Culture File

For his latest choice of essential writing on the natural world, Paddy Woodworth selects the work of John Hay collected in The Way to the Salt Marsh.

Frankfurt-based dramaturg and theorist, Steve Valk to share with some of the things in his culture swag bag

A special edition from the art lollapalooza that is this year's Documenta 15 in Kassel, curated by a collective of collectives, initiated by the Jakarta-based ruangrupa. Plus Jennifer Walshe.

Tania Bruguera founded Cuba's Hannah Arendt Artivism Institute to throw light on the 100s deemed non-artists in her homeland. (3/3)

Culture File's visit to Kassel to the city's once-every-five-years global art event continues with a wander into the palan (Bengali kitchen garden) of Dhaka-based Britto Arts Trust (2/3)

Culture File begins a week of visits to the art event that made Kassel famous, with a tour of the Lumbung Press with Mexican artist, Erick Beltrán (1/3)

Jennifer Walshe on what AI image generation is doing to the meaning of art.

The year so far in "things" - in a gathering of composer and artist, Jennifer Walshe's regular Culture File feature, Things Know Things, exploring everything from cloning petfluencers to emergent bookclubs.

Float further up into the canopy with the second part of our Culture File Weekly Slow Remix, featuring woodsman, Aubrey Fennell, along with the oaks and elms, rooks and storms that fill his soundworld. (Part 2 of 2)

Float further up into the canopy with the second part of our Culture File Weekly Slow Remix, featuring woodsman, Aubrey Fennell, along with the oaks and elms, rooks and storms that fill his soundworld. (Part 2 of 2)

Float up into the canopy with of a Culture File Weekly Slow Remix, featuring woodsman, Aubrey Fennell, along with the oaks and elms, rooks and storms that fill his sound world. (Part 1 of 2)

Luke Clancy and a panel featuring ecologists Bill Jordan and Catherine Farrel, composer Karen Power and The Naturalist Bookshelf's Paddy Woodworth, discuss the places where art and ecology can usefully mix. (First broadcast 10/21)

The greatest living violinist and his most gifted disciple come together as Kilkenny violinist, Patrick Rafter and Siberian virtuoso, Maxim Vengerov, prepare to perform Bach's Double Concerto for violin.

Jennifer Walshe preps for a flaming future in the London heat, the spirit of Octavia Butler pervades a new exhibition at Visual Carlow, Transient Ischaemic Attacks fixed in paint; and what happened when Rob McGlade put his poetry collection into the hands of David Sedaris.

Poet and performer, Rob McGlade whose Edinburgh Fringe show this year celebrates his love of Vinegar, on some of his favs in watching, listening, reading, tasting and smelling.

Rob McGlade's book of comic poetry celebrates, among other things, the poet's love of the stuff you get (and never get enough of) with your chips.

For painter, Gwen O'Sullivan among the things art can offer is a way to understand devastating illness.

The scifi of Otavia Butler gave the title and some inspiration to curator Iarlaith ni Fheorais' group show at Visual Carlow, Speech Sounds

Composer, Jennifer Walshe experiences a (very) dry run for the apocalypse in England's 2022 heat explosion.

A special edition wandering this year's Galway International Arts Festival, taking in art from Maria del Pacheco, John Gerrard, Sean Lynch, Jack Phelan and Annex.

Artist, publisher, and former Irish representative at the Venice Biennale, Sean Lynch on some recent pleasures in watching, reading, listening, tasting and smelling

Improbable rituals, impossible legends and plain made up stuff in Sean Lynch's latest show at GIAF 2022.

Luke Clancy tours the visual art program at Galway International Arts Festival, taking in work by John Gerard, Luke Jerram, Ana Maria Pacheco and Annex.

Tadhg O'Sullivan leaps into the unknown - and fetches up at "the year records began".

Artist and composer, Jennifer Walshe encounters a recent interview given by Google's LaMDA AI.