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It's back to the future for the Auckland Arts Festival which opened on Thursday night. Cabaret show Blanc de Blanc began their three-week residency at the Spiegeltent in Aotea Square. RNZ's Justin… Audio

The Arts Foundation funds Laureate, Icon and Philanthrophy awards as well as administering several significant overseas artists residences. But now it's undergoing massive changes, losing key staff… Audio

After a decade musical maestro Tim Minchin is back in New Zealand to perform solo. He talks to Jim about taking back his art from the big studios and being on the stage by himself to sing and… Video, Audio

Suite Gallery owner David Alsop takes us through some of the most interesting visual art that is on offer around the country right now. Audio

As a teenager, Will Hunt spent his days exploring an abandoned tunnel that ran beneath his house - and it's become a life long passion for him. Audio

Arts commentator Courtney Johnston talks to us about two NZ museums joining a global effort to bring together watercolour artworks from before the era of photography. She'll also look at why the New… Audio

This Sunday on Standing Room Only RNZ National 12.30pm-4pm we're playing music from films by New Zealand women as we hear from the NZ Film Commission, after 12.30pm live, from the Berlin International…

For Inside Out, Nick Tipping checks out tracks by Oscar Peterson, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers, Patricia Barber, and Cassandra Wilson. Audio

Can a beautiful water colour, stand on its own terms if it was painted by a person responsible for acts of utter evil ? Audio

Anthony Cundy is the only non-Japanese to have been given a teaching license in Nihon Eiho. He joins us from Japan to talk us though this lesser-known martial art. Audio

Being interested in art is one thing - but getting your head around what's on and what might most interest you when there are 100s of galleries of all sorts of different stripes in New Zealand - often… Audio

Barrie Kosky is the intendant and chefregisseur (artistic director) of the Komische Oper Berlin. Acclaimed for his work in opera directing, one of his most recent works at the Komische Oper Berlin is… Audio

Arts commentator Courtney Johnston previews the year to come, in major shows and major directorship changes around the country. Wastescape - Auckland Arts Festival - presented by Te Tuhi, Blood Earth… Audio

What started out as a Chinese then Japanese art of cultivating miniature trees in pots now has a whole forest of fans all over the world and enthusiast Nigel Saunders has made a living out of it. Video, Audio, Gallery

In our modern world of fast moving technology and instant messaging, we've lost the ability to wait well, says professor Jason Farman. Audio

Paper Rain is a Picton- based social enterprise which takes old wine barrels from nearby Marlborough vineyards and turns them into ornamental skateboards, etched and painted with local artists'… Audio, Gallery

A New Zealand woman involved in a London programme getting art by homeless people onto the walls of the city's cafes, says it's an idea that could easily work over here. Sarah Caldwell-Watson is the… Audio, Gallery

A refugee detained on Manus Island will fight for an Oceania boxing title in Papua New Guinea. Audio

Our public gallery collections reflect colonial ties to England and an art history rooted both here and in Europe. But what of collecting and representing the art scene of today from elsewhere - in… Audio, Gallery

Grant Philip was just fresh into his military career, when a diving accident left him a tetraplegic. Now a painter, he's returning to his military roots as part of the Art in Recovery programme. Video, Audio

New Zealand famously had its Swinging Sixties in the Seventies, and nowhere did the revolution start happening more than in the visual art scene, and a new exhibition is about to pay tribute to those… Audio, Gallery

New Zealand's largest tertiary provider for Pasifika students has launched a strategy to further boost Pasifika success and numbers. Audio