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Perlina Lau hosts a weekly show about creativity and culture in Aotearoa.

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The Small Screen: Karl Puschmann's May TV picks
May 03, 2026
The Hastings Art Gallery art bus taking tamariki to see contemporary art
May 03, 2026
From novice workshop to Comedy Festival within a year
May 03, 2026
Rose Matafeo's successful decade in the UK and once meeting Nelson Mandella
May 03, 2026
Anna Jullienne on playing the nanny who was shunned by The Royals
May 03, 2026
Todd Atticus designs a book cover live in the window of Wellington's Unity Books
May 03, 2026
Cannabis, cannibalism and a $19,000 budget: Kiwi film, the Weed Eaters
Apr 26, 2026
Lisa Reihana’s ANZAC artwork featuring 180,000 shimmer discs
Apr 26, 2026
The Big Screen with Dan Slevin
Apr 26, 2026
Specialist costume designer LJ Shannon on seven years dressing supervillains on The Boys
Apr 26, 2026
Brett Graham’s latest work and art always being his destiny
Apr 26, 2026
Tyrone Te Waa: painting mattresses, marae memories and tuning peg teeth
Apr 19, 2026
Nina Kiri: Undertone, the A24 horror film made for $500k that's grossed $20 million
Apr 19, 2026
Beulah Koale on eating only apples for three days and taking on Arthur Miller at Silo Theatre
Apr 19, 2026
Donna Hay: coastal celebrations, air fryers and the case for photographing your food
Apr 19, 2026
Global Book Crawl: Jared Raines from The Great Kiwi Bookstore in Kaiapoi
Apr 19, 2026
Fast Favourites: Ant Sang
Apr 19, 2026
& Juliet lands in Auckland: director Hamish Mouat
Apr 12, 2026
Depot Devonport turns 30
Apr 12, 2026
The Big Screen with Dan Slevin
Apr 12, 2026
Chris O'Connor from Raukatauri Music Therapy Centre
Apr 12, 2026
Gretchen La Roche: Creative New Zealand's new 15-year strategy
Apr 12, 2026
Dr Sue Watson turns her adoption memoir into a play
Apr 05, 2026
Sarah Adams: the 100-year story of Queen Anne Chocolate
Apr 05, 2026
Natascha McElhone: The Truman Show, Californication, and playing Sherlock's mother
Apr 05, 2026
John Smythe: 20 years of Theatreview, and the F word... funding. 
Apr 05, 2026
Fast Favourites: Angela Bloomfield
Apr 05, 2026
What happens when you simply pay artists to do their work
Mar 29, 2026
Jennifer Ward-Lealand
Mar 29, 2026
Austin Bell photographs over 2,500 basketball courts
Mar 29, 2026
Film maker Florian Habicht captures 24 hours of Aotearoa
Mar 28, 2026
Auckland Arts Festival Young Critics Panel
Mar 22, 2026
Saana Kelley, the Emmy-winning foley artist with three million followers
Mar 22, 2026
Holly Shervey on Crackhead, her deeply personal show already picked up by HBO Max
Mar 22, 2026
Gabi Lardies from the Shanghai Biennale with the first Kiwis to exhibit there
Mar 21, 2026
Actor to auctioneer: Daniel Pengelly’s second act
Mar 15, 2026
Psychologist and painter Rachael Mayne
Mar 15, 2026
The man behind the biggest animated films of the last century
Mar 15, 2026
Thirty-Six questions that lead to love inspires theatre show
Mar 14, 2026
Inside Helios: artist Luke Jeram
Mar 08, 2026
Rocky Horror world record holder Kristian Lavercombe
Mar 08, 2026
Country Calendar celebrates its 60th
Mar 08, 2026
Pleasure, power and politics: Wet at Te Pou Theatre
Mar 07, 2026
Fast Favourites: Brodie Kane
Mar 07, 2026
Tenor: My Name is Pati director Rebecca Tansley
Mar 01, 2026
The Red Phone Project creators at Aotearoa New Zealand Festival Of The Arts
Mar 01, 2026
The Big Screen with Boris Jancic
Mar 01, 2026
Australian Comedian Joel Creasey on his friendship with Joan Rivers
Mar 01, 2026
Immersive theatre Werewolf at Circa Theatre ahead of North Island tour
Feb 28, 2026
Sirāt film director Oliver Laxe on defying Oscar odds
Feb 22, 2026
Ramon Te Wake headlines Auckland Pride closing party
Feb 22, 2026
Comedian Jack Whitehall’s reverse nepotism and cult classic remake
Feb 22, 2026
Te Papa curator Lissa Mitchell on Slow Burn: Women and Photography exhibition
Feb 21, 2026
The Big Screen: Kate Rodger’s take on GOAT, Crime 101 and Train Dreams
Feb 21, 2026
Fast Favourites: Auckland Philharmonia Principal Percussionist Eric Renick
Feb 21, 2026
Island Life: Living on Rakiura Stewart Island inspires local exhibition 
Feb 15, 2026
Mark Hadlow's Grumpy Old Man in Lycra goes on national tour
Feb 15, 2026
Bringing the cobbles to the Capital: Beloved soap opera gets a comedy reboot
Feb 15, 2026
Morris & James pottery to be immortalised in a limited edition book
Feb 14, 2026
Fast Favourites: Psychiatrist and author Dr Hinemoa Elder
Feb 14, 2026
Freedom in finding fame later for Louise Bourgeois
Feb 08, 2026
Kiwi and international performers flocking to Wellington Fringe Festival
Feb 08, 2026
Major rebuild forges ahead at Auckland's historical St James
Feb 08, 2026
The Big Screen: Dan Slevin
Feb 08, 2026
Poetry Takeover: Spoken word resurges amongst young people
Feb 08, 2026
Cora-Allan on reviving Niuean barkcloth after 100 years
Feb 07, 2026
Fast Favourites: Alison Quigan on her latest role as a snail
Feb 07, 2026
Artist Karma Barnes first Kiwi to exhibit at Beijing International Biennale in six years
Feb 01, 2026
Irish storytelling nights now a global sensation
Feb 01, 2026
The Big Screen: Kate Rodger on Hamnet, Marty Supreme and Blue Moon
Feb 01, 2026
Celebrated chef and author Yotam Ottolenghi on comfort food, home cooking and the Kiwi bakery
Feb 01, 2026
Acclaimed Kiwi illustrator Ruby Jones launches first solo exhibition
Jan 31, 2026
Fast Favourites: Kiwi legend Lucy Lawless
Jan 31, 2026
Kiwi chef Anthony Hoy Fong
Dec 21, 2025
Playwright Anders Falstie-Jensen wins Bruce Mason Award
Dec 21, 2025
Best Films of 2025 with Kate Rodger
Dec 21, 2025
Theft, fraud and forgery: Art and crime
Dec 21, 2025
Not Only Fred Dagg: Lorin Clarke on her father's legacy
Dec 20, 2025
Fast Favourites with comedian Michele A'Court
Dec 20, 2025
Peata Larkin leading charge to save music and community centre
Dec 14, 2025
Best Television of 2025 with Karl Puschmann
Dec 14, 2025
Panto Season in full swing at Circa Theatre with director Simon Leary
Dec 14, 2025
Legendary James Cameron on Avatar Fire and Ash
Dec 14, 2025
Battle to become Ultimate Elvis Artist: Taurean Kenny Mill
Dec 13, 2025
Exhibition spotlights pioneering New Zealand photographer Steve Rumsey
Dec 13, 2025
Fast Favourites with Professor and author Deidre Brown
Dec 13, 2025
Best Books of 2025 with Time Out Bookstore's Jenna Todd
Dec 07, 2025
Sea shanties and singalongs
Dec 07, 2025
Regional Wrap: Ashburton botanical art exhibition
Dec 07, 2025
"Bloody hell" Quintessential Kiwi farmer
Dec 07, 2025
Arts News
Dec 07, 2025
'Genuine and stable': Proving your love to strangers
Dec 06, 2025
Contemporary Ana Iti wins $100,000 New York residency
Dec 06, 2025
Fast Favourites: Sophie Henderson
Dec 06, 2025
The extraordinary life of botanical artist Fanny Osborne.
Nov 30, 2025
Screen Writer and Producer Matthew Metcalfe
Nov 30, 2025
Regional Wrap: Spotlight on Aotea Great Barrier
Nov 30, 2025
Lifting the veil on a new glossy magazine all about weddings
Nov 30, 2025
Arts news for 30 November 2025
Nov 29, 2025
Philanthropist Greg Moyle
Nov 29, 2025
Fast Favourites with Lara Fischel-Chisholm.
Nov 29, 2025
"Posture of our generation" Milarky sculpture
Nov 23, 2025
Paying homage to the "big tree" of Cornwall Park
Nov 23, 2025
Hanly House: Campaign to create artists' oasis residency
Nov 23, 2025
Regional Wrap: Sarjeant Gallery wins major architecture prize
Nov 23, 2025
Oscar-winning prosthetic artist on transforming "The Rock"
Nov 23, 2025
Local jeweller Zoe and Morgan celebrate twenty years
Nov 22, 2025
Fast Favourites: Best actress winner Antonia Prebble
Nov 22, 2025
Could this be this country’s finest map?
Nov 16, 2025
Rose of Tralee Keely O’Grady dances her way to Christmas
Nov 16, 2025
Niels Meyer-Westfield on painting NZ bird feathers
Nov 16, 2025
Regional Wrap: Te Whare Taonga o Kawhia - Kawhia Museum
Nov 16, 2025
In a first NZ artist Yvonne Todd turns to AI
Nov 16, 2025
Poet Tusiata Avia on "the most challenging book I've written"
Nov 15, 2025
From Nude Tuesday to Educators: Jackie Van Beek
Nov 15, 2025
From painting to performance: the remarkable story of Vietnamese artist Tran Luong
Nov 09, 2025
Winner of Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement, poet Dinah Hawken
Nov 09, 2025
Regional Wrap: Maungaturoto
Nov 09, 2025
A history of acting in Aotearoa
Nov 09, 2025
Explosive work of one of the most significant artists of the 21st century to come to NZ
Nov 08, 2025
Artist Dinah Priestley on her 'colourful adventurous life’
Nov 08, 2025
Lulu Sun: Our leading tennis player on the rise
Nov 08, 2025
Arts News for 2 November 2025
Nov 02, 2025
All art is politics: acclaimed Australian artist Mike Parr's controversial performance
Nov 02, 2025
Regional Wrap: working with kelp in the Waitaki
Nov 02, 2025
The Dry House: Alison Bruce in her most challenging role yet
Nov 01, 2025
Tauranga Art Gallery: part of $306 million redevelopment of the city's cultural heart
Nov 01, 2025
Fast Favourites: TV presenter and journalist Laura Tupou
Nov 01, 2025
Hamish Coney: the auction of the collection of late curator Ron Brownson
Oct 26, 2025
Fiona Samuel awarded Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship
Oct 26, 2025
Regional Wrap: KOAST Art Trail with Joan Honeyfield
Oct 26, 2025
Century old Maori carving completed after 115 years gifted to British people
Oct 25, 2025
Designing spaces for parents and children: Raukura Turei and Elisapeta Heta
Oct 19, 2025
Arts Laureate 2025: Roseanne Liang honoured with Gaylene Preston Filmmaker Award
Oct 19, 2025
Regional Wrap goes to Analogue Aotearoa in Te Aroha
Oct 19, 2025
20-year-old artist wins international award for stunning night sky photography
Oct 19, 2025
Taniwha: following the tails of our popular shapeshifting creatures
Oct 18, 2025
What to do with the old family silver?
Oct 18, 2025
Fast Favourites: Children's author Kiri Lightfoot
Oct 18, 2025
Turning Twizel into a film set: Show Me Shorts director Arthur Gay
Oct 12, 2025
Restoring the power of black tapa with memories of the Tongan and English Queens
Oct 12, 2025
Regional Wrap: Whau Arts Festival with Melissa Laing
Oct 12, 2025
Touring innovative NZ theatre everywhere successfully and sustainably
Oct 12, 2025
Winner of Sargeson Prize: Aotearoa's largest short story competition
Oct 11, 2025
Fast Favourites with Everyday Māori's Hemi Kelly
Oct 11, 2025
Getting to live in your childhood dream house: Tracey Scott's remarkable colonial villa
Oct 05, 2025
Regional Wrap: Colville Creators and Makers Festival
Oct 05, 2025
Hawke's Bay Festival marks 10th anniversary
Oct 05, 2025
Painting star Philip Clairmont on show for the first time in 30 years
Sep 28, 2025
The influential and revealing ways video games portray culture
Sep 28, 2025
Regional Wrap: Ōkārito's entire town in new exhibition
Sep 28, 2025
87-year-old community arts legend June Renwick
Sep 27, 2025
Locals turn Cyclone Gabrielle into art installations
Sep 27, 2025
Fast Favourites with singer-songwriter Julia Deans
Sep 27, 2025
Staging the beloved Terry Pratchett's work at Dunedin's Globe Theatre
Sep 21, 2025
Regional Wrap: the sculpture gardens of Kaupapakapa and Kaipara
Sep 21, 2025
Who's in charge of telling the story of Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern?
Sep 21, 2025
Do hospitals have to be ugly? The history of our health design
Sep 21, 2025
The problem with dropping art history from the curriculum
Sep 21, 2025
Fast Favourites with actor Nicola Kāwana
Sep 21, 2025
Innovative agency tackles instability for actors and performers
Sep 14, 2025
Manahi Pakarati: Ambassador for Chile and Rapa Nui
Sep 14, 2025
Regional Wrap: The untamed and wild Hokitika
Sep 14, 2025
Jessica Gurnsey's vibrant portrait paintings capture moments in time
Sep 14, 2025
Actor Stephen Papps: playing many characters beside himself
Sep 14, 2025
A new era for American Vogue
Sep 14, 2025
What's changed for contemporary dance in 40 years?
Sep 07, 2025
Words on the Street: Inside the role of a mobile librarian
Sep 07, 2025
Regional Wrap: Woodville
Sep 07, 2025
Flood-damaged Ponsonby house becomes art installation
Sep 07, 2025
We the Young: New youth performing arts festival
Sep 07, 2025
What now for public art icon Wellington's City to Sea Bridge?
Sep 07, 2025
Fast Favourites: Billy T comedian Hoani Hotene
Sep 07, 2025
Keeping the art and craft of bookbinding alive
Aug 31, 2025
Bryan Crump reports on 2025's The Big Sing
Aug 31, 2025
Arts news for 31 August
Aug 31, 2025
The phenomenal impact of Outlander
Aug 31, 2025
Regional wrap heads inner-city
Aug 31, 2025
Jennifer Ludlum returns to stage as fierce matriarch
Aug 31, 2025
Government releases long-awaited creative and culture strategy
Aug 31, 2025
Mad Men director on coming up in the new golden age of television
Aug 24, 2025
Regional Wrap: The Record Keeper of Geraldine
Aug 24, 2025
Seduction, debauchery and madness: Mary Shelley's birth of Frankenstein
Aug 24, 2025
Fast Favourites: Writer, academic and plus-size model Kaarina Parker
Aug 24, 2025
The robots are everywhere but why treat them as human? Poet Jiaqiao Liu
Aug 17, 2025
Fiume o Morte! Fascism's stranger-than-fiction poet-led first state
Aug 17, 2025
Mr Bean, but Sexy": Comedian George Fenn on pushing audience's boundaries
Aug 17, 2025
The Auckland sculptor creating giant iconic Kiwi confectionery
Aug 17, 2025
Regional Wrap: Oxford
Aug 17, 2025
Fast Favourites with Petra Bagust
Aug 17, 2025
Art News for 10 Aug 2025
Aug 10, 2025
Greening the garden city: Ōtautahi's regeneration through nature, art and gardening
Aug 10, 2025
Regional Wrap goes to Hikurangi
Aug 10, 2025
Lifting the tapu: Māori women who carve
Aug 10, 2025
"Developing a project can feel like being lost in the middle of the ocean" Duncan Sarkies on the joy of discovery
Aug 10, 2025
Getting more Pasifika women into comedy: Fast Favourites with Rhiannon McCall
Aug 10, 2025
Arts News for 3 August 2025
Aug 03, 2025
Regional Wrap: Rawene
Aug 03, 2025
How arts patronage has changed over 25 years
Aug 03, 2025
Notes from a Fish 'a surreal comedy crime caper'
Aug 03, 2025
A new generation part of the knitting renaissance
Aug 03, 2025
Richard Benge: a champion of arts access for everyone
Aug 03, 2025
Exploring decades of Banksy's iconic images
Jul 27, 2025
Regional Wrap on the Waikanae River
Jul 27, 2025
Exhibition exploring relationships through weaving involves more than 100 artists and children
Jul 27, 2025
Living well with bad weather: Chris Berthelsen's part in Japan's efforts to control extreme weather
Jul 27, 2025
Fast Favourites: The Spinoff editor Madeleine Chapman
Jul 27, 2025
Staging one of the world’s greatest love stories in a 60s high-fashion thriller
Jul 20, 2025
Regional Wrap: Greytown with Rachael Fletcher
Jul 20, 2025
Jo Randerson's secret art powers revealed!
Jul 20, 2025
From All Blacks to Arts Council: Keven Mealamu on what he can bring to board of CNZ
Jul 20, 2025
Gareth Morgan's new giant public art park set to open in Spring
Jul 20, 2025
Arts news for 13 July 2025
Jul 13, 2025
Decorative Arts History through Second Hand Shopping
Jul 13, 2025
International award-winning MOTAT exhibition Te Puawānanga
Jul 13, 2025
Regional Wrap: Taieri with Matt Brennan
Jul 13, 2025
14-year-old Kiwi ballerina wins scholarship at dream school
Jul 13, 2025
Anthony Hoy Fong: New York-based Kiwi chef
Jul 13, 2025
Fast Favourites with war correspondent Lisette Reymer
Jul 13, 2025
From whale vomit to Victorian mourning jewellery:
Jul 06, 2025
Poetry and freshwater with Gabrielle Huria
Jul 06, 2025
Regional Wrap: Tairua
Jul 06, 2025
A radical rethink: the Victoria and Albert's new 'Museum of Absolutely Everything'
Jul 06, 2025
Brydie Colquhoun on her debut choreographic work
Jul 06, 2025
The art and history of the Haiku
Jul 06, 2025
Training the next generation of filmmakers in Miramar
Jun 29, 2025
Exhibition showcases an era when arts education flourished
Jun 29, 2025
Regional Wrap goes to the Māniatoto: Ranfurly
Jun 29, 2025
Living for five months outdoors on public land as art activism
Jun 29, 2025
Saint Joan: Why Joan of Arc’s story is still relevant
Jun 29, 2025
Keeping Pūhoi Bohemia alive through song and dance
Jun 29, 2025
Fast Favourites with NZ Listener editor Kirsty Cameron
Jun 29, 2025
Arts news
Jun 22, 2025
The Art Precinct: New digital art platform using behavioural psychology
Jun 22, 2025
'The other RNZ' - the remarkable story of radio sets in Aotearoa
Jun 22, 2025
Regional Wrap: Colac Bay with Daegan Wells
Jun 22, 2025
Silo's Taniwha a visual feast for young audiences
Jun 22, 2025
I Am A Dark River: the legacy of trailblazing printer Bob Lowry
Jun 22, 2025
Pretty and pink: New bookshop dedicated to spicy fiction
Jun 22, 2025
Arts news for 15 June 2025
Jun 15, 2025
Bold Tahitian novelist Titaua Peu connects us back into the Pacific
Jun 15, 2025
How painting pet portraits restored artist Julia Holden
Jun 15, 2025
Regional Wrap goes to Ōpōtiki
Jun 15, 2025
A road movie like no other: Kath Akuhata-Brown's Kōkā
Jun 15, 2025
Good Bitches Baking: New cookbook pays homage to family
Jun 15, 2025
Groundbreaking storytelling with a sculpture park you can drive through
Jun 15, 2025
Fast Favourites: Matariki celebrations with Ria Hall
Jun 15, 2025
Does the underground still exist? A conversation with Samuel Te Kani
Jun 08, 2025
Regional Wrap: Titirangi with filmmaker Robin Kewell
Jun 08, 2025
Musicians fly the flag for Aotearoa at Welsh Festival
Jun 08, 2025
The founders of dynamic Kia Mau and Pacific Dance New Zealand Festivals
Jun 08, 2025
New digital whodunnit series spotlights epidemic of image-based abuse
Jun 08, 2025
Hello to everybody: Aotearoa's friendliest artist Sallie Culy
Jun 08, 2025
Fast Favourites with Miriama Kamo at Birdlings Flat
Jun 08, 2025
Arts news for 1 June 2025
Jun 01, 2025
Australian first nations performance at Pacific Dance and Kia Mau Festivals
Jun 01, 2025
Regional Wrap: the arts scene in Takapuna
Jun 01, 2025
Doing nothing becomes a competitive sport
Jun 01, 2025
"There's power in the circle" Global folk phenomenon Bulgarian
Jun 01, 2025
Fast Favourites with Fred Award winner Angella Dravid
Jun 01, 2025
Regional Wrap: Warkworth with local Ursula Christel
May 25, 2025
Theatre show explores the monstrosity of motherhood
May 25, 2025
Basketball courts, drones & collage making with Petra Leary
May 25, 2025
Taking improv competitions into the workplace
May 25, 2025
The close cultural favourites of indie country star Mel Parsons
May 25, 2025
Arts news for 18th May 2025
May 18, 2025
Zach Dodson: How storytelling and design in computer games is changing literature
May 18, 2025
Italian Film Festival: 10 years of bringing Italy to Aotearoa
May 18, 2025
Regional Wrap: The Kahu Collective weavers of New Brighton
May 18, 2025
Sequins, studs and horsehair: getting creative with men's shoes
May 18, 2025
E kō, nō hea koe: Whanau, whakapapa and Mercury Plaza in debut poetry collection
May 18, 2025
Comedian Liv Ward dresses as a lobster to express love for Kim Hill
May 18, 2025
Fast Favourites with comedian Josh Thomson
May 18, 2025
Lily Catastrophe: using cabaret and comedy to talk about Bottom Surgery
May 11, 2025
Norwegian culture, heritage and woodstacking with bestselling author Lars Mytting
May 11, 2025
From TV to the smartphone - our addiction to ads: artist Alex Scott
May 11, 2025
Has theatre for young people reached crisis point in Aotearoa?
May 04, 2025
Clowning Doctors: Bringing theatre to the world of medicine
May 04, 2025
Kiwi artist exhibits at Setouchi Triennale for Naoshima Island residency
May 04, 2025
Dad (and Daughter) Jokes: Irish comedians Pat and Faye Shortt
May 04, 2025
Jackie Clarke taps into her prima diva
May 04, 2025
Book awards and fast favourites with David Eggleton
May 04, 2025
Arts News for 27 April 2025
Apr 27, 2025
Two decades on from bro'Town: Oscar Kightley with new gen comedians Joe Daymond and Bubbah
Apr 27, 2025
Frank Malley is putting Kaitaia on the Heavy Metal Map
Apr 27, 2025
Sir Ian Mune in End of the Golden Weather at new Court Theatre
Apr 27, 2025
The first NZ Contemporary Japanese Art show in 20 years
Apr 27, 2025
Renowned lighting designer launches immersive experience
Apr 27, 2025
Fast Favourites: North of North star Bailey Poaching
Apr 27, 2025
How to thrive: the role of art in mental health
Apr 20, 2025
Art and interior design - how to make that collection look good or hide the embarrassing!
Apr 20, 2025
Regional Wrap: Castle Hill Village
Apr 20, 2025
Artist Michele Bryant on connection and belonging
Apr 20, 2025
Recreating pre quake Christchurch in miniature
Apr 20, 2025
"In Glorious Smell-O-Vision": the remergence of scented cinema
Apr 20, 2025
Arts News for 13 April 2025
Apr 13, 2025
'Like the active verb to be and to do': Trailblazing artist writer Emily Cumming Harris
Apr 13, 2025
A 'Millenial Bundist': Revolutionary European Yiddish music
Apr 13, 2025
Regional Wrap: Fairlie, gateway to the Mackenzie Country
Apr 13, 2025
Can animals create art?
Apr 13, 2025
A remarkable birds-eye view: photographing the Kaikōura tītī
Apr 13, 2025
Alex Medland wins multiple national play awards for commentary on climate activism and inaction
Apr 13, 2025
Fast Favourites: Artist Sean Beldon
Apr 13, 2025
Regional Wrap: Foxton
Apr 06, 2025
From Munich to Nelson and back: at home with jewellery artist couple Karl Fritsch and Lisa Walker
Apr 06, 2025
Indira Stewart on growing up with Polyfest
Apr 06, 2025
The joys of house museums and daily sea swimming: poet Kate Camp
Apr 06, 2025
From Beckett to the Quantum World at the Dunedin Arts Festival
Mar 30, 2025
Regional wrap
Mar 30, 2025
Poet Amy Marguerite's debut over under fed
Mar 30, 2025
X-ray glass to military tank glass: the reusing of vintage camera lens
Mar 29, 2025
Fast Favourites: Writer and blogger Emily Writes
Mar 29, 2025
Major changes at New Zealand International Film Festival
Mar 29, 2025
Why does the world love Native American culture so much?
Mar 23, 2025
Regional Wrap: Mercury Bay with Sally Samins
Mar 23, 2025
This is Nom*d: Retrospective look at iconic Dunedin fashion label
Mar 22, 2025
Cocktails in the new Circa bar with Ginette McDonald
Mar 22, 2025
Arts News for 16 March 2025
Mar 16, 2025
Biography of a painter with no paintings - Tony Fomison: Life of the Artist
Mar 16, 2025
Animated short portrays enduring love and dementia
Mar 16, 2025
Regional Wrap: Te Puna in the Bay of Plenty
Mar 16, 2025
A fresh start for the RNZ Ballet with artistic director Ty King-Wall
Mar 16, 2025
Social media project reveals dating lives of Gen Z
Mar 15, 2025
Mike Leigh on new film "Hard Truths"
Mar 15, 2025
Fast Favourites with Barnie Duncan
Mar 15, 2025
Arts News for 9 March 2025
Mar 09, 2025
Bringing precolonial history alive in the landscape
Mar 09, 2025
Between the coloniser and the colonised: Anglo-Indian culture
Mar 09, 2025
Regional Wrap: Glenorchy with Leslie Van Gelder
Mar 09, 2025
Turning Te Papa activism into a stage show
Mar 09, 2025
Scarves, ferry timetables & old boot fragments on Banks Peninsula
Mar 08, 2025
Creating the Tony award-winning Tudor musical Six
Mar 08, 2025
Turning the Aotearoa screen industry green
Mar 02, 2025
Pacific Pride Christchurch hero and dancer Vui Suli Tuitaupe
Mar 02, 2025
Regional Wrap: culture and heritage in Hokianga village Kohukohu
Mar 02, 2025
Arts and culture participation for 12-year-olds shows better wellbeing and relationships
Mar 02, 2025
Aotearoa arts collective FAFSWAG at Melbourne's Asia Topa
Mar 01, 2025
Dancing with fire knives: the growth of Siva Afi in Aotearoa
Mar 01, 2025
Fast Favourites with broadcaster Lloyd Burr
Mar 01, 2025
A dramatic picture of climate change impacted Sumner Christchurch 2030
Feb 23, 2025
Asia Pacific Triennial of Performing Arts returns
Feb 23, 2025
Regional Wrap: Matakana with food writer Lauraine Jacobs
Feb 23, 2025
Bringing to light the culture stories of Fijian-Indians
Feb 23, 2025
Why do we like to be frightened so? Art and the Horror Movie with Curator of Screams
Feb 22, 2025
Show Do Cafe - Brazilian artist and dancer Stela Dara
Feb 22, 2025
Pasifika women leading: Anapela Polata'ivao
Feb 22, 2025
Living better, closer and more affordably together: Space Craft Architects
Feb 16, 2025
Tackling the Tāmaki Makaurau performing arts scene: Tātaki's Daniel Clarke
Feb 16, 2025
Regional Wrap: Ashburton
Feb 16, 2025
Two Hands tattoo studio celebrates two decades with exhibition & convention
Feb 16, 2025
How Queer really are the plays of Shakespeare? A punk pirate musical answers the question
Feb 15, 2025
Bringing the organs to Silo Park
Feb 15, 2025
Fast Favourites with Auckland Pride's Hamiora Bailey
Feb 15, 2025
Carving for Queen and Iwi: fourth-generation carver Renata te Wiata
Feb 09, 2025
Regional Wrap: Napier gears up for famous Art Deco Festival
Feb 09, 2025
The release of much anticipated world-changing game Civilisation VII with director Ed Beach and producer Dennis Shirk
Feb 09, 2025
Is Barbequing a sport? Or even an art? Champion grillers Damon and Lu Holter
Feb 08, 2025
Stunning sculptures showcasing at Auckland Botanic Gardens
Feb 08, 2025
Te Papa's Courtney Johnston on Vivienne Westwood, podcasts and Stevie Wonder
Feb 08, 2025
Game changer or game over? The impact of AI on the architecture industry
Feb 02, 2025
Regional Wrap: 'A big lump of country unknown' - Masterton to Waipukurau on Route 52
Feb 02, 2025
NZ dancer and choreographer named one to watch in prestigious US Dance Magazine
Feb 01, 2025
Reviving Hollywood, Oscars and LA Fires impact on industry: Hollywood wrap with Kate Rodger
Feb 01, 2025
Fast Favourites with Kiwi actor Luciane Buchanan
Feb 01, 2025
Arts News for December 22, 2024
Dec 22, 2024
From Bowie to Big Thief: The extraordinary life of Tucker Zimmerman
Dec 22, 2024
From creating waterfalls to giant suns: acclaimed artist Olafur Eliasson
Dec 22, 2024
Regional Wrap: Bethlehem, Aotearoa with expressionist artist Nicola Welten
Dec 22, 2024
Anora: The movie of the year finally arrives
Dec 22, 2024
2024’s Kiwi King of the Twist: Crime thriller writer JP Pomare on murder in Cambridge
Dec 21, 2024
The year that was with acclaimed writer and columnist Charlotte Grimshaw
Dec 21, 2024
Painter Karl Maughan’s 2024 favourites and his Pōhutukawa fringed paintings of summer
Dec 21, 2024
Arts News for December 15, 2024
Dec 15, 2024
The Moth has flown: the life of musical adventurer Dean Roberts 
Dec 15, 2024
From Google Street View and Second Life to 4chan: the profound impact of the internet on culture
Dec 15, 2024
Regional Wrap: On the Raglan Wharf with Tony Sly
Dec 15, 2024
A new gallery for Karangahape Road: art dealer Charles Ninow
Dec 15, 2024
The architecture of the Sámi: the Northern European indigenous people best known as reindeer herders
Dec 14, 2024
Fast Favourites: Social entrepreneur Izzy Fenwick
Dec 14, 2024
Acushla-Tara Kupe: recording global hit drama podcasts from NZ
Dec 08, 2024
Our uneasy place in the animal kingdom with Jane Dodd
Dec 08, 2024
Regional Wrap: Toi Māori and puppetry with Oriwa Morgan Ward in Putāruru
Dec 08, 2024
The multi-talented Cadence Chung: Retracing the Footsteps of Early Chinese Immigrants
Dec 08, 2024
Producer Jason Taylor: empowering new storytellers in an unconventional journey into film
Dec 07, 2024
Peter Dasent: The star-studded Underwatermelon Man and Other Unreasonable Rhymes
Dec 07, 2024
A remarkable place to make films: actor and filmmaker Chelsie Preston Crayford
Dec 07, 2024
Arts News
Dec 01, 2024
Toi Te Mana: the landmark book reframing Maori art
Dec 01, 2024
Dunedin artist Kari Morseth is weaving harakeke history back into the city's daily life.
Dec 01, 2024
Regional Wrap: Famed corrugated iron sculptor Jeff Thomson in Helensville
Dec 01, 2024
Pacific Fashion Fusion Show continues while national show pauses: founder Nora Swann
Nov 30, 2024
The suppression of witches and plant based beliefs
Nov 30, 2024
Arts news
Nov 24, 2024
The young generation beating new life into tapa cloth
Nov 24, 2024
2024 Portage Ceramic Awards’ Premier Winner has a 'hard to pin down' quality 
Nov 24, 2024
Regional Wrap: Tairāwhiti artist Margaret Hansen portrays her aunts' lives of faith    
Nov 24, 2024
“We hope to offer hope” Bringing aspirational architecture to church - Award winner St Hilda’s
Nov 24, 2024
Protest photographer records Hīkoi mō te Tiriti with his historic lens 
Nov 23, 2024
Fast Favourites: Dame Robin White brings home the culture of Japan
Nov 23, 2024
The Musical Outlier: Diverse sounds from the electronic underground 
Nov 17, 2024
What does the arts make of the government’s draft arts strategy? Dr James Wenley and Dolina Wehipeihana 
Nov 17, 2024
Minister Paul Goldsmith on the government’s new arts and culture strategy
Nov 17, 2024
Regional Wrap: Te Arawatanga with Raimona Inia in Rotorua
Nov 17, 2024
Myths and Maidens: Documentary unpacks the stereotype of the Pasifika woman
Nov 17, 2024
Making lace from muka: Rowan Panther in Te Tai Tokerau
Nov 16, 2024
A Doll’s House Part 2: Iconic feminist Nora Helmer returns home
Nov 16, 2024
Fast Favourites with Tom Sainsbury
Nov 16, 2024
Nō Konei - From here: Greg Donson on the collection and support of Aotearoa artists
Nov 10, 2024
Inspiring the youth of Whanganui: Māori educator Waiora Bailey Moore
Nov 10, 2024
Michelle Excell: Bringing world class innovation and technology to Whanganui
Nov 10, 2024
From McSweeney the gallery cat to Michael Laws: Martin Edmond’s biography of a gallery
Nov 10, 2024
Arts news: Whanganui reggae group NLC win best roots album at the Waiata music awards
Nov 10, 2024
Building community on the riverbank: Geoff Hipango at Te Ao Hou Marae
Nov 10, 2024
The revitalisation of Drews Ave and urban contemporary spaces
Nov 10, 2024
Cecelia Kumeroa: Bringing the art, design and stories of iwi to the city
Nov 09, 2024
Fast Favourites with musician and underground elevator operator Anthonie Tonnon
Nov 09, 2024
'Never give up': Realising the dream of Sarjeant Gallery as a House of Inspiration
Nov 09, 2024
Arts News: Quasi on the move, live performance contributes $17.3 bil and a Yorkshire Pud halloween costume
Nov 03, 2024
The many artistic lives of musician David Long
Nov 03, 2024
Fearless Playwright, Producer and Laureate Victor Rodger thanks his mum 
Nov 03, 2024
Regional Wrap in the Gumboot Capital
Nov 03, 2024
'I didn’t even know what a canvas was' - From accountant to accidental artist
Nov 03, 2024
How To Art: Clown fruit mash-up theatre show hits the walls of Basement Theatre
Nov 02, 2024
The artist duo creating miniatures of our beloved backcountry huts
Nov 02, 2024
Fast Favourites: Journalist and TV presenter Amanda Gillies
Nov 02, 2024
Mother, fighter, photographer Tish Murtha: Her powerful images of youth in Thatcher’s Britain
Oct 27, 2024
Fresh Ink: The Dynamic New Wave of Tattoo Artists
Oct 27, 2024
‘I’m writing you a poem about art’ - A poem by Tusiata Avia
Oct 27, 2024
Regional Wrap: On the Kāpiti Arts Trail with mayor Janet Holborow
Oct 27, 2024
Public fountains and pools: A thing of our modern past?
Oct 27, 2024
Colonial controversy around bike lanes: Aotearoa’s bicycle pioneers
Oct 26, 2024
Matthew Sunderland: The NZ screen actor who plays life's strays
Oct 26, 2024
Fast Favourites: Fringe Festival Director, Musician and Actress Vanessa Stacey
Oct 26, 2024
Theatre director Ben Crowder: From Isle of Wight island life to boarding school in Christchurch
Oct 20, 2024
Regional Wrap: Matamata with Mia Smith
Oct 20, 2024
6-hour interactive photoshoot replaces camera shutter with bullet sounds
Oct 20, 2024
Laguna Beach, skinny jeans and dial-up internet: Teen comedy n00b a love letter to the early noughties
Oct 19, 2024
NZ’s Pinball wizard: Hamish Guthrey bringing new tech to the arcade
Oct 19, 2024
Fast Favourites: The Aussie Office’s Edith Poor
Oct 19, 2024
“The internet is radically unstable” The mindblowing worlds of Youtube video game essayist Jacob Geller
Oct 13, 2024
Regional Wrap: Rakiura Stewart Island with Gwen Neave
Oct 13, 2024
Akira Kurosawa: The Japanese filmmaker Spielberg calls ‘the pictorial Shakespeare of our time’
Oct 13, 2024
Dressing up to bare all: Freya Finch’s slow burlesque
Oct 12, 2024
The great NZ pub crawl: Which is our most classic pub?
Oct 12, 2024
Fast Favourites: Dame Susan Devoy’s surprising cultural connections
Oct 12, 2024
Strange intelligences: the global art and tech network that’s taken root in Whangārei 
Oct 06, 2024
Regional Wrap: Greytown with Linda Kirkland
Oct 06, 2024
Everybody makes mistakes: Christine Jeffs’ powerful first feature in 16 years
Oct 06, 2024
What do men want? Fashion designer and arts patron Murray Crane
Oct 05, 2024
‘Literature saves lives’ Fast Favourites with Behrouz Boochani 
Oct 05, 2024
Arts news: a cheeky ceramics award winner, Chidgey nets Darwin and Dickens publisher and a new Christchurch artist space
Sep 29, 2024
Problem Pokies and 35 years of theatre marae with Jim Moriarty 
Sep 29, 2024
How incredible are the creations at this year’s World of Wearable Art?
Sep 29, 2024
Regional Wrap: An artist residency in the Rangitikei 
Sep 29, 2024
Iconic food court hosts album installation: Goodspace meets Lim Chhour
Sep 29, 2024
Who are we to judge? International art curator Professor Bonaventure Ndikung on the Walters’ Prize
Sep 28, 2024
'I’ve never been to a small Māori funeral': Kristyl Neho plays 30 characters at her dad’s tangi on stage
Sep 28, 2024
Fast Favourites: Pōneke Wellington Deputy Mayor Laurie Foon
Sep 28, 2024
Arts News for 22 September 2024
Sep 22, 2024
What's possibly next after crocheting a to-scale woollen neon wharenui?
Sep 22, 2024
The remarkable friendship of iconic architects Warren and Mahoney
Sep 22, 2024
Regional Wrap: Ōhinehou Lyttelton with ceramicist Grace Uivel
Sep 22, 2024
Being fearless at the world's edge: Composer Eve De Castro Robinson tries stand-up 
Sep 22, 2024
Pop artist Theia releases staunch new anthem Baldh3ad
Sep 22, 2024
Kirsty Webeck: Winning over strangers and being a ‘clean comedian’
Sep 22, 2024
A Singapore Shimmy: Lisa Reihana’s 114,000 dazzling discs
Sep 22, 2024
Songs based on poems inspired by films: Bill Direen’s Dustbin of Empathy
Sep 15, 2024
From SpongeBob to Lord of the Rings: Why are we so successful composing for film?
Sep 15, 2024
Regional Wrap: Waitohi Picton
Sep 15, 2024
Designing winning kitchens with function and flair
Sep 15, 2024
Putting the real-life stories of migrant workers on stage
Sep 15, 2024
Making the leap from dance to choreography
Sep 15, 2024
Fast Favourites: Maori-Samoan RnB artist Jordyn with a Why
Sep 15, 2024
Performing arts quadruple threat: Petmal Petelo
Sep 08, 2024
Giving the Dunedin Sound a shakeup: The future of the indie Ōtepoti scene 
Sep 08, 2024
Regional Wrap: Feilding with Mayor Helen Worboys
Sep 08, 2024
Celebrating 10 years of Kōanga Festival
Sep 08, 2024
 The ‘what ifs’ of dazzling New Zealand modernist painter Edith Collier
Sep 08, 2024
The Killing: Plushies, red velvet and the modern day circus
Sep 08, 2024
Tawata turns 20: Mīria George and Hone Kouka 
Sep 08, 2024
Arts News - Sunday 1 September
Sep 01, 2024
Innovative Waikato scheme pays artists basic income
Sep 01, 2024
Best of the Fest: Word Christchurch with Tina Makereti and Pip Adam
Sep 01, 2024
Regional Wrap: Tākaka in Mohua Golden Bay
Sep 01, 2024
A world of handcut wonder: Matchbox and shoebox diorama with Antje Damm
Sep 01, 2024
Electric Avenue doubles in size for 2025 as other festivals fold
Sep 01, 2024
‘Messy-ass b*tches, doing messy-ass things!' Kiwi TV comedy Not Even
Sep 01, 2024
Fast Favourites with Boh Runga
Sep 01, 2024
Arts News for 25 August 2024
Aug 25, 2024
'I want to be that bird': The magic dance of pīwakawaka with Shannon Te Ao 
Aug 25, 2024
Conducting live film orchestras with David Kay
Aug 25, 2024
Regional Wrap: Palmerston North with Sian Van Dyk
Aug 25, 2024
Why are artists paid so badly?
Aug 25, 2024
Soaking up the Edinburgh Fringe Festival with Sam Brooks
Aug 25, 2024
Poppys: South Auckland family garage hottest new comedy club
Aug 25, 2024
 From Colin in Accounts to Bollywood: Jacob Rajan’s Fast Favourites
Aug 25, 2024
“I was so hungry for anything other than the way I grew up” - writer and poet Sasha LaPointe
Aug 18, 2024
The internet is dead! Long live the book: Underground publishing house 5ever 
Aug 18, 2024
Arts News for 18 August 2024
Aug 18, 2024
Regional Wrap: West Murihiku Southland with Pauline Vaeluaga Smith 
Aug 18, 2024
“I could see myself and my friends in them” - Josephine Stewart-Te Whiu on her debut feature We Were Dangerous
Aug 18, 2024
Fake marble and landscapes: The remarkable painting of Walters Prize nominee Owen Connors
Aug 18, 2024
Takeout Kids: Venturing beyond the takeaway in new season
Aug 18, 2024
Fast Favourites with comedian and writer Eli Matthewson
Aug 18, 2024
‘The punk rock Len Lye’ - the legacy of confrontational artist Peter Roche
Aug 11, 2024
Arts news: Arts as a 'nice to do', Parkin prize and Electric Avenue
Aug 11, 2024
There is no one art history: Kirsty Baker's Women and Art in Aotearoa 
Aug 11, 2024
Regional Wrap: Whakatāne with Sarah Hudson of winning Mataaho Collective
Aug 11, 2024
The Bitches’ Box: From woolsheds to the silver screen
Aug 11, 2024
Did Titanic Sink? Podcast director Abby Howells on conspiracies and her obsession
Aug 11, 2024
‘Every day is a work of art’ - Queen of vintage, avant-garde style icon Chrissy O
Aug 11, 2024
Jennifer Ward-Lealand and Michael Hurst: on stage alone together for the first time 
Aug 11, 2024
Writer and cultural thinker Ian Wedde on staying ‘Open’
Aug 04, 2024
Queen’s Rolls-Royce goes to auction - who's going to buy it?
Aug 04, 2024
Regional Wrap: Akaroa with Lesley Burkes-Harding
Aug 04, 2024
Can you stage Hamlet in the ultraviolent world of Grand Theft Auto? 
Aug 04, 2024
Lexus Song Quest crowns winner Katie Trigg
Aug 04, 2024
Solo dance show explores trying to be a ‘cool mum’ and having it all
Aug 04, 2024
Fast Favourites with Jess Hong
Aug 04, 2024
Housing as a human right: artist and advocate Dieneke Jansen 
Jul 28, 2024
Christchurch goes post-punk: Jonathan Ogilvie's Head South
Jul 28, 2024
Arts news for 28 July 2024
Jul 28, 2024
Regional Wrap: New Plymouth with Simon Gennard
Jul 28, 2024
Opening the door on the history of lesbian fashion
Jul 28, 2024
Don’t you forget about me: The art of Gen X with Megan Dunn
Jul 28, 2024
The magic and mystery of the human experience in genre-bending show
Jul 28, 2024
Fast Favourites: Drag king superstar Hugo Grrrl 
Jul 28, 2024
Dream Chambers: Contemporary music as a spiritual practice
Jul 21, 2024
Author Talia Marshall’s stunning debut - Whaea Blue
Jul 21, 2024
Immersive digital artwork brings Wellington weather to life
Jul 21, 2024
New musical draws on temptation of a past love
Jul 21, 2024
Dame Lynley Dodd: 'I didn’t really have courage about writing'
Jul 21, 2024
Fast Favourites with stage and screen actor Bronwyn Turei
Jul 21, 2024
Author and poet Warwick Stubbs on why he chooses to live in his car 
Jul 14, 2024
Making of Madam: Sex work on the small screen
Jul 14, 2024
Regional Wrap: Kerikeri’s Gerry Paul
Jul 14, 2024
Drag superstar Anita Wigl’it celebrates lust and gluttony for K’ Road restaurant month
Jul 14, 2024
Badjelly the Witch takes to the stage with Aotearoa’s Glow Show 
Jul 14, 2024
PickPath - Immersive digital platform empowering creators
Jul 14, 2024
Fast Favourites with broadcaster Kanoa Lloyd
Jul 14, 2024
Lisa Warrington: Supporting Aotearoa theatre past, present and future
Jul 07, 2024
Dame Fiona Kidman: Live Letters at Randell Cottage
Jul 07, 2024
Regional Wrap: Waiheke Island’s Fiona Blanchard
Jul 07, 2024
Archeologist pinpoints the start of fashion
Jul 07, 2024
Flash Fiction: Storytelling for the short attention spans of our time?
Jul 07, 2024
Sense and Sensibility on stage in raucous spin
Jul 07, 2024
Fast Favourites with chemist and comedian Dr Joel Rindelaub
Jul 07, 2024
Remembering the first times: Harry Rickett's memoir
Jun 30, 2024
Weaving culture together in Ōtepoti Dunedin: Margery Blackman
Jun 30, 2024
Arts news: Drag king storytime cancelled and 2025 touring artists
Jun 30, 2024
Regional Wrap: Trains and pots in Coromandel Town with Pete Sephton
Jun 30, 2024
Mixed heritage creatives collaborate in landmark anthology
Jun 30, 2024
Thelma & Louise Don’t Die: Epic road trip hits the Civic
Jun 30, 2024
John Baxter: Rua Pōtae - he who wears two hats 
Jun 23, 2024
To deal with body shame, Mandi Lynn turned 300 women gold and photographed them nude 
Jun 23, 2024
Arts News: Education ministry shares cryptic Sam Hunt, landmark Māori film premieres and Centrepoint is 50
Jun 23, 2024
Regional Wrap: Napier's Lizzie Russell
Jun 23, 2024
Listening to the world in and around you: Laurence Fearnley at the Grand Glacier Hotel 
Jun 23, 2024
Arts news: 114,000 Singaporean shimmer discs, NZ at the film fest and our new governors
Jun 16, 2024
Was the vinyl record the most significant artwork of the 20th century?
Jun 16, 2024
Emele Ugavule: Storytelling and the vitality of contemporary Melanesian culture
Jun 16, 2024
Regional Wrap: Kawatiri Westport with The Nomad
Jun 16, 2024
Compelling documentary reveals lives of Chinese dissidents in US
Jun 16, 2024
Arts study in Australian farming town leads to lower depression rates and blood pressure
Jun 16, 2024
Pianette Automatique: Minipiano given new life in Wellington winter garden   
Jun 16, 2024
Fast Favourites: Comedian Courtney Dawson’s rise to the top
Jun 16, 2024
Arts news: A double whammy, Kings arts honours and Pito One
Jun 09, 2024
Legendary advocate for Māori art Elizabeth Ellis
Jun 09, 2024
A View From A Bridge: Strangers reveal all on old telephone
Jun 09, 2024
Regional Wrap: Russell with Sue Fitzmaurice
Jun 09, 2024
Derek Jarman's cottage as his final work of art
Jun 09, 2024
Australian sculptor reclaiming the female form
Jun 09, 2024
First Wave: Celebrating surfing in Kaikōura
Jun 09, 2024
Jodie Rimmer: Valuing women as ‘wild, sexy, talented and creative as they age’
Jun 09, 2024
Making live events accessible for everyone
Jun 02, 2024
Kiwiana icon Pāua shell house goes digital
Jun 02, 2024
Regional Wrap: Tūrangi Tongariro district 
Jun 02, 2024
Medieval to Metal: The Art and Evolution of the Guitar 
Jun 02, 2024
The Tardis has landed: A special mystery guest reviewer visits Doctor Who exhibition
Jun 02, 2024
Play captures adoption experiences of birth mothers in NZ
Jun 02, 2024
Fast Favourites: Billy T winner Lana Walters
Jun 02, 2024
Arts news: Poppy at Cannes, Goths on stage & Māori climate action in paint
May 26, 2024
Rising algorithms: The threats and opportunities AI poses to the arts
May 26, 2024
The story behind the AI image that shocked the world
May 26, 2024
Regional Wrap: The world’s steampunk capital
May 26, 2024
Photographer captures grim reality of 'last chance tourism'
May 26, 2024
The hands behind iconic Crown Lynn hit the stage
May 26, 2024
Diversifying video games through creative writing
May 26, 2024
From Princess Chelsea to Nan Goldin: Fast Favourites with Ebony Lamb
May 26, 2024
Arts news: A Rita Angus bridge, controversial portraits & the book awards
May 19, 2024
Best of the Fest: Auckland Writers Festival
May 19, 2024
Bringing an indigenous house of storytelling alive in Ōtautahi: Juanita Hepi
May 19, 2024
Feeling icky: What makes us uncomfortable with Viki Moananu
May 19, 2024
Gore: Capital of country music and moonshine with Jenny Mitchell 
May 19, 2024
Finding a city's memory in the rubble of Chernobyl
May 19, 2024
Joika: The brutal world of the Bolshoi ballet
May 19, 2024
Practising Hawaiian culture across the sea: Ahilapalapa Rands 
May 19, 2024
Fast Favourites: Rhys Mathewson’s 10th rodeo
May 19, 2024
Rick Rudd: creating New Zealand's only museum devoted to the ceramic arts
May 12, 2024
Creating Aotearoa's own Watership Down: Shelley Burne-Field 
May 12, 2024
Regional Wrap: Kaitaia with Dr Opeloge Ah Sam
May 12, 2024
Bailey Poching: Here are the Māori comedians - but where are you looking for them?
May 12, 2024
Amah: AI nanny pushes a mother to her limits
May 12, 2024
Getting over writer’s block: Fast Favourites with Troy Kingi
May 12, 2024
Don McGlashan and Harry Sinclair’s ode to farting wins NZ on Air Award
May 05, 2024
Arts News - 5 May 2024
May 05, 2024
How the fight against Covid became a war between each other: Stuart McKenzie and Dame Miranda Harcourt
May 05, 2024
Project Prima Volta: A decade of helping teenagers to find their voices
May 05, 2024
Regional Wrap: Mangawhai with Angela Cook
May 05, 2024
The Last Laugh but first-ever comedy club in Hamilton
May 05, 2024
From a Red Mole to a Goblin in a mask: John Davies addresses our shared violent history
May 05, 2024
With City Gallery closing for two years, what's next for Wellington?
May 05, 2024
Arts news: NZSO head resigns, World Choir Games news & Springboard artists revealed
Apr 28, 2024
Stitching bling, satin & velvet into Toi Māori with Maungarongo Te Kawa
Apr 28, 2024
Fixing a screen industry in crisis
Apr 28, 2024
Taupō: a secretly prolific arts hub with Jeffrey Addison
Apr 28, 2024
Sir Roger Hall and the end of summer time 
Apr 28, 2024
Arovision: NZ's little battler in the digital streaming wars
Apr 28, 2024
From aquatic algae to Niuean rites of passage: Loading Docs back for 10th season
Apr 28, 2024
The return of Auē: fast favourites with Becky Manawatu
Apr 28, 2024
Arts News: NZ wins Golden Lion at Venice while Israel keeps its doors closed, Aardman Animation in NZ & government talks arts strategy
Apr 21, 2024
Dealing with trauma through poetry: Hazara-Afghani Abdul Samad Haidari’s remarkable story 
Apr 21, 2024
Choreographing intimacy in a post-#MeToo era
Apr 21, 2024
Regional Wrap in ‘mural town’ Katikati
Apr 21, 2024
Champagne Problems at the new look Aotearoa Art Fair 
Apr 21, 2024
Origin: Ava Duvernay’s thought-provoking new film on caste systems
Apr 21, 2024
Mataaho Collective scoops Golden Lion at Venice Biennale in a huge weekend for art from Oceania
Apr 21, 2024
Fast Favourites with veteran broadcaster Julian Wilcox
Apr 21, 2024
Arts news: NZ in Italy, a screen crisis, new dance festivals & annual fests skip a year
Apr 14, 2024
Keeping the lights on in our public galleries not just about funding
Apr 14, 2024
Trailblazing Indian filmmaker Anurag Kashyap in Aotearoa
Apr 14, 2024
Regional Wrap: Sean McDonnell’s Baylys Beach
Apr 14, 2024
Prominent portrait photographer Jae Frew shifts focus
Apr 14, 2024
Artwork copyright in the age of social media and AI 
Apr 14, 2024
Christchurch playwright scoops an award trifecta with The Odyssey
Apr 14, 2024
From flaming kūmara to East Timor: Te Radar performs five different shows over five nights
Apr 14, 2024
Arts News: Toi Te Papa & City Gallery Wellington face closures while Christchurch Arts Centre threatens insolvency
Apr 07, 2024
The art of being a cultural translator
Apr 07, 2024
Aminé Ramer: the vital role of the music supervisor
Apr 07, 2024
Regional wrap: Whakatipu, Wānaka & Hāwea - a creative Queenstown-Lakes District
Apr 07, 2024
From Marx and Austen to stranded in an airport: Jonathan Dove on keeping opera relevant
Apr 07, 2024
Slavfest! Music and culture from the Balkans through to Asia with Irina Mosina
Apr 07, 2024
A feast for the eyes: The hyperrealist paintings of Alice Toomer
Apr 07, 2024
Masterchef winner Sam Low on Fast Favourites and new podcast
Apr 07, 2024
Arts News Sunday 31 March
Mar 31, 2024
Guitar maker and carver Nui Stretch: Two parallel careers in wood
Mar 31, 2024
Travelling through Asian and Pasifika cultures in batik with Rozana Lee
Mar 31, 2024
Regional Wrap: Blenheim with Tyler Redmond
Mar 31, 2024
12-year-olds in NZ highly engaged in arts and culture
Mar 31, 2024
Fashion designer Jimmy D and the fight against the dull and turgid hick town
Mar 30, 2024
An unlikely pairing? K-pop meets Pasifika
Mar 30, 2024
Making Mischief with West End and Broadway star Nancy Zamit
Mar 24, 2024
Regional Wrap: Francisca Griffin in Port Chalmers
Mar 24, 2024
Travelling from North Yorkshire to Aotearoa via the sun: theatremaker Alexander Wright
Mar 24, 2024
Arts News Sunday 24 March
Mar 23, 2024
Māoriland Film Festival Wrap
Mar 23, 2024
Rugby becomes art: a scrum suspended in time
Mar 23, 2024
The vital electricity of contemporary poetry: Fast Favourites with Tracey Slaughter 
Mar 23, 2024
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
Mar 21, 2024
Arts News for Sunday 17 March
Mar 17, 2024
New report shows increased interest in Asian arts and culture among Kiwis
Mar 17, 2024
Regional Wrap: Ngāmotu New Plymouth’s Fin Rah Zel at WOMAD  
Mar 17, 2024
Ju Percussion: powerhouse ensemble performs in NZ for the first time
Mar 17, 2024
Aiga: Lusi Faiva’s disability-led Pasifika show on her life in her own words
Mar 16, 2024
The 12-year-olds who meet a mountain in Rachel House's first feature
Mar 16, 2024
Fast Favourites: Black Grace choreographer Neil Ieremia gives movement to Pacific anger
Mar 16, 2024
Arts News Sunday 10 March
Mar 10, 2024
When art and film become entwined: painter Sandro Kopp
Mar 10, 2024
Regional Wrap: Timaru and what’s next for South Canterbury’s arts institutions
Mar 10, 2024
Reimagining a map from a Tongan perspective: Icao Tiseli 
Mar 10, 2024
Oscars predictions with Gemma Gracewood in Los Angeles
Mar 09, 2024
Boy: a tragic and compelling story of gender identity
Mar 09, 2024
Musicians who paint: The Bats’ Robert Scott plays Fast Favourites and remembers Hamish Kilgour
Mar 09, 2024
Arts News for Sunday 3 March
Mar 03, 2024
NZ Artist Simon Denny in Berlin and New York on NFTs, meta landscapes and space colonies
Mar 03, 2024
Regional wrap: Tauranga arts groups face up to 300% rent increases
Mar 03, 2024
The Waikato Wars: What painter Richard Lewer didn’t learn at school
Mar 03, 2024
How to Have Sex: rising British acting star Mia McKenna-Bruce
Mar 02, 2024
Tackling climate change with bonkers creative ideas: inventor artist Steve Mushin
Mar 02, 2024
Fast Favourites: Kiwi Actor Yoson An in modern Aussie rom-com
Mar 02, 2024
Best of the Fest #2: a morning rave, the Savage Coloniser, Witi’s Wahine, The National, Soweto Gospel and the mighty Waikato
Feb 29, 2024
Best of the Fest #1: taniwha time machine, aerial displays and a slightly isolated dog
Feb 25, 2024
Arts News for 25 February 2024
Feb 25, 2024
‘Swiftonomics’ - the unparalleled influence of Taylor Swift
Feb 25, 2024
Regional Wrap: Waikato with Louisa Drummond
Feb 25, 2024
‘The wind whistling you in behind the springtime’: celebrated Irish musician Lisa O’Neill
Feb 25, 2024
Reinventing the savage club as SaVĀge K’lub with performance artist Rosanna Raymond
Feb 24, 2024
A thoroughly modern Māori cabaret
Feb 24, 2024
Sculpture on the islands of Waiheke and Venice: fast favourites with Brett Graham 
Feb 24, 2024
Kōpū: Leaving white feminism at the door
Feb 18, 2024
Bringing the dance floor to the poetry book: Sylvan Spring’s Killer Rack
Feb 18, 2024
From Christopher Walken to JLo: the best ads of Super Bowl 2024
Feb 18, 2024
Regional Wrap: Kaikoura with Te Awhina Rangimarie Arahanga
Feb 18, 2024
Kristen Ng: bridging Aotearoa and China’s musical undergrounds 
Feb 18, 2024
A shaky time for Aotearoa’s International Film Festival
Feb 17, 2024
Fast favourites: Billy T winner Abby Howells
Feb 17, 2024
An unlikely musical fusion: India Meets Ireland
Feb 11, 2024
Maureen Lander: weaving with string games and Te Rā our oldest sail
Feb 11, 2024
Regional Wrap: Winton with Deow of South Sea Spray Festival 
Feb 11, 2024
Lunar New Year: celebrations with paediatrician, poet and playwright Renee Liang
Feb 11, 2024
Arts News Sunday 11 February 2024
Feb 10, 2024
Queer comedian Jess Karamjeet: Redundant and living with a hidden disability
Feb 10, 2024
Neil Finn: 'Music will save the world'
Feb 10, 2024
The future of arts funding with Creative New Zealand boss Stephen Wainwright 
Feb 04, 2024
Arranging 110 chairs from 170 years: Objectspace's Kim Paton
Feb 04, 2024
Arts News Sunday 4 February 2024
Feb 04, 2024
When does protest become art? Defacing an English version of the Treaty of Waitangi  
Feb 04, 2024
Pride: Playwright Sam Brooks on queer storytelling
Feb 03, 2024
Performance art with Dad: Tame Iti’s son Toi Iti
Feb 03, 2024
Fast Favourites: Kiwi actor Morgana O’Reilly cast in White Lotus
Feb 03, 2024
Pump up a 1990 jam with playwright Albert Belz
Jan 28, 2024
WATCH: Immerse yourself in Alan Parkinson’s giant inflatable cathedral
Jan 28, 2024
Culture 101 Arts News January 28 2024
Jan 28, 2024
Regional Wrap: Te Tairawhiti with Tama Waipara
Jan 28, 2024
Pub Choir brings mass singing to Aotearoa
Jan 28, 2024
Pring It On! A Polyfest parody hits the stage
Jan 27, 2024
H.R. The Musical - putting office culture on stage
Jan 27, 2024
Witi Ihimaera on the massive rise to come of Māori culture in 2024
Jan 27, 2024
The year that was: best of Aotearoa culture 2023
Dec 17, 2023
Regional Wrap: creative Kerikeri 
Dec 17, 2023
‘Don’t look behind you!’ A history of folk horror with Kier-La Janisse
Dec 17, 2023
Bruce Mason Playwriting Winner: Tainui Tukiwaho
Dec 16, 2023
Connecting to our landscapes through artist Marilynn Webb
Dec 16, 2023
Fast Favourites: Grace Palmer on landing an American sitcom
Dec 16, 2023
Dame Anne Salmond: connecting people through culture
Dec 10, 2023
Regional Wrap: Motueka with Donna McLeod
Dec 10, 2023
Ngahuia Harrison: the consequences of cannibal capitalism on the land
Dec 10, 2023
Renowned Chinese haute couture designer Guo Pei in Aotearoa
Dec 09, 2023
Fast Favourites: Paul Goldsmith, Aotearoa's new Minister of Arts, Culture and Heritage 
Dec 09, 2023
Fixing the desperate state of arts and culture coverage in the media
Dec 03, 2023
Manu Vaea: the spiritual and mundane in being fakaleitī - Tongan third gender 
Dec 03, 2023
Regional Wrap: Marton building turns into an ‘unsettling immersive’  sculpture  
Dec 03, 2023
Kauae Raro Research Collective's passion for earth pigments
Dec 03, 2023
Celebrating traditional Fijian hair practice from a Wairarapa farm
Dec 02, 2023
Moutere valley jeweller wins gold at Florence Biennale
Dec 02, 2023
Fast Favourites: The Brokenwood Mysteries star Fern Sutherland
Dec 02, 2023
Madison Kelly’s call and response with the kakī
Nov 26, 2023
Culture 101 Arts News Sunday 26 November
Nov 26, 2023
Ōtautahi’s whiskey-chasing advocate for mental health and poetry
Nov 26, 2023
Gamblers, monks and courtesans: a fifth century play in 2023
Nov 26, 2023
Ōtautahi’s great inner-city cultural revitalisation
Nov 26, 2023
Using AI photography to reconnect with humanity
Nov 25, 2023
‘Anything can be art’ an eight year old artist and curator’s Ōtautahi exhibition
Nov 25, 2023
Snort: the end of an era
Nov 25, 2023
Dr Huhana Smith: the quiet revolution in Māori art
Nov 19, 2023
A ‘Māori Elite’ tours the nation
Nov 19, 2023
Culture 101 Arts News: November 19 2023
Nov 19, 2023
Sweeping up the road tacks: cycling performance artist Marcus McShane
Nov 18, 2023
The time warp turns 50: Rocky Horror’s Richard O’Brien and his Kingdom of Bling
Nov 18, 2023
Tana Tupai on making Pasifika music symphonic
Nov 18, 2023
Dr Rebecca Rice: our early colonial women botanical artists recovered
Nov 18, 2023
From lighthouse keepers to taxi drivers: publishing lesser read voices with Adrienne Jansen
Nov 12, 2023
Greta Anderson’s strange, psychically charged images of the ordinary
Nov 12, 2023
Regional Wrap: Ōtepoti Dunedin with Pip Laufiso
Nov 12, 2023
Celebrity Treasure Island winner James Mustapic goes back to school
Nov 12, 2023
Irish chef in Japan breaks world record for non-stop cooking
Nov 11, 2023
Making Moriori and Rēkohu Chatham Island culture contemporary 
Nov 11, 2023
Fast Favourites with Te Kohe Tuhaka
Nov 11, 2023
Phil Dadson on Jim Allen: NZs centenarian father of arts experimentalism and education
Nov 05, 2023
Turning 50: Hannah Playhouse, Playmarket and director Murray Lynch
Nov 05, 2023
Pacific Arts Aotearoa recorded: Lana Lopesi in conversation with Susana Lei'ataua
Nov 05, 2023
Regional Wrap: Raglan’s Karin Bettley 
Nov 05, 2023
Former Vogelmorn Bowling Club now a trailblazing community cultural centre
Nov 05, 2023
Our birds and landscapes defined: the complex cultural legacy of painter Don Binney
Nov 04, 2023
Jon Toogood: 'In a solo show, I can actually talk to people in the room'
Nov 04, 2023
American slime mould tours Aotearoa
Oct 29, 2023
Regional wrap: Wairoa's Denise Eaglesome-Karekare
Oct 29, 2023
Making visible the relationship between hard labour and the Pacific: John Vea and Jasmine Togo-Brisby
Oct 29, 2023
Small, precious and shiny new: Kāpiti Coast regional gallery opens
Oct 28, 2023
Ballet legend Sir Jon Trimmer remembered by young and old close to him
Oct 28, 2023
Fast Favourites: Dr Mike Joy on the role of artists in preventing ecological collapse
Oct 28, 2023
All Buttons Great and Small: Lucy Godoroja
Oct 28, 2023
Rosie Dawson-Hewes' art table for others in Tauranga
Oct 22, 2023
Bernie Harfleet and Turtle Sarten: art through acts of community kindness
Oct 22, 2023
Cat Lovett’s weaving adventures in Mexico's colourful textile capital, Oaxaca
Oct 22, 2023
Regional wrap: Waitati pirate queen turned councillor Mandy Mayhem
Oct 22, 2023
Tokomaru Bay’s Māori clay art pioneer Baye Riddell
Oct 22, 2023
Jo Ann Firestone: the art of storytelling on a Nelson couch
Oct 21, 2023
Fast Favourites: Michael Galvin aka Dr Chris Warner shares on boy bands
Oct 21, 2023
Dr Maia Nuku: taking Pacific power back at The Met
Oct 15, 2023
Can sculpture help you sleep at night?
Oct 15, 2023
The enduring legacy of visionary architect Rewi Thompson
Oct 15, 2023
Regional Wrap: Balmy in Palmy with Spankie Jackzon
Oct 15, 2023
Sounds of the underground: Dunedin’s Lines of Flight Festival
Oct 15, 2023
John ‘Happy Feet’ Vaifale: Aotearoa’s world-beating hip hop dancer
Oct 14, 2023
Fast Favourites with Raised by Refugees creator Pax Assadi
Oct 14, 2023
Jamie McCaskill: recovering te reo and tikanga with two guitars
Oct 08, 2023
Carcass: picking over the bones of our political parties' cultural policy
Oct 08, 2023
Making photographs with mud and glowworms
Oct 08, 2023
NZ’s role in the peace and culture of Bougainville
Oct 08, 2023
Regional Wrap: in Hastings with Pitsch Leiser
Oct 08, 2023
Why Polynesia remains still there, still strong in inner city Tamaki Makaurau
Oct 08, 2023
Tokyo's Techno Kiwi: George Nelson
Oct 07, 2023
Taking cinema back to Dunedin’s ‘81 tour with Uproar
Oct 07, 2023
Fast favourites with vampire turned goth Jonny Brugh
Oct 07, 2023
Briar Grace Smith’s stories of skin, screen and stage
Oct 01, 2023
Gordon Walters and our changing taste for abstraction
Oct 01, 2023
91-year-old indigenous Canadian filmmaker reflects on career
Oct 01, 2023
Regional Wrap: Waikato turns pink for Cherry Blossom festival
Oct 01, 2023
The phenomenon of ‘Girl Dinner’
Oct 01, 2023
Reclaiming Crip Culture
Sep 30, 2023
31,872 bottles mark Aotearoa's suffrage anniversary
Sep 30, 2023
Fast Favourites with country & rock 'n' roll’s most creative dresser Tami Neilson
Sep 30, 2023
Does this year’s World of Wearable Arts have the wow factor?
Sep 24, 2023
Introducing Pōneke poets The Meow Gurrrls
Sep 24, 2023
Regional Wrap: wai and words from the Wairarapa
Sep 24, 2023
Carcass: picking over 2023 cultural policy with Jason (Political Cutz) Muir and Jane Yonge 
Sep 24, 2023
Rising NZ music producer EDY on ‘hustle culture’
Sep 24, 2023
Switzerland: Finding yourself in a psychological thriller
Sep 24, 2023
Looking after contemporary art history - curator Christina Barton
Sep 23, 2023
Could AI change music culture for the better?
Sep 17, 2023
Drumming for a healthy mind and body
Sep 17, 2023
At the movies for 17 September 2023
Sep 17, 2023
Regional Wrap: remote but creative Karamea
Sep 17, 2023
Steamed Hams! Internet memes turned art
Sep 17, 2023
Is there life after Lego?
Sep 17, 2023
How to sing opera with soprano Deborah Wai Kapohe
Sep 17, 2023
Culture meets rugby with All Black George Bower in France
Sep 17, 2023
Carcass: picking over the bones of cultural policy over 2023 election year
Sep 10, 2023
Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra CEO reflects on 17 years
Sep 10, 2023
Regional Wrap: Rotorua with Mercia Dawn-Yates
Sep 10, 2023
A Yum Cha feast for Aotearoa history
Sep 10, 2023
Is ambient music the secret to good mental health?
Sep 10, 2023
Nothing cheap about this Tart on Tour
Sep 10, 2023
Fast Favourites with Cousins star Tanea Heke
Sep 10, 2023
A Conversation with William Webb Ellis by John Kiley
Sep 06, 2023
Kiwi YouTubers crowdfund multi-million dollar studio in Auckland
Sep 03, 2023
What if artists earned the same as everybody else?
Sep 03, 2023
New laureate Taiaroa Royal’s life in dance and on the land
Sep 03, 2023
Regional Wrap: Nelson with Judene Edgar
Sep 03, 2023
BDSM back in theatres by popular demand!
Sep 03, 2023
Drawing to help dementia
Sep 03, 2023
The art of joysticks - reinventing the spacies parlour
Sep 03, 2023
Comedy and drama queen Kura Forrester plays Fast Favourites
Sep 03, 2023
At The Movies for 30 August 2023
Aug 30, 2023
Word Christchurch with critic Erin Harrington
Aug 27, 2023
Being a voice for mute global star artist Susan Te Kahurangi King
Aug 27, 2023
Regional Wrap: Whangarei with Baz Squire
Aug 27, 2023
New Zealand cancels pavilion but confirms a record number of artists at 2024 Venice Biennale
Aug 27, 2023
Classical hits the streets
Aug 27, 2023
Fast Favourites: Karen O’Leary
Aug 27, 2023
Aotearoa Pan-Asian film celebrates our diversity and confronts concepts of “home”
Aug 20, 2023
Regional Wrap: culture news from Te Tai Poutini
Aug 20, 2023
Will you get to watch your favourite screen actors in 2024?
Aug 20, 2023
Jemaine Clement’s forgotten Aotearoa podcast
Aug 20, 2023
Pita Turei: grounding the arts in Tāmaki Makaurau
Aug 20, 2023
A Culture101 party with Bret McKenzie, Suzanne Tamaki and Dr Drama
Aug 20, 2023