Culture 101 for Sunday 10 March 2024

3:00 PM.The arts and culture news on Culture 101  Read more Audio

2:00 PM.In 2018, Sandro Kopp was tasked by film director Wes Anderson with creating ten monumental paintings for the film The French Dispatch in less than three months. 

Kopp’s works needed to look like the… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.A well known arts critic, historian and commentator, Andrew Paul Wood in Timaru fills us in on ‘drama’ around the Timaru Theatre Royal redevelopment, which includes a new venue for South Canterbury… Read more Audio

1:05 PM.What would a map that represents a more distinct lived human cultural perspective look like? That has been the very personal question for Icao Tiseli with her award-winning project Mapping the Wheke.

12:45 PM.It’s the 96th Academy Awards on Monday 11th March - the final ceremony of the awards season which started almost a year ago at the Cannes Film Festival. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.The true story behind theatre show Boy is both controversial and compelling. Appearing at the Auckland Arts Festival theatre and written by Dutch-born, Netherlands-based playwright Carly Wijs (Us/Them… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Ōtepoti Dunedin’s Robert Scott is best known as a member of seminal New Zealand bands The Bats and The Clean, but more quietly he’s been painting for decades with work appearing in both exhibitions… Read more Audio

1:00 PM.Cue the drums - The Auckland Arts Festival kicks off this week! 

This is the third episode of Best of the Fest; a brand new RNZ national five-week lively conversation series  about a feast of… Read more Audio