Art Focus

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Airs at: Tue, 06/10/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Airs at: Tue, 05/27/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Art Focus
Hosted by: 
Joseph Gallivan
Produced by: 
KBOO
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A radio show about visual art. You get it.

 

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Every Second and Fourth 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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Topic tags: 
Arts/Culture
Genre(s): 
Arts and Culture
Streams: 
KBOO Stream 1
Program status: 
Current

Charlotte Ameringer

Airs at: Tue, 05/13/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, May 13, 2025, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews the Portland Art Museum’s chief conservator, Charlotte Ameringer. Charlotte talks about her work restoring Claude Monet’s famous 1914 painting “Waterlilies” which he painted at his home in Giverny in Fran... Read more

Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize

Airs at: Tue, 04/08/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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  On Tuesday, April 8, 2025, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist and professor Taravat Talepasand about the three student winners of the Arlene Schnitzer Visual Arts Prize. Professor Talepasand talks about the social practice work of Olivia DelGandio, who ... Read more

Bizen ceramics

Airs at: Tue, 03/25/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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  On Tuesday, March 25, 2025, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Carolyn Supinka about "Earthen Elegance: The Ceramic Art of Bizen," an exhibition currently on display at Portland Japanese Garden's Pavilion Gallery. This exceptional collection, on loan ... Read more

David Cohen

Airs at: Tue, 03/11/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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  On Tuesday, March 11, 2025, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist David Cohen about his show The Church Of Lepidoptera, which is on now through March 29 at Gallery 114 in the Pearl District. Cohen talks about using watercolors to make paintings that look l... Read more

Sima Familant on Breathing Room

Airs at: Tue, 02/25/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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  On Tuesday, Feb. 25, 2025, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews curator Sima Familant about Breathing Room, a show on now at the Lobby Gallery in Southeast Portland. Sima talks about the importance of white space or negative space in the paintings and sculptures... Read more

filmmaker and architect Yael Melamede

Airs at: Tue, 02/11/2025 at 11:30am - 12:30pm
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  On Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews filmmaker and architect Yael Melamede about her documentary “Ada: My Mother The Architect.” Melamede talks about her mother Ada Karmi Melamede’s theories of grounded buildings and institutions that ... Read more

Art Focus on 02/11/25

Airs at: Tue, 02/11/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Christopher Marley's Exquisite Creatures Revealed

Airs at: Tue, 01/28/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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  On Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2024, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist Christopher Marley, who will discuss his show Exquisite Creatures Revealed, at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry until Feb 17, 2025.    Marley talks about arranging insects, sea creat... Read more

Psychedelic Rock Posters (repeat)

Airs at: Tue, 01/14/2025 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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This is a repeat of the  Dec. 24, 2024 show in which  Joseph Gallivan interviews Mary Weaver Chapin, the Curator of Graphic Arts at Portland Art Museum. She discusses the show “Psychedelic Rock Posters and Fashion of the 1960s,” which runs now until June 15, 2025.  http... Read more

Psychedelic Rock Posters

Airs at: Tue, 12/24/2024 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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  On Tuesday, Dec. 24, 2024, at 11.30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Mary Weaver Chapin, the Curator of Graphic Arts at Portland Art Museum, who will discuss the show “Psychedelic Rock Posters and Fashion of the 1960s,” which runs now until June 15, 2025.    Ms. We... Read more