This episode features Gabrielle Pool, Painter; Gabrielle Belz, Painter; Te Taumata Art Gallery; Natasha Keating, Artist/Curator/Actor.

This documentary originally screened as part of Kaleidoscope. It presents a profile of master carver Pakaariki Harrison, Ngāti Porou.

This episode features Rewi Thompson, Architect; Lonnie Hutchinson, Visual Artist; NZ Māori Arts and Crafts Institute Whakarewarewa; Elm Thorpe, sculptor; Tamsin Parsons, Multi Media Artist.

This episode features actor George Hēnare (Ngāti Porou, Ngāti Hine); Television Commercial Director and Fashion Photographer Robin Walters; Filmmaker and Artist Lisa Reihana; Artist Damon Joe.

This episode features Kaiwhakaari Jim Moriarty; opera singer Te Oti Rakena; Ngā Taonga Ataahua John Leech Gallery; Photographer Natalie Robertson; film and video artist Emma Papaconstantinou.

1. Wellington print and paper artist Kate Coolahan talks about her work and about saying things to women across time, and when great change is taking place. only 30 minutes of the programme recorded.

1. A large group of new designers have entered the field of furniture design in New Zealand recently. Auckland designer Carin Wilson has been a key figure in this and reports on the exhibitions he has attended and the furniture displayed. Carin's own work includes "The Royal Pain in the Arse" chair and he also talks about it's design. -- 2. Debate around the Wellington City Council "Arts bonus Scheme", and who benefits - the developer or the city?

Compilation from several previous programmes on prints and printmakers. 1. It covers the history of printing, and printing in New Zealand, including the early printmakers of the Quoin Club and the father of New Zealand art printing, E Mervyn Taylor. The different techniques used are demonstrated by John Drawbridge who talks about their origins and the work produced. Rodney Fumpston talks about the inspiration from his garden. -- 2. There are various reasons an artist decides to use a print to express an idea and painter Pat Hanley thinks the advantage of prints is both their graphic qualities and that a lot of people can have them. Printmaker Mervyn Williams can make the decision of whether to print or paint by convenience of getting an idea on paper. -- 3. The process of lithography is laborious and Katherine Shine demonstrates the steps involved. Brian James specialises in wood block printing. -- 4. Kate Coolahan makes her own paper and demonstrates the process. Stanley Palmer is one of the few printmakers who makes his own ink. Carol Shepherd makes what she calls 'assemblages', compositions based around an traditional etching. Paul Hartigan uses colour photocopy machines to create his works - but isn't that just reproduction? -- 5. The programme discusses how printmakers get around the problem of owning printing machines, and the specialist galleries, like Ginko Studios in Christchurch are being set up to help them, and market their work. Architect Ron Sang has designed a studio for printer Malcolm Waugh so his work and that of others can be produced, framed and displayed for sale. Portfolio Gallery in Auckland is also selling prints widely. But, machinery is not always needed and Harold Coop prints by hand, or feet.

1. Jazz, and Wellington group Six Volts, who play the music of the 1920's and 1930's, are recording at Crescendo Studios. Their recording will be released under the Braille Records label collective, all experimental. -- 2. After 25 Years of living in Britain poet Kevin Ireland has returned to New Zealand. His work is about New Zealand with his nine published volumes winning many awards. He talks about his work, the influence of places and people and reads several of his poems.

In the final programme for the year Kaleidoscope visits five performing arts schools to see students at the beginning of their careers and a potential life in the performing arts: NZ Drama School; NZ School of Dance; Schola Musica; Royal NZ Ballet School, and the Wellington Polytechnic. A group of 13 young artists are followed as they study for a career in the performing arts. It asks why they wanted to go ahead and try for an arts career. In five years time the programme hopes to talk to them all again to see what happened. Sam Konise - violinist; Anita Schwab - jazz pianist; Paul Craven - Theatre technician; Helen Winchester - Dancer; Anita Bryan - Dancer; Paul Whelan - Singer; Mia Van Den Eykel - Singer; Campbel Smith - Singer; Graeme Cosslett - Pianist; Sarah Preece - Actor; Martin Csokas - Actor; Brendan Meek - Dancer; Mecaela Baird - Dancer

1. Christchurch architect Peter Bevan has been the inspiration for a generation of new architects. He has come back from an extended period overseas and goes around Wellington to look at, and comment on new architecture there. -- 2. A new dance work "Dead Ballerinas" has been choreographed by Paul Jenden and performed by him and his partner Loius Solino. It uses males as ballerinas, beginning as if it were a send up but turning into something really different. -- 3. The judge for the Fletcher Brownbuilt pottery awards this year is Maria Kuczynska and she talks about the works which have won awards.

1. ANZART '85 is a 10 day festival of "off the wall" art and a trans-Tasman gathering of artists covering new art forms; performance, electronics and experimental. -- 2. Embroidering History in Masterton and the local history wall hanging made for the Masterton library. -- 3. Artist and printmaker Carol Shepheard has been given a six week residency with disabled young people getting them involved in art, and which benefited her work as well.

1. Auckland is having a building boom with a record number of sites having been cleared and now under construction. But there seems to be little control over the environmental of aesthetic qualities. This programme looks at the effects of demolition and new building, with the criticisms, and suggestions for what should be done. High Rise, or High Risk? Participants are: Peter Bromhead (Interior Designer); Vern Warren (Director of Planning, Auckland City Council); Harold Goodman (Chairman, Planning Committe, Auckland City Council); Colin Graham (Property Manager, AMP); Seph Glew (Property Manager, Chase Corporation); John Whitehead (Managing Director, Mainzeal); Jim Hart (Property Manager, NZI Investments); Ian Carter (Sociologist); Ollie Newland (Businessman); Ivan Mercep (Architect); Professor Bartlett (Architecture School); Mike Prichard (School of Town Planning). -- 2. Composer Andrew LLoyd Weber's "Requiem" album, released this month in New Zealand, has already made the charts the world over. The track "Pie Jesu' has a video to go with it. It was made as a tribute to the Sussex Rescue Service and their work at the time of the Brighton Hotel bombing. -- 3. New Zealand composer Jack Body's "Little Elegies" was commissioned by Television New Zealand for its 25th birthday.

1. Playwright Roger Hall is the most successful playwright New Zealand has produced, constantly breaking box office records. He talks about his plays and musicals, and the challenges of being popular.

William (Bill) Southgate is one of the best known musicians and conductors in New Zealand and has introduced classical music to a wide audience. He has just conducted his own symphony with the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. He talks about his life, and music.

Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).

Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).

Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).

Luit Bieringa's richly archived documentary examines the legacy of Gordon Tovey and the post-war education programmes that put art, artists, and Māori arts in particular, into the New Zealand classroom. Under the leadership of a legendary director general of education, Clarence Beeby, the years immediately after World War II saw the most remarkable shifts in educational philosophy New Zealand had ever experienced. Luit Bieringa's documentary traces those changes and the army of men and women who worked to establish a thoroughly bicultural and arts-centred education system. Gordon Tovey, national supervisor of arts and crafts, and his team of artists and art specialists fostered the lively and colourful classrooms that New Zealand is familiar with today, in stark contrast to the rote-learning environments preceding them. Contributing art specialists included Cliff Whiting, Para Matchitt and Ralph Hotere. Critically, they ensured that aspects of Māori art such as kōwhaiwhai, kapa haka and waiata had a central place in our mainstream classrooms through in-depth consultation with Ngāti Porou kaumātua Pine Taiapa. Replete with archival interviews and little-seen footage, this film is likely to transport any Kiwi-educated boomer back to school, but its richly storied excavation of the past is as clearly pointed towards the future as once were its public-servant heroes.

A watery portrait of our urban landscape reveals that when it comes to our cities, there is more than meets the eye. From the canopy of ageing skyscrapers to the abandoned pipelines below ground, this visual dissection of Auckland City searches for traces of Waihorotiu, an ancient waterway situated in the city centre. Through archival imagery and animation the film explores the history of Waihorotiu, and the relationship between urbanisation and waterways.

1. Film director Geoff Steven takes a Kaleidoscope crew out on the town to give and impression of the changes in arts and entertainment in Auckland at night. -- 2. Stress can build up and affect the body. Dancer and teacher Raewyn Schwalbe uses a method called the 'releasing technique' to help relieve the physical and mental symptoms. The University of Auckland School of Music uses her techniques with the musicians. -- 3. Peter Webb and Denis Cohn give advice on how and where to buy paintings. Pictures jerky in parts from restored original tape.

1. Mirage Films production 'Came a Hot Friday' is on the way to becoming New Zealand's largest film moneymaker. Producer Larry Parr is becoming New Zealand's "money man of the movies". He talks about his start in film making and making "Came a hot Friday". -- 2. Venice Beach in California has an unusual sense of history. It is an eclectic mix of Italian Renaissance and the American Dream and Kerry Fowler explores what makes it so unusual. -- 3. Peter Webb starts a series on Investing in Art. -- 4. Announcement that the production of Kaleidoscope will move to Wellington in 1986

1. Roger Donaldson, has played an important part in the renaissance of film in New Zealand. He has moved to the USA and gives his views of the Hollywood film industry. -- 2.'Art for All' "20 Years ago Today" and how that record summed up a whole generation and introduced 'pop culture'. This was a new explosion of the arts, and it requires marketing to make the them successful. -- 3. Elephants, of corrugated iron, and other animals have found their way to Albert Park in Auckland. Creator Geoff Thompson, who made his name with quirky letterboxes, talks about creating the extraordinary out of the very ordinary.

Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).

Broadcast of the 14th Mobil Song Quest from the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington. The introduction includes references to previous winners since the quest began in 1956 as a radio contest Including Patricia Price (1961), Malvina Major (1963), Kiri Te Kanawa (1965) and Christopher Doig (1971). The programme presents the six finalists - recalled form the original 20 - in the final round: Andrea Gerring, Stewart Cameron, Kenneth Cornish, Robyn Lynch, David Griffiths, Shelly Alexander, Lindsay Fergusson Managing Director Mobile Oil, Robert Muldoon Prime Minister. Special Prize: Dame Joan. Hammond Scholarship: Robyn Lynch. Prizewinners are: 3rd Stewart Cameron: 2nd Robyn Lynch: 1st David Griffiths. Judges: Grant Dickson and Ian McKay

Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).

Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).

Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).

Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).

Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).

Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).

Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).

Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).

Weekly news and current affairs on the arts from Television New Zealand (TVNZ).

1. The Dance and the Child International (DACI) conference recently held in Auckland recognises that every child regardless of age, race, creed or disability should be able to join into dance. Around the country there are dance classes where some of the tutors are only three or four years older than the children they teach. -- 2 A Vancouver children's theatre company, the Green Thumb Theatre, has been in New Zealand as part of a Pacific tour, producing plays and taking workshops that educationalists and actors thought were rather special. 3. Buying Contemporary Art, getting started as an artist and group collecting. The art collective 'The Future Group' just bought an avant guarde Billy Apple painting. Lawyer Warwick Brown is part of The Prospect Collection and the Forsyth Collection, both started to assist people to start collecting with a lower risk.

Edwina Thorn is a trumpeter and leader of the all female band "Pink Terrace". She is interviewed on her background. Her professional career started a 12 with Max Cryer and the Kids and later she joined Roger Fox and his Big Band and moved into jazz.

New Zealand feminist artist Vivian Lynn is installing a major work - Lamella Asherim- in Studio 8 at the Avalon Television Centre ready for a recording tonight, and a showing in the morning. It involves setting up almost invisible nylon threads and 15 columns all of which need meticulous adjustment. Vivian talks about her work in between working on setting up the installation and working around the studio lighting director, Howard Anderson, trying to light it for television. Vivian also needs to assess what the installation will look like on television, rather than in an exhibition hall. Composer Sue Alexander needs to compose and record a short piece to be played at the recording

A profile of actor Ian Mune and his many contributions to theatre and the entertainment business. He talks about his career, and the films and plays he has been part of.

Early Days Yet is a documentary which explores the life of Allen Curnow, who was one of New Zealands greatest writers. Curnow not only won multiple New Zealand book awards and the Commonwealth Poetry Prize, he was also the first person outside of Britain to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry. Exploring Allen Curnow's distinguished life and work, this documentary is a portrait of a man who worked on the cutting edge of literature for almost 70 years.

Bendor and Jacky visit the Ulster Museum to investigate what have long been disregarded as low-value copies of works by Flemish artist Peter Breughel the Younger.

Highlights and winners of the world-class-art-to-fashion show held in Wellington in September 2007.

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This episode draws on ideas from Walter Benjamin's 'The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction', arguing that through reproduction an Old Master's painting's modern context is severed from that which existed at the time of its making.

This episode discusses the female nude. Berger asserts that only twenty or thirty nudes in the European oil painting tradition depict a woman as herself rather than as a subject of male idealisation or desire.

This episode explores the use of oil paint as a means of depicting or reflecting the status of the individuals who commissioned the work of art.

This episode focuses on publicity and advertising. Berger argues that colour photography has taken over the role of oil paint, though the context is reversed. An idealised potential for the viewer (via consumption) is considered a substitution for the actual reality depicted in old master portraits.

Maryam Erfan looks at the booming Middle Eastern and Iranian art market. She asks why is there such an interest in works of art that have previously been ignored by buyers from outside the region and meet experts who fear the bubble could yet burst.

1. Simon Prast on his Auckland Festival experiences. -- 2. Wartime comedy. -- 3 Finalists if this year's Lexus Conquest.

Teuane Tibbo, who began painting at the age of 69, was one of the earliest Pacific painters recognised by New Zealand’s mainstream art scene. Her work was influential in the 1960s and early 1970s. Tibbo grew up in Samoa. She lived in Fiji with her second husband, and with her family (which included eight children) moved to New Zealand in her 40s. This video features Tibbo talking about her artworks, and was likely made in 1973.

Footage of the Cover to Cover Bookworks Exhibition by the Association of Women Artists at the Outreach Cultural Centre from October 1st to 12th 1990. Video made by Claudia Pond Eyley. The following text is from the foreword of the exhibition notes, written by Claudia Pond Eyley and Beth Serjeant - "This exhibition of bookworks, the second to be mounted by the Association of Women Artists, is an indication of the growing interest in New Zealand of this expanding field. As seems to be happening internationally the books themselves are constantly exploring new ways of communicating, sharing and storing ideas/concepts, meshing media too. This year we have an increasing number of book objects to tease, taunt and test those who are prepared to spend time to browse through the exhibits. A hands on policy is the best way to view books, we ask you to please wear the gloves provided and to treat each volume gently - after all "Books mirror people!" (Slivca)" Artists in the show include: Caroline Bensinger, Joan Buller, Barbara De Mora, Val Cuthbert, Zena Abbott, Chris Massey, Claudia Pond Eyley, Adrienne Rewi, Dawn Pearce, Pamela Brooks Corbett, Maggie Taylor, Virginia King, Elizabeth Steiner, Lesley Kaiser, Sandra Morris, Berwyn Hartley, Kowhai Intermediate School Tamsin/Gil Hanly, Julie Ryan, Nicola Shanley-Nest, Catharina Kenkel, Daniella Aleh, Joan Travaglia, Lola W. Badman, Christine Hellyer, Helen Schamroth, Hilary Kerrop, Sylvia Siddell, Janette Craig, Maureen Zandorigo, Rachel Butler, Catherine Crooks, Charlotte Fisher, Carole Shepheard, Elizabeth Serjeant, Jude graveson, Jill Godwin, Donna Campbell, Chiara Corbelletto, Emily Siddell.