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Airs at: Tue, 04/02/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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A radio show about visual art. You get it.

 

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Every Tuesday from 11:30 AM to 12:00 PM.

Art Focus features interviews by host Joseph Gallivan with artists, curators and critics. Lively voices talking about art, how it's made and sometimes even what it means. Page back through KBOO's schedule to find all the recordings, some of which were made on magnetic tape.   

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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Oregon Jewish Museum reopens

Airs at: Tue, 06/13/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, June 13, 2023, at 11.30 am Joseph Gallivan interviews Bruce Guenther about the new shows “THE JEWS OF AMSTERDAM, REMBRANDT AND PANDER,” and “ BUT A DREAM, SALVADOR DALÍ.” The Amsterdam show is on now at the Oregon Jewish Museum until Sept 24 and the Dali through... Read more

Between Two Points

Airs at: Tue, 06/06/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, June 7, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Sima Familant about the show ‘Between Two Points’ which is on now through October 15 at the Lobby at the Ellen Browning Building at 28th and Division Street. Familant spoke by Zoom from her home in Austin about... Read more

PSU Graduation shows

Airs at: Tue, 05/30/2023 at 11:00am - 11:45am
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On Tuesday, May 30, 2023, at 11.15am (note the early start) Joseph Gallivan interviews five artists and one professor about the work at Portland State University’s Masters and Bachelors of Fine Art program. At the show at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at PSU, Joseph ta... Read more

Mark Andres

Airs at: Tue, 05/23/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, May 23, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Mark Andres about his show “Saudade” [ pronounced sau-DA-ji ] which is on now at Augen Gallery through May 27. Andres talks about his use of shadow and silhouette, how he has partly changed his mind abo... Read more

Ellen George

Airs at: Tue, 05/16/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, May 16, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Ellen George about her show “Slow Gestures” which is at PDX Contemporary Art until May 27, 2023.  George talks about painting on birch plywood panels that warp off the wall, her use of precious metal st... Read more

Robin Friend

Airs at: Tue, 05/09/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, May 9, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews photographer Robin Friend about his show “Bastard Countryside”, which is on now at Blue Sky Gallery through May 27.  Friend talks about hunting disused and overgrown industrial and military sites in his homeland... Read more

Art Focus on 05/02/23

Airs at: Tue, 05/02/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Rui Sasaki

Airs at: Tue, 04/25/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, April 25, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Carolyn Supinka, the head of exhibitions at Portland Japanese Garden. Supinka talks about glass artist Rui Sasaki’s new exhibit in the garden “Subtle Intimacy: Here and There” which is on now through June 12.... Read more

Hito Steyerl

Airs at: Tue, 04/18/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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My guest this week is Sara Krajewski [PRONOUNCED kra-JESS-ki], the Senior Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at Portland Art Museum. Krajewski is talking about Hito Steyerl’s [PRONOUNCED HEE-to STY-rol] video installation called “This is the Future” which critiques arti... Read more

Bonnie Lucas

Airs at: Tue, 04/11/2023 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Jeanine Jablonski about the show “Bonnie Lucas 1978-2023” which is at the ILY2 Gallery through May 29. Jablonski talks about how Lucas’s assemblages have changed over the decades, how the founding Gue... Read more