Venice
New Zealand at the Venice Biennale
Berlin-based New Zealand artist Simon Denny and his funders will soon find out if his art installations about mass surveillance have struck a chord with audiences, critics and curators at the Venice… Audio
Giovanni Gabrieli (c. 1554/1557 – 1612)
We celebrate the life's work of Venetian composer Giovanni Gabrieli Audio
Death and Venice - Part 3 - Nostalgia and Decay, Jazz and Jets
The events of 1797 which inspired Wordsworth's famous sonnet on the Extinction of the Venetian Republic also triggered the Romantic imagination for next century and a half. The nostalgia for the shade… Audio
Death and Venice - Part 2 - From Birth to Glory
Little music survives from the first eight hundred years of Venice's glorious history. Much of the great output of its decadence, the product of the last two centuries of the Republic, the… Audio
Death and Venice - Part 1 - Power, Pleasure and Mortality
The name Venezia triggers a whole series of images and sound-bites of memory or anticipation. Canals, gondolas, towering marble and intricate windows, pigeons and cafes, lapping waters and sonorous… Audio