Mark Amery
Urban Art - bringing art out of the archives
New Zealand ratepayers own half a billion dollars worth of art, say local public art organisation Urban Art, but incredibly only about seven per cent of that work is on public display. Urban Art are… Audio, Gallery
Your menu for RNZ National’s Standing Room Only Sunday 12 May
Lynn Freeman is in Venice with Auckland sculptor Virginia King, so Simon Morris is in the presenter chair. Simon’s surprised to find a Samoan-based dance show by Tupua Tigafua inspired by the works of…
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Auckland Art Fair dealers look back on the crop of 2019
From Hastings to Hobart, Santiago to Rarotonga, 41 galleries from across New Zealand and from seven cities from around the Pacific come together this week to show their wares at the Auckland Art Fair… Audio
Patricia Piccinini - taking sculpture around the world
Melbourne artist Patricia Piccinini is one of Australasia's most popular contemporary artists. In 2016 the tour of one of her exhibitions in Brazil attracted more than one million visitors. Patricia's… Audio, Gallery
Movement of the Human
Multimedia arts installation? Dance show? Party? Gig? The work of live performance group Movement of the Human is all these things. Led by the trio of choreographer and director Malia Johnston… Video, Audio, Gallery
Accessing the arts online
Being interested in art is one thing - but getting your head around what's on and what might most interest you when there are 100s of galleries of all sorts of different stripes in New Zealand - often… Audio
Standing Room Only this week
This Sunday on your arts, culture and heritage radio show 12-4pm Sunday we're mapping with music and books, and much more besides.
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Representing Chinese Art - New Networks at Dunedin Public Art Gallery
Our public gallery collections reflect colonial ties to England and an art history rooted both here and in Europe. But what of collecting and representing the art scene of today from elsewhere - in… Audio, Gallery
The wind is up and we're on - poems by Jo Randerson
Jo Randerson is an artist whose career it seems knows no bounds - she is best known currently as a director, performer and producer with Barbarian Productions the theatre company she established with… Audio, Gallery
Towards a meteorological art - Janine Randerson
As climate change becomes increasingly critical, artists are turning to the weather as both subject and material. We talk and sing about it endlessly but until recently its not been particularly known… Audio, Gallery
Writing your memoir: Jeffrey Paparoa Holman
"Memoir is a perilous journey, where the writer is the subject and the subject is the writer... the potential for self indulgence and narcissism is obvious". So run the words on the back cover of the… Audio, Gallery
The Business of Dance - Shona McCullagh
"He's had an indelible imprint on the cellular structure for generations of New Zealand dancers, so there's huge grief but also huge gratitude." So says Shona McCullagh, artistic director and business… Audio, Gallery
The Writing Life - Tessa Duder and Deborah Shepard
A pioneering generation of writers raised after the Second World War have founded the rich diverse literary landscape that we have today. A dozen of them are the subject of a new book telling their… Audio
Unconventional Architecture - Simon Devitt and Tony Watkins
Most architectural photography presents the building as a showroom, a beautiful object, but one of our leading architectural photographers Simon Devitt has created a series of photographs that portray… Audio, Gallery
Te Ao Maori in a Te Ao Pakeha Media - Hone Kouka
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This week the Dowse Art Museum in Lower Hutt hosted Connection: an Arts Communications Hui, gathering together arts marketers, communicators and PR people with artists and… Audio
Tauranga's Baycourt and a growing cultural scene - James Wilson
Last year Tauranga overtook Dunedin as New Zealand's fourth largest city, but does it yet have the cultural reputation to match? It gained a fine new art gallery ten years ago, but this year its… Audio, Gallery
How to handle kids in museums and art galleries
Arts commentator, Mark Amery looks at how New Zealand's art galleries and museums treat young people and families. Mark says there are different approaches that range from ignoring children to fully… Audio
Are NZ's Venice Biennale attendants short-changed?
What could be more wonderful? Six weeks in Venice, surrounded by some of the world's best art, flights paid for, an apartment paid, gaining invaluable experience and connections as an attendant at… Audio, Gallery
Upbeat for Friday 17 August
Today on Upbeat: Lover or #metoo predator? Don Giovanni, women representation in ballet choreography with visiting choreographer Andrea Schermoly and Stravinsky conducts his own ballet score.
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Andrea Schermoly
All over the country programmes are gathering momentum celebrating the 125th anniversary of women’s suffrage. The Royal New Zealand Ballet are among the producers: Strength and Grace performed on 17… Audio