Television Programs of Interest (Sat 3rd July to Fri 9th July 2010)

• TIM MARLOW MEETS TONY BENNETT

Tim meets legendary singer and artist Tony Bennett at the Metropolitan Museum, New York to discuss all things art.
Saturday 3 July 2010 3.30pm (not screening WA)
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• YINKA SHONIBARE

Profiles contemporary British-Nigerian artist Yinka Shonibare who talks about his recent work and the struggle to realise new ideas and projects.
Saturday 3 July 2010 4.00pm (Eastern States only)
SBS ONE Rating: PGWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• WHO THE #$&% IS JACKSON POLLOCK?

When a 73-year-old American long- distance truck driver with an eighth grade education bought a painting in a thrift shop for five dollars, she didn't know it would pit her against the most powerful people in the art community. Teri Horton learned that a fingerprint on the back of her canvas matched a fingerprint found on a can of paint in Jackson Pollock's studio. More research found the paint on the floor of his studio also matched the paint on Teri's canvas. Because Teri knew a Jackson Pollock painting the size of hers was worth upwards of $50 million, she thought she had won the lottery. "Not so fast,'' said the art world.
Sunday 4 July 2010 11.20pm
ABC1 Rating: PGCC Rpt
Duration: 80 mins

• ANATOMY: MUSCLE - EP 3 OF 3

Anatomy is a documentary series comprised of three unusual and compelling stories - Skin, Heart and Muscle - which explore how sexuality and the body work together as driving forces in the creative process. Muscle is an intimate film about the extremes of strength and frailty in the human body. For Simon Yates, Jo Lancaster and Mozes, the three members of nomadic performance troupe Acrobat, the body is everything.
Sunday 4 July 2010 9.00pm
ABC2 Rating: M *Final*CC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has this program available for loan on DVD.

• ART NATION

Fenella Kernebone looks at the legacy of photographer Alfred Stieglitz, Henry Wagons sings with ChorusOz and The Cat Empire performs.
Sunday 4 July 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• EMILY IN JAPAN

A $50 million exhibition of more than 200 works of Indigenous artist Emily Kame Kngwarreye, toured Japan in February 2008. It was the largest solo exhibition of an Australian artist to tour overseas. This film examines the amazing impact the works had, taking the art world by storm in Osaka and Tokyo.
Sunday 4 July 2010 7.30pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 60 mins

• NOT A WILLING PARTICIPANT

Shot in Australia and Italy, this program looks at Cairns-born artist Vernon Ah Kee's installation at the 2009 Venice Biennale.
Sunday 4 July 2010 8.30pm
ABC2 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• FACE PAINTING WITH BILL LEAK: DR CHARLIE PERKINS - EP 4 OF 6

This week Bill is painting the activist for Indigenous rights, Dr Charles Perkins AO. Charlie was an exceptional Australian who broke new ground in just about everything he turned his hand too. To find out more about his portrait subject Bill talks to Charlie's good friends John Singleton, Malcolm Fraser, Chicka Dixon, Gordon Briscoe and photographer Robert McFarlane.
Tuesday 6 July 2010 6.00pm
ABC2 Rating: PGCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Featuring new ideas to assist farmers in checking the grain level when they are filling a silo; give your pot plants a new lease of life; and save homes from sinking.
Wednesday 7 July 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• DESIGN FOR LIFE: EP 6 OF 6

From the initial 12 students vying for a six month placement with Philippe Starck, it has now come down to two - don’t miss tonight’s final episode of Design For Life. After spending the last couple of months thinking, stressing, striving and working, 27-year-old Ilsa and 23-year-old Mike are now only a few weeks away from finding out which one of them will win the placement.
Wednesday 7 July 2010 8.30pm
ABC2 Rating: M *Final*CC
Duration: 60 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 3 - EP 4 OF 12

Hosted by Wil Anderson, with Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft, The Gruen Transfer lifts the lid on the business of persuasion. It is fast, furious and funny.
Wednesday 7 July 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has the first series of this program available for loan on DVD.

• MESSAGE STICK: BORN IN THIS SKIN

Vernon Ah Kee is a portraitist, graphic and video artist. In 2009 Ah Kee will become one of a select group of Australians whose work will be displayed on the most important visual arts stage in the world, the Venice Biennale.
Thursday 8 July 2010 5.30am (early hours)
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has this program available for loan on DVD.

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: PUGLIA

Artists David Westby and Leonie (Leo) Whitton bought a derelict olive farm in Puglia, a beautiful region of south-eastern Italy, otherwise known as the 'boot' of Italy. With a meagre budget, David and Leonie planned to transform the property to include a Roman-styled house for themselves and guest accommodation for visiting artists.
Thursday 8 July 2010 6.05pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 55 mins

• CRACKING THE COLOUR CODE: MAKING COLOURS - EP 2 OF 3

Taking the globe as its canvas, and drawing on science, history, art and other disciplines, this three-part series is a visual exploration of how we view colours, how we make them, and the meanings they hold in our world. This episode focuses on the nature of colour. It draws on the latest science to find out how - and why - humans and other living things view the world in colour.
Friday 9 July 2010 2.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: GCC WS Rpt
Duration: 60 mins
*The Learning Centre has this program available for loan on DVD.