that inspire and send them in a particular creative direction.
Saturday 14 March 2009 3.25pm
SBS Rating: (G, WS)
Duration: 65 mins

• SUNDAY ARTS

This week on Sunday Arts Steven Heathcote and Stephen Page get together in our new segment One on One; Fenella Kernebone takes a look at graduate art exhibitions; and we follow three hopefuls in the lead up to the 2009 National Photographic Portrait Prize.
Sunday 15 March 2009 5.00pm
ABC1
Duration: 60 mins

• ARTSCAPE: THE ART LIFE - STARRY STARRY NIGHT, SERIES 2: EP 1 OF 3

What does it mean to be an artist today? What do artists do? And how do ideas about the role of the artist affect the way art is made and seen? These are the questions explored in the second series of The Art Life, an essay-style documentary series about contemporary Australian art, written and presented by Andrew Frost. Featuring interviews with leading contemporary artists and curators, The Art Life is a rich and varied look at the practice of art today.
Tuesday 17 March 2009 10.05pm
ABC1 Rating: (PG) *New Series*
Duration: 30 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Features new ideas on how to get fresh water from your backpack; rethink the family home; and save concreters from a broken back.
Wednesday 18 March 2009 8.00pm
ABC1
Duration: 30 mins

• THIS IS CIVILISATION: FEELINGS - EP 2 OF 4

Forty years on from Kenneth Clark's landmark series Civilisation, art critic Matthew Collings offers his own interpretation of Western art history for a modern audience, at a time where contemporary art and tastes reflect our own lack of belief in anything at all. In each episode, Collings chooses key moments when there was a fundamental shift in attitudes towards, and the objectives of art. From Greek and Roman classicism glorifying man, through to religious art and art as a saviour of the soul, and on to the nihilism of modern art.
Thursday 19 March 2009 8.30pm
SBS Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 55 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS: BIRMINGHAM

Through training and specialising in different skills, a multi-cultural group of people on low or assisted incomes will build 11 houses.
Thursday 19 March 2009 6.10pm
ABC1 Rating: (G, Rpt)
Duration: 50 mins

*The Learning Centre has episodes of this series available for loan

• DESIGNERS: TIMBER FURNITURE - EP 3 OF 10

A timber furniture designer shows how a bench and a screen are made: from the selection of the right timbers to construction using traditional joinery and woodworking machines.
Friday 20 March 2009 10.45am
ABC1 Rating: (Rpt)
Duration: 15 mins