Talk Art

Russell Tovey and Robert Diament

Actor Russell Tovey and gallerist Robert Diament host Talk Art, a podcast dedicated to the world of art featuring exclusive interviews with leading artists, curators & gallerists, and even occasionally their talented friends from other industries like acting, music and journalism. Listen in to explore the magic of art and why it connects us all in such fantastic ways. Follow the official Instagram @TalkArt for images of artworks discussed in each episode and to follow Russell and Robert's latest art adventures.

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388 episodes
Updated June 4

Episodes388

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May 12, 2021 · 50 min
Graham Norton (Talk Art Book exclusive interview)
TURNING THE TABLES ON TALK ART with GRAHAM NORTON!!!!To celebrate the launch of the debut Talk Art book, Russell & Robert meet legendary broadcaster and best-selling author Graham Norton to discuss the writing of Talk Art - The Book! That's...
May 6, 2021 · 1 hr 18 min
Glenn Ligon
Russell & Robert speak to leading artist Glenn Ligon from his studio in New York. We discuss the New Museum's current exhibition “Grief and Grievance: Art and Mourning in America,” and his collaboration with the late curator Okwui Enw...
Apr 29, 2021 · 54 min
Amy Cappellazzo
Russell and Robert meet Amy Cappellazzo, current Chairman of the Fine Art division of Sotheby’s. Cappellazzo has just announced she will be leaving the company in July 2021. We discuss her admiration for Georgia O'Keeffe, Joni Mitchell, performanc...
Apr 22, 2021 · 1 hr 35 min
GILBERT & GEORGE
Russell and Robert meet bona fide art legends, in fact LIVING SCULPTURES, working together as the collaborative art duo GILBERT & GEORGE. They are known for their distinctive and highly formal appearance and manner in performance art, and also for ...
Apr 15, 2021 · 1 hr 24 min
Rachel Whiteread DBE
Talk Art exclusive! Russell & Robert meet legendary British artist Dame Rachel Whiteread DBE for an intimate studio visit where we view her new works prior to installing her new exhibition ‘Internal Objects’. In Rachel Whiteread’s sculptur...
Apr 8, 2021 · 1 hr 12 min
Mandy El-Sayegh
Russell & Robert meet leading artist Mandy El-Sayegh from her studio in Acton, West London where she is currently finishing new works for a forthcoming solo exhibition in Seoul, South Korea. We discuss memory as a material, insomnia and nocturnal ...
Apr 1, 2021 · 1 hr 14 min
Pierce Brosnan OBE
Russell & Robert meet legendary actor Pierce Brosnan OBE, perhaps best known worldwide by another very significant name - BOND, James Bond!!!! 007 meets Talk Art!!! Speaking from his home in Kauai, Hawaii, we explore his passion for ART!!!We dis...
Mar 26, 2021 · 52 min
Nathan Bowen
Russell & Robert meet artist Nathan Bowen, world-renowned for his 'After Lives' movement of murals and street painting!!! We discuss his childhood drawing, making street art & graffiti in his teens, the magic of East London, making th...
Mar 19, 2021 · 1 hr 25 min
Roni Horn
Season 9 continues! Russell & Robert meet LEGENDARY artist Roni Horn!!!! We discuss Iceland, cameras, drawing, androgyny, memory, British weather, words, Emily Dickinson, Missy Elliott, John Waters, Maria Bamford and SO much more in this extraordin...
Mar 16, 2021 · 1 hr 36 min
Simon Oldfield on NFTs and Crypto Art
SURPRISE BONUS! We chat to our friend, leading art advisor Simon Oldfield to discuss the art news hitting mainstream headlines this past week with digital artist Beeple selling his NFT artwork 'EVERYDAYS: THE FIRST 5000 DAYS' for an astonishi...
Mar 12, 2021 · 1 hr 2 min
Jennifer Gilbert on Shinichi Sawada
Season 9 continues!!! We meet Jennifer Gilbert - curator, gallerist and longterm champion of Outsider Art - to discuss the work of leading Japanese artist Shinichi Sawada on the occasion of his first solo exhibition in New York at the awesome Venus Ove...
Mar 5, 2021 · 1 hr 46 min
Paul McCarthy
Talk Art SEASON 9!!!!! For the first episode of this extraordinary new season, Russell & Robert meet one our art heroes, and bona fide artist legend, Paul McCarthy!!!! Widely considered to be one of the most influential and groundbreaking contempor...
Feb 23, 2021 · 43 min
Alan Cumming & Christopher Sweeney - Talk Art x Homo Sapiens Podcast Crossover (Part 1)
PODCAST CROSSOVER!!! Talk Art and Homo Sapiens UNITE!!! A celebration of LGBTQI+ History Month 2021!Dear Listeners, something different and EXCLUSIVE for you. We have done a really fun collaboration with the brilliant podcast @HomoSapiens  ...
Feb 19, 2021 · 45 min
National Portrait Gallery (LGBTQ+ History Month Special Episode)
To celebrate LGBTQ+ History Month 2021, Russell & Robert select their highlights from the National Portrait Gallery’s collection in London. We discuss David Hockney, Maggi Hambling, Isaac Julien and Howard Hodgkin to discover how artists were able ...
Feb 12, 2021 · 1 hr 24 min
Lubaina Himid CBE
Russell and Robert meet Lubaina Himid CBE, the Turner Prize winning artist and cultural activist. Born in Zanzibar in 1954, Lubaina Himid is a British painter who has dedicated her four-decades-long career to uncovering marginalised and silenced histor...
Feb 5, 2021 · 1 hr 12 min
Robert Stilin
Talk Art Season 8 continues!!! Robert & Russell meet leading designer Robert Stilin, from his apartment in Soho, New York!! World renowned for his timeless, elegant interior design work and furniture design, Stilin is an avid art collector and serv...
Jan 29, 2021 · 1 hr 8 min
Robert Andy Coombs
Talk Art continues!! Russell and Robert meet artist Robert Andy Coombs, all the way from Miami Beach!!! We discuss photography, queerness, disability, sexuality, nudity, beauty and representation!!!Coombs was born and raised in Michigan’s upper peni...
Jan 22, 2021 · 1 hr 12 min
Ronan McKenzie and Joy Yamusangie (Recorded at HOME by RM)
Russell & Robert meet artists Ronan McKenzie and Joy Yamusangie at new multifunctional creative space HOME, on Hornsey Road, North London. We explore their current joint-exhibition 'WATA, Further Explorations'. Taking root in Mckenzie and...
Jan 15, 2021 · 1 hr 11 min
Dame Julia Peyton-Jones DBE
Russell and Robert meet Dame Julia Peyton-Jones DBE, legendary British curator and gallery director, currently Senior Global Director at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in London, Paris and Salzburg. She formerly worked as Co-Director of the Serpentine Gallery...
Jan 8, 2021 · 1 hr 11 min
Yinka Ilori MBE (Live at London Podcast Festival)
Talk Art LIVE!!! Recorded on stage in London's Kings Cross!!! Robert & Russell meet Yinka Ilori MBE, the London based multidisciplinary artist of a British-Nigerian heritage, who specialises in storytelling by fusing his British and Nigerian h...

Talk Art

Graham Norton (Talk Art Book exclusive interview)

Glenn Ligon

Amy Cappellazzo

GILBERT & GEORGE

Rachel Whiteread DBE

Mandy El-​Sayegh

Pierce Brosnan OBE

Nathan Bowen

Roni Horn

Simon Oldfield on NFTs and Crypto Art

Jennifer Gilbert on Shinichi Sawada

Paul McCarthy

Alan Cumming & Christopher Sweeney - Talk Art x Homo Sapiens Podcast Crossover (Part 1)

National Portrait Gallery (LGBTQ+ History Month Special Episode)

Lubaina Himid CBE

Robert Stilin

Robert Andy Coombs

Ronan McKenzie and Joy Yamusangie (Recorded at HOME by RM)

Dame Julia Peyton-Jones DBE

Yinka Ilori MBE (Live at London Podcast Festival)

Mandy El-Sayegh