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Sam Brooks brings three forgotten queer plays back to life at Basement Theatre
Fast Favourites: Fiona McDonald – the joy of singalongs
Karl Puschmann's June TV picks
Poneke poet Hana Buchanan's new work, Kupu Whenua
Ross McGarva: From Lord of the Rings to Lucien Freud's studio
Dan Bain: directing the technically impossible
Mike Puru live from the Gold Guitars in Gore
Scarlett Robinson-Kean and Sefa Tunupopo
The Big Screen with Michelle Langstone
David Correos: Fred Award winner, best show at Comedy Festival
Denzel Panama: Pasifika conductor says everyone should do choir
Jennie Skulander: Devilskin's front woman takes on Springsteen
Fast Favourites: Joel Vinsen, Billy T Award winner
Te Ara Minhinnick on heading to the Venice Biennale
Jenny Scown built Inspirit gallery on her family farm. Nineteen years later, it's going strong.
Paul McLellan-Smith: Artsenta turns 40 and wants to hear from you
Amanda Nguyen: from rape survivor to astronaut, Nobel Peace Prize nominee and Time Woman of the Year
Duncan Pepe Long won the Adam Portraiture Award. He found out just before a class he had to teach.
Fast Favourites: Ana Scotney – mentored by two Dames and the pasta she can't get enough of
Big Screens, Small Towns: Starlight Cinema in Taupō's Tamasin Prince
Venice Biennale: the jury resigned, Russia returned and New Zealand is back with a pavilion
Karen O'Leary ahead of Poneke House Party
Kiwi Richard Lewer wins the prestigious Archibald Prize and how he's spending the money
Fast Favourites: Dame Gaylene Preston
Tamar Torrance: What our brains are doing when we're looking at art
Lucy Ryan: The Hamilton Gardens documentary & the master plan
The Big Screen with Kate Rodger
Fast Favourites: 7 Days producer Nigel McCulloch
Morgana O'Reilly: Morgana O'Reilly: From fetish parties in New York to a sold-out film of her one-woman show –
Carin Smeaton wrote three poetry books in three years
The Small Screen: Karl Puschmann's May TV picks
The Hastings Art Gallery art bus taking tamariki to see contemporary art
From novice workshop to Comedy Festival within a year
Rose Matafeo's successful decade in the UK and once meeting Nelson Mandella
Anna Jullienne on playing the nanny who was shunned by The Royals
Todd Atticus designs a book cover live in the window of Wellington's Unity Books
Cannabis, cannibalism and a $19,000 budget: Kiwi film, the Weed Eaters
Lisa Reihana’s ANZAC artwork featuring 180,000 shimmer discs
The Big Screen with Dan Slevin
Specialist costume designer LJ Shannon on seven years dressing supervillains on The Boys
Brett Graham’s latest work and art always being his destiny
Tyrone Te Waa: painting mattresses, marae memories and tuning peg teeth
Nina Kiri: Undertone, the A24 horror film made for $500k that's grossed $20 million
Beulah Koale on eating only apples for three days and taking on Arthur Miller at Silo Theatre
Donna Hay: coastal celebrations, air fryers and the case for photographing your food
Global Book Crawl: Jared Raines from The Great Kiwi Bookstore in Kaiapoi
Fast Favourites: Ant Sang
& Juliet lands in Auckland: director Hamish Mouat
Depot Devonport turns 30
The Big Screen with Dan Slevin
Chris O'Connor from Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre
Gretchen La Roche: Creative New Zealand's new 15-year strategy
Dr Sue Watson turns her adoption memoir into a play
Sarah Adams: the 100-year story of Queen Anne Chocolate
Natascha McElhone: The Truman Show, Californication, and playing Sherlock's mother
John Smythe: 20 years of Theatreview, and the F word... funding.
Fast Favourites: Angela Bloomfield
What happens when you simply pay artists to do their work
Jennifer Ward-Lealand
Austin Bell photographs over 2,500 basketball courts
Film maker Florian Habicht captures 24 hours of Aotearoa
Auckland Arts Festival Young Critics Panel
Saana Kelley, the Emmy-winning foley artist with three million followers
Holly Shervey on Crackhead, her deeply personal show already picked up by HBO Max
Gabi Lardies from the Shanghai Biennale with the first Kiwis to exhibit there
Actor to auctioneer: Daniel Pengelly’s second act
Psychologist and painter Rachael Mayne
The man behind the biggest animated films of the last century
Thirty-Six questions that lead to love inspires theatre show
Inside Helios: artist Luke Jeram
Rocky Horror world record holder Kristian Lavercombe
Country Calendar celebrates its 60th
Pleasure, power and politics: Wet at Te Pou Theatre
Fast Favourites: Brodie Kane
Tenor: My Name is Pati director Rebecca Tansley
The Red Phone Project creators at Aotearoa New Zealand Festival Of The Arts
The Big Screen with Boris Jancic
Australian Comedian Joel Creasey on his friendship with Joan Rivers
Immersive theatre Werewolf at Circa Theatre ahead of North Island tour
Sirāt film director Oliver Laxe on defying Oscar odds
Ramon Te Wake headlines Auckland Pride closing party
Comedian Jack Whitehall’s reverse nepotism and cult classic remake
Te Papa curator Lissa Mitchell on Slow Burn: Women and Photography exhibition
The Big Screen: Kate Rodger’s take on GOAT, Crime 101 and Train Dreams
Fast Favourites: Auckland Philharmonia Principal Percussionist Eric Renick
Island Life: Living on Rakiura Stewart Island inspires local exhibition
Mark Hadlow's Grumpy Old Man in Lycra goes on national tour
Bringing the cobbles to the Capital: Beloved soap opera gets a comedy reboot
Morris & James pottery to be immortalised in a limited edition book
Fast Favourites: Psychiatrist and author Dr Hinemoa Elder
Freedom in finding fame later for Louise Bourgeois
Kiwi and international performers flocking to Wellington Fringe Festival
Major rebuild forges ahead at Auckland's historical St James
The Big Screen: Dan Slevin
Poetry Takeover: Spoken word resurges amongst young people
Cora-Allan on reviving Niuean barkcloth after 100 years
Fast Favourites: Alison Quigan on her latest role as a snail
Artist Karma Barnes first Kiwi to exhibit at Beijing International Biennale in six years
Irish storytelling nights now a global sensation
The Big Screen: Kate Rodger on Hamnet, Marty Supreme and Blue Moon
Celebrated chef and author Yotam Ottolenghi on comfort food, home cooking and the Kiwi bakery
Acclaimed Kiwi illustrator Ruby Jones launches first solo exhibition
Fast Favourites: Kiwi legend Lucy Lawless
Kiwi chef Anthony Hoy Fong
Playwright Anders Falstie-Jensen wins Bruce Mason Award
Best Films of 2025 with Kate Rodger
Theft, fraud and forgery: Art and crime
Not Only Fred Dagg: Lorin Clarke on her father's legacy
Fast Favourites with comedian Michele A'Court
Peata Larkin leading charge to save music and community centre
Best Television of 2025 with Karl Puschmann
Panto Season in full swing at Circa Theatre with director Simon Leary
Legendary James Cameron on Avatar Fire and Ash
Battle to become Ultimate Elvis Artist: Taurean Kenny Mill
Exhibition spotlights pioneering New Zealand photographer Steve Rumsey
Fast Favourites with Professor and author Deidre Brown
Best Books of 2025 with Time Out Bookstore's Jenna Todd
Sea shanties and singalongs
Regional Wrap: Ashburton botanical art exhibition
"Bloody hell" Quintessential Kiwi farmer
Arts News
'Genuine and stable': Proving your love to strangers
Contemporary Ana Iti wins $100,000 New York residency
Fast Favourites: Sophie Henderson
The extraordinary life of botanical artist Fanny Osborne.
Screen Writer and Producer Matthew Metcalfe
Regional Wrap: Spotlight on Aotea Great Barrier
Lifting the veil on a new glossy magazine all about weddings
Arts news for 30 November 2025
Philanthropist Greg Moyle
Fast Favourites with Lara Fischel-Chisholm.
"Posture of our generation" Milarky sculpture
Paying homage to the "big tree" of Cornwall Park
Hanly House: Campaign to create artists' oasis residency
Regional Wrap: Sarjeant Gallery wins major architecture prize
Oscar-winning prosthetic artist on transforming "The Rock"
Local jeweller Zoe and Morgan celebrate twenty years
Fast Favourites: Best actress winner Antonia Prebble
Could this be this country’s finest map?
Rose of Tralee Keely O’Grady dances her way to Christmas
Niels Meyer-Westfield on painting NZ bird feathers
Regional Wrap: Te Whare Taonga o Kawhia - Kawhia Museum
In a first NZ artist Yvonne Todd turns to AI
Poet Tusiata Avia on "the most challenging book I've written"
From Nude Tuesday to Educators: Jackie Van Beek
From painting to performance: the remarkable story of Vietnamese artist Tran Luong
Winner of Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement, poet Dinah Hawken
Regional Wrap: Maungaturoto
A history of acting in Aotearoa
Explosive work of one of the most significant artists of the 21st century to come to NZ
Artist Dinah Priestley on her 'colourful adventurous life’
Lulu Sun: Our leading tennis player on the rise
Arts News for 2 November 2025
All art is politics: acclaimed Australian artist Mike Parr's controversial performance
Regional Wrap: working with kelp in the Waitaki
The Dry House: Alison Bruce in her most challenging role yet
Tauranga Art Gallery: part of $306 million redevelopment of the city's cultural heart
Fast Favourites: TV presenter and journalist Laura Tupou
Hamish Coney: the auction of the collection of late curator Ron Brownson
Fiona Samuel awarded Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship
Regional Wrap: KOAST Art Trail with Joan Honeyfield
Century old Maori carving completed after 115 years gifted to British people
Designing spaces for parents and children: Raukura Turei and Elisapeta Heta
Arts Laureate 2025: Roseanne Liang honoured with Gaylene Preston Filmmaker Award
Regional Wrap goes to Analogue Aotearoa in Te Aroha
20-year-old artist wins international award for stunning night sky photography
Taniwha: following the tails of our popular shapeshifting creatures
What to do with the old family silver?
Fast Favourites: Children's author Kiri Lightfoot
Turning Twizel into a film set: Show Me Shorts director Arthur Gay
Restoring the power of black tapa with memories of the Tongan and English Queens
Regional Wrap: Whau Arts Festival with Melissa Laing
Touring innovative NZ theatre everywhere successfully and sustainably
Winner of Sargeson Prize: Aotearoa's largest short story competition
Fast Favourites with Everyday Māori's Hemi Kelly
Getting to live in your childhood dream house: Tracey Scott's remarkable colonial villa
Regional Wrap: Colville Creators and Makers Festival
Hawke's Bay Festival marks 10th anniversary
Painting star Philip Clairmont on show for the first time in 30 years
The influential and revealing ways video games portray culture
Regional Wrap: Ōkārito's entire town in new exhibition
87-year-old community arts legend June Renwick
Locals turn Cyclone Gabrielle into art installations
Fast Favourites with singer-songwriter Julia Deans
Staging the beloved Terry Pratchett's work at Dunedin's Globe Theatre
Regional Wrap: the sculpture gardens of Kaupapakapa and Kaipara
Who's in charge of telling the story of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern?
Do hospitals have to be ugly? The history of our health design
The problem with dropping art history from the curriculum
Fast Favourites with actor Nicola Kāwana
Innovative agency tackles instability for actors and performers
Manahi Pakarati: Ambassador for Chile and Rapa Nui
Regional Wrap: The untamed and wild Hokitika
Jessica Gurnsey's vibrant portrait paintings capture moments in time
Actor Stephen Papps: playing many characters beside himself
A new era for American Vogue
What's changed for contemporary dance in 40 years?
Words on the Street: Inside the role of a mobile librarian
Regional Wrap: Woodville
Flood-damaged Ponsonby house becomes art installation
We the Young: New youth performing arts festival
What now for public art icon Wellington's City to Sea Bridge?
Fast Favourites: Billy T comedian Hoani Hotene
Keeping the art and craft of bookbinding alive
Bryan Crump reports on 2025's The Big Sing
Arts news for 31 August
The phenomenal impact of Outlander
Regional wrap heads inner-city
Jennifer Ludlum returns to stage as fierce matriarch
Government releases long-awaited creative and culture strategy
Mad Men director on coming up in the new golden age of television
Regional Wrap: The Record Keeper of Geraldine
Seduction, debauchery and madness: Mary Shelley's birth of Frankenstein
Fast Favourites: Writer, academic and plus-size model Kaarina Parker
The robots are everywhere but why treat them as human? Poet Jiaqiao Liu
Fiume o Morte! Fascism's stranger-than-fiction poet-led first state
Mr Bean, but Sexy": Comedian George Fenn on pushing audience's boundaries
The Auckland sculptor creating giant iconic Kiwi confectionery
Regional Wrap: Oxford
Fast Favourites with Petra Bagust
Art News for 10 Aug 2025
Greening the garden city: Ōtautahi's regeneration through nature, art and gardening
Regional Wrap goes to Hikurangi
Lifting the tapu: Māori women who carve
"Developing a project can feel like being lost in the middle of the ocean" Duncan Sarkies on the joy of discovery
Getting more Pasifika women into comedy: Fast Favourites with Rhiannon McCall
Arts News for 3 August 2025
Regional Wrap: Rawene
How arts patronage has changed over 25 years
Notes from a Fish 'a surreal comedy crime caper'
A new generation part of the knitting renaissance
Richard Benge: a champion of arts access for everyone
Exploring decades of Banksy's iconic images
Regional Wrap on the Waikanae River
Exhibition exploring relationships through weaving involves more than 100 artists and children
Living well with bad weather: Chris Berthelsen's part in Japan's efforts to control extreme weather
Fast Favourites: The Spinoff editor Madeleine Chapman
Staging one of the world’s greatest love stories in a 60s high-fashion thriller
Regional Wrap: Greytown with Rachael Fletcher
Jo Randerson's secret art powers revealed!
From All Blacks to Arts Council: Keven Mealamu on what he can bring to board of CNZ
Gareth Morgan's new giant public art park set to open in Spring
Arts news for 13 July 2025
Decorative Arts History through Second Hand Shopping
International award-winning MOTAT exhibition Te Puawānanga
Regional Wrap: Taieri with Matt Brennan
14-year-old Kiwi ballerina wins scholarship at dream school
Anthony Hoy Fong: New York-based Kiwi chef
Fast Favourites with war correspondent Lisette Reymer
From whale vomit to Victorian mourning jewellery:
Poetry and freshwater with Gabrielle Huria
Regional Wrap: Tairua
A radical rethink: the Victoria and Albert's new 'Museum of Absolutely Everything'
Brydie Colquhoun on her debut choreographic work
The art and history of the Haiku
Training the next generation of filmmakers in Miramar
Exhibition showcases an era when arts education flourished
Regional Wrap goes to the Māniatoto: Ranfurly
Living for five months outdoors on public land as art activism
Saint Joan: Why Joan of Arc’s story is still relevant
Keeping Pūhoi Bohemia alive through song and dance
Fast Favourites with NZ Listener editor Kirsty Cameron
Arts news
The Art Precinct: New digital art platform using behavioural psychology
'The other RNZ' - the remarkable story of radio sets in Aotearoa
Regional Wrap: Colac Bay with Daegan Wells
Silo's Taniwha a visual feast for young audiences
I Am A Dark River: the legacy of trailblazing printer Bob Lowry
Pretty and pink: New bookshop dedicated to spicy fiction
Arts news for 15 June 2025
Bold Tahitian novelist Titaua Peu connects us back into the Pacific
How painting pet portraits restored artist Julia Holden
Regional Wrap goes to Ōpōtiki
A road movie like no other: Kath Akuhata-Brown's Kōkā
Good Bitches Baking: New cookbook pays homage to family
Groundbreaking storytelling with a sculpture park you can drive through
Fast Favourites: Matariki celebrations with Ria Hall
Does the underground still exist? A conversation with Samuel Te Kani
Regional Wrap: Titirangi with filmmaker Robin Kewell
Musicians fly the flag for Aotearoa at Welsh Festival
The founders of dynamic Kia Mau and Pacific Dance New Zealand Festivals
New digital whodunnit series spotlights epidemic of image-based abuse
Hello to everybody: Aotearoa's friendliest artist Sallie Culy
Fast Favourites with Miriama Kamo at Birdlings Flat
Arts news for 1 June 2025
Australian first nations performance at Pacific Dance and Kia Mau Festivals
Regional Wrap: the arts scene in Takapuna
Doing nothing becomes a competitive sport
"There's power in the circle" Global folk phenomenon Bulgarian
Fast Favourites with Fred Award winner Angella Dravid
Regional Wrap: Warkworth with local Ursula Christel
Theatre show explores the monstrosity of motherhood
Basketball courts, drones & collage making with Petra Leary
Taking improv competitions into the workplace
The close cultural favourites of indie country star Mel Parsons
Arts news for 18th May 2025
Zach Dodson: How storytelling and design in computer games is changing literature
Italian Film Festival: 10 years of bringing Italy to Aotearoa
Regional Wrap: The Kahu Collective weavers of New Brighton
Sequins, studs and horsehair: getting creative with men's shoes
E kō, nō hea koe: Whanau, whakapapa and Mercury Plaza in debut poetry collection
Comedian Liv Ward dresses as a lobster to express love for Kim Hill
Fast Favourites with comedian Josh Thomson
Lily Catastrophe: using cabaret and comedy to talk about Bottom Surgery
Norwegian culture, heritage and woodstacking with bestselling author Lars Mytting
From TV to the smartphone - our addiction to ads: artist Alex Scott
Has theatre for young people reached crisis point in Aotearoa?
Clowning Doctors: Bringing theatre to the world of medicine
Kiwi artist exhibits at Setouchi Triennale for Naoshima Island residency
Dad (and Daughter) Jokes: Irish comedians Pat and Faye Shortt
Jackie Clarke taps into her prima diva
Book awards and fast favourites with David Eggleton
Arts News for 27 April 2025
Two decades on from bro'Town: Oscar Kightley with new gen comedians Joe Daymond and Bubbah
Frank Malley is putting Kaitaia on the Heavy Metal Map
Sir Ian Mune in End of the Golden Weather at new Court Theatre
The first NZ Contemporary Japanese Art show in 20 years
Renowned lighting designer launches immersive experience
Fast Favourites: North of North star Bailey Poaching
How to thrive: the role of art in mental health
Art and interior design - how to make that collection look good or hide the embarrassing!
Regional Wrap: Castle Hill Village
Artist Michele Bryant on connection and belonging
Recreating pre quake Christchurch in miniature
"In Glorious Smell-O-Vision": the remergence of scented cinema
Arts News for 13 April 2025
'Like the active verb to be and to do': Trailblazing artist writer Emily Cumming Harris
A 'Millenial Bundist': Revolutionary European Yiddish music
Regional Wrap: Fairlie, gateway to the Mackenzie Country
Can animals create art?
A remarkable birds-eye view: photographing the Kaikōura tītī
Alex Medland wins multiple national play awards for commentary on climate activism and inaction
Fast Favourites: Artist Sean Beldon
Regional Wrap: Foxton
From Munich to Nelson and back: at home with jewellery artist couple Karl Fritsch and Lisa Walker
Indira Stewart on growing up with Polyfest
The joys of house museums and daily sea swimming: poet Kate Camp
From Beckett to the Quantum World at the Dunedin Arts Festival
Regional wrap
Poet Amy Marguerite's debut over under fed
X-ray glass to military tank glass: the reusing of vintage camera lens
Fast Favourites: Writer and blogger Emily Writes
Major changes at New Zealand International Film Festival
Why does the world love Native American culture so much?
Regional Wrap: Mercury Bay with Sally Samins
This is Nom*d: Retrospective look at iconic Dunedin fashion label
Cocktails in the new Circa bar with Ginette McDonald
Arts News for 16 March 2025
Biography of a painter with no paintings - Tony Fomison: Life of the Artist
Animated short portrays enduring love and dementia
Regional Wrap: Te Puna in the Bay of Plenty
A fresh start for the RNZ Ballet with artistic director Ty King-Wall
Social media project reveals dating lives of Gen Z
Mike Leigh on new film "Hard Truths"
Fast Favourites with Barnie Duncan
Arts News for 9 March 2025
Bringing precolonial history alive in the landscape
Between the coloniser and the colonised: Anglo-Indian culture
Regional Wrap: Glenorchy with Leslie Van Gelder
Turning Te Papa activism into a stage show
Scarves, ferry timetables & old boot fragments on Banks Peninsula
Creating the Tony award-winning Tudor musical Six
Turning the Aotearoa screen industry green
Pacific Pride Christchurch hero and dancer Vui Suli Tuitaupe
Regional Wrap: culture and heritage in Hokianga village Kohukohu
Arts and culture participation for 12-year-olds shows better wellbeing and relationships
Aotearoa arts collective FAFSWAG at Melbourne's Asia Topa
Dancing with fire knives: the growth of Siva Afi in Aotearoa
Fast Favourites with broadcaster Lloyd Burr
A dramatic picture of climate change impacted Sumner Christchurch 2030
Asia Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts returns
Regional Wrap: Matakana with food writer Lauraine Jacobs
Bringing to light the culture stories of Fijian-Indians
Why do we like to be frightened so? Art and the Horror Movie with Curator of Screams
Show Do Cafe - Brazilian artist and dancer Stela Dara
Pasifika women leading: Anapela Polata'ivao
Living better, closer and more affordably together: Space Craft Architects
Tackling the Tāmaki Makaurau performing arts scene: Tātaki's Daniel Clarke
Regional Wrap: Ashburton
Two Hands tattoo studio celebrates two decades with exhibition & convention
How Queer really are the plays of Shakespeare? A punk pirate musical answers the question
Bringing the organs to Silo Park
Fast Favourites with Auckland Pride's Hamiora Bailey
Carving for Queen and Iwi: fourth-generation carver Renata te Wiata
Regional Wrap: Napier gears up for famous Art Deco Festival
The release of much anticipated world-changing game Civilisation VII with director Ed Beach and producer Dennis Shirk
Is Barbequing a sport? Or even an art? Champion grillers Damon and Lu Holter
Stunning sculptures showcasing at Auckland Botanic Gardens
Te Papa's Courtney Johnston on Vivienne Westwood, podcasts and Stevie Wonder
Game changer or game over? The impact of AI on the architecture industry
Regional Wrap: 'A big lump of country unknown' - Masterton to Waipukurau on Route 52
NZ dancer and choreographer named one to watch in prestigious US Dance Magazine
Reviving Hollywood, Oscars and LA Fires impact on industry: Hollywood wrap with Kate Rodger
Fast Favourites with Kiwi actor Luciane Buchanan
Arts News for December 22, 2024
From Bowie to Big Thief: The extraordinary life of Tucker Zimmerman
From creating waterfalls to giant suns: acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson
Regional Wrap: Bethlehem, Aotearoa with expressionist artist Nicola Welten
Anora: The movie of the year finally arrives
2024’s Kiwi King of the Twist: Crime thriller writer JP Pomare on murder in Cambridge
The year that was with acclaimed writer and columnist Charlotte Grimshaw
Painter Karl Maughan’s 2024 favourites and his Pōhutukawa fringed paintings of summer
Arts News for December 15, 2024
The Moth has flown: the life of musical adventurer Dean Roberts
From Google Street View and Second Life to 4chan: the profound impact of the internet on culture
Regional Wrap: On the Raglan Wharf with Tony Sly
A new gallery for Karangahape Road: art dealer Charles Ninow
The architecture of the Sámi: the Northern European indigenous people best known as reindeer herders
Fast Favourites: Social entrepreneur Izzy Fenwick
Acushla-Tara Kupe: recording global hit drama podcasts from NZ
Our uneasy place in the animal kingdom with Jane Dodd
Regional Wrap: Toi Māori and puppetry with Oriwa Morgan Ward in Putāruru
The multi-talented Cadence Chung: Retracing the Footsteps of Early Chinese Immigrants
Producer Jason Taylor: empowering new storytellers in an unconventional journey into film
Peter Dasent: The star-studded Underwatermelon Man and Other Unreasonable Rhymes
A remarkable place to make films: actor and filmmaker Chelsie Preston Crayford
Arts News
Toi Te Mana: the landmark book reframing Maori art
Dunedin artist Kari Morseth is weaving harakeke history back into the city's daily life.
Regional Wrap: Famed corrugated iron sculptor Jeff Thomson in Helensville
Pacific Fashion Fusion Show continues while national show pauses: founder Nora Swann
The suppression of witches and plant based beliefs
Arts news
The young generation beating new life into tapa cloth
2024 Portage Ceramic Awards’ Premier Winner has a 'hard to pin down' quality
Regional Wrap: Tairāwhiti artist Margaret Hansen portrays her aunts' lives of faith
“We hope to offer hope” Bringing aspirational architecture to church - Award winner St Hilda’s
Protest photographer records Hīkoi mō te Tiriti with his historic lens
Fast Favourites: Dame Robin White brings home the culture of Japan
The Musical Outlier: Diverse sounds from the electronic underground
What does the arts make of the government’s draft arts strategy? Dr James Wenley and Dolina Wehipeihana
Minister Paul Goldsmith on the government’s new arts and culture strategy
Regional Wrap: Te Arawatanga with Raimona Inia in Rotorua
Myths and Maidens: Documentary unpacks the stereotype of the Pasifika woman
Making lace from muka: Rowan Panther in Te Tai Tokerau
A Doll’s House Part 2: Iconic feminist Nora Helmer returns home
Fast Favourites with Tom Sainsbury
Nō Konei - From here: Greg Donson on the collection and support of Aotearoa artists
Inspiring the youth of Whanganui: Māori educator Waiora Bailey Moore
Michelle Excell: Bringing world class innovation and technology to Whanganui
From McSweeney the gallery cat to Michael Laws: Martin Edmond’s biography of a gallery
Building community on the riverbank: Geoff Hipango at Te Ao Hou Marae
Arts news: Whanganui reggae group NLC win best roots album at the Waiata music awards
The revitalisation of Drews Ave and urban contemporary spaces
Cecelia Kumeroa: Bringing the art, design and stories of iwi to the city
Fast Favourites with musician and underground elevator operator Anthonie Tonnon
'Never give up': Realising the dream of Sarjeant Gallery as a House of Inspiration
Arts News: Quasi on the move, live performance contributes $17.3 bil and a Yorkshire Pud halloween costume
The many artistic lives of musician David Long
Fearless Playwright, Producer and Laureate Victor Rodger thanks his mum
Regional Wrap in the Gumboot Capital
'I didn’t even know what a canvas was' - From accountant to accidental artist
How To Art: Clown fruit mash-up theatre show hits the walls of Basement Theatre
The artist duo creating miniatures of our beloved backcountry huts
Fast Favourites: Journalist and TV presenter Amanda Gillies
Mother, fighter, photographer Tish Murtha: Her powerful images of youth in Thatcher’s Britain
Fresh Ink: The Dynamic New Wave of Tattoo Artists
‘I’m writing you a poem about art’ - A poem by Tusiata Avia
Regional Wrap: On the Kāpiti Arts Trail with mayor Janet Holborow
Public fountains and pools: A thing of our modern past?
Colonial controversy around bike lanes: Aotearoa’s bicycle pioneers
Matthew Sunderland: The NZ screen actor who plays life's strays
Fast Favourites: Fringe Festival Director, Musician and Actress Vanessa Stacey
Theatre director Ben Crowder: From Isle of Wight island life to boarding school in Christchurch
Regional Wrap: Matamata with Mia Smith
6-hour interactive photoshoot replaces camera shutter with bullet sounds
Laguna Beach, skinny jeans and dial-up internet: Teen comedy n00b a love letter to the early noughties
NZ’s Pinball wizard: Hamish Guthrey bringing new tech to the arcade
Fast Favourites: The Aussie Office’s Edith Poor
“The internet is radically unstable” The mindblowing worlds of Youtube video game essayist Jacob Geller
Regional Wrap: Rakiura Stewart Island with Gwen Neave
Akira Kurosawa: The Japanese filmmaker Spielberg calls ‘the pictorial Shakespeare of our time’
Dressing up to bare all: Freya Finch’s slow burlesque
The great NZ pub crawl: Which is our most classic pub?
Fast Favourites: Dame Susan Devoy’s surprising cultural connections
Strange intelligences: the global art and tech network that’s taken root in Whangārei
Regional Wrap: Greytown with Linda Kirkland
Everybody makes mistakes: Christine Jeffs’ powerful first feature in 16 years
What do men want? Fashion designer and arts patron Murray Crane
‘Literature saves lives’ Fast Favourites with Behrouz Boochani
Arts news: a cheeky ceramics award winner, Chidgey nets Darwin and Dickens publisher and a new Christchurch artist space
Problem Pokies and 35 years of theatre marae with Jim Moriarty
How incredible are the creations at this year’s World of Wearable Art?
Regional Wrap: An artist residency in the Rangitikei
Iconic food court hosts album installation: Goodspace meets Lim Chhour
Who are we to judge? International art curator Professor Bonaventure Ndikung on the Walters’ Prize
'I’ve never been to a small Māori funeral': Kristyl Neho plays 30 characters at her dad’s tangi on stage
Fast Favourites: Pōneke Wellington Deputy Mayor Laurie Foon
Arts News for 22 September 2024
What's possibly next after crocheting a to-scale woollen neon wharenui?
The remarkable friendship of iconic architects Warren and Mahoney
Regional Wrap: Ōhinehou Lyttelton with ceramicist Grace Uivel
Being fearless at the world's edge: Composer Eve De Castro Robinson tries stand-up
Pop artist Theia releases staunch new anthem Baldh3ad
Kirsty Webeck: Winning over strangers and being a ‘clean comedian’
A Singapore Shimmy: Lisa Reihana’s 114,000 dazzling discs
Songs based on poems inspired by films: Bill Direen’s Dustbin of Empathy
From SpongeBob to Lord of the Rings: Why are we so successful composing for film?
Regional Wrap: Waitohi Picton
Designing winning kitchens with function and flair
Putting the real-life stories of migrant workers on stage
Making the leap from dance to choreography
Fast Favourites: Maori-Samoan RnB artist Jordyn with a Why
Performing arts quadruple threat: Petmal Petelo
Giving the Dunedin Sound a shakeup: The future of the indie Ōtepoti scene
Regional Wrap: Feilding with Mayor Helen Worboys
Celebrating 10 years of Kōanga Festival
The ‘what ifs’ of dazzling New Zealand modernist painter Edith Collier
The Killing: Plushies, red velvet and the modern day circus
Tawata turns 20: Mīria George and Hone Kouka
Arts News - Sunday 1 September
Innovative Waikato scheme pays artists basic income
Best of the Fest: Word Christchurch with Tina Makereti and Pip Adam
Regional Wrap: Tākaka in Mohua Golden Bay
A world of handcut wonder: Matchbox and shoebox diorama with Antje Damm
Electric Avenue doubles in size for 2025 as other festivals fold
‘Messy-ass b*tches, doing messy-ass things!' Kiwi TV comedy Not Even
Fast Favourites with Boh Runga
Arts News for 25 August 2024
'I want to be that bird': The magic dance of pīwakawaka with Shannon Te Ao
Conducting live film orchestras with David Kay
Regional Wrap: Palmerston North with Sian Van Dyk
Why are artists paid so badly?
Soaking up the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Sam Brooks
Poppys: South Auckland family garage hottest new comedy club
From Colin in Accounts to Bollywood: Jacob Rajan’s Fast Favourites
“I was so hungry for anything other than the way I grew up” - writer and poet Sasha LaPointe
The internet is dead! Long live the book: Underground publishing house 5ever
Arts News for 18 August 2024
Regional Wrap: West Murihiku Southland with Pauline Vaeluaga Smith
“I could see myself and my friends in them” - Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu on her debut feature We Were Dangerous
Fake marble and landscapes: The remarkable painting of Walters Prize nominee Owen Connors
Takeout Kids: Venturing beyond the takeaway in new season
Fast Favourites with comedian and writer Eli Matthewson
‘The punk rock Len Lye’ - the legacy of confrontational artist Peter Roche
There is no one art history: Kirsty Baker's Women and Art in Aotearoa
Arts news: Arts as a 'nice to do', Parkin prize and Electric Avenue
Regional Wrap: Whakatāne with Sarah Hudson of winning Mataaho Collective
The Bitches’ Box: From woolsheds to the silver screen
Did Titanic Sink? Podcast director Abby Howells on conspiracies and her obsession
‘Every day is a work of art’ - Queen of vintage, avant-garde style icon Chrissy O
Jennifer Ward-Lealand and Michael Hurst: on stage alone together for the first time
Writer and cultural thinker Ian Wedde on staying ‘Open’
Queen’s Rolls-Royce goes to auction - who's going to buy it?
Regional Wrap: Akaroa with Lesley Burkes-Harding
Can you stage Hamlet in the ultraviolent world of Grand Theft Auto?
Lexus Song Quest crowns winner Katie Trigg
Solo dance show explores trying to be a ‘cool mum’ and having it all
Fast Favourites with Jess Hong
Housing as a human right: artist and advocate Dieneke Jansen
Christchurch goes post-punk: Jonathan Ogilvie's Head South
Arts news for 28 July 2024
Regional Wrap: New Plymouth with Simon Gennard
Opening the door on the history of lesbian fashion
Don’t you forget about me: The art of Gen X with Megan Dunn
The magic and mystery of the human experience in genre-bending show
Fast Favourites: Drag king superstar Hugo Grrrl
Dream Chambers: Contemporary music as a spiritual practice
Author Talia Marshall’s stunning debut - Whaea Blue
Immersive digital artwork brings Wellington weather to life
New musical draws on temptation of a past love
Dame Lynley Dodd: 'I didn’t really have courage about writing'
Fast Favourites with stage and screen actor Bronwyn Turei
Author and poet Warwick Stubbs on why he chooses to live in his car
Making of Madam: Sex work on the small screen
Regional Wrap: Kerikeri’s Gerry Paul
Drag superstar Anita Wigl’it celebrates lust and gluttony for K’ Road restaurant month
Badjelly the Witch takes to the stage with Aotearoa’s Glow Show
PickPath - Immersive digital platform empowering creators
Fast Favourites with broadcaster Kanoa Lloyd
Lisa Warrington: Supporting Aotearoa theatre past, present and future
Dame Fiona Kidman: Live Letters at Randell Cottage
Regional Wrap: Waiheke Island’s Fiona Blanchard
Archeologist pinpoints the start of fashion
Flash Fiction: Storytelling for the short attention spans of our time?
Sense and Sensibility on stage in raucous spin
Fast Favourites with chemist and comedian Dr Joel Rindelaub
Remembering the first times: Harry Rickett's memoir
Weaving culture together in Ōtepoti Dunedin: Margery Blackman
Arts news: Drag king storytime cancelled and 2025 touring artists
Regional Wrap: Trains and pots in Coromandel Town with Pete Sephton
Mixed heritage creatives collaborate in landmark anthology
Thelma & Louise Don’t Die: Epic road trip hits the Civic
John Baxter: Rua Pōtae - he who wears two hats
To deal with body shame, Mandi Lynn turned 300 women gold and photographed them nude
Arts News: Education ministry shares cryptic Sam Hunt, landmark Māori film premieres and Centrepoint is 50
Regional Wrap: Napier's Lizzie Russell
Listening to the world in and around you: Laurence Fearnley at the Grand Glacier Hotel
Arts news: 114,000 Singaporean shimmer discs, NZ at the film fest and our new governors
Was the vinyl record the most significant artwork of the 20th century?
Emele Ugavule: Storytelling and the vitality of contemporary Melanesian culture
Regional Wrap: Kawatiri Westport with The Nomad
Compelling documentary reveals lives of Chinese dissidents in US
Arts study in Australian farming town leads to lower depression rates and blood pressure
Pianette Automatique: Minipiano given new life in Wellington winter garden
Fast Favourites: Comedian Courtney Dawson’s rise to the top
Arts news: A double whammy, Kings arts honours and Pito One
Legendary advocate for Māori art Elizabeth Ellis
A View From A Bridge: Strangers reveal all on old telephone
Regional Wrap: Russell with Sue Fitzmaurice
Derek Jarman's cottage as his final work of art
Australian sculptor reclaiming the female form
First Wave: Celebrating surfing in Kaikōura
Jodie Rimmer: Valuing women as ‘wild, sexy, talented and creative as they age’
Making live events accessible for everyone
Kiwiana icon Pāua shell house goes digital
Regional Wrap: Tūrangi Tongariro district
Medieval to Metal: The Art and Evolution of the Guitar
The Tardis has landed: A special mystery guest reviewer visits Doctor Who exhibition
Play captures adoption experiences of birth mothers in NZ
Fast Favourites: Billy T winner Lana Walters
Arts news: Poppy at Cannes, Goths on stage & Māori climate action in paint
Rising algorithms: The threats and opportunities AI poses to the arts
The story behind the AI image that shocked the world
Regional Wrap: The world’s steampunk capital
Photographer captures grim reality of 'last chance tourism'
The hands behind iconic Crown Lynn hit the stage
Diversifying video games through creative writing
From Princess Chelsea to Nan Goldin: Fast Favourites with Ebony Lamb
Arts news: A Rita Angus bridge, controversial portraits & the book awards
Best of the Fest: Auckland Writers Festival
Bringing an indigenous house of storytelling alive in Ōtautahi: Juanita Hepi
Feeling icky: What makes us uncomfortable with Viki Moananu
Gore: Capital of country music and moonshine with Jenny Mitchell
Finding a city's memory in the rubble of Chernobyl
Joika: The brutal world of the Bolshoi ballet
Practising Hawaiian culture across the sea: Ahilapalapa Rands
Fast Favourites: Rhys Mathewson’s 10th rodeo
Rick Rudd: creating New Zealand's only museum devoted to the ceramic arts
Creating Aotearoa's own Watership Down: Shelley Burne-Field
Regional Wrap: Kaitaia with Dr Opeloge Ah Sam
Bailey Poching: Here are the Māori comedians - but where are you looking for them?
Amah: AI nanny pushes a mother to her limits
Getting over writer’s block: Fast Favourites with Troy Kingi
Don McGlashan and Harry Sinclair’s ode to farting wins NZ on Air Award
Arts News - 5 May 2024
How the fight against Covid became a war between each other: Stuart McKenzie and Dame Miranda Harcourt
Project Prima Volta: A decade of helping teenagers to find their voices
Regional Wrap: Mangawhai with Angela Cook
The Last Laugh but first-ever comedy club in Hamilton
From a Red Mole to a Goblin in a mask: John Davies addresses our shared violent history
With City Gallery closing for two years, what's next for Wellington?
Arts news: NZSO head resigns, World Choir Games news & Springboard artists revealed
Stitching bling, satin & velvet into Toi Māori with Maungarongo Te Kawa
Fixing a screen industry in crisis
Taupō: a secretly prolific arts hub with Jeffrey Addison
Sir Roger Hall and the end of summer time
Arovision: NZ's little battler in the digital streaming wars
From aquatic algae to Niuean rites of passage: Loading Docs back for 10th season
The return of Auē: fast favourites with Becky Manawatu
Arts News: NZ wins Golden Lion at Venice while Israel keeps its doors closed, Aardman Animation in NZ & government talks arts strategy
Dealing with trauma through poetry: Hazara-Afghani Abdul Samad Haidari’s remarkable story
Choreographing intimacy in a post-#MeToo era
Regional Wrap in ‘mural town’ Katikati
Champagne Problems at the new look Aotearoa Art Fair
Origin: Ava Duvernay’s thought-provoking new film on caste systems
Fast Favourites with veteran broadcaster Julian Wilcox
Mataaho Collective scoops Golden Lion at Venice Biennale in a huge weekend for art from Oceania
Arts news: NZ in Italy, a screen crisis, new dance festivals & annual fests skip a year
Keeping the lights on in our public galleries not just about funding
Trailblazing Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap in Aotearoa
Regional Wrap: Sean McDonnell’s Baylys Beach
Prominent portrait photographer Jae Frew shifts focus
Artwork copyright in the age of social media and AI
Christchurch playwright scoops an award trifecta with The Odyssey
From flaming kūmara to East Timor: Te Radar performs five different shows over five nights
Arts News: Toi Te Papa & City Gallery Wellington face closures while Christchurch Arts Centre threatens insolvency
The art of being a cultural translator
Aminé Ramer: the vital role of the music supervisor
Regional wrap: Whakatipu, Wānaka & Hāwea - a creative Queenstown-Lakes District
From Marx and Austen to stranded in an airport: Jonathan Dove on keeping opera relevant
Slavfest! Music and culture from the Balkans through to Asia with Irina Mosina
A feast for the eyes: The hyperrealist paintings of Alice Toomer
Masterchef winner Sam Low on Fast Favourites and new podcast
Arts News Sunday 31 March
Guitar maker and carver Nui Stretch: Two parallel careers in wood
Travelling through Asian and Pasifika cultures in batik with Rozana Lee
Regional Wrap: Blenheim with Tyler Redmond
12-year-olds in NZ highly engaged in arts and culture
Fashion designer Jimmy D and the fight against the dull and turgid hick town
An unlikely pairing? K-pop meets Pasifika
Making Mischief with West End and Broadway star Nancy Zamit
Regional Wrap: Francisca Griffin in Port Chalmers
Travelling from North Yorkshire to Aotearoa via the sun: theatremaker Alexander Wright
Arts News Sunday 24 March
Māoriland Film Festival Wrap
Rugby becomes art: a scrum suspended in time
The vital electricity of contemporary poetry: Fast Favourites with Tracey Slaughter
Best of the Fest #5: A very old man with enormous wings, The Sun and the Wind, Aiga and in the thick of Dunedin Fringe
Arts News for Sunday 17 March
New report shows increased interest in Asian arts and culture among Kiwis
Regional Wrap: Ngāmotu New Plymouth’s Fin Rah Zel at WOMAD
Ju Percussion: powerhouse ensemble performs in NZ for the first time
Aiga: Lusi Faiva’s disability-led Pasifika show on her life in her own words
The 12-year-olds who meet a mountain in Rachel House's first feature
Fast Favourites: Black Grace choreographer Neil Ieremia gives movement to Pacific anger
Arts News Sunday 10 March
When art and film become entwined: painter Sandro Kopp
Regional Wrap: Timaru and what’s next for South Canterbury’s arts institutions
Reimagining a map from a Tongan perspective: Icao Tiseli
Oscars predictions with Gemma Gracewood in Los Angeles
Boy: a tragic and compelling story of gender identity
Musicians who paint: The Bats’ Robert Scott plays Fast Favourites and remembers Hamish Kilgour
Arts News for Sunday 3 March
NZ Artist Simon Denny in Berlin and New York on NFTs, meta landscapes and space colonies
Regional wrap: Tauranga arts groups face up to 300% rent increases
The Waikato Wars: What painter Richard Lewer didn’t learn at school
How to Have Sex: rising British acting star Mia McKenna-Bruce
Tackling climate change with bonkers creative ideas: inventor artist Steve Mushin
Fast Favourites: Kiwi Actor Yoson An in modern Aussie rom-com
Best of the Fest #2: a morning rave, the Savage Coloniser, Witi’s Wahine, The National, Soweto Gospel and the mighty Waikato
Best of the Fest #1: taniwha time machine, aerial displays and a slightly isolated dog
‘Swiftonomics’ - the unparalleled influence of Taylor Swift
Arts News for 25 February 2024
Regional Wrap: Waikato with Louisa Drummond
‘The wind whistling you in behind the springtime’: celebrated Irish musician Lisa O’Neill
Reinventing the savage club as SaVĀge K’lub with performance artist Rosanna Raymond
A thoroughly modern Māori cabaret
Sculpture on the islands of Waiheke and Venice: fast favourites with Brett Graham
Kōpū: Leaving white feminism at the door
Bringing the dance floor to the poetry book: Sylvan Spring’s Killer Rack
From Christopher Walken to JLo: the best ads of Super Bowl 2024
Regional Wrap: Kaikoura with Te Awhina Rangimarie Arahanga
Kristen Ng: bridging Aotearoa and China’s musical undergrounds
A shaky time for Aotearoa’s International Film Festival
Fast favourites: Billy T winner Abby Howells
An unlikely musical fusion: India Meets Ireland
Maureen Lander: weaving with string games and Te Rā our oldest sail
Regional Wrap: Winton with Deow of South Sea Spray Festival
Lunar New Year: celebrations with paediatrician, poet and playwright Renee Liang
Arts News Sunday 11 February 2024
Queer comedian Jess Karamjeet: Redundant and living with a hidden disability
Neil Finn: 'Music will save the world'
The future of arts funding with Creative New Zealand boss Stephen Wainwright
Arranging 110 chairs from 170 years: Objectspace's Kim Paton
Arts News Sunday 4 February 2024
When does protest become art? Defacing an English version of the Treaty of Waitangi
Pride: Playwright Sam Brooks on queer storytelling
Performance art with Dad: Tame Iti’s son Toi Iti
Fast Favourites: Kiwi actor Morgana O’Reilly cast in White Lotus
Pump up a 1990 jam with playwright Albert Belz
WATCH: Immerse yourself in Alan Parkinson’s giant inflatable cathedral
Culture 101 Arts News January 28 2024
Regional Wrap: Te Tairawhiti with Tama Waipara
Pub Choir brings mass singing to Aotearoa
Pring It On! A Polyfest parody hits the stage
H.R. The Musical - putting office culture on stage
Witi Ihimaera on the massive rise to come of Māori culture in 2024
The year that was: best of Aotearoa culture 2023
Regional Wrap: creative Kerikeri
‘Don’t look behind you!’ A history of folk horror with Kier-La Janisse
Bruce Mason Playwriting Winner: Tainui Tukiwaho
Connecting to our landscapes through artist Marilynn Webb
Fast Favourites: Grace Palmer on landing an American sitcom
Dame Anne Salmond: connecting people through culture
Regional Wrap: Motueka with Donna McLeod
Ngahuia Harrison: the consequences of cannibal capitalism on the land
Renowned Chinese haute couture designer Guo Pei in Aotearoa
Fast Favourites: Paul Goldsmith, Aotearoa's new Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage
Fixing the desperate state of arts and culture coverage in the media
Manu Vaea: the spiritual and mundane in being fakaleitī - Tongan third gender
Regional Wrap: Marton building turns into an ‘unsettling immersive’ sculpture
Kauae Raro Research Collective's passion for earth pigments
Celebrating traditional Fijian hair practice from a Wairarapa farm
Moutere valley jeweller wins gold at Florence Biennale
Fast Favourites: The Brokenwood Mysteries star Fern Sutherland
Madison Kelly’s call and response with the kakī
Ōtautahi’s whiskey-chasing advocate for mental health and poetry
Culture 101 Arts News Sunday 26 November
Gamblers, monks and courtesans: a fifth century play in 2023
Ōtautahi’s great inner-city cultural revitalisation
Using AI photography to reconnect with humanity
‘Anything can be art’ an eight year old artist and curator’s Ōtautahi exhibition
Snort: the end of an era
Dr Huhana Smith: the quiet revolution in Māori art
A ‘Māori Elite’ tours the nation
Culture 101 Arts News: November 19 2023
Sweeping up the road tacks: cycling performance artist Marcus McShane
The time warp turns 50: Rocky Horror’s Richard O’Brien and his Kingdom of Bling
Tana Tupai on making Pasifika music symphonic
Dr Rebecca Rice: our early colonial women botanical artists recovered
From lighthouse keepers to taxi drivers: publishing lesser read voices with Adrienne Jansen
Greta Anderson’s strange, psychically charged images of the ordinary
Regional Wrap: Ōtepoti Dunedin with Pip Laufiso
Celebrity Treasure Island winner James Mustapic goes back to school
Irish chef in Japan breaks world record for non-stop cooking
Making Moriori and Rēkohu Chatham Island culture contemporary
Fast Favourites with Te Kohe Tuhaka
Turning 50: Hannah Playhouse, Playmarket and director Murray Lynch
Phil Dadson on Jim Allen: NZs centenarian father of arts experimentalism and education
Pacific Arts Aotearoa recorded: Lana Lopesi in conversation with Susana Lei'ataua
Regional Wrap: Raglan’s Karin Bettley
Former Vogelmorn Bowling Club now a trailblazing community cultural centre
Our birds and landscapes defined: the complex cultural legacy of painter Don Binney
Jon Toogood: 'In a solo show, I can actually talk to people in the room'
American slime mould tours Aotearoa
Regional wrap: Wairoa's Denise Eaglesome-Karekare
Making visible the relationship between hard labour and the Pacific: John Vea and Jasmine Togo-Brisby
Small, precious and shiny new: Kāpiti Coast regional gallery opens
Ballet legend Sir Jon Trimmer remembered by young and old close to him
Fast Favourites: Dr Mike Joy on the role of artists in preventing ecological collapse
All Buttons Great and Small: Lucy Godoroja
Rosie Dawson-Hewes' art table for others in Tauranga
Bernie Harfleet and Turtle Sarten: art through acts of community kindness
Cat Lovett’s weaving adventures in Mexico's colourful textile capital, Oaxaca
Regional wrap: Waitati pirate queen turned councillor Mandy Mayhem
Tokomaru Bay’s Māori clay art pioneer Baye Riddell
Jo Ann Firestone: the art of storytelling on a Nelson couch
Fast Favourites: Michael Galvin aka Dr Chris Warner shares on boy bands
Dr Maia Nuku: taking Pacific power back at The Met
Can sculpture help you sleep at night?
The enduring legacy of visionary architect Rewi Thompson
Regional Wrap: Balmy in Palmy with Spankie Jackzon
Sounds of the underground: Dunedin’s Lines of Flight Festival
John ‘Happy Feet’ Vaifale: Aotearoa’s world-beating hip hop dancer
Fast Favourites with Raised by Refugees creator Pax Assadi
Jamie McCaskill: recovering te reo and tikanga with two guitars
Carcass: picking over the bones of our political parties' cultural policy
Making photographs with mud and glowworms
NZ’s role in the peace and culture of Bougainville
Regional Wrap: in Hastings with Pitsch Leiser
Why Polynesia remains still there, still strong in inner city Tamaki Makaurau
Tokyo's Techno Kiwi: George Nelson
Taking cinema back to Dunedin’s ‘81 tour with Uproar
Fast favourites with vampire turned goth Jonny Brugh
Briar Grace Smith’s stories of skin, screen and stage
Gordon Walters and our changing taste for abstraction
91-year-old indigenous Canadian filmmaker reflects on career
Regional Wrap: Waikato turns pink for Cherry Blossom festival
The phenomenon of ‘Girl Dinner’
Reclaiming Crip Culture
31,872 bottles mark Aotearoa's suffrage anniversary
Fast Favourites with country & rock 'n' roll’s most creative dresser Tami Neilson
Does this year’s World of Wearable Arts have the wow factor?
Introducing Pōneke poets The Meow Gurrrls
Regional Wrap: wai and words from the Wairarapa
Carcass: picking over 2023 cultural policy with Jason (Political Cutz) Muir and Jane Yonge
Rising NZ music producer EDY on ‘hustle culture’
Switzerland: Finding yourself in a psychological thriller
Looking after contemporary art history - curator Christina Barton
Could AI change music culture for the better?
Drumming for a healthy mind and body
At the movies for 17 September 2023
Regional Wrap: remote but creative Karamea
Steamed Hams! Internet memes turned art
Is there life after Lego?
How to sing opera with soprano Deborah Wai Kapohe
Culture meets rugby with All Black George Bower in France
Carcass: picking over the bones of cultural policy over 2023 election year
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra CEO reflects on 17 years
Regional Wrap: Rotorua with Mercia Dawn-Yates
A Yum Cha feast for Aotearoa history
Is ambient music the secret to good mental health?
Nothing cheap about this Tart on Tour
Fast Favourites with Cousins star Tanea Heke
A Conversation with William Webb Ellis by John Kiley
Kiwi YouTubers crowdfund multi-million dollar studio in Auckland
What if artists earned the same as everybody else?
New laureate Taiaroa Royal’s life in dance and on the land
Regional Wrap: Nelson with Judene Edgar
BDSM back in theatres by popular demand!
Drawing to help dementia
The art of joysticks - reinventing the spacies parlour
Comedy and drama queen Kura Forrester plays Fast Favourites
At The Movies for 30 August 2023
Word Christchurch with critic Erin Harrington
Being a voice for mute global star artist Susan Te Kahurangi King
Regional Wrap: Whangarei with Baz Squire
New Zealand cancels pavilion but confirms a record number of artists at 2024 Venice Biennale
Classical hits the streets
Fast Favourites: Karen O’Leary
Aotearoa Pan-Asian film celebrates our diversity and confronts concepts of “home”
Regional Wrap: culture news from Te Tai Poutini
Will you get to watch your favourite screen actors in 2024?
Jemaine Clement’s forgotten Aotearoa podcast
Pita Turei: grounding the arts in Tāmaki Makaurau
A Culture101 party with Bret McKenzie, Suzanne Tamaki and Dr Drama