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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: 
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Actress Lee Grant Talks about her Memoir, "I Said Yes to Everything," and her Years on the Blacklist

Airs at: Tue, 08/18/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
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Art Focus is off today. Instead we'll hear an interview from the Bookwaves program with host Richard Wolinsky. Oscar winning actress Lee Grant, author of the memoir "I Said Yes to Everything" discusses her career and her years on the Hollywood blacklist with host Richar... Read more

Art Focus 150811 Newspace/OHS

Airs at: Tue, 08/11/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Yaelle Amir of Newspace Center for Photography, and Oregon Historical Society's Matthew Cowan join host Joseph Gallivan to discuss Unearthed: Hand-colored slides of early-twentieth century Portland gardens from the Oregon Historical Society. http://newspacephoto.org/ga... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Dawson Carr about Gods and Heroes

Airs at: Tue, 07/28/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, July 28, 2015 at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Dawson Carr, the Curator of European Art at the Portland Art Museum.  Carr talks about the show "Gods and Heroes" which runs at the Portland Art Museum now through Sept 13 2015. Carr will talk about the orig... Read more

Deb Stoner on her Botanical Portraits at Camerawork Gallery

Airs at: Tue, 07/21/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Guest host Kathleen Stephenson speaks with Deb Stoner about her show "Channeling Karl Blossfeldt" at the Camerawork Gallery. Deb Stoner's botanical portraits magnify and reveal details within the natural structures of the plants she photographs. Her process of making im... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Nicole Nathan and Namita Wiggers of MOCC

Airs at: Tue, 07/14/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, July 14, 2015 at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews Nicole Nathan and Namita Gupta Wiggers about the "State of Oregon Craft" show at  Museum of Contemporary Craft.  Curators Nathan and Gupta Wiggers talk about not just about ceramacists, basket weavers and sa... Read more

Art Focus on 07/07/15

Airs at: Tue, 07/07/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Joseph Gallivan interviews abstract painter Judy Cooke

Airs at: Tue, 06/30/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday June 30 2015 Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Judy Cooke whose show Choose is at Elizabeth  Leach Gallery from July 2 to Auguset 29.  Cooke talks about Portland in the 1960s and 1970s, her fascination with design and architecture, her method for making abstrac... Read more

Art Focus on 06/23/15

Airs at: Tue, 06/23/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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Joseph Gallivan interviews Mary Weaver Chapin about David Hockney

Airs at: Tue, 06/16/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, June 16, 2015 at 11.30am, Joseph Gallivan interviews Mary Weaver Chapin, the Curator of Graphic Arts at the Portland Art Museum. Chapin talks about David Hockney's 16 etchings called A Rake's Progress. She will also discuss his stage and costumes designs done... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Arvie Smith about his oil painting show Tight Rope

Airs at: Tue, 06/02/2015 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday, June 2, 2015 at 11.30am Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Arvie Smith about his current show "Tight Rope" at the Mark Woolley Gallery. Smith will talk about the imagery he uses to assess the African American experience, the interplay between painting and loo... Read more