State of the Art - PBSfm

27/10/2025

hey yo, its been a while! im back with exciting news - State of the Art will return to the PBS 106.7FM Melbourne airwaves next year in podcast form. Huzzah!
This is a call out to anyone in Melbourne with shows happening in 2026 - please let me know about it! [email protected]
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16/01/2025

unfortunately PBS have decided to can the arts segment, so it will no longer be running. One less outlet for the arts in Melbourne :(

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08/08/2023

The wild stage shows, the wild lifestyle, the flamboyant fashion; he careened like a shiny cracked pinball between God, s*x and roll. Little Richards: I am Everything tells the story of the black q***r origins of rock n roll - listen to my chat with director Lisa Cortes at 8.15am tomorrow on the brekky spread. Melbourne International Film Festival

01/08/2023

Ill be chatting to CHUNKY MOVE's Antony Hamilton tomorrow on the Brekky Spread at 8.15am about their latest work 4/4: "a captivating meditation of meticulous, stripped back dance combining choreographic precision, minimalist design and rugged street aesthetics"

4/4 is the blueprint for choreographic precision, minimalist design and rugged street aesthetics. Eight dancers perform a stark symphony of mesmerising movement inside the industrial vastness of the Merlyn theatre. As episode after episode builds upon the last, quartets and duets converge and diverg...

25/07/2023

Looking forward so much to chatting to renowned Australian photographer Leila Jeffreys about her new exhibition the wound is the place where the light enters at MARS Gallery tomorrow morning at 8.30am 🦅

Heralded for her intimate, fine art photography, Leila Jeffreys explores the fragility and strength of native Australian birds in her latest exhibition, 'The wound is the place where the light enters'.

28/03/2023

Melbourne International Comedy Festival 2023 kicks off on Thursday woop 🙌
So excited to welcome Adrienne Truscott and Le Gateau Chocolat to the studio tomorrow at 8.10am to chat about their show at Malthouse Grey Arias.

Le Gateau Chocolat is a gay, black, English-Nigerian man and drag artiste. Adrienne Truscott is a cis white feminist American female performance artist.

30/01/2023

The Age seems to be having a little tantie about not being able to send a white guy to review Seven Methods of Killing Kyle Jenner because the theatre company requested only people of colour review. Heaven forbid you find a freelancer who is a person of colour, who has the lived experience to connect to the show's characters and the racism theyve grown up with. No, lets just be a stubborn, arrogant media org then write an opinion piece yelling about it

An internationally acclaimed play called “seven methods of killing kylie jenner” has been showing in Melbourne, but The Age couldn’t review it.

01/11/2022

Can’t wait to chat all things 90s in austraya with Steve “pav” pavlovic and this sick new exhibition tomoz on sota. Gotta get to it in Sydney at Powerhouse Museum

The Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences is Australia's contemporary museum for excellence and innovation in applied arts and sciences.

14/06/2022

It’s a jam-packed state of the art tomorrow peeps, with reviews of A Picture of Dorian Grey Rising and Picasso century National Gallery of Victoria, and a chat with Melbourne International Film Festival AD Al Cossar to take a first look at the big screen delights to come (Aug 4-21), including the very exciting new doco meet me in the bathroom - “a dirty Time Capsule” about nycs noughties musical rebirth