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A new book argues that art copyists get a bad rap. They're not always forgers out to scam the unwary. In fact, there's an art to copying art that deserves its own place in art history. Former public… Audio, Gallery

Kiwi jazz from Vaughn Roberts and Charmaine Ford, a beautiful bossa from Stacey Kent, and the Arts Pepper and Farmer play standards! Audio

"Vallery" is a campervan transformed into a contemporary art gallery on wheels. It's just headed out on its maiden voyage. It showcases more than 50 works by 26 artists from the Manawatu, Whanganui… Audio, Gallery

A work called "Red" handed by multimedia artist Emma Hercus won this year's $20,000 National Contemporary Art Awards. The collage on MDF of an abstract masked figure with upraised hands, was chosen… Audio, Gallery

Arts commentator Julia Waite joins Susie to talk about senior painter Barbara Tuck's show Delirium Crossing and 1800s photographer William Harding's exhibition Between Skin and Shirt, which is on now… Audio

Associate professor at Otago University where he teaches English, Dr Thomas McLean has written for North and South Magazine about what's behind the generosity of the donors who are often not very well… Audio

What makes a good tune to go with the news today? Big, bold and bombastic? Subtle and smooth? Trad or mod? Mediawatch asks a journalist with world’s biggest collection of news theme music - and get… Video, Audio

For today's Music Feature we're exploring the Art of Broadway Orchestration with Auckland University musicologist Gregory Camp. Audio

Holly Walker reviews The Life and Art of Lynley Dodd by Finlay Macdonald, published by Penguin Random House NZ Audio

An artist has spent hundreds of hours on his exhibition at Porirua's Pataka Art Museum only to be turning the gallery lights off. To explain his new exhibition "Thresholding" we're joined by Jack… Audio

A New Zealand Horror film is set to be showcased on the global stage at the legendary Museum of Modern Art in New York. The 1993 film called 'Jack Be Nimble' will screen at the museums upcoming summer… Audio

Performing arts correspondent Lyne Pringle joins Kathryn to look at how live performances are getting rolling again, but it's not easy with ongoing winter illnesses. Footnote NZ Dance is about to tour… Audio

The government has scrapped several arts, cultural and heritage funding rounds and replaced them with a single fund to make it easier for people to apply.

The new Cultural Sector Regeneration fund is… Audio

It is her dream job but one that carries a massive responsibility to the country's contemporary Maori artists. Larissa McMillan, Ngapuhi, is the first director of the Wairau Maori Art Gallery, part of… Audio, Gallery

Several years after feeling unsafe while at a notorious bus shelter in Tauranga, artist Sara Hughes is transforming it into a brightly coloured and illuminated work of art. It will be suspended above… Audio, Gallery

While many of us were busy mastering sourdough recipes during the covid lockdown, an Auckland teenager was painting a self-portrait. That artwork has just won 18-year-old Jessica Gurnsey the… Audio

Festival organisers, Ania Upstill and Jess Ducey give us the low-down on Wellington's inaugural Queer Arts Festival kicking off at the end of this month. Audio

Arts commentator Julia Waite talks about two exhibitions of textile art, The Search Party on now at McCahon House in Titirangi, and There Is No Other Home But This at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery… Audio, Gallery

Hastings is getting a makeover. The city known as the birthplace of the Mongrel Mob is repositioning itself as a hip arts and culture mecca.

There's millions of dollars of investment throughout the… Audio

It's been a long wait - around 20 years - but the Wakitipu community is about to get its very own state of the art multidisciplinary arts space. Two former commercial spaces in the Frankton shopping… Audio, Gallery

It's hoped a new art installation in Ōtautahi Christchurch can help people talk their worries away through a series of telephones by the riverside.

Twelve telephones have popped up across sites… Audio

Going, going and gone to a good cause. BNZ's art collection is about to be sold, to fund a charitable foundation.

The collection includes some of our most well-known artists, like Colin McCahon, Rita… Video, Audio

We meet three fine artists whose work transcends gallery walls: sculptor Yona Lee, interdisciplinary artist Yuki Kihara, and painter Simon Kaan. Video