SmartArts

Visual art, theatre, film and literature. Segments include:- 'Art Attack' - fortnightly visual arts reviews with Ace Wagstaff and Tai Snaith.- 'Shoot the Messenger' - fortnightly theatre news & reviews with Fleur Kilpatrick.- 'Drawn Out' - monthly chat about comic books and graphic novels with Bernard Caleo.Please email talks@rrr.org.au for all interview requests.About the PresenterRichard Watts has many years experience working in the arts industry, including five years as the Artistic Director of the youth arts organisation Express Media, seven years on the Board of Melbourne Fringe (including three years as Chair), and six years on the Committee of Management at La Mama Theatre, where he currently serves as Chair. Richard has helped program a range of festivals including Next Wave, the National Young Writers' Festival, the Melbourne Queer Film Festival and the Emerging Writers' Festival (which he founded) and he has written for various broadsheets, journals, zines and magazines. Currently he pays the rent by working as the Performing Arts Editor at www.artshub.com.au. In his spare time he watches old Doctor Who episodes.The intro and outro theme is Soft Illusion and was generously provided by Andras.https://andras.bandcamp.com/track/soft-illusion

Recent Episodes
  • That's A Wrap!
    Feb 6, 2025 – 00:30
  • Smart Arts 20th Anniversary Special
    Dec 19, 2024 – 01:36:20
  • Marina Prior on Follies, Midsumma Festival 2025, Red Stitch 2025, TarraWarra's Intimate Imaginaries & ACCA’s new CEO and Artistic Director Myles Russell Cook
    Dec 12, 2024 – 01:28:13
  • Stuart Braithwaite, Women's Circus annual showcase, art & music therapy and the NDIS, My Brilliant Career, Skating in the Clouds
    Dec 5, 2024 – 01:59:45
  • ANAM's Sounds of Australia, La Mama & St Martins Youth Theatre fundraising, Adelaide Festival 2025 & PIECES
    Nov 28, 2024 – 01:25:38
  • Final days of MQFF, Parched, Waves and Bubbles, Big Music, and a Dancehouse double feature
    Nov 21, 2024 – 02:07:51
  • Asia Topa, Geelong Gallery, Benjamin Rivers, Glen Downey and Close Company
    Nov 14, 2024 – 01:24:48
  • The Poltergeist at La Mama, Gertrude Studios' 2024 exhibition, The Tina Turner Musical, Perth Festival 2025 & Your Name Means Dream at Red Stitch
    Nov 7, 2024 – 01:58:42
  • MQFF, Dominic Kavanagh, Rhinoceros & Sydney Festival 2025
    Oct 31, 2024 – 01:25:39
  • An Evening with Stephen Fry! Irish Film Festival, Adam Elliot, Victorian Opera 2025, The Rabble’s Wake AND Golden Blood
    Oct 24, 2024 – 01:56:07
  • Malthouse 2025, Amanda Haskard on ACMI, plus MELBOURNE FRINGE MINI SPECIAL: Alix Kuijpers' Grim Grinning Ghosts, Mitch Jones' Apocrypha and choreographer Oli Mathiesen
    Oct 10, 2024 – 01:29:24
  • Dredge, Radiant Pavillion 2024, Rick Prackoff's Verdi's Requiem and Michael Fikaris
    Sep 12, 2024 – 02:00:24
  • Poster Protest Art, The Cost of Living & Mother
    Sep 5, 2024 – 01:41:07
  • Disability advocacy in the arts, MAGMA exhibitions, PURE oil paintings, You're the Man and Around the World in 80 Days.
    Aug 29, 2024 – 01:54:59
  • And This Time the Well Is Alive, Secret Mall Apartment, Frankenstein, Stephen Cummins Retrospective and the Clyde Chabot Trilogy
    Aug 15, 2024 – 01:56:50
  • Drawn Out Comics, Fox Galleries, the heart whispers and whirls, Asia TOPA, MIFF and AG Founder Andrew Gyopar
    Aug 8, 2024 – 01:47:33
  • Irish rappers KNEECAP, Circus Arts, SCI-FI Exhibitions & National Poetry Month
    Aug 1, 2024 – 02:06:14
  • Scandinavian Film Festival, How do we remain; at the Melbourne Recital Centre, Ānanda: Dance of Joy and Two Remain.
    Jul 25, 2024 – 01:39:28
  • Midsumma needs a new home, Tristan Meecham's Queering the Collection, Melbourne Art Fair's New Director, Romeo & Julie plus movie turned opera, Breaking the Waves
    Jul 18, 2024 – 01:47:10
  • Redeveloping the Melbourne Arts Precinct, reviving Three Magpies in A Tree, Artist Kate Wallace, La Belle Epoque and Reclaim the Crone
    Jul 11, 2024 – 01:25:01
  • A Streetcar Named Desire, art partners, Jon & Jero and Abby Howells
    Jul 4, 2024 – 01:40:21
  • Thirty Years of APHIDS, Young Broadway Actors Chat Shrek & Opening Up Melbourne
    Jun 27, 2024 – 01:06:56
  • A scent-sual play, a sensual play, a sense-ual play and 50 years of Art Access Victoria
    Jun 20, 2024 – 57:20
  • Piinpi: Contemporary Indigenous Fashion, Lucy Guerin Inc and run away to the NICA Circus
    Jun 13, 2024 – 01:21:50
  • MIFF 2024, CLIPPEDKilda and Blackout Songs
    Jun 6, 2024 – 01:27:40
  • The Shannon Michael Cane celebration, Michelle Hamer's 'I'm A Believer' and Arkadia, a dance opera
    May 30, 2024 – 01:04:56
  • The Odd Couple, Beings, Cutting through Time, and Comedy In The West
    May 23, 2024 – 01:02:08
  • Hold Me Closer Tony Danza, The Huxleys, Arts Wellbeing Collective's Navigate Well Resources
    May 2, 2024 – 01:34:13
  • Pia Johnson’s Re-Orient, Possum Magic and a couple of funny guys
    Apr 4, 2024 – 58:58
  • Arts Project Australia, State of Australian Regions Report, Akaraka and Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons!
    Mar 14, 2024 – 01:33:47
  • Palestinian Film Festival 2024, The Mary Wallopers, Dungeons & Dragons 50th anniversary, PHOTO 2024, and theatre theatre theatre!
    Mar 7, 2024 – 01:44:22
  • Yentl, Counting and Cracking, When We Were Young, Back to Back and Not Natural!
    Feb 22, 2024 – 01:42:32
  • Rock Musicals, Northern Irish Chavs, and 7 Hours of Theatre
    Jan 18, 2024 – 51:41
  • Celebrating local artists, program releases, cabaret, and a Broadcast Birthday!
    Dec 14, 2023 – 47:09
  • Marshmallow Lasers, Robot Painting Dogs & the 2024 Sydney Festival
    Nov 27, 2023 – 49:38
  • Exploring “Place”: 56 Printmakers Connect with Country & the Friendships Built Liberating Homelands
    Nov 16, 2023 – 55:21
  • Triennials, the Legacy of Blade Runner, the Resilience of Women and the Art of Waacking
    Nov 2, 2023 – 01:13:48
  • Performance Art Mania & Remembering Ukraine
    Oct 26, 2023 – 01:07:38
  • Dumplings, Dodgeball and Dancing 'In the Club'
    Oct 19, 2023 – 51:36
  • Sci-Fi Superheros Fighting Diabetes & Lighting up Laneways with Glowing Comics
    Oct 12, 2023 – 53:51
  • Insomniac Mixtapes, Art Fairs and Photography at the NGV
    Oct 8, 2023 – 55:34
  • Festival Frenzy: Irish Films, Fringe and Melbourne Jazz
    Oct 8, 2023 – 01:05:27
  • Queer Bushrangers and the Brand New Merribek Festival
    Sep 15, 2023 – 01:06:07
  • The Art Inspired by Being Struck by Lightning, and the 41st Melbourne Fringe Festival
    Sep 7, 2023 – 01:12:53
  • Radiothon 2023
    Aug 31, 2023 – 01:30:36
  • Breaking the Conventions of Theatre with Pony Cam
    Aug 24, 2023 – 59:38
  • Godless: The Eastfield Exorcism
    Aug 18, 2023 – 01:06:12
  • Road-tripping with two queer alien Elvises & ‘The Fence’
    Aug 3, 2023 – 01:20:42
  • Gail Mabo’s ‘Current’ & Swinburne Circus Art students face uncertainty
    Jul 27, 2023 – 45:54
  • The Impacts of the US writers and actors strike on Australian Art & a fresh take on Romeo and Juliet
    Jul 20, 2023 – 43:23
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