For one time only, this week’s installment of my art podcast In/Visible is two installments: British-born, New York-based artist Anthony McCall, and Australian artist Patricia Piccinini.

McCall, the Comeback Kid, began his career with fire performances and then moved into filmic sculptures made of air, one of which is on marvelous display at Western Bridge.

Piccinini’s first American survey, amazingly, is at the little old Frye Art Museum (which, of course, curator Robin Held has spent the last few years making neither little in stature nor old in attitude). Her sculpture, drawing, video, and photography is at the intersection of art, nature, and technology. For instance, she invented a species of frightful bodyguards for endangered species, one of which is seen below. Its assigned animal is the Golden Helmeted Honeyeater, a little yellow bird. Hear her talk here.