Television Programs of Interest (Sat 18th December to Fri 24th December 2010)

• JAMES RAVILIOUS: A WORLD IN PHOTOGRAPHS

Looks at the life and work of British photographer James Ravilious.
Saturday 18 December 2010 3.20pm
SBS ONE Rating: G
WS Rpt
Duration: 35 mins

• THE PRIVATE LIFE OF A CHRISTMAS MASTERPIECE: THE MYSTIC NATIVITY

One of the most popular paintings in the National Gallery in London, Botticelli's Mystic Nativity is a picture of hope in difficult times. The Private Life of a Christmas Masterpiece reveals the story behind this work of art.
Sunday 19 December 2010 10.10pm
ABC1 Rating: G
CC
Duration: 50 mins

 

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 4th December to Fri 10th December 2010)

• TIM MARLOW MEETS: PETER BLAKE

Broadcaster and historian Tim Marlow meets Sir Peter Blake, the artist behind The Beatles' Sgt Pepper album cover, at Compton Verney in Warwickshire to discuss the works that have influenced and inspired him.
Saturday 4 December 2010 4.00pm
SBS ONE WS
Duration: 30 mins

• STOP. REWIND: GADGETS - EP 12 OF 13

In a single generation, digital has made redundant every gadget invented since 1950. Where will it end?
Wednesday 8 December 2010 6.00pm
ABC2 CC
Duration: 25 mins

• INSIDE THE GREAT MAGAZINES: EP 1 OF 3

Intelligent, provocative, glamorous and intriguing, this three-part series points the camera at the inside pages and inner workings of the first international medium. Venture inside the editor's suite and go on location to the interviews and the photo shoots of the greatest magazines in the world.
Wednesday 8 December 2010 8.30pm
ABC2 Rating: G CC Rpt
Duration: 50 mins

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 27th November to Fri 3rd December 2010)

• CLAUDE MONET PAINTER

This program explores the life and works of French painter, Claude Monet.
Saturday 27 November 2010 3.35pm
SBS ONE Rating: GRpt
Duration: 30 mins

• PAULA REGO: TELLING TALES

A portrait of the Portuguese-born painter, Paula Rego, considered one of the greatest living artists today. She talks intimately about the strange, dark influences on her work and her obsessions derived from folk tales and autobiographical details, which give flight to her extraordinary and sometimes grotesque imagination.
Saturday 27 November 2010 2.40pm
SBS ONE Rating: PGWS Rpt
Duration: 55 mins
*The Learning Centre has this program available for loan on DVD.

• TIM MARLOW MEETS: NITIN SAWHNEY

Firmly established as a world-class producer, songwriter, DJ, multi-instrumentalist, orchestral composer and cultural pioneer, Nitin Sawhney's talents span and transcend cultural barriers. Nitin invites Tim to meet him at the National Gallery of Art in London to discuss the inspiration he draws for his music from the diverse artwork there.
Saturday 27 November 2010 4.00pm
SBS ONE WS
Duration: 30 mins

• BIG, BIGGER, BIGGEST: SKYSCRAPER - EP 4 OF 4

The tallest man-made structure on Earth towering nearly half a mile high is the Burj Dubai Skyscraper in the Persian Gulf. This film reveals how seven ingenious technological breakthroughs enabled engineers to build this super-structure. From its double-decker elevators and fire-proof evacuation rooms to its unique wind-cheating design. Using a mix of CGI animation and on-location filming, the program reveals the innovations that changed Skyscraper design forever.
Saturday 27 November 2010 7.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: *Final*CC WS
Duration: 60 mins

• CHINA AVANT-GARDE: THE NEW CULTURAL REVOLUTION

Is Chinese modern art the greatest movement since Cubism? That's the opinion of many western experts stunned by the quality of work in China today and the pace at which it has emerged on the world scene since the end of Mao.
Sunday 28 November 2010 9.00pm
ABC2 Rating: PGCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• ART NATION

On the final episode of Art Nation for 2010, Fenella Kernebone reviews the upcoming exhibition at Sydney's Museum of Contemporary Art - Annie Leibovitz: A Photographer's Life 1990-2005.
Sunday 28 November 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 Rating: *Final*CC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE SOUTH BANK SHOW: DISNEY/PIXAR

This film is a celebration of the creative talents of the hand-drawn animation and groundbreaking computer animation techniques that the two studios Disney and Pixar, have brought to filmmaking.
Sunday 28 November 2010 7.30pm
ABC2 CC
Duration: 50 mins

• BRIAN ENO IN CONVERSATION

Recently in Australia as curator of the Luminous Festival at the Sydney Opera House is none other than the man internationally acclaimed as the father of ambient music - Brian Eno. Honouring his 30-odd years of creative achievements this program features an illuminating Q&A interview between Eno and ABC arts presenter Andrew Frost.
Monday 29 November 2010 3.30am (early hours)
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• STOP. REWIND: ENERGY - EP 11 OF 13

Over the past few decades all kinds of power supplies have been tried and tested - from atoms to chicken poo! This whole quest for cheap, clean, power isn't some tree-hugging trip. It's born of necessity - we're running out!
Wednesday 1 December 2010 6.00pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC
Duration: 25 mins

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 20th November to Fri 26th November 2010)

• TIM MARLOW MEETS: IAN RANKIN

Tim Marlow meets best-selling crime writer Ian Rankin at the National Galleries of Scotland in his home town of Edinburgh. Most famous for his award winning Inspector Rebus novels, Rankin talks openly about his life and career through his chosen works. These include a Francis Bacon piece and work from Scottish artists Eduardo Paolozzi and Douglas Gordon.
Saturday 20 November 2010 4.00pm
SBS ONE WS
Duration: 30 mins

• ART NATION

Provocative British artist Tracey Emin, environmental artist Carmel Wallace and 'reverse graffiti' artist Moose aka Paul Curtis are profiled. Music by Vida-Sunshyne.
Sunday 21 November 2010 5.30pm
ABC1
Duration: 30 mins

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 13th November to Fri 19th November 2010)

• UNFOLDING FLORENCE

Acclaimed director Gillian Armstrong reveals the many lives of flamboyant Australian design pioneer Florence Broadhurst in the feature-length documentary Unfolding Florence which had it's world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival last year. Featuring interviews with Maggie Tabberer, fashion designer Akira Isogawa and Florence Broadhurst's son Robert Lloyd-Lewis, Unfolding Florence also includes dramatised sequences.
Saturday 13 November 2010 8.35pm
SBS TWO Rating: PGCC WS Rpt
Duration: 90 mins
*The Learning Centre has this program available for loan on DVD.

• ART NATION

Fenella Kernebone finds street art on the walls of the NGV; Henry Wagons plays chess with leading contemporary artists; Ursula Yovich and her inspiring musical life story; and The Orbweavers play the program out.
Sunday 14 November 2010 5.30pm
ABC1
Duration: 30 mins

• ARTISTS AT WORK: RICHARD NYLON - EP 4 OF 4

Enter the whimsical, weird and wonderful world of feather torturer, Richard Nylon, one of Australia's finest and most original milliners. Whether you call his work 'wearable art', sculptural headgear or hats, one thing is certain: Nylon's work defies the notion of the conventional hat.
Thursday 18 November 2010 1.25am (early hours)
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• ARTISTS AT WORK: DAVID FRAZER - EP 3 OF 3

David Frazer is a Melbourne-based artist who specialises in various age-old forms of printmaking such as wood carving and etching. With imagination and wit, Frazer's work is imbued with images of nostalgia, love and longing; but always invested with optimism and his signature wry humour.
Friday 19 November 2010 3.30am (early hours)
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has this program available for loan on DVD.

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 30th October to Fri 5th November 2010)

• THE GATES

The Gates chronicles the intricate process of completing the 7,503 saffron-coloured gates and fabric panels used in project, The Gates, Central Park, New York City, 1979-2005. The project is a site-specific art installation by artists Christo and Jeanne-Claude. The documentary captures the soaring majesty of the project, along with its impact on thousands of amazed and occasionally sceptical witnesses who flocked to snowy Central Park to experience the art work over the course of 16 days, from the 12th of February, through to the 27th of February 2005.
Saturday 30 October 2010 2.45pm
SBS ONE Rating: PGWS Rpt
Duration: 100 mins

• JANET LAURENCE: THE LIFE WORLD

Take a behind-the-scenes journey into the intriguing work of one of Australia's most important living artists, Janet Laurence. Eight years in the making, this film follows Janet as she produces major installation artworks that have become part of our cities' landscapes.
Sunday 31 October 2010 9.00pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• BETWEEN THE FOLDS

Investigates the ancient art of origami and talks to a number of contemporary practitioners who are taking the medium to new levels. Includes interviews with artists, mathematicians, scientists and paper makers.
Sunday 31 October 2010 10.45pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 55 mins

• ARTSCAPE: VOICES IN THE DARK

Voices in the Dark documents Christina Henri's epic project Roses from the Heart, involving the creation of 25,566 embroidered bonnets, one for every convict woman transported to Australia from Great Britain in the 1800s. Henri's project asks us to consider the true legacy female convicts, sentenced for crimes of poverty and condemned by society as whores and wretches, have made to the societies we live in today.
Sunday 31 October 2010 6.30pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 85 mins
*The Learning Centre has this program available for loan on DVD

• ART NATION

Fenella Kernebone looks at a new music project at the Bionic Ear Institute in Melbourne; we take a behind-the-scenes peek at the play 'Black Face, White Mask' and folk band Cloud Control perform in the studio.
Sunday 31 October 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• EATING ART: THE LAST SUPPER - EP 9 OF 10

Oliver Peyton is a UK-based, Irish restaurateur and art connoisseur. In this series he follows the cultural trail, throughout Europe and the US, of landmark works of art which have food as a central motif.
Monday 1 November 2010 6.30pm
SBS TWO Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• STOP. REWIND: COMPUTERS - EP 7 OF 13

Where would the world be without computers? From humble beginnings, they've grown into the 'must have' item in just about every walk of life.
Wednesday 3 November 2010 6.00pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC
Duration: 25 mins

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 23rd October to Fri 29th October 2010)

• KILLER WHALE AND CROCODILE

A journey of great physical distances and lasting bonds, this film explores the soul of creativity and inspiration in two cultures half a world apart and now bonded in art. Two master carvers, one descended from the Salish Indian tribe on Canada's west coast and the other from the Sepik River in Papua New Guinea visit each other's community to learn and share their thriving culture.
Sunday 24 October 2010 10.50pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 50 mins

• ART NATION

Fenella Kernebone meets 2010 Melbourne International Arts Festival guest US rapper Sage Francis; Geoff Newton encounters The Hayloft Project; and Cloud Control performs in the studio.
Sunday 24 October 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• EATING ART: SQUARE MEALS - EP 8 OF 10

Oliver Peyton is a UK-based, Irish restaurateur and art connoisseur. In this series he follows the cultural trail throughout Europe and the US of landmark works of art which have food as a central motif.
Monday 25 October 2010 6.30pm
SBS TWO Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• EATING ART: SEA POWER - EP 6 OF 10

Oliver Peyton is a UK-based, Irish restaurateur and art connoisseur. In this series he follows the cultural trail throughout Europe and the US of landmark works of art which have food as a central motif.
Tuesday 26 October 2010 7.00pm
SBS TWO Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• ARTSCAPE: IN CONVERSATION WITH VIRGINIA TRIOLI - GILBERT AND GEORGE

In Conversation with Virginia Trioli features revealing in-depth interviews with major icons of the arts. This week is the turn of visual artists Gilbert and George. Gilbert and George are two quintessentially English contemporary artists renowned for their distinctive, highly formal appearance and manner. Discussions about their frequently taboo imagery featuring nudity, and depictions of sexual acts, not to mention faeces, urine and semen, makes this interview with Virginia Trioli an unusual one in terms of its subject matter.
Tuesday 26 October 2010 9.50pm
ABC1 Rating: MACC
Duration: 30 mins

• STOP. REWIND: FLIGHT - EP 6 OF 13

What the Wright Brothers started has come a long way - but no more so than in the Modern Age. The military can take the credit for just about every innovation in aircraft, but some of their ideas are truly jaw dropping.
Wednesday 27 October 2010 6.00pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC
Duration: 25 mins

• THE QUESTION MARK INSIDE

Follows the unique commission Martin Firrell received from St. Pauls Cathedral in London to celebrate the 300th anniversary of the completion of Christopher Wren's masterpiece. Firrell is often categorised as a cultural activist, an artist who projects text in public spaces to promote social change.
Thursday 28 October 2010 8.30pm
SBS TWO Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 60 mins

• ENOUGH ROPE WITH ANDREW DENTON: ROBERT HUGHES

Andrew's special guest on the final Enough Rope for 2006 is expat Australian author and art critic for The New York Times, Robert Hughes.
Friday 29 October 2010 12.30pm
ABC1 Rating: PGCC Rpt
Duration: 60 mins

• THINKING XXX

Acclaimed portrait photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders presents a behind-the-scenes look at the making of his new book of adult film star portraits. This documentary includes footage of the photographer using a large format portrait camera to create the shots in his book, as well as conversations with the actors, who discuss how they began their careers, how being a porn star has changed their lives and how they feel about sex and the industry. In addition, authors, artists and cultural observers - such as Karen Finley, Nancy Friday, Richard Johnson, Adrian Nicole LeBlanc, Michael Musto, Whitley Strieber, Gore Vidal, John Waters and Faye Wattleton - offer far-ranging, provocative perspectives on porn today, yesterday and tomorrow.
Friday 29 October 2010 10.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: MA, A, N, SCC WS Rpt
Duration: 50 mins

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 16th October to Fri 22nd October 2010)

• DALI AND THE CINEMA

This documentary explores Dali's contribution to the world of cinema, with productions like Un chien andalou, L'age d'or, sets for Hitchcock's film Spellbound, scripts written jointly with the Marx Brothers, the Destino project undertaken with Walt Disney (and only recently released), and some rarely seen film extracts held by private collectors or friends. The program also reveals some intimate moments of the life of Dali and Gala, and commentary from friends and associates.
Saturday 16 October 2010 3.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: PGWS
Duration: 60 mins

• THE SCULPTURE DIARIES: EP 3 OF 3

The final of this series examines sculpture in the landscape. Art critic Waldemar Januszczak visits the giant mountain carving in South Dakota of Lakota Indian Crazy Horse, started 60 years ago as an antidote to the Mount Rushmore presidential carvings.
Sunday 17 October 2010 11.10pm
ABC1 Rating: G *Final*CC Rpt
Duration: 60 mins
*The Learning Centre has this series available for loan on DVD

• ART NATION

Fenella Kernebone presents a 2010 Melbourne International Arts Festival special. Featured are aerial theatre group K@osmos, Ursula Yovich's 'Magpie Blues', pioneering video artist Bill Viola and singer Dan Sultan.
Sunday 17 October 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• EATING ART: EATING WITH PICASSO - EP 7 OF 10

Oliver Peyton is a UK-based, Irish restaurateur and art connoisseur. In this series he follows the cultural trail throughout Europe and the US of landmark works of art which have food as a central motif.
Monday 18 October 2010 6.30pm
SBS TWO Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• THE GENIUS OF DESIGN: OBJECTS OF DESIRE - EP 5 OF 5

Today's world is a designed world, a world of people and things with design as the critical interface between the two. Picking up the story of design from the drab days of the late 70s, The Genius Of Design tracks the explosion of wild creativity that defined the 'designer decades' of the 80s and early 90s.
Tuesday 19 October 2010 6.00pm
ABC1 Rating: G *Final*CC
Duration: 60 mins

• SEVEN AGES OF BRITAIN: AGE OF AMBITION - EP 7 OF 7

In the last episode of Seven Ages of Britain, David Dimbleby looks at how the 20th century saw ordinary Britons upturning ancient power structures and class hierarchies. The catalyst was the First World War, which embroiled the whole nation and called traditional values into question. The result was an ever-growing 'democratisation' of culture, with art coming off gallery walls, becoming an instrument of self-expression at the service of the individual.
Tuesday 19 October 2010 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: PG *Final*CC
Duration: 65 mins

• STOP. REWIND: BOATS - EP 5 OF 13

We can dive deeper, travel faster, and even live on and in the water. Turns out, boat technology only has two lines of thought - make them faster, and make them safer. Unfortunately the two rarely go hand in hand!
Wednesday 20 October 2010 6.00pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC
Duration: 25 mins

• ART + SOUL: BITTER AND SWEET - EP 3 OF 3

In episode three, Hetti explores the themes of Bitter and Sweet and asks "How does the startling beauty - and humour - of Aboriginal art intertwine with reverberations of the past and our present"?
Thursday 21 October 2010 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: *Final*CC
Duration: 60 mins

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 2nd October to Fri 8th October 2010)

• THE SCULPTURE DIARIES: EP 1 OF 3

A quirky and at times dark journey through sculptures with leading British art critic Waldemar Januszczak, is a fascinating look at inspiring and remarkable pieces all around the world. The three-part series travels from a remote Nigerian village to the legendary Easter Island where sombre mysterious structures dominate from a previous civilisation. He also visits a Lithuanian theme park featuring old Communist statues of Lenin, Stalin and Marx.
Sunday 3 October 2010 10.30pm
ABC1 Rating: PGCC Rpt
Duration: 60 mins
*The Learning Centre has this program available for loan on DVD.

• ART NATION

Fenella Kernebone looks at 'art+soul', the Indigenous contemporary art exhibition at the Art Gallery of NSW; 'Guilty Pleasures' features Moira Finucane; and songstress Mama Kin performs her latest release 'To My Table'.
Sunday 3 October 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• EATING ART: BEEFED UP ART - EP 5 OF 10

Oliver Peyton is a UK-based, Irish restaurateur and art connoisseur. In this series he follows the cultural trail throughout Europe and the US of landmark works of art which have food as a central motif.
Monday 4 October 2010 6.30pm
SBS TWO Rating: PGWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• THE GENIUS OF DESIGN: BLUEPRINT FOR WAR - EP 3 OF 5

This episode examines what happened when design was conscripted into the Second World War, and looks at the rival war machines designed and built by Germany, Britain, the USSR and the USA.
Tuesday 5 October 2010 6.00pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 60 mins

• SEVEN AGES OF BRITAIN: AGE OF MONEY - EP 5 OF 7

This week it is the turn of the 18th century, a time when the triumph of commerce led to the emergence of a new 'middle' class: a group of people who craved pleasure and novelty, and developed their own tastes in art. The result was a golden age in painting with Hogarth, Reynolds and Gainsborough re-inventing the British style. The story ends in 1805 with the burial of Horatio Nelson, a commoner, at the heart of St Paul's: the supremacy of the middle class assured.
Tuesday 5 October 2010 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: PGCC
Duration: 65 mins

• IMAGES OF CONFLICT: PHOTOGRAPHERS IN THE WAR ZONE

Photojournalists tell their stories of life in war zones, trying to make photo stories with one eye on survival and another eye on producing strong, truthful images with a narrative.
Thursday 7 October 2010 8.30pm
SBS TWO Rating: PG, V, LWS Rpt
Duration: 55 mins

• ART + SOUL: HOME AND AWAY - EP 1 OF 3

In this three-part documentary series, Hetti Perkins takes us on a personal journey into the world of Aboriginal art. art + soul, directed by Warwick Thornton (Samson and Delilah), is the powerful and emotionally engaging television series about contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art, and the artists who create it.
Thursday 7 October 2010 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: G *New Series*CC
Duration: 60 mins

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 25th September to Fri 1st October 2010)

• MONUMENTAL VISION IN NEPAL

The Indiana Jones of the art world, Australian sculptor Andrew Rogers, had a vision to create twelve monumental Earth artwork sites around the world. Inspired by the Nazca lines in Peru, these giant rock works are made to be viewed from the air and are large enough to be seen by satellite, 350 km into space. Rogers engages local artisans to build these geoglyphs, which can span vast areas. In this fascinating and groundbreaking adventure/travel documentary, we see how Rogers works in Nepal with local elders to identify their heritage, and recreate the important symbols in stone that carry their stories and their history.
Sunday 26 September 2010 5.00pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

Stairway to Heaven is the story of an ancient and sublime work of sacred art, whose loss not only shook the art world, but triggered the shocking realisation that traditional Islamic knowledge and skills have all but vanished.
Sunday 26 September 2010 10.30pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 50 mins

• ART NATION

Chris McAuliffe gives his verdict on the annual 'Footy Art Show'; 'Guilty Pleasures' features conductor Richard Gill; and blues and folk singer Jez Mead performs in the studio.
Sunday 26 September 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• EATING ART: FRUIT PALETTES - EP 4 OF 10

Oliver Peyton is a UK-based, Irish restaurateur and art connoisseur. In this series he follows the cultural trail throughout Europe and the US of landmark works of art which have food as a central motif.
Monday 27 September 2010 6.30pm
SBS TWO Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• THE GENIUS OF DESIGN: DESIGNS FOR LIVING - EP 2 OF 5

This episode: Designs for Living, looks at the crisis-stricken decades of the 1920s and 1930s. With the world at the tipping point between two global wars, design suggested dramatically different ideas about the shape of things to come, from the radical futurism of the Bauhaus to the British love affair with mock-Tudor architecture and the three-piece lounge suite.
Tuesday 28 September 2010 6.00pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 60 mins

• SEVEN AGES OF BRITAIN: AGE OF REVOLUTION - EP 4 OF 7

In the 17th century, the people of Britain learnt to question everything. The result was the Civil War, in which everyone, including artists, had to take sides. But out of it came a re-invented monarchy, a scientific revolution and, ultimately, the great Cathedral of St Paul's.
Tuesday 28 September 2010 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 65 mins

• STOP. REWIND: HOUSING - EP 2 OF 13

Tonight Stop. Rewind takes a specific look at high tech homes. The 21st century home promised every labour-saving device you could think of - instant buildings, instant meals, instant clean! We had sensors tracking our every move, opening doors, turning on lights, and dimming the sound.
Wednesday 29 September 2010 6.00pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC
Duration: 25 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 3 - EP 12 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 29 September 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 Rating: *Final*CC
Duration: 30 mins

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 18th September to Fri 24th September 2010)

• THE DESERT CASTLE

A fascinating insight into the work of high level architects combining originality and artistic flair with compromise and hard-headed business abilities.
Saturday 18 September 2010 3.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 60 mins

• MONUMENTAL VISION IN CHINA: EP 4 OF 6

Monumental Vision is an international arts adventure series that follows the adventures of Andrew Rogers, one of Australia's most distinguished contemporary sculptors as he works in remote and exotic locations around the world to create monumental 'earth art' called geoglyphs.
Sunday 19 September 2010 5.00pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• STEALING KLIMT

The story of five paintings by Gustav Klimt, stolen by the Nazis in Vienna during WWII. They had been in the possession of a prominent Jewish family until that time. In 2006, a surviving member won the case for their return.
Sunday 19 September 2010 10.30pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 50 mins

• MASK AND MEMORY: SIDNEY NOLAN

Mask And Memory is a new documentary about the man many regard as the greatest Australian painter of the 20th century - Sidney Nolan. If all art has a biographical element, this was dramatically true in Nolan's case. Through interviews with friends, contemporaries and witnesses, producer Catherine Hunter reconstructs the intimate relationships that shaped Nolan's life, the women he loved, and who loved him.
Sunday 19 September 2010 7.30pm
ABC2 Rating: PGCC Rpt
Duration: 55 mins

• ART NATION

Brisbane Festival Special. Fenella Kernebone meets celebrity photographer Douglas Kirkland and checks out Shanghai Lady Killers. Marcus Graham fesses up in Guilty Pleasures and Carry Nation performs in the studio.
Sunday 19 September 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• EATING ART: FULLY BAKED - EP 3 OF 10

Oliver Peyton is a UK-based, Irish restaurateur and art connoisseur. In this series he follows the cultural trail throughout Europe and the US of landmark works of art which have food as a central motif.
Monday 20 September 2010 6.30pm
SBS TWO Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• THE GENIUS OF DESIGN: GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE - EP 1 OF 5

We live in a designed world, made for us, and overseen by a diverse group of specialists that we call designers. This five-part series tell the story of design from the Industrial Revolution to the present day, from the accidental birth of design as a by-product of the 'division of labour' to the central role it now plays as we grapple with issues of over-production, consumption and the environment.
Tuesday 21 September 2010 6.00pm
ABC1 Rating: G *New Series*CC
Duration: 60 mins

• SEVEN AGES OF BRITAIN: AGE OF POWER - EP 3 OF 7

This week we meet the Tudors: from Henry VIII's accession in 1509 to the first performance of Shakespeare's Henry VIII exactly 100 years later. David Dimbleby shows how the Tudors used art as an instrument of power and propaganda. First, Henry VIII and the lavish, gilded tomb in Westminster Abbey he commissioned for his father; the epic Field of Cloth of Gold painting in Hampton Court made to celebrate his diplomatic triumph over the French; and the extraordinary patron-artist relationship he cultivated with Hans Holbein.
Tuesday 21 September 2010 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 65 mins

• AN ARTIST IN EDEN: THE WORK OF RUTH MADDISON 2000-2005

Ruth Maddison, a photographer, left Melbourne for the small town of Eden. In Eden, Ruth has been photographing the youth and her surroundings and her work methods are dynamic, inspirational and compelling.
Wednesday 22 September 2010 2.25am (early hours)
ABC1 Rating: PGCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• STOP. REWIND: ROBOTS - EP 1 OF 13

Planes, trains, fast cars, high-tech homes, space exploration - Stop. Rewind is a television journey that plots the most innovative 25 years in human history. From the giant leap forward in technology from the mid-1980s to the beginning of the 21st century, Stop. Rewind explores those ideas, discoveries, breakthroughs, dead-ends and eureka moments that shaped the latter part of the 20th century and laid the groundwork for the 21st.
Wednesday 22 September 2010 6.00pm
ABC2 Rating: G *New Series*CC
Duration: 25 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

With the Grand Final just around the corner, tonight is The New Inventors: Semi-Final, hosted by James O'Loghlin. For the past seven years The New Inventors has launched the best and brightest new inventions from across the country, and this year has been no exception.
Wednesday 22 September 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 3 - EP 11 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 22 September 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS SPECIAL: DESTINATION 2020

ABC TV's The New Inventors tonight dives into the future with a special program: Destination 2020. Following the success of its Saving Water Special earlier this year, The New Inventors again suspends its search for the best invention of the year to gain an illuminating insight into what might be awaiting us in 2020.
Thursday 23 September 2010 5.30am (early hours)
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• VIEWS ON VERMEER: 10 SHORT STORIES

Contemporary artists, photographers and opinion leaders unravel the extraordinary and mysterious impact of Johannes Vermeer on our day and age. Features Tom Hunter, Chuck Close, Erwin Olaf and Philip-Lorca diCorcia and many more.
Thursday 23 September 2010 8.30pm
SBS TWO Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 55 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS: GRAND FINAL

The spectacular one-hour Grand Final returns to ABC1 with viewers invited to join The New Inventors team as they celebrate and showcase the best of Australian innovation.
Thursday 23 September 2010 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: *Final*CC
Duration: 60 mins

• THE DA VINCI SHROUD

The Shroud of Turin is the Christian world's most famous and sacred relic. For centuries the faithful believed it held the image of Jesus Christ, tortured and crucified: but how it was made has baffled scientists for decades. This film examines the controversial theory that the Turin Shroud is the work of Leonardo da Vinci, one of the greatest artists who ever lived.
Thursday 23 September 2010 9.30pm
ABC1 Rating: MCC
Duration: 50 mins

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 4th September to Fri 10th September 2010)

• JEAN-SIMEON CHARDIN PAINTER

The largely self-taught Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin was one of the greatest French painters of the 18th century. His still life subjects documented the life of the Parisian bourgeoisie.
Saturday 4 September 2010 3.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: G Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• QUEENS OF TERROR

The story of the Italian comic book Diabolik and the two middle-class Milanese sisters who created it in the 1960s, the Giussani sisters. Diabolik, a masked anti-hero, a thief and murderer, became the first Italian adult comic book. The program delves into the lives and inspiration of the Giussani sisters through archival footage and modern-day interviews.
Saturday 4 September 2010 3.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: PG
Duration: 60 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.
Sunday 5 September 2010 8.30pm
ABC2 Rating: MACC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• ART NATION

Gippsland Art Gallery's '100 Ways to Ruin a Car' photography exhibition; the visual artists who make up the project Wrongtown; Casey Bennetto features in 'Guilty Pleasures'; and The Wilson Pickers perform.
Sunday 5 September 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• EATING ART: ON THE MENU - EP 1 OF 10

Oliver Peyton is a UK-based, Irish restaurateur and art connoisseur. In this series he follows the cultural trail throughout Europe and the US of landmark works of art which have food as a central motif.
Monday 6 September 2010 6.30pm
SBS TWO Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• SEVEN AGES OF BRITAIN: AGE OF CONQUEST - EP 1 OF 7

In this new seven-part series, British commentator and presenter David Dimbleby tells the story of Britain through its art and treasure. This first episode begins with the Roman invasion and ends with the Norman Conquest.
Tuesday 7 September 2010 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: G *New Series*CC
Duration: 65 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

The Bright Sparks Special brings together some of the most forward thinking young people from around the country to present their fantastic inventions. Judges this week are three previous Bright Sparks inventors.
Wednesday 8 September 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 3 - EP 9 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 8 September 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has Series 1 & 2 available for loan on DVD.

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: SUSSEX

For ten years Ben Law, a woodsman, fought for and gained planning permission to build a house in the heart of the West Sussex woods where he worked. But there was a condition attached: he could never sell the house, only pass it on to his successor. Ben wanted his home to be totally self-sufficient with no main services, and had decided to build it using only materials from the woods, using techniques pretty similar to those used 1000 years ago.
Thursday 9 September 2010 6.00pm
ABC1 Rating: G *Final*CC
Duration: 60 mins

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 21st August to Fri 27th August 2010)

• PIETER BRUEGEL THE ELDER

This program explores the life and works of artist, Pieter Bruegel. The documentary reveals how for a long time he was called 'Bruegel the droll', as his paintings made people laugh.
Saturday 21 August 2010 2.55pm (Eastern States & WA)
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• US ART IN THE 21ST CENTURY: SYSTEMS - SERIES 5, EP 4 OF 4

Whether through acts of appropriation, repetition, or accumulation, the artists in this episode realise projects both vast in scope and beyond comprehension. Features the artists Julie Mehretu, John Baldessari, Kimsooja and Allan McCollum.
Saturday 21 August 2010 3.25pm (Eastern States & WA, 2.55pm SA & NT)
SBS ONE Rating: G *Final*WS
Duration: 65 mins

• ARTSCAPE: LIGHT ART - KEITH SONNIER, IM KOSMOS DER FARBEN

The art of minimalist, performance, video and light artist, American Keith Sonnier.
Sunday 22 August 2010 6.30pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• A THOUSAND ENCORES: THE BALLETS RUSSES IN AUSTRALIA

One hundred years ago Diaghilev founded the Ballets Russes in Paris. Seventy years ago this company was to change Australia forever. A Thousand Encores is the story of how the greatest ballet company of the 20th century - the celebrated Ballets Russes - came to Australia and awoke a nation, transforming the cultural landscape of the conservative 1930s, leaving a rich legacy that lasts to this day.
Sunday 22 August 2010 8.30pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 60 mins

• MESSAGE STICK: PORTRAIT OF A DISTANT LAND - EP 2 OF 2

The second and final part in the story of Ricky Maynard, a Tasmanian Aboriginal photographer, driven by a need to reveal his people's true history.
Sunday 22 August 2010 1.20am (early hours)
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• ART NATION

Hot young stage actor Ewan Leslie profiled as he prepares for his latest role as Josef K in Franz Kafka's 'The Trial' at Melbourne's Malthouse, and the Valentino retrospective at Brisbane's Gallery of Modern Art is reviewed.
Sunday 22 August 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• CARAVAGGIO

Angelo Longoni's sumptuous two-part series looks at the rise and fall of Michelangelo Merisi, later known as the controversial artist Caravaggio. A violent genius and womaniser, he defied the ideal vision of the world imposed by the Renaissance through his paintings of the outcast figures he knew so well: drunkards, vagrants and prostitutes.
Sunday 22 August 2010 10.25pm
SBS ONE Rating: M, A, N, S *Final*WS
Duration: 115 mins

• BAROQUE: FROM ST PETERS TO ST PAULS - EP 2 OF 3

Continuing this spectacular three-part series, this week we move on from Italy to continue our lesson in Baroque, as UK art critic Waldemar Januszczak takes us on a tour of the best examples of Baroque to be found, and tells the best stories behind those works.
Tuesday 24 August 2010 8.30pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 65 mins

• HOT DOCS: AMERICAN SPLENDOR

This multi-award winning film is an original mix of fiction and reality that illuminates the life of comic book hero Harvey Pekar. While at a garage sale Harvey meets underground comic writer Robert Crumb, a meeting which ultimately leads Harvey to making his first efforts at comic-writing. Recognising Harvey's gift for smart observations about the trials and tribulations of life, Crumb decides to illustrate for him.
Tuesday 24 August 2010 10.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: M, L, ACC WS Rpt
Duration: 110 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Featuring new ideas on electric motors for bicycles; ensuring your solos are heard when busking; how to tackle the serious problem of diesel particles in confined spaces.
Wednesday 25 August 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 3 - EP 7 OF 12

On this week's show - How Do You Sell? - the panel talks about milk; and on Ad Crunch - Carlton Draught Beer. On The Pitch - Victorian Youngbloods go head to head with NSW Youngbloods to sell conscription.
Wednesday 25 August 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has Series 1 and 2 available for loan on DVD.

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: HAMPSHIRE

Cheryl Robson and Alex Reay decided to get out of the rat race and move from London to country Hampshire to lovingly restore a medieval thatched cottage into their dream home. But just before their first child was due the house burnt down and Cheryl and Alex lost everything. Amazingly they decided to rebuild and start all over again.
Thursday 26 August 2010 6.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 60 mins

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 7th August to Fri 13th August 2010)

• US ART IN THE 21ST CENTURY: FANTASY - SERIES 5, EP 2 OF 4

This episode presents artists whose works defy convention and transport us to unreal worlds and altered states of consciousness. With works at times hallucinatory, irreverent, and sublime, each of these artists pursues a vision first held in the mind's eye. The program features Jeff Koons, Mary Heilmann, Florian Maier-Aichen and Cao Fei.
Saturday 7 August 2010 3.25pm
SBS ONE Rating: GWS
Duration: 65 mins

• ART NATION

A 'Design Special' featuring textile designers Otto and Spike, furniture maker Khai Liew, a new book celebrating wallpaper design, and Kate Vigo performs.
Sunday 8 August 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 30 mins

• TALKING HEADS: JOHN AND ROS MORIARTY

This week on Talking Heads Peter Thompson is joined by John and Ros Moriarty, the husband and wife team behind the brilliantly coloured artwork on Qantas jumbos. Their company, Balrinji Design Studio, has grown from a kitchen table operation in 1983 to now being Australia's leading Indigenous art consultancy working across Australia, Japan, Europe and the USA.
Monday 9 August 2010 6.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• HIDDEN TREASURES WITH BETTY CHURCHER: FIRST FLEET SKETCHES - SERIES 2: EP 8 OF 10

First Fleet captain John Hunter copied the work of young First Fleet midshipman George Raper to produce his famous sketchbook showing life in Botany Bay. Raper's own First Fleet paintings, begun in 1788, show his skill and fine eye for detail in capturing the birds and flowers of NSW. They were acquired by the National Library of Australia in 2004 after lying undiscovered and undisturbed for more than 200 years in an English manor. While Hunter, who became the second Governor of NSW, didn't share Raper's talents with a paintbrush, both men shared equally an excitement and enthusiasm for recording what they found in Sydney Cove in 1788.
Tuesday 10 August 2010 11.20pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 10 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Hosted by James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors is home to the brightest breakthroughs in technology, innovation and invention. Deciding the winner of these three inventions are: designer & inventor Sally Dominguez, inventor & journalist Christine Kininmonth, and wood worker & teacher Richard Vaughan.
Wednesday 11 August 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• GRUEN NATION: EP 3 OF 4

Host Wil Anderson and Gruen regulars, Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft, will run an x-ray over the federal election - its advertising and all the other tricks political parties use to get their message out.
Wednesday 11 August 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 45 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: YORKSHIRE

Not everyone gets to live out their childhood dreams, but in 2004 Francis Shaw did exactly that when he bought a crumbling castle on English Heritage's Buildings at Risk register, to restore. Little did he know what he was letting himself and his family in for by taking on this project.
Thursday 12 August 2010 6.05pm
ABC1 Rating: G *New Series*CC
Duration: 55 mins

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 31st July to Fri 6th August 2010)

• BACON'S ARENA

Francis Bacon was one of the most filmed artists of the 20th century, although he did not allow the filming of himself actually painting. The artist is given a powerful presence through the use of archival footage. The viewer experiences the charms of the man, which are in contrast to the disturbing nature of his paintings, showing screaming popes and deformed bodies. Bacon's works are examined through their likely connection to his relationships with six different men in six decades of his life.
Saturday 31 July 2010 1.45pm
SBS ONE Rating: PG, A, L, N, SWS Rpt
Duration: 100 mins

• US ART IN THE 21ST CENTURY: COMPASSION - SERIES 5, EP 1 OF 4

Might a work of art move us to temper our more destructive impulses? In what ways do artists' feelings of empathy contribute to works that tackle problematic subjects and address the human condition? This episode features three artists - William Kentridge, Doris Salcedo, and Carrie Mae Weems - whose works explore conscience and the possibility of understanding and reconciling past and present, while exposing injustice and expressing tolerance for others.
Saturday 31 July 2010 3.25pm
SBS ONE Rating: PGWS
Duration: 65 mins

• ARTSCAPE: LIGHT ART - ANGELA BULLOCH, IM ZWIELICHT DER ERINNERUNG

The art of London and Berlin-based sculptor and installation/sound artist, Angela Bulloch.
Sunday 1 August 2010 6.30pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 25 mins

• ART OF SPAIN: THE MYSTICAL NORTH - EP 3 OF 3

In the final episode, Andrew reveals how the north of the country has produced some of the most dazzling and iconic art of the modern age; Spain's turbulent history has shaped artists from Francisco Goya to Pablo Picasso. He also argues that Spanish architecture is the art form taking the nation forward in the new millennium.
Sunday 1 August 2010 10.50pm
ABC1 Rating: PG *Final*CC Rpt
Duration: 50 mins

• ARTSCAPE: PHOTOGRAPHY HIJACKED

Photography Hijacked, a documentary by Jack Pam (son of Max Pam), is an exploration into the process, technique and outcomes of the work of 12 unique photographers from Australia and America. The film explores the concept that individuality of process is what underwrites and makes possible all interesting artwork.
Sunday 1 August 2010 6.30pm
ABC2 Rating: PGCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• ART NATION

Chris McAuliffe reviews 'European Masters: Staedel Museum, 19th-20th Century' currently on show at the National Gallery of Victoria, a new segment 'Guilty Pleasures', and The Wilson Pickers live in the studio.
Sunday 1 August 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• SOLIDBODIES: THE 50 YEAR GUITAR WAR

Fender Stratocaster and Gibson Les Paul electric guitars have been heard on more popular recordings than any other instruments during the rock era. This is the story of their design, sounds, and the battle between them.
Monday 2 August 2010 12.20am (early hours)
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Featuring a container that is edible and biodegradable; how to create aerosol paint with a smooth coverage; biofeedback device to encourage stroke patients to shift more of their weight onto their affected side.
Wednesday 4 August 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• GRUEN NATION: EP 2 OF 4

Host Wil Anderson and Gruen regulars, Todd Sampson and Russel Howcroft, will run an x-ray over the federal election - its advertising and all the other tricks political parties use to get their message out.
Wednesday 4 August 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 45 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: CUMBRIA

Kevin McCloud revisits an unusual building in the wild open countryside of Cumbria, one of the most beautiful regions in the UK. Helen and Phil Reddy wanted their home to make the most of the spectacular views, but they also wanted it to be ecologically friendly with no heating bills. Their solution was to build an earth-sheltered home, with most of the house built into the hillside.
Thursday 5 August 2010 6.05pm
ABC1 Rating: G *Final*CC
Duration: 55 mins

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 24th July to Fri 30th July 2010)

• MARKUS RAETZ

An overview of the life's work of Swiss artist Markus Raetz. Raetz has been creating art for 40 years and his works cover an immensely broad span of different forms of sculpture, photography and sketches.
Saturday 24 July 2010 3.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 60 mins

• MONUMENTAL VISION IN ICELAND: EP 2 OF 6

Iceland, one of the most northern countries in the world...only 25 miles from the arctic circle is the most active volcanic area on the planet with the largest waterfall and glacier in Europe. Here Rogers has been invited to Akureyri, one of the twenty largest cities in Iceland located at the end of the largest fjord in Iceland, to create a series of earth artworks to preserve their ancient Celtic/Viking mythology.
Sunday 25 July 2010 5.00pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 25 mins

• ART OF SPAIN: THE DARK HEART - EP 2 OF 3

In this three-part series, art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon goes on the road to reveal the art treasures of Spain. The second episode follows Andrew as he journeys to Spain's centre to explore the art of the 16th and 17th centuries. From El Greco to Velazquez, this era was so extraordinary it became known as the Golden Age.
Sunday 25 July 2010 10.50pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 50 mins

• STONE UPON STONE UPON STONE: REIMS CATHEDRAL

A series looking at important medieval buildings in Europe.
Sunday 25 July 2010 4.50pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 10 mins

• ART NATION

Featuring the work of up-and-coming visual artist Laith McGregor whose blue biro portraits feature bearded men; and Katie Noonan and The Captains perform from their new album.
Sunday 25 July 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• LIQUID STONE: UNLOCKING GAUDI'S SECRETS

The challenge to complete the Sagrada Familia Church, according to Gaudi's vision, is revealed by architects and artisans who have spent years of their lives immersed in unlocking the secrets of Gaudi's Liquid Stone.
Sunday 25 July 2010 7.30pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC
Duration: 55 mins

• KATSURA RIKYU: IMPERIAL VILLA OF THE MOON

A first time glimpse inside the beautiful Katsura Rikyu Imperial Villa in Kyoto shows why it is renowned for being the quintessence of Japanese aesthetics. Built in the 17th century for an aristocratic family, it reveals all the glory and attention to fine craftsmanship Japanese princes put into their palaces, despite it being a time when the Imperial Court was losing power to the Samurai.
Sunday 25 July 2010 8.25pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC
Duration: 50 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

A cooking special featuring Poh Ling Yeow, Matthew Evans and Margaret Fulton who will be casting their gaze over three new food-related inventions.
Wednesday 28 July 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• GRUEN NATION: EP 1 OF 4

For the first time during an Election, each week Wil Anderson, Todd Sampson, Russell Howcroft and guest panelists - political insiders and commentators - will examine the art and science of political persuasion. What works, what doesn't. We'll run a Gruen comb through this election, as well as previous Australian and overseas campaigns.
Wednesday 28 July 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 45 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: SURREY

When Philip Trail, a young father of two, was diagnosed with a brain tumour, he and his wife Angela decided to sell their London home and start a healthier, less stressful life in the country. They moved to a village in Surrey to be close to Philip's family, and decided to renovate a 150-year-old threshing barn. Rather than a barn conversion, it was more of a barn inversion.
Thursday 29 July 2010 6.05pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 55 mins

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 17th July to Fri 23rd July 2010)

• FRANCISCO GOYA: THE WAY TO LUCIDITY

Francisco Goya was born in Aragon, Spain, in 1746. He underwent a major change following a road accident in 1793 and subsequently suffered a stroke that left him deaf. Before 1793, his paintings represented joyful scenes, in bright colours and after his accident he drew grim representations showing the ugly side of human nature.
Saturday 17 July 2010 3.00pm
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• TIM MARLOW MEETS JUNG CHANG

Tim meets the writer Jung Chang whose family history novel, Wild Swans became an international best seller. Jung Chang chose the Victoria and Albert Museum in London to explore her life and work.
Saturday 17 July 2010 3.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• MONUMENTAL VISION IN INDIA: EP 3 OF 6

Australian sculptor Andrew Rogers specialises in constructing geoglyphs, huge sculptures that can cover hundreds of metres of ground, made of rocks and other natural materials.
Sunday 18 July 2010 9.05pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 25 mins

• ART OF SPAIN: THE MOORISH SOUTH - EP 1 OF 3

In this three-part series, art historian Andrew Graham-Dixon goes on the road to reveal the art treasures of Spain. On the way, he explores the work of some of Europe's most important artists from the Renaissance to Modernism including Goya, Picasso, Dali, El Greco and Velasquez.
Sunday 18 July 2010 11.05pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 55 mins

• ART NATION

We look at the latest work of inveterate traveller and artist Stephen Eastaugh; Namila Benson travels to Tasmania for the Festival of Voices; and Kate Vigo performs in the studio.
Sunday 18 July 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• LEARNING FROM LIGHT: THE VISION OF I. M. PEI

Culture. Nature. Light, These elements provide the structure for a documentary film that explores the vision of one of the world's master architects, I.M. Pei and his newest creation, the Museum of Islamic Art in Doha, Qatar.
Sunday 18 July 2010 7.30pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC
Duration: 95 mins

• ARTISTS AT WORK: CLAIRE HEALY AND SEAN CORDEIRO - EP 3 OF 4

Up and coming installation artists have come back to Sydney after two years on the international arts circuit and are revisiting Sean's parents' garage in suburban Sydney. What was once just leftover stuff, packed away in damp boxes while they travelled the world, will now become the centrepiece of their new work for the Art Gallery of New South Wales' annual sculpture exhibition - The Balnaves.
Tuesday 20 July 2010 2.40am (early hours)
ABC1 Rating: MCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• LANDSCAPE OF THE WYNNE

Artscape: Landscape of the Wynne transports you into the studios of four very different contemporary Australian painters - Geoff Dyer, Graham Fransella, Ben McKeown and Kate Shaw. Watch as they each try to win the oldest and most prestigious gong given for Australian landscape painting - the Wynne Prize.
Tuesday 20 July 2010 6.00pm
ABC2 Rating: PGCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• ARTSCAPE: HANNAH GADSBY GOES DOMESTIC

Comedian Hannah Gadsby has been called many things, but never domestic. This 'domestically-challenged' winner of the Director's Choice Award at the 2010 Melbourne Comedy Festival steps outside of her comfort zone and into the kitchen to explore the work of contemporary artists who have been inspired by themes of domesticity.
Tuesday 20 July 2010 10.00pm
ABC1 Rating: PGCC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Featuring new ideas to allow pools to hibernate in peace; improve emergency exit ladders in underground mines; quickly and easily install new vineyard trellis posts.
Wednesday 21 July 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 3 - EP 6 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 21 July 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins
*The Learning Centre has series 1 of this program available for loan on DVD.

• MESSAGE STICK: TWELVE CANOES - EP 2 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.
Thursday 22 July 2010 5.30am (early hours)
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: WALTON HUF HAUS

David and Greta Iredale are seasoned builders. They built their first house in 1956 and their second, nine years later. Having lived in it for 40 years, the timber house they designed themselves began to rot, so they decided to demolish it and replace it with a prefab. For their final house, they chose a solid, German built, precision engineered Huf Haus.
Thursday 22 July 2010 6.05pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 55 mins

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.

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 26th June to Fri 2nd July 2010)

• LIVING WITH THE FUTURE: EP 6 OF 6

Richard Paxton died at only 49, and his legacy is the house he designed for himself and his family. His widow, Heidi, lives there now with their two teenage children. When Simon Davis arrives, he finds it hard to see an entrance. Behind a sort of high-tech garage door which miraculously lifts (including the boxes of planted pansies) to let him in, he finds a house noone would suspect, as it contrasts strongly with the surrounding mews.
Saturday 26 June 2010 4.00pm (not screening WA)
SBS ONE Rating: G *Final*CC WS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• BIKINI REVOLUTION

Bikini Revolution tells a fun and light-hearted story of the bikini: a story that began in July 1946 in Paris. The French are pretty good at revolutions, but this time, they stormed the swimming pool instead of the Bastille. However, across the Atlantic, where the prim American version of the two-piece was still covering New World navels, people were having difficulties coming to terms with the revolution instigated by fashion designer Louis Reard who called his daring new two-piece swimsuit "the bikini" because it sounded exotic.
Saturday 26 June 2010 8.30pm (not screening WA)
SBS ONE Rating: PGCC WS
Duration: 60 mins

• FAIRWEATHER MAN

An intimate portrait of the life and work of one of Australia's greatest painters. When Ian Fairweather died in 1974, Australia not only lost an extraordinary artist but one of its greatest eccentrics. However, the reclusive, driven artist left behind a wonderful legacy - a body of marvellous paintings that today are highly collectible and hang on the walls of galleries around the world.
Sunday 27 June 2010 8.30pm
ABC2 Rating: GCC Rpt
Duration: 60 mins

• ARTSCAPE: LISA ROET - APE LADY

Spanning a career of almost 20 years, artist Lisa Roet has made the plight of chimpanzees the subject of her life's work. Her passionate investigation of primates has seen her producing artworks in mediums as diverse as sculpture, photography, video art, stained glass, screen printing, drawing and painting.
Sunday 27 June 2010 6.30pm
ABC2 Rating: PGCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• FACE PAINTING WITH BILL LEAK: BON SCOTT - EP 3 OF 6

A six-part series which will take viewers on an amazing journey as renowned cartoonist and portrait painter Bill Leak paints six well-known Australians. In this week's emotional episode, Bill paints AC/DC larrikin Bon Scott. To understand the essence of the character of Bon Scott, Bill spends time with Bon's ex-wife Irene. They separated before Bon became famous but always remained good friends. Irene has never been interviewed for TV about her relationship before and in this interview she shares her memories of Bon's earlier life and his off-stage persona.
Tuesday 29 June 2010 6.00pm
ABC2 Rating: PGCC Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• ARTSCAPE: NECESSARY GAMES

Necessary Games is a collection of three award-winning short dance films. Featuring members of Adelaide's Restless Dance Theatre, each of the three films showcase unique and compelling dance performances by disabled and non disabled dancers.
Tuesday 29 June 2010 10.00pm
ABC1 Rating: GCC
Duration: 30 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Featuring new ideas to lessen the pressure of lifelong trailer commitment; quickly and easily detect dangerous bacteria; uphold hygiene standards in the poultry industry.
Wednesday 30 June 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• DESIGN FOR LIFE: EP 5 OF 6

With only four students left after last week's brutal elimination round, renowned international designer Philippe Starck's search for a new British protege moves to the next level.
Wednesday 30 June 2010 8.30pm
ABC2 CC
Duration: 60 mins

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

What is the worst ad of all time? This year on the show, audiences will be able to nominate what they think is the worst ad of all time and whichever ad gets the most votes wins.
Wednesday 30 June 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED: PECKHAM

When Monty Ravenscroft and Clare Loewe began looking for a house to buy in London they soon realised that the only affordable option was to build one themselves. They found a very cheap block of land in Peckham and bought it at auction, only to be told it was too small to put a house on. Undeterred, engineering-whiz Monty began building an experimental bungalow that filled the site from boundary to boundary.
Thursday 1 July 2010 6.05pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 55 mins

• MALLS R US

Traces the history of the shopping mall in America, visiting some of the world's largest and most spectacular malls in Canada, the USA, the UK, Japan, Poland, France and Dubai. Contains interviews with architects, mall developers, environmentalists, labour activists and social critics, as well as talking to mall shoppers themselves.
Friday 2 July 2010 1.30pm
SBS ONE WS
Duration: 60 mins

• CRACKING THE COLOUR CODE: VIEWING COLOURS - EP 1 OF 3

Cracking the Colour Code, a three part series is an unprecedented global journey to explore the frontiers of how we view colour, make colour and use the power of colour to communicate meaning.
Friday 2 July 2010 2.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: GCC WS Rpt
Duration: 60 mins
*The Learning Centre has this program available for loan on DVD.

Television Programs of Interest (Sat 12th June to Fri 18th June 2010)

• LIVING WITH THE FUTURE: EP 4 OF 6

Davis visits Tilty Barn, a complex of agricultural barns transformed by minimalist architect John Pawson. The U-shaped complex respects the character of the structure and has three wings, two are residential spaces dedicated to the human family members and one is the sleeping quarters of the family horse Klein. The minimalist interior features walls and low partitions in pure white, concrete floors, stone fittings, seamless stainless kitchen bench and many other clean-line designs.
Saturday 12 June 2010 4.00pm (Eastern States only)
SBS ONE Rating: GCC WS Rpt
Duration: 35 mins

• TIM MARLOW MEETS MIKE LEIGH

Art historian Marlow chats to the director about his passion for art and his favourite artists.
Saturday 12 June 2010 3.30pm (Eastern States, SA & NT)
SBS ONE Rating: GWS Rpt
Duration: 30 mins

• JMW TURNER

A documentary of the life of the great English landscape artist, J.M.W. Turner.
Saturday 12 June 2010 2.30pm
SBS ONE Rating: PGWS
Duration: 60 mins

• SADNESS

Photographer William Yang explores his own Chinese family history and the wider ‘family’ of the gay community.

Saturday 12 June 2010 11.55pm

ABC2 Rating: MCC Rpt

Duration: 65 mins

• ART NATION

Fenella Kernebone hosts a special episode from China to coincide with Victoria Week at the Shanghai World Expo, a major architectural and cultural showcase for Australia and the world.
Sunday 13 June 2010 5.30pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• 1000 JOURNALS

A thousand blank journals are sent out all over the world in mid 2000 by a San Francisco artist, known as Someguy. He was seeking the answer to the question, what happens to our creativity as we grow older? He stamped inside the books: 'This is an experiment and you are part of it. Add anything you like, then pass it on.' The journals are passed from hand to hand throughout the world, collecting stories, pictures and collages. They are slices of the lives they touch. One came back filled in September 2003. Where are the other 999?
Sunday 13 June 2010 7.30pm
ABC2 Rating: PGCC
Duration: 90 mins

• THE NEW INVENTORS

Hosted by James O'Loghlin, The New Inventors tonight will prove that Aussie inventors love sport as much as the rest of us, with three brand new inventions designed to help us along the path to glory in some of Australia's most popular sports.
Wednesday 16 June 2010 8.00pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 30 mins

• DESIGN FOR LIFE: EP 3 OF 6

With two more students sent home, including a very surprised Nebil, and Mike winning a reprieve, the eight remaining students are beginning to feel the pressure.
Wednesday 16 June 2010 8.30pm
ABC2 CC
Duration: 60 mins

• THE GRUEN TRANSFER: SERIES 3 - EP 1 OF 12

Wil Anderson returns after touring the world with his sell-out show Wilful Misconduct, appearing on Chelsea Lately on the E! network and tweeting his way to a Gold Logie nomination. Joining him will be regulars Todd Sampson, Russel Howcroft, Jane Caro, Matt Eastwood, Dan Gregory, Dee Madigan, Bridget Taylor, Bram Williams, Rowan Dean and Carolyn Miller. Wednesday 16 June 2010 9.00pm
ABC1 Rating: *Series Return*CC
Duration: 30 mins

• GRAND DESIGNS REVISITED - LES GETS

British couple Nicky and James Dobree are turning a traditional 300-year-old farmhouse in Les Gets, France, into an exceptionally luxurious eight bedroom chalet - the ultimate in alpine glamour.
Thursday 17 June 2010 6.05pm
ABC1 CC
Duration: 55 mins