!!! Coming off a big week of design, Art Smitten is covering the recent Art Book Fair at the NGV along with other events that occurred throughout the Melbourne Design Week.
Josh aka Juniper Care @joshua_arvy_so will be joining us for an interview to discuss the recent launch of their book ‘Foster Care’ with @awfulpublishing 📖📚
Be sure to tune into SYN 90.7fm this Monday 3-5pm! @synmedia
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🎧 For our show this week, we are exploring the art of the album - particularly the cover and how it impacts our listening experience and understanding of the music.
The Art Smitten team have put forth an album each to discuss and of course we will be playing our favourite tracks from these releases!! 💿
Tune in Mondays 3-5pm on SYN90.7fm @synmedia to hear it all! 🎵
🌬️Our show this week will be exploring Radical hope as a way to live, make and create during times of uncertainty.
We will be discussing the current exhibition ‘Inter-narratives of hope: building catastrophe resilience’ curated by Isabella Hone-Saunders and Paul Boyé as part of the MADA curator-in-residence program. Bella will be coming into the studio to chat with us all about the project!
Also, Mio will share the work of artist Wendy Hannah whose installation work in Aotearoa had her smitten 🎐
Playing some hopeful tracks along the way too so tune into SYN90.7fm from 3-5pm this Monday🤞
Credit:
1. Rory Pilgrim, ‘Tomorrow in your hands and Government lover’, 2026 plastic bags with printed text, grass. Exhibited in ‘Inter-narratives of hope: building catastrophe resilience’ at MADA gallery
2. Wendy Hannah, Liberty – Herekoretanga, 2023.
3. Scott Kelly (NASA astronaut), picture of zinnia plant on the international space station, 2016.
Today on Art Smitten, the team will be speaking to artists recently featured in the exhibition ‘I’m not a spiritual person’ at BLINDSIDE @blindside_ari 🖼️
Keeping in theme with the concept of spirituality in artistic practice, we will be discussing ideas around iconoclasm in art and culture 💡💭
Tune in to SYN 90.7fm at 3-5pm to hear more …
Image: Installation of ‘I’m not a spiritual person’. BLINDSIDE 2026. Photographed by Sebastian Kainey. Courtesy of the artists.
For this week’s episode of Art Smitten ~ we are looking to the world around us and discussing how nature inspires artistic practice 🔍🐛🐜🌷🐦⬛
The team visited the Potter Museum of Art’s current exhibition ‘a velvet ant, a flower and a bird’, and will be speaking to Pippa Milne all about the show!
Art Smitten airs Mondays 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia
Image: Ingela Ihrman, Waterlily Amazonica, 2012. Courtesy the artist @blodfrukten_fran_istiden@pottermuseum
Art Smitten is back 📻 dishing up a special on ‘art speak’ and the venacular we use when talking about art 🗣️🗣️🗣️
The team will be reflecting on a recent attempt by the National Gallery of Art in Washington to Gen Z-ify art history.
We will also be reflecting on John Berger’s influential series ‘Ways of Seeing’ and discover what the heck ekphrasis means!?!!?!?
🤎🤎Tune in this Monday at 3-5pm on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia
This Monday we are exploring the bed and our rooms as sites for artistic expression + resistance 💭
🛌 Speaking first to George @cinnam0nros3 about their essays on Beside Oracle before hearing about an upcoming group exhibition curated by Nina @nini.beani titled ‘forever bedroom’
🤍🤍🤍Playing lots of bedroom pop and dreamy tracks to transport you to days of dancing in your room with the door shut
Art Smitten airs 3-5pm Mondays on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia ☁️
Get out of your house and onto the streets for today’s episode of Art Smitten 🗞️
On our show today, we will be discussing the streets as inspiration featuring a special conversation with Savannah from City Gallery. 📸 The current exhibition ‘On The Streets Where I Live’ features the work of Viva Gibb who photographed neighbourhoods in Melbourne from the 70s into the 90s.
Tune in 3-5pm to SYN90.7fm to hear it all!! Available online and the Community Radio Plus app 📻
@cityofmelbourne@synmedia
Image Credit : Viva Gibb
We are putting the SMITTEN into Art Smitten this week as we discuss art that act as measures of devotion <3
🏹 During the show we will be joined by Isabel from the State Library of Victoria to discuss the current exhibition Rebel Heart: Love Letters and Other Declarations ✍️
Playing plenty of love songs too so tune in 3-5pm Monday on SYN 90.7fm @synmedia 📻
@library_vic
Image: installation view of Rebel Heart at State Library of Victoria
The long weekend is the perfect time to tick off all those movies on your watchlist - so thats exactly what we will be talking about on today’s show! 📽️
Astra & Tyra will be leading the conversation and playing some tracks along the way.
Live from 3-5pm Mondays on SYN 90.7fm. 💬 Join the conversation via the textline: 0468 155 796
Image: Lyle Fowler, ‘Film projection room at the Regent Theatre, Collins Street’ (1948)
💭On today’s show, we will be speaking to Carter from @dreamache.co as they prepare for the opening of their play ‘eternity is a terrible thought’, premiering at Brunswick Music Festival 🪩
Moving between theatre and electronic music, this multi-sensory event is one not to miss.
Tune in to SYN 90.7fm today 3-5pm, with the interview from 4pm 🕓
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