Audio Search

Simon Morris spoke to Enrico Casarosa, an animator from movie special effects company Pixar, about what makes the company so special. Audio

Resident jazz maestro Fergus Barrowman looks at a superb CD : Making Baby Float, NZ'er Tim Hopkins, and Indian American saxophonist Rudresh Mahanthappa. Audio

We hear from most of the 10 Arts Foundation laureates and award winners honoured this year. Between them they have received $360,000 as an acknowledgement of their excellent, creativity and potential.

The 2012 recipient of the Museum Hotel Scholarship, Alex Tarrant, is a rising star who has also been offered a major role in a NZ theatre work premiering at the 2012 International Arts Festival. Sonia… Audio

Tuning our eyes to the objects of human creativity is Emma Bugden, senior curator from the Dowse. How an art award can be the catapult to success; in NZ, the Walters Awards & Wallace Awards, and then… Audio

Taking the digital pulse of libraries, galleries and museums, looking at new and interesting ways to access and interact with collections from all over the world. Audio

Ten artists, including two siblings, have been recognised for their work at the Arts Foundation's national art awards. Audio

Lynda Chanwai-Earle meets Massey University Lecturer Sam Trubridge to talk about artist exchanges with Korea and Japan and a project that's turning the fatal attraction of internet gaming into… Audio

Warren Feeney talks about the often turbulent history of the Canterbury Society of the Arts, which still has its fair share of critics who believe it was too conservative and favoured British work to… Audio

Brian Easton has picked portraits for the National Portrait Gallery's latest exhibition, The Makers of Modern New Zealand 1930-1960. How did he narrow it down to just 60? Audio

We talk to Grant Close and Simon Edwards, two of those involved in a business/arts collaboration which has resulted in new studios opening in Christchurch's Moorehouse Avenue in just a few days. Audio

Sonia Sly investigates interior design trends, and also looks at the opportunities that exist here and abroad for our talented young designers. Audio

Guy Mallabone is a Canadian specialist in arts philanthropy and frundraising and he's just been in the country giving tips to New Zealand arts leaders. Audio

Playmarket, an agency and script advisory service for New Zealand playwrights, has funded four staged readings of an unproduced play by Papakura playwright Maureen Fepulea'i. Audio

The joys of the smaller screen within the comforts of one's abode with Miles Buckingham. Audio

Why is it that some actors appear on our TV screens over and over again? Perhaps it's because those actors are more aware of their 'brand'. Peter Feeney and Miranda Harcourt share their experience in… Audio

Ethnomusicologist Dr Kirsten Zemke from the University of Auckland on the musical genre that developed as part of Hip Hop culture, and is defined by four key stylistic elements: rapping… Audio

The visual arts line-up for the NZ International Festival of the Arts. Audio

The Chinese have been an established community in New Zealand for more than a century, but it's only now that we're beginning to see more Asian faces within mainstream media and within the arts… Audio

Senior curator at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki talking about her art tour of northern Italy, including the Michael Parekowhai exhibition at the Venice Bienalle, and the architect Carlo… Audio

In the world of antique furniture, beauty is in the eye of the beholder and knowledge is king. Sonia Sly was fascinated to find out how modern-day craftspeople bring relics from the past back to life… Audio

A big top circus from Belgium, a punk accordion player from Finland and the world premiere of a New Zealand opera are among the three hundred shows in next year's International Arts Festival. Audio

"Many critics, no defenders, translators have but two regrets: when we hit, no one remembers, when we miss, no one forgets." (Anonymous). Amelia talks to Jean Anderson, director of the NZ Centre for… Audio

English writer Anthony Burgess once said, "Translation is not a matter of words only: it is a matter of making intelligible a whole culture." Amelia Nurse talks to Jean Anderson, director of the NZ… Audio

English writer George Borrow once said, "Translation is at best an echo." Amelia Nurse looks at four wildly different translations of a single poem by Russian poet Anna Akhmatova, with Jean Anderson… Audio