Art Focus

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Airs at: Tue, 05/13/2025 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

Joseph Gallivan interviews Laura Mueller, art curator at the Portland Japanese Garden, about Noritaka Tatehana

Airs at: Tue, 09/24/2019 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
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On Tuesday Sept. 24, 2019 at 11 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Laura Mueller, art curator at the Portland Japanese Garden, about Noritaka Tatehana: Refashioning Beauty. This is a show of the art of the young Japanese artist who shot to fame when Lady Gaga started wearin... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews installation artist Laura Fritz about her show APEX at the Portland Art Museum

Airs at: Tue, 09/10/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
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On Tuesday Sept. 10, 2019 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews installation artist Laura Fritz about her show APEX at the Portland Art Museum now through Feb. 23, 2020. Fritz talked about using wooden molding to create boxes and tables which contain unnerving voids, ... Read more

Art Focus on 09/03/19

Airs at: Tue, 09/03/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
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Joseph Gallivan interviews Mary Weaver Chapin of the Portland Art Museum about Paris 1900, which is on now through Sept. 8, 2019.

Airs at: Tue, 09/03/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
THIS IS A REBROADCAST OF A SHOW FROM JULY 2019. On Tuesday Sept. 3, 2019 at 11:30 am Joseph Gallivan interviews Mary Weaver Chapin of the Portland Art Museum about Paris 1900, which is on now through Sept. 8, 2019. Chapin, the museum’s Curator of Prints and Drawings, talk... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Portland painter Amy Bernstein

Airs at: Tue, 08/27/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
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On Tuesday Aug. 27, 2019 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews painter Amy Bernstein. [pronounced BERN-steen] Bernstein is an abstract painter and critic for the art magazine PORT and is soon to begin a one-year MFA in Art at Oxford University in England.   Bernstei... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews Kristan Kennedy and Roya Amirsoleymani of the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art about the Time-Based Art festival of 2019

Airs at: Tue, 08/20/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
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On Tuesday August 20, 2019 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews Kristan Kennedy and Roya Amirsoleymani [pronounced a-MEER-soli-MARNY] of the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art about the Time-Based Art festival of 2019.  As two of the three curators of the annual... Read more

Amanda Clem interviews Tomas Valladares about the Portland Street Art Alliance

Airs at: Tue, 08/13/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
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On Tuesday, August 13 at 11:30am Amanda Clem interviews Tomas Valladares about the Portland Street Art Alliance.   Tomas Valladares is a local creative producer and cofounder of the Portland Street Art Alliance, a nonprofit with a mission to advance street art culture b... Read more

Art Focus is replaced by Peace Love and Soup this week on 08/06/19

Airs at: Tue, 08/06/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
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Art Focus is replaced by Peace Love and Soup  this week on 08/06/19   Peace, Love and Soup | KBOO   https://kboo.fm/program/peace-love-and-soup   Bringing you significant soups, along with culture, cooking and conversation! Audio nourishment for the heart and mind. Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews artist and curator  Srijon Chowdhury about “Contemporary Chicken Coup I, II, III”

Airs at: Tue, 07/30/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
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On Tuesday July 30, 2019 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews artist and curator  Srijon Chowdhury [pron. SREE-jon CHOWD-ry] about “Contemporary Chicken Coup I, II, III” which is on now now at Chicken Coop  Contemporary through Sept 30, 2019.  The show is viewable by... Read more

Joseph Gallivan interviews MK Guth about the state of art in Portland

Airs at: Tue, 07/23/2019 at 11:30am - 12:00pm
Produced for:  Art Focus
On Tuesday July 23, 2019 at 11:30 a.m. Joseph Gallivan interviews MK Guth. MK is the Director of the Hallie Ford School of Graduate Studies at the Pacific Northwest College of Art. She talks about the state of art in Portland, and the art infrastructure of funding, grant... Read more