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All ice is not created equal, and the ice created by Conor Whale is top-shelf stuff. Audio

The Arts Festivals are in full swing across Aotearoa along with numerous Fringe Festivals.

Co-host of RNZ National's Culture 101, Perlina Lau, was in Hamilton last week and this week she's been out… Audio

Amidst the news that Newshub would be shutting down and TVNZ will be shedding 68 jobs to stay afloat, another part of our media landscape announced it would shutter. Audio

A new public artwork installation is coming to the southern end of Federal Street in Auckland, just a stone's from the RNZ studio.  The artist, Joe Sheehan, speaks to Jesse. Audio, Gallery

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Artists in Tauranga recently took a creative response to comment on the City Council's Long Term Plan, which proposes steep rental increases for community groups, and a 'user pays' approach to… Audio

We're in the thick of arts festival season in Aotearoa with the Auckland Arts festival next week joining Poneke's Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts and Hamilton Arts Festival, alongside… Audio

Arts News for 25 February 2024 Audio

Shona McCullagh is the outgoing artistic director of the Auckland Arts festival. This year’s festival is her swan song. 

Shona has received a New Zealand Order of Merit for services to dance, and her… Audio

It's a time of year to relish for lovers of art and culture.

Friday sees the opening of both the Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts in Wellington and the Hamilton Arts Festival.

And numerous… Audio

The Up-Doos' Esther Stephens joins us ahead of the bands gig at the Hamilton Arts Festival. Audio

Our wrap-up of the week's arts and culture news. Audio

Auckland art gallery has been gifted 15 masterpieces worth $178 million, in what is considered to be one of the most significant philanthropic gifts in local history. 

Included are works by Pablo… Audio

After years of cancellations due to Covid and Cyclone Gabrielle, the festival is back and more fashionable than ever. Audio

Aotearoa’s central arts funding body, Creative New Zealand, is majorly overhauling its funding structure, with eight new funds to open between March and August. The change follows the arts council’s… Audio

Arts and culture news from RNZ's Culture 101. Audio

The activists who defaced an English version of Ti Tiriti o Waitangi at Te Papa last year planned their actions very carefully, says Cally O’Neill from the social justice action group Te Waka… Audio

Each week, Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different region to get the latest on the arts and culture scene. This week we’re at Waitangi.  Audio

It ain't hard to tell when you don't communicate well so worth paying attention when you do, says English journalist Ros Atkins. Video, Audio

The Australian art world is aflutter with the announcement that the Brisbane Portrait Prize will accept entries that were "whole or in part by artificial intelligence". Audio

Made of over one kilometre of rope and more than 600 LED lights, giant puppet Leor is coming to Auckland's Aotea Square in February. Audio

Barbara Brinsley holds the esteemed title of aesthetics coordinator for the Dunedin Hospital and tells Nights about the benefits of having art on ward walls. Audio

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Julian Wilcox talks to Emily Karaka Audio

Restoration artisan Jenna Milesi has always had a flair for repair, but little did she know her childhood passion would eventually lead to Restituo - her business restoring or transforming people's… Audio