Latest Arts unveiled Podcast Episodes

Till Brönner and the lockdown blues

Arts Unveiled: Experiencing and understanding the art world - December 22, 2020 12:19 - 6 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 3 ratings
House concerts and absence from the stage. Acclaimed jazz trumpeter Till Brönner is one of many artists who have been affected. Instead of relaxed rhythms he’s now striking sharp chords, as a mouthpiece of the cultural scene. A conversation.

Beethoven and Nature: Indian Musician Ricky Kej

Arts Unveiled: Experiencing and understanding the art world - December 13, 2020 05:42 - 3 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Beethoven's Symphony No. 6, also known as the Pastoral, has inspired artists the world over. DW travels to India, where film composer and Grammy winner Ricky Kej uses unconventional musical projects to advocate for environmental protection.

Frankfurt Book Fair goes virtual

Arts Unveiled: Experiencing and understanding the art world - October 14, 2020 23:51 - 3 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 3 ratings
The Frankfurt Book Fair is the most important event in the international book industry. The 2020 fair will take place online, leaving the event’s large halls empty. How will that work? Arts.21 interviews the fair’s director Juergen Boos.

Multicultural Weimar

Arts Unveiled: Experiencing and understanding the art world - August 29, 2020 22:46 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 3 ratings
The scientist Ruweida Aljabali helps refugees, Luka Mukavele teaches African music, and the artist Farzane Vaziritabar draws Nietzsche cartoons. Today’s Weimar is creative and international!

Goethe Medal 2020: Elvira Espejo Ayca

Arts Unveiled: Experiencing and understanding the art world - August 29, 2020 22:45 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Whether building bridges between Latin America and Europe, or between modern Bolivia and its indigenous history — Elvira Espejo Ayca is in her element. Her road to becoming an artist, author, musician and weaver was long and stony.

Goethe Medal 2020: Zukiswa Wanner

Arts Unveiled: Experiencing and understanding the art world - August 29, 2020 22:44 - 4 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 3 ratings
South African writer and publisher Zukiswa Wanner is a savvy networker. During the lockdown in Nairobi, she started a pan-African literary festival. She's a citizen of the world and a role model for an entire generation.

Venice’s high season: all dried up

Arts Unveiled: Experiencing and understanding the art world - August 22, 2020 08:17 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 3 ratings
There are no swarms of tourists in Venice this year. Large cultural events like the Architecture Biennale have been cancelled, and there is no sign of ocean liners or cruise ships. This unusual stillness is giving Venice a chance to enjoy itself as the fish return to the canals.

Norwegian melancholy

Arts Unveiled: Experiencing and understanding the art world - October 20, 2019 00:25 - 6 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Bergen is the rainiest town in Europe. Is that why it has brought forth so many famous writers? Tomas Espedal is from there; Karl Ove Knausgård, his most famous student, spent years there. We visit Norway, the special guest at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

Music and Freedom

Arts Unveiled: Experiencing and understanding the art world - August 17, 2019 15:40 - 10 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 3 ratings
At the Rheingau Musik Festival, the Bochabela String Orchestra performed "Long Way to Freedom“, a programme which paid hommage to Nelson Mandela. The orchestra's musicians hail from South Africa's townships. Arts.21 went to go see them.

Chronicle of Decay - Boris Mikhailov

Arts Unveiled: Experiencing and understanding the art world - May 24, 2019 23:42 - 5 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Boris Mikhailov chronicled the decay of former Eastern bloc countries in starkly documentary images, yet his work remained largely unpublished until the 1990s. Today, he is one of the leading contemporary photographers of the post-Soviet generation.

Living in a dying city?

Arts Unveiled: Experiencing and understanding the art world - August 31, 2018 22:59 - 3 minutes - Video ★★★★ - 3 ratings
Venice, one of the world's most beautiful cities, is teetering on the brink of collapse. It's become a second home to architect and professor Jana Revedin. She talks about what life is really like behind the facades the tourists see.