Sunday, 29 June
5.00pm

This week on Sunday Arts we feature the political art of South African William Kentridge, the work of leading, but largely unknown, photographer Maggie Diaz, and music from one of the world's most popular pianists Emanuel Ax.

Maggie Diaz
Arriving in Melbourne in 1961, American-born Maggie Diaz quickly established herself as one of Melbourne's leading photographers. Diaz's outsider status provided her with some celebrity and she was seen as a trail blazer, and her work was popular with advertising agencies, newspapers and casting agencies. From haunting images of Chicago's housing projects in the 50s and Melbourne's 'battlers' in the 60s, to publicity photographs of actors and performers of the 80s, Diaz used her flair for night photography and use of available light to capture the essence of these cities and the people she photographed. Diaz is now 83 and her photographs are re-emerging in exhibitions that allow the viewer to be engrossed in human stories spanning 40 years.

Emanuel Ax
Emanuel Ax is one of the world's most prolific pianists. Born in Poland, Ax moved to Canada as a young boy. He studied piano at the Julliard School and went on to win some of the world's major awards for young performers. He is now a world renowned performer, and in the current concert season he will be performing with the world's best symphony orchestras, including the New York and London Philharmonic orchestras. This week on Sunday Arts Fenella Kernebone chats to this award-winning pianist who is in Australia this month performing Mozart and Chopin with the Melbourne and Sydney symphony orchestras.

William Kentridge
William Kentridge is one of South Africa's most collectible artists whose work reflects the country's political environment. Kentridge is not one to settle on any one speciality and has dabbled in, and excelled in, drawing, painting, animation, print-making, multimedia theatre, puppetry design and directing. Last year he even conducted and directed an acclaimed production of Mozart's Magic Flute. Kentridge was recently in Australia taking part in the Sydney Biennale with a new work - a lecture and performance held within a multi-channel video installation on Sydney's Cockatoo Island.

Sunday Arts will be repeated on ABC2 – Sunday, June 29 at 7:30pm