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 4, 2020 · 1 hr 19 min
Jerry Saltz (QuarARTine special episode)
Russell and Robert meet legendary art critic and writer Jerry Saltz for a feature-length special QuarARTine episode, as critical times call for critical thinking!!!!We discuss the future of art and the art world after coronavirus, what he remembers ...
Apr 30, 2020 · 1 hr 24 min
Lisa Yuskavage (QuarARTine special episode)
Russell and Robert chat to legendary artist Lisa Yuskavage. Best-known for her groundbreaking, provocative figurative paintings, Lisa‘s images occupy a space between high and low; the sacred and the profane.In this feature-length special episode, we...
Apr 27, 2020 · 1 hr 3 min
Rózsa Farkas (QuarARTine special episode)
QuarARTine continues!! Russell & Robert chat with gallerist, writer and curator Rózsa Farkas. Founder and Director of Arcadia Missa, a gallery focusing on “contemporary art with intent” that “began as a self-organised space in austerity Britain”. B...
Apr 23, 2020 · 1 hr 3 min
Maria Balshaw CBE (QuarARTine special episode)
Russell and Robert chat to Maria Balshaw CBE, Director of Tate, a family of four art galleries in London, Liverpool and Cornwall known as Tate Modern, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool and Tate St Ives. Balshaw is Tate’s first female Direc...
Apr 20, 2020 · 55 min
Jordan Casteel (QuarARTine special episode)
Russell and Robert meet leading artist Jordan Casteel who has rooted her practice in community engagement, painting from her own photographs of people she encounters. Posing her subjects within their natural environments, her nearly life-size ...
Apr 16, 2020 · 46 min
Sir Elton John CBE (QuarARTine special episode)
Russell and Robert chat to music legend & flamboyant superstar Sir Elton John CBE from lockdown at his home in Los Angeles. We discuss art collecting, a lifelong obsession that began by collecting dinky toys and vinyl records during childhood, buyi...
Apr 13, 2020 · 58 min
Somaya Critchlow (QuarARTine special episode)
Russell and Robert meet British artist Somaya Critchlow whose figurative paintings of women explore facets of race, sex and culture. Working mostly on a small scale, her works depict bold, curvaceous and self-possessed female characters, of her own cre...
Apr 9, 2020 · 54 min
Billy Porter (QuarARTine special episode)
Ladies and Gentleman, the category is TALK ART!!!! Russell and Robert chat to superstar Billy Porter, the leading actor, singer, writer, fashion icon and star of award-winning TV show POSE. We chat about the lockdown closure of Broadway and New York...
Apr 6, 2020 · 55 min
Doron Langberg (QuarARTine special episode)
Russell and Robert meet artist Doron Langberg, an Israeli-born, Brooklyn-based painter. Langberg paints in the style of genre painting and portraiture, addressing issues of gender and sexuality creating a shared experience of love and desire through th...
Apr 2, 2020 · 53 min
Rufus Wainwright (QuarARTine special episode)
Russell and Robert return for Season 5! Recorded primarily during quarantine lockdown, we’ve reached out to international creative guests from art, design, music, sport, fashion, TV and film. Every Tuesday & Friday (yes, twice a week!) we will brin...
Mar 27, 2020 · 1 hr 9 min
Mark Gatiss
Robert & Russell meet Mark Gatiss, the influential British actor, screenwriter, director and novelist. We discuss Mark's recent BBC4 art documentary 'John Minton: The Lost Man of British Art', celebrating the life and work of the hig...
Mar 20, 2020 · 1 hr 9 min
Alasdair McLellan
Russell & Robert meet leading British photographer Alasdair McLellan. World-renowned for his sensitive approach to photography across fashion, portraiture, landscape or documentary, his work embraces references high and low, classical and pop, and ...
Mar 13, 2020 · 1 hr
Princess Julia
Robert & Russell meet the one-and-only legend that is Princess Julia!!!! We discuss her endless creativity across different worlds of music, fashion and art, life-drawing and her weekly trip to ‘Sketch Sesh’, her friendship with DJ Jeffry Hinton, a...
Mar 6, 2020 · 1 hr 2 min
Ima-Abasi Okon
Russell & Robert meet British artist Ima-Abasi Okon. Ima's current solo exhibition is at VOID, Derry~Londonderry and runs until 25th April 2020. This episode was recorded in July 2019 during an earlier iteration of Ima's solo exhibition a...
Feb 28, 2020 · 56 min
Louis Fratino
Russell and Robert meet American artist Louis Fratino in London! Drawing inspiration from personal experience and, more recently, photographic source material, Fratino makes paintings and drawings of the male body. His work includes portraits, nudes, a...
Feb 21, 2020 · 1 hr 2 min
KAWS (NYC special episode)
Talk Art NYC!!! Russell & Robert meet artist Brian Donnelly aka KAWS at his Brooklyn studio for a rare glimpse into the private world of one the world's most iconic creative figures. KAWS engages audiences far beyond the museums and galleries ...
Feb 14, 2020 · 1 hr 10 min
Tai Shani
Russell & Robert meet Tai Shani, multidisciplinary British artist and joint-winner of the Turner Prize 2019. Shani’s practice encompasses performance, film, photography and sculptural installations, frequently structured around experimental texts....
Feb 7, 2020 · 1 hr 10 min
Denzil Forrester
Robert & Russell meet legendary British artist Denzil Forrester. We discuss 40 years of painting, his childhood in Grenada, the impact of moving to London in 1967 aged 11, his memories of making drawings in London's dub & reggae nightclubs...
Jan 31, 2020 · 1 hr 1 min
Tommaso Corvi-Mora
Robert and Russell meet leading gallerist & ceramicist Tommaso Corvi-Mora. We discuss growing up in Italy, moving to Germany for a pivotal first summer job working with Alighiero Boetti for a Bonner Kunstverein show, becoming a gallery assistant wi...
Jan 24, 2020 · 45 min
Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings
Russell and Robert meet artists Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings. We explore the challenges & benefits of making art as a duo, letting go of your ego when collaborating, their decision to build their own @GayBar venue where they hosted one-off eve...

Talk Art

Jerry Saltz (QuarARTine special episode)

Lisa Yuskavage (QuarARTine special episode)

Rózsa Farkas (QuarARTine special episode)

Maria Balshaw CBE (QuarARTine special episode)

Jordan Casteel (QuarARTine special episode)

Sir Elton John CBE (QuarARTine special episode)

Somaya Critchlow (QuarARTine special episode)

Billy Porter (QuarARTine special episode)

Doron Langberg (QuarARTine special episode)

Rufus Wainwright (QuarARTine special episode)

Mark Gatiss

Alasdair McLellan

Princess Julia

Ima-Abasi Okon

Louis Fratino

KAWS (NYC special episode)

Tai Shani

Denzil Forrester

Tommaso Corvi-Mora

Hannah Quinlan and Rosie Hastings