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The out-going director of Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Ta¯maki Rhana Devenport is leaving New Zealand to make history in Australia. In October Rhana will be the first woman to take charge of Adelaide's… Audio, Gallery

September is the inaugural New Zealand Theatre Month and more than 450 shows will be put on around the country. Amber Curreen is an actor and producer who will be a big part of that: she's part of… Audio

New Zealand Symphony Orchestra conductor and Music Director Edo de Waart has told Upbeat how important good funding for the arts is. Audio

An art exhibition in Auckland is tackling the big issues facing Pacific communities, including colonisation, stigmatisation and the modern identity. Audio

Visiting Chinese art-jeweller Bifei Cao started using baby formula in his unconventional pieces after hearing the news about the contaminated milk powder scandals. What he didn't realise until coming… Audio

Tony Fomison remains one of the most distinctive New Zealand artists of his generations, almost 30 years after his death. The painter's sister Anna is collecting interviews with people who knew Tony… Audio

Maori and Pasifika youth in Auckland are fighting to keep their community hubs open which are under threat of closing. Audio

Music and arts events in New Zealand are becoming more accessible for disabled people, says Áine Kelly-Costello, an Auckland based flutist, writer and advocate. Audio

Beth Hill is the programme leader for arts, self-directed learning, and living skills at Northland Regional Corrections Facility. Earlier in August she was awarded the Arts Access Maui Tikitiki a… Audio

Developers keen to build a new hotel in Whangarei are eyeing up council funding set aside for the arts. The Whangarei District Council has been budgeting for more than a decade for a new theatre. But… Audio

Five years ago Pitsch Leiser abandoned Auckland for Hawke's Bay. He found it had everything - everything except a functioning Opera House and an arts festival. So he rolled up his sleeves and started… Audio

For three years, Clare Caldwell has taught painting at the Auckland City Mission, long enough to know what a difference it makes to offer a means of expression to people who are homeless and… Audio

The human body is the canvas of choice for artists here and overseas who are feverishly practising their designs for the upcoming 10th New Zealand Body Art Showcase. Special effects makeup and body… Audio

New Zealand was the first place to give women the vote, Saudi Arabia was the last. To mark the 125th anniversary of Suffrage here, City Gallery Wellington is holding an exhibition featuring the work… Audio, Gallery

Those odds and ends of unrecyclable plastic like milk bottle tops and bread bag tags littering your kitchen could one day be used to 3-D print a new washer or machinery part. That day is still a wee… Audio

A photography course at an alternative school in Henderson, has been a life changer for the teenagers involved. Their photographs and people's stories they gathered at the same time, were shown in an… Audio

The struggle for a tourist village high on the slopes of an erupting Hawaiian volcano. Audio

A book written in detention by a refugee on Papua New Guinea's Manus Island is a work of art before being an act of resistance, the author says. Audio

The idea of artists suffering for their art seems to be a reality. A report out of Australia found many performers there are struggling, with suicide rates more than twice that of the general… Audio

This week Courtney talks about about New Zealand's house museums, and a new contemporary art project at the heritage home 'The Elms' in Tauranga. Audio

It's a perennial question - particularly on this programme - "How to balance the need to make a living with the desire to be creative?" It's also one of the questions that photographer Jason Naylor is… Audio