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Whanganui reggae fusion group NLC were winners earlier this year of best roots album at the Waiata music awards. 

Quincy Jones dies at the age of 91. Audio

Artist and designer Cecelia Kumeroa (Te Ātihaunui-a-Pārāngi) has been the Iwi Arts lead for the cultural design component of the new Te Whare o Rehua Sarjeant Gallery. 

The new extension to the… Audio

Arts News: Quasi on the move, live performance contributes $17.3 billion and a Yorkshire Pud halloween costume Audio

Two bananas duct taped to the wall find themselves unexpectedly in the spotlight. In a clown, fruit mash-up of physical theatre, How To Art is hitting the walls of Basement Theatre in Auckland. Audio

Activist and artist Diane Prince is a woman of many talents. She is a painter, weaver, installation artist, set designer and educator.  Audio, Gallery

This week poet Tusiata Avia once again found herself in the news.  Video, Audio

Young Maori artists are being invited to enter the 2025 Te Kiingi Tuheitia Portraiture award. 

Launched in 2020, by the New Zealand Portrait Gallery - Te Pukenga Whakaata, it aims to inspire a new… Audio

The popular Kāpiti Arts Trail is on over the first two weekends of November, boasting over 300 artists opening up their studios and shared spaces, or exhibiting in 13 galleries from Ōtaki to… Audio

Thousands are expected to turn out to the beach town of Raglan for the 14th year of the Raglan Art Weekend. Audio

Hohepa Thompson – aka Hori – an artist and activist, tells Anika Moa about how he turned his biggest regret around and now spreads the word about te reo Māori with love and laughter. Video, Audio

Dutch artist Theo Schoon is remembered as a controversial figure in the history of New Zealand art. Audio

The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi revealed its eight Laureate Award recipients on Friday night.

Receiving a total of 280 thousand dollars - they're recognised for their outstanding practice as well as… Audio

Horomona Horo (Ngapuhi, Ngati Porou, Taranaki), one of Aotearoa's best known taonga pūoro practitioners, is now an Arts Laureate. Horomona is a masterful composer and musician, known for his expertise… Audio

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Josh Cesan started dancing around the age of four. It's a family affair, with his mother and brothers also heavily involved in dance. Josh is founder of Identity Dance Company - and master of… Audio

Our soundtrack today is another piece of music nominated for a APRA Silver Scroll songwriting award. 'Drifting' has been composed by Anita Schwabe, and its performed here by the Royal New Zealand Air… Audio

There’s human intelligence - when we use it. We’re getting to grips with artificial intelligence. And many people are getting fascinated with plant intelligence - the magic work of mycelium for… Video, Audio

The fashion designer is celebrating 25 years of the label Crane Brothers and to mark the occasion, the company is teaming up with The Arts Foundation Te Tumu Toi to launch a Laureate Award for design

Arts news: a cheeky ceramics award winner, Chidgey nets Darwin and Dickens publisher and a new Christchurch artist space Audio

The 34th season of the World of Wearable Art has kicked off in the capital - an annual spectacle of fashion, art, circus, dance and music. 

This year’s theme is Dream Awake, and the competition has… Video, Audio

Artist Ana Iti has been awarded Aotearoa New Zealand’s most prestigious art award, the Walters Prize at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki. Her sculpture and sound installation ‘A resilient heart like… Audio

Arts News: Parekowhai's controversial giant kangaroo, Te Unua Museum of Southland's cost blowout and extinct animal discovered in rock art. Audio