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A seven-year-old is one of a number of artists who's donated art to an auction raising money for Youthline. The Art in Isolation auction, which is a collaboration between Urban Art Foundation… Audio

A former police officer is appalled to hear police who took part in the Armed Response Teams trial failed to document their call-outs properly, or not at all.

Police were expected to record how each… Audio

A Christchurch art gallery has apologised and pulled down controversial art after complaints the works appropriated Māori culture.  Audio

A Christchurch gallery has apologised and pulled down controversial art after complaints the works appropriated Māori culture.

Yesterday, Windsor Gallery removed Rhonye McIlroy's art, which included… Audio

New Zealand could move to Alert Level 1 as early as next week, with cabinet to consider the change on Monday.

The arts sector has been particularly hard hit by the Level 2 physical distancing… Audio

Artists and musicians are welcoming a $175 million package from the government aimed as protecting the jobs of 90,000 people in the arts and music sectors.

The Prime Minister made the announcement in… Video, Audio

Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has launched a $175 million arts and music recovery package, saying the sector has been "decimated" by Covid-19.  Audio

It's aimed at helping the arts and music sectors to cope with the impact of Covid-19. Audio

Artists and musicians will soon be able to get back on their feet, and on the road, after the government announced a $175-million boost for the sector.

RNZ's Hawke's Bay reporter, Anusha Bradley, was… Audio

An Auckland academic has criticised the government's funding boost for the arts, saying it lacks any vision for the future of the sector.

Yesterday, the Prime Minister unveiled a multi-million dollar… Audio

The arts sector's been offered a lifeline with a government funding boost of more than 95 million dollars. The industy's among the hardest hit by the global pandemic, with museums and galleries forced… Audio

The country's struggling creative industry has received an almost $100 million boost from the government.

Leaders in the arts sector say the funding will save jobs threatened by Covid-19 and create… Audio

The government today announced a multi-million dollar funding boost to help Aotearoa's arts and cultural sector recover from the impact of Covid-19.  Audio

Cardiac surgeon Samer Nashef talks with Carl Shuker about risk, mistakes and how heart surgery has changed in this highlight from the 2020 New Zealand Festival writers' programme. Audio

Art collectors gathered in Auckland last night to bid on works by some of New Zealand's top painters.

It is thought to be the first face to face auction to be held since Covid-19 restrictions were… Audio

The Auckland Arts Festival is excited to hear from artists, designers and creative thinkers for its next festival and beyond. It's calling for proposals from established or emerging artists and is… Audio

Master carvers who have dedicated their life to teaching the art of whakairo say the government's latest $7.6 million investment in the New Zealand Māori Arts and Crafts Institute will allow them to… Audio

What's thought to be one of the world's first in-person art auctions to take place since the Covid-19 pandemic shutdown is being held in Auckland tonight.

Art auctions have taken place online during… Audio

Artists, musicians and actors say the entertainment industry will fall into crisis if it can't open up again soon.

People in the arts are often placed front and centre of charity work for others… Audio

Kristen Ghodsee and Marilyn Waring talk to Kathryn Ryan about the fight for valuing women's economic contribution to society - at the 2020 New Zealand Festival writers' programme. Audio

This week Mark Amery focuses on the reopening of our galleries and museums at level 2 and how they have fared closed - in particular a project that has seen five artists commissioned to create new… Audio

A law change is desperately needed to stop non-Māori artists using Māori faces and traditional facial tattoos in their work. 

That's the view of a specialist in Indigenous cultural property, Aroha… Audio

While arts organisations welcome the news of Alert Level 2, the realities mean many are still hamstrung.

With 90 members of the Symphony Orchestra on stage, that would mean to not go over the… Audio

Over the past few weeks, brazen thieves have stolen art from shuttered museums in Europe as Covid-19 forces people to stay at home. Today's expert, Penelope Jackson has written two books on art crime.