On SmartArts today...

... I spoke with artist Andrew Baines, who's looking for people to participate in a 'living surrealist human sculpture' at St Kilda Beach at 6am this Saturday January 20. You'll need to wear a black suit, white shirt and colourful tie, and walk into the surf reading a newspaper, together with 200 or so people dressed identically. The finished work will look something like this:

It's not the first time Baines has created work of this nature, as you can see if you visit his website at www.andrewbaines.com - which is also where you can find all the registration details for this Saturday's event...

My other guests on SmartArts today, which was my first program for the year after a three week break, were:

• Actor Gerry Sont, who is playing Bloomsbury Group artist Duncan Grant in the play 'The Object of Desire' at La Mama Theatre as part of the Midsumma Festival, from Jan 24 - Feb 11.
• Curator Leanne Fitzgibbon, from the Bendigo Art Gallery, about the exhibition 'The World's Most Photographed', on until March 25.
• Director Michael Camilleri, regarding The Golem of Ruckers Hill, presented by Platform Youth Theatre, at Northcote Town Hall until this Sunday.
• Curator Shannon Cane and artist Peter Maloney about the exhibition The Brotherhood at Neon Parc Gallery until Feb 3.
• And Cerise Howard joined us to discuss Christopher Guest's latest mockumentary, For Your Consideration in our fortnightly screen culture segment, A Fistful of Celluloid.