Painting of the Week Podcast

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In this week's episode, Phil & Laura talk to Mark Collins, art collector and owner of Artelium Wine Estate in Sussex to discuss a unique sculpture currently residing on their estate...Support the show

A badly needed splash of colour this week as Phil & Laura take a deep dive into a Rothko work which sold in 2012 for the staggering sum of $87 million. Just what lies behind those famous, vibrant rectangles... Support the show

This week, Phil speaks to us from Friday Harbour, San Juan Island, USA with Assistant Curator of the San Juan Islands Museum of Art Wendy Smith about a very unique artwork, finished by a loom in Belgium thousands of miles from the artist who painted it...  Support the show

This week, Phil meets with senior curator Richard Hill from the Vancouver Art Gallery to discuss a moody and mysterious work by the matriarch of Canadian art... Support the show

This week, Laura and Phil discuss the eternally bizarre and delightful Bosch, focusing on one of his fabulous triptychs, with this one telling the story of the Fall... Support the show

The new year kicks off with Phil revisiting Van Gogh's romantic masterpiece – and the poster image for our smash hit documentary Van Gogh: Poets & Lovers – this time with world Van Gogh expert Martin Bailey at the National Gallery...Support the show

In this cosy Christmas special, Laura and Phil sit down with three times British Monopoly champion (and Phil's brother) Mike and his long-suffering son Alex to discuss the remarkable artwork of the monopoly board over a mince pie or two...Support the show

Phil speaks with curator Mary Morton at one of his favourite galleries - the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC - about a poignant view of Paris a year on from one of the worst years in Parisian history...Support the show

In this episode, Phil & Laura look at Dali's unique take on the crucifixion, supposedly inspired by what Dali called his “cosmic dream” of the universe... Support the show

Season 5 begins in the warm and inviting olive groves around Saint Remy which Van Gogh painted repeatedly, fascinated as he was by the irregular growth and ever-changing colours...  Support the show

This week, Phil and Laura look at Vincent's other ‘Starry Night', painted just down the road from his famous yellow house in Arles, and explore the themes of love, madness and beauty that have followed this beloved and troubled artist over the centuries... Support the Show.

This masterpiece by an unknown Greek artist depicts the first official emperor of Rome, showing his grasp of the importance of a carefully crafted public image... Support the Show.

This week, Phil's takes leading BBC radio presenter Danny Pike for a trip to the Brighton Pavilion to examine local legend John Constable's stunning work depicting the seafront a stone's throw from our office… Support the Show.

This week, Phil and Laura discuss what has been repeatedly named one of the greatest paintings in history, the monumental ‘Las Meninas' or ‘The Maids' by the legendary Diego Velázquez...Support the Show.

This week, co-directors of My National Gallery, London Ali Ray and Phil Grabsky discuss Ali's favourite work in this world-renowned gallery, and just why it stuck out to her amongst this enormous collection of masterpieces... Support the Show.

In this episode, Phil and Laura discuss the wonderfully dynamic Turner work which Michael Palin called his “science fiction painting” in My National Gallery, London... Support the Show.

This week's topic of discussion is Holbein's masterpiece from one of the most important years in British history – 1533. This was the year that Henry VIII broke from the Catholic church, married Anne Boleyn and had a daughter who would become one of England's most popular monarchs, Elizabeth I... Support the Show.

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In this special Christmas episode, Phil and Laura pick their top 3 favourite paintings from a year full of masterpieces to discuss over Laura's homemade Christmas punch...Support the show

On this episode of Painting of the Week, Phil & Laura discuss a Klimt work which sits right on the cusp of his drastic artistic transformation...Support the show

Phil, Laura and special guest Janet Laurence explore a local work by a controversial artist Eric Gill, a terrible man with a wonderful talent, and debate whether you can separate the art from the artist...Support the show

This episode explores a wildly different art style on the cutting edge of the Japanese avant-garde movement, as featured in our latest film' Tokyo Stories'...www.seventh-art.comSupport the show

This moody, gothic painting was a clean break from the bombastic nature of the baroque style which dominated in the seventeenth century and brings the viewer into a quiet moment of intense contemplation with Mary Magdalene herself…

This episode, recorded at the Provincetown Art Association and Museum with CEO Chris McCarthy, examines an evocative painting by one of the founders of the Cape Cod art colony, the oldest continuous art colony in the USA…

This week's Painting of the Week explores a work which subverts the traditional beauty standard, bringing a sense of grittiness and discomfort into this erotically charged portrait of the artists' beautiful wife...

This episode explores a dynamic masterpiece by the greatest portraitist of his time, John Singer Sargent, and his immersion into the "Hispanism" which gripped Europe at the end of the nineteenth century...

This week, Phil and Laura discuss Goya's portrait of a formidable young noble woman, recently widowed. Is there more to this portrait than meets the eye?mosaic: Exploring Jewish Issuesmosaic is Jewish Federation of Palm Beach County's news podcastListen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

This week Phil and Laura explore Albrecht Dürer's 'Great Piece of Turf' and what made this very pretty patch of lawn so ground-breaking in the 16th century...

In this very special episode Phil speaks to 'Girl With a Pearl Earring' author Tracy Chevalier from the Rijksmuseum's once-in-a-lifetime Vermeer exhibition. Phil and Tracy stand before a masterpiece and discuss it's surprising history...

Join Phil and Laura this week as they discuss Caravaggio's 'The Calling of Saint Matthew', a masterpiece that brings this pivotal biblical moment into the world of the 16th century...

In this episode, Phil and Laura explore this masterpiece from the Dutch Golden Age, uncovering the magic contained within this very normal visions of everyday life...

In today's festive episode, Phil and Laura focus on Horace Pippin's 'Christmas Morning, Breakfast' and the fascinating story of one of America's foremost black artists...

For this episode, Phil and Laura discuss a mysterious masterpiece by Rembrandt...

This week Phil and Laura discuss one of their favourite paintings - Renoir's Luncheon of the Boating Party - and why its creator was such a controversial figure...

For this episode, Phil traveled to the wonderful Cape Ann Museum in New England while making 'Hopper: An American Love Story' and discussed William Meyerowitz's 'Gloucester Humoresque' with chief curator Martha Oakes.

Phil travels to the Cape Ann Museum in New England while making 'Hopper: An American Love Story' and discusses William Meyerowitz's 'Gloucester Humoresque' with chief curator Martha Oakes

This week, we explore a painting that has become the archetypal image of the Romantic era and the Sublime…

This week, Phil and Laura discuss a surrealist painting that plays with the idea of reality and perception...

Season 3 begins with Phil and Laura discussing an important wartime work which reveals much about the previously untapped skills of British women...

To celebrate the clocks going forward here in the U.K. and the return to 'British Summer time', this Painting of the Week is Maxfield Parrish's Daybreak - the most popular print of the twentieth century!For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast

This week, Phil and Laura discuss one of Phil's favourite paintings to feature in the Exhibition on Screen film ‘Easter in Art': Giotto's Kiss of Judas. For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast

This week, Phil and Hopper House curator Elizabeth Thompson Colleary discuss not one but two paintings, both entitled ‘Railroad Gates' - one by Edward Hopper and one by his wife Jo - and uncover a fascinating story in the process… For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast

Painted in just seven working days, this extraordinary fresco only narrowly escaped total destruction in 1785… For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast

This enormous masterpiece is one of Rembrandt's finest works, and one of the most famous of the Dutch Golden Age. Brimming with life, it has a fascinating history which includes being wrongfully identified as a night scene during the 19th century and multiple attempts at vandalism!

On this date made entirely of twos - 22/2/22 - we are celebrating 2 weeks until the release of our film exploring the life and art of international icon Frida Kahlo and so, rather fittingly, this episode of Painting of the Week focuses on The Two Fridas, with special guest Ali Ray, the director of the upcoming film. For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast

In this episode, Phil & Laura journey to Charleston House in rural Sussex to explore an excellent Duncan Grant exhibition, selecting his fascinating ‘The Room with a View” to discuss, and, more broadly, the Bloomsbury Group and its remarkable cast of characters.For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast

This 1436 tomb decoration brings Jesus and the Virgin Mary into the contemporary world, and right in front of the man who commissioned the painting…For more information and to see the artwork being discussed please visit www.seventh-art.com/podcast