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New Zealand ratepayers own half a billion dollars worth of art, say local public art organisation Urban Art, but incredibly only about seven per cent of that work is on public display. Urban Art are… Audio, Gallery

Some street artist say Auckland Council's graffiti policy is preventing art from flourishing. The rapid removal of graffiti in the city seems to be the problem, stifling artists from turning tags into… Audio

Alexander Chee is a guest at the upcoming Auckland Writers Fesitval, Lynn Freeman asked him how attitudes towards homosexuality have changed since he started writing about it. Audio

Toward the end of the 1970s, punk and new wave turned NZ's popular music scene on its head. Not only was the music totally different, but bands including The Suburban Reptiles, Toy Love and the… Audio

From Hastings to Hobart, Santiago to Rarotonga, 41 galleries from across New Zealand and from seven cities from around the Pacific come together this week to show their wares at the Auckland Art Fair… Audio

The Privacy Commission has turned to an art space for people living on the margins of society to help raise awareness of the issue of personal privacy. Commissioner John Edwards is working with… Audio, Gallery

Dr Lisa Sanders is an internist on the faculty of the Yale School of Medicine where she teaches topics related to clinical reasoning and diagnosis to both medical students and residents. Sanders… Audio

Puke Ariki museum in New Plymouth is celebrating the 100th anniversary of its collection with a special exhibition. Whare Kahurangi - or house of treasured possessions - showcases the museum's taonga… Video, Audio

The Guerilla Girls have been creating protest posters for 30 years - calling out the art world,using fact, statistics, shame and irony to call for then end to all forms of gender and racial inequality… Audio, Gallery

Her first official day in her new job as Director of Auckland Art Gallery is May 1, and her focus already says Auckland Art Gallery is how to up visitor numbers and income. Kirsten Paisley takes on… Audio

Join Lynn Freeman 12.30 to 4pm this Sunday for new Australian director of the Auckland Art Gallery Kirsten Paisley, Melbourne comedian Rhys Nicholson, actor Theresa Healey playing the Queen, producer…

Arts correspondent Courtney Johnston joins Kathryn to talk about how the first image captured of a black hole connects to an exhibition in Wellington at the moment, a heads up on the Auckland Art Fair… Audio, Gallery

Ireland's Eva Rothschild is currently working on an exhibition - Kosmos - that she and her nation hope will impress the thousands of art critics and art lovers. Lynn Freeman asks Eva Rothschild about… Audio, Gallery

Auckland Art Gallery's Painting Conservator Ingrid Ford and Paper Conservator Camilla Baskcomb know all about it. Conservation work remains painstaking, despite new techniques and technologies. Lynn… Audio, Gallery

Forty companies from 10 Pacific island countries will display and sell their wares at a one-day trade show at The Cloud on Auckland's waterfront on Saturday. Audio

Images of the Kaikoura earthquake are included in a new exhibition of seismic data by a UK artist duo called Semiconductor. It's called The Technological Sublime, including five massive patterned… Audio, Gallery

Can the arts heal us when we are broken? That's one of the questions being put to a panel of doctors who're also writers and artists - a panel created long before the events of March 15th in… Audio, Gallery

Creative New Zealand is shaking up its arts grants programme, raising the limits but also making changes to its popular Quick Response funding rounds. Audio

Hamilton's library is one of several public buildings getting a mural make-over this weekend as part of the annual Boon Street Art Festival. Audio

Silkroad Ensemble's world fusion feast delights audience but went too easy on the spice Video

Komische Oper Berlin and 1927 present Mozart's opera The Magic Flute at Auckland Arts Festival. Audio

The Auckland Arts Festival went into its first weekend with one of its biggest shows. Mozart's The Magic Flute has been radically reimagined with animation and silent film. RNZ's Justin Gregory was… Audio