Television Programs of Interest (Sat 19th June to Fri 25th June 2010)

• FRANCIS PICABIA BY HOPI LEBEL

This program explores the life and works of artist, Francis Picabia.
Saturday 19 June 2010 3.00pm (not screening SA, NT, WA)
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• LIVING WITH THE FUTURE: EP 5 OF 6

Davis visits a house located in the northwest of England, in the Ribble Valley. It is designed by two Iranian sisters for a blended family. Separate houses have their own gardens, all connected by an overhead bridge, leading to the formal and informal areas. All angles of the vast house are odd, and it is covered with thatch cladding to blend in with the surrounding countryside.
Saturday 19 June 2010 4.00pm (Not screening SA, NT, WA)
SBS ONE Rating: GCC WS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• TIM MARLOW MEETS PAUL SMITH

Tim Marlow meets some of the world's most admired creative individuals to reveal how visual art inspires and motivates them in their life and work. Designer Paul Smith meets Tim at his studio in London.
Saturday 19 June 2010 3.30pm (Not screening WA)
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• TALES FROM A SUITCASE: GEORGE GITTOES

This episode centres on George Gittoes, one of the most important and influential artists in Australia today, whose profound interest in the effect of war and civil conflict has led him to trouble spots all over the world.
Sunday 20 June 2010 1.00pm (12.30pm SA & NT, 12pm WA)
SBS ONE Rating: PGCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins
*This program is available for loan from the Learning Centre

• ART NATION

Namila Benson visits Bennett Miller's installation Dachshund U.N. at the 2010 Next Wave Festival, Australia's largest festival for young artists. Bennett's performance piece features a large cast of real sausage dogs.
Sunday 20 June 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE ARTFUL CODGERS

The remarkable story of how old age pensioners from working class Bolton in the UK managed to fool the art world's experts, making an unprecedented range of fakes in their backyard garden shed.
Sunday 20 June 2010 7.30pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC
Duration: 50 mins

• STOLEN

In 1990 during the early hours of the day after St.Patrick's Day, thieves disguised as policemen gained access to Boston's Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and successfully executed the largest art heist in modern history. Among the stolen priceless works was Vermeer's The Concert, one of only 35 surviving works from the master. To date, not a single work has been recovered. Stolen is a full exploration of this unusual crime and the fascinating, disparate characters involved.
Sunday 20 June 2010 8.20pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC
Duration: 55 mins

• FACE PAINTING WITH BILL LEAK: JUNE SALTER - EP 2 OF 6

In this week's episode Bill paints June Salter and faces his toughest test with the portrait of the popular actress/entertainer, as he struggles to capture her iconic personality on canvas.
Tuesday 22 June 2010 6.00pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• ARTSCAPE: ARTISTS AT WORK - DEL KATHRYN BARTON

Since winning the 2008 Archibald Prize, Del Kathryn Barton has been one of the most rapidly rising stars in the Australian contemporary art world. Barton's richly colourful and hallucinogenic works offer a complex, often disorienting meditation upon the nature of reality. Barton is a woman on a crusade, to express herself as honestly as she can in her work - a strange and magical world of fecund landscapes populated by hermaphrodites and animal familiars.
Tuesday 22 June 2010 10.00pm
ABC1 Rating: MACC
Duration: 30 mins

• DESIGN FOR LIFE: EP 3 OF 6

After last week's disastrous presentation, Philippe Starck wanted to send all the students home, but instead he let them all stay - considering them to be equally as bad as each other. On tonight's episode of Design For Life, Philippe gives them the same brief as last week but under strict instructions that they must now all work alone. With only a week to prove themselves, the students waste no time getting on with the project, some choosing to fine tune their original ideas, others choosing to pursue a new concept.
Wednesday 23 June 2010 8.30pm
ABC2 CC
Duration: 60 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: CARMARTHEN

Welsh couple Andrew and Lowri Davies embark on a project to build an environmentally friendly farmhouse in south Wales. Encouraged by their architect, they opt for some state-of-the-art experimental building materials that have never been used together before.
Thursday 24 June 2010 6.05pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 55 mins