Television Programs of Interest (Sat 10th July to Fri 16th July 2010)

• CEZANNE

This program explores the life and works of artist, Paul Cezanne.
Saturday 10 July 2010 3.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• TIM MARLOW MEETS RENEE FLEMING

Tim meets American soprano Renee Fleming at the Neue Galerie and Chuck Close's Studio, New York.
Saturday 10 July 2010 3.30pm (not screening WA)
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• MICHAEL CRAIG-MARTIN

Focuses on painter and conceptual artist Michael Craig-Martin, who was a significant influence on the emerging YBA (Young British Artist) generation, and artists such as Damien Hirst.
Saturday 10 July 2010 4.00pm (not screening WA)
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 35 mins

• IOU: ROBIN BOYD

The final part of IOU pays tribute to Robin Boyd (1919 - 1971) - the great modernist Australian architect, writer and public intellectual.
Sunday 11 July 2010 9.00pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has this program available for loan on DVD.

• ALICE NEEL

A biography of the American artist, written and directed by her grandson Andrew Neel. She was an extraordinary woman and an amazing artist who only achieved fame at the end of her life.
Sunday 11 July 2010 11.10pm
ABC1 Rating: MCC Rpt
Duration: 85 mins

• ART NATION

Fenella Kernebone visits the World Press Exhibition, Geoff Newton meets Raafat Ishak and we hear from Dan Sultan.
Sunday 11 July 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• INFINITE SPACE: THE ARCHITECTURE OF JOHN LAUTNER

The lifelong quest of visionary architect John Lautner was to create timeless, free joyous space for all of life's activities. This film traces his brilliance and how he created the most sensual architecture of the 20th century.
Sunday 11 July 2010 7.30pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC
Duration: 90 mins

• TALKING HEADS: KEN DONE

This week on Talking Heads, Peter Thompson chats with Ken Done. Who knows what percentage of the population has owned one of his Sydney Harbour tea towels? Obsessed by colour from a young age, seeing a Matisse exhibition in his early 20s changed Done's life.
Monday 12 July 2010 3.30am (early hours)
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• MESSAGE STICK: TWELVE CANOES - EP 1 OF 3

A series of short films that paint a compelling portrait of the people, history, culture and place of the Yolngu people whose homeland is the Arafura Swamp of north-central Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory.
Monday 12 July 2010 5.30am (early hours)
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Featuring new ideas to help amateur guitar players imitate the masters, help electricians to wire buildings in half the usual time and light up the lives of the world's poorest people.
Wednesday 14 July 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 3 - EP 5 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 14 July 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has Season 1 of this series available for loan on DVD.

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: PETERBOROUGH

John and Terri Westlake never intended to self-build. They were looking to buy a house near Peterborough, in the county of Cambridgeshire, when they came across a tumbledown cottage backing onto woodland, with great views across open countryside.
Thursday 15 July 2010 6.05pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 55 mins

• NOISE ON SCREEN

Meet Darcy Prendergast, a clay animator who's inspired by the "weirder people of society"; spend time with heavy metal music-inspired illustrator, Aska Dolinska and go wide lens with Sam Shmith's epic landscape montages.
Friday 16 July 2010 3.15am (early hours)
ABC1 Rating: MCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• CRACKING THE COLOUR CODE: THE POWER OF COLOUR - EP 3 OF 3

In this final episode we look at the fascinating power of colour: from ancient ritualistic uses of colour through to its use by modern marketeers. Along the way we delve into the work of anthropologists, scientists and designers to explore what is myth and what is truth about the power of colour. How much is known about the hold colour has on us? And how does colour affect us emotionally, physically and mentally?
Friday 16 July 2010 2.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: G *Final*CC WS Rpt
Duration: 60 mins
*The Learning Centre has this series available for loan on DVD.