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12:46 PM.From millions of items in the Alexander Turnbull Library, curators have chosen just 170 for a new exhibition to celebrate the institution's 100th birthday. It's actually the 101st. The Miharo Wonder… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:33 PM.He started small, intricately carving cassette tapes and lightbulbs from pounamu. But now Wellington-based sculptor Joe Sheehan works on big-scale projects that really take over a space. He's working… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:16 PM.Today marks the start of an ambitious 9.9 million dollar fund raising campaign for a new purpose built home for Te Uaka Lyttleton Museum. The former building opened in 1969, thanks to the efforts of… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:45 PM.Corporate lawyer by day, subversive artist when he's not in his suit... Auckland artist Mark Schroder is casting a caustic eye over the corporate landscape in his new installation, Fortune Teller… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:25 PM.A hand-up for 12 live shows that otherwise would almost certainly have been abandoned because of the financial risk is what Auckland's Basement Theatre is can now offer through its new Co-Pro… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:10 PM.In the Coronavirus era, the word "bubble" has come to mean safety and sanctuary. But can bubbles also be cages, forcing families apart? This is one of the ideas explored by mother and daughter, New… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:45 PM.Painter Peter McIntyre is best remembered for his work as New Zealand's official war artist during the Second World War, but a new exhibition takes us into the heart of the Central North Island rural… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:30 PM.When photographer Larence Shustak moved to Christchurch from the United States in 1973, he found what he called "a city full of eccentrics", and for that reason he felt right at home! He immediately… Read more Audio

12:12 PM.It's been a matter of concern that there are now so few outlets for in-depth writing about the visual arts in New Zealand. It's bad for writers, for the artists and for galleries. Now a new annual… Read more Audio

2:45 PM.A fearless 14-year-old girl who lives in a bleak part of a place called Dog Island is the hero of a new production called Dakota of the White Flats from Red Leap Theatre company. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Innovative and fearless the judges call her - the founder of publishing success story Gecko Press, Julia Marshall, has won the lifetime achievement 2021 Storylines Margaret Mahy Medal for her… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.New opera company Wellington Opera is set to be a major new company in Wellington's cultural scene, and its formation is being marked this month by the presentation of a rather unusual programme of… Read more Audio

1:40 PM.Tauranga Art Gallery's new Director Stephen Cleland has big plans.  Read more Audio

1:20 PM.The pulling power of Auckland Art Gallery's current Maori contemporary art exhibition has the judges of New Zealand's first portraiture award for emerging Maori artists hoping it will also be a… Read more Audio

12:42 PM.A Very Different World is a new exhibition at Te Tuhi in Auckland promising to offer a much-needed glimmer of hope for the future, while at the same time looking at the unprecedented difficulties we… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Two expat British theatre makers are working with a Kiwi cast on a play that touches on some of the issues of the moment - isolation, exclusion - and the power of kindness.  Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Abigail Boyle is looking forward to taking to the stage again with new company Ballet Collective Aotearoa.  Read more Audio

12:10 PM.A new ballet company has been formed, Ballet Collective Aotearoa featuring both leading dancers and graduates and students from the New Zealand School of Dance. The company launches with the season… Read more Audio

2:40 PM.Four of the world's keenest crime readers came together for a live podcast recently, called Four Critics Four Continents, where they reflected on the best books in the genre for 2020. With the… Read more Audio

1:50 PM.Still life paintings hold an enduring appeal for artists and art lovers and that includes Bannockburn artist painter, sculptor and tutor, Megan Huffadine. Her new solo show at Eade Gallery in Clyde in… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.The New Zealand film Coming Home in the Dark is having its World Premiere today at the 2021 Sundance Film Festival. It's written by Eli Kent and James Ashcroft and James also directs this story of a… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Kiwi, Greer Simpkin, is a leading light in Australia's screen industry, producing acclaimed work for the big and small screens. Greer's held senior roles at the ABC in Australia including Deputy Head… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.It's a thirty year partnership in life and on stage that's produced a raft of memorable theatrical productions. Now Niuean/Samoan actor and writer Vela Manusaute's latest play, Tropical Love Birds… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.What started out as a creative writing programme for young prisoners at Auckland's Mt Eden Corrections Facility is now spreading around the country's prisons. It's down to the hard work of the young… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.An imagined verbal battle between the first ladies of America and France is the premise of a play that's about to have its New Zealand premiere. Prize-winning Irish playwright Nancy Harris pits Sophia… Read more Audio