Arts

How do you track a cartoon? Sam Orchard is the Assistant Curator of Cartoons and Comics at The National Library of Aotearoa and he was presented with a conundrum. He talks to Jesse about turning into… Audio

This week film critic Dom Corry has managed to see a number of films.  Audio

A dinner party, a series of studios and a chance conversation has led to an annual event in Gisborne which celebrates women creatives.  Audio

Dan Slevin previews some of the titles in this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival.

Today's Bookmarks guest is Distinguished Professor of English Brian Boyd, who is widely recognised as the world's leading scholar on the Russian-American writer Vladimir Nabokov.  Audio

Rebel Wilson is an Australian actor, writer and producer who's fulfilled a long time ambition to write a children's book.  Audio

Opera on the harbour is coming to Auckland! Over Valentines Day weekend in February, Wynyard Point in the city will play host to a cavalcade of operatic talent with the Waitemata Harbour setting the… Audio

Logan Murray is described as the man who put New Zealand surfing on the map. His surf photography has graced the covers of virtually every major surfing magazine on the planet and he's the only New… Audio, Gallery

In the 1970s striking carved panels were found in Taranaki while ditches were being dug. They disappeared from the area, and were discovered when art collector George Ortiz in Geneva decided to sell… Audio

More than a decade after commiting to make poet Hone Tuwhare's final home a creative residence - his whanau is almost finished restoring and refurbishing the property. In 1992 poet Hone Tuwhare bought… Audio

We received hundreds of suggestions of classical music you'd love to share with the rest of New Zealand on RNZ Concert. Here are some of the stories which inspired those choices. Video, Audio

In compiling the latest edition of the book 250 Years of New Zealand Painting, art critic and writer Edward Hanfling believes it has been three decades since painting's place as the pre-eminent… Audio, Gallery

Ōtepoti writer Emma Neale speaks about her latest book The Pink Jumpsuit,  a mix of short through to ultra short flash fiction. Audio

Auckland's Bruce Mason Centre is celebrating its 25 years of hosting plays, shows, rehearsals and workshops on the North Shore. Arts patron Angela Antony considers building 'The Bruce' is her greatest… Audio

Makerita Urale, Creative New Zealand Senior Manager, Pacific Arts speaks about the art agency's crowdfunding campaign to support Pacific artists. Audio