Host Richard Watts is joined by Christof Wehmeier, head of international & festival promotion at the Icelandic Film Centre, and they discuss the 2024 Scandinavian film Festival program and highlights.

We also have…

Richard Watts OAM reporting for SmartArts! As always, he's here to give you an inside look into the fabulous people behind all of the brilliant goings-on of Naarm's flourishing art scene. Let's go!

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For one week more, Oliver Coleman keeps the seat nice and toasty for resident SmartArts host, Richard Watts. And what a cracking show to end the run!

Writer Georgia Ketals & scent artist…

Arkadia is a brand new dance-opera from choreographer and performer Melanie Lane.

Inspired loosely by science fiction, Arkadia takes place in a garden paradise where a whirlwind of gods, nymphs and aliens transform…

Oliver Coleman takes the SmartArts seat this week, and he’s keeping it toasty for the next few weeks while Richard is on break.

Tai Snaith comes in for Art Attack to talk all…

This week, Dan & Steph Teitelbaum take the SmartArts reins and gallop effortlessly into another episode... this episode (as always) is jampacked with recommendations, artist deep dives and what's coming up in Melbourne's…

Richard Hull, the CEO of Flying Fruit Fly Circus, joins SmartArts to discuss the situation between NICA and Swinburne.

SmartArts' 19th birthday was celebrated on the day of broadcast (December 14, 2023), which was also Richard's last show for 2023!

Richard is joined by Liam James, Deputy Director of Linden New Art…

On Saturday the 14th of October, as votes for the referendum were counted across the country, beloved Yorta Yorta soprano and composer Deborah Cheetham Fraillon AO and members of the Dhungala Children’s Choir…

Andy Freer, founder, CEO and Artistic Director of Snuff Puppets, joins Richard Watts to talk about the legacy of this Melbourne art collective after thirty years  and about its new production, ‘Swamp’.