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With more than thirty artists and art collectives, across nine different galleries spanning the length and breadth of Auckland, led by superstar curator Hou Hanru and lasting for three months, the… Audio

We mark the 25th anniversary of the Smokefree Rock Quest. The roll call of student musicians who've gone on to truly great things includes Kimbra, King Kapisi, Bic Runga and, one of our guests today… Audio

Michele Clapton, one time fashion designer and musician stylist, has gone on to win Baftas and Emmy nominations for her costumes designs for the TV series Game of Thrones. She's currently in New… Audio

Artist Paul Cullen is hosting visitors to two meteoric art installations inspired by his time in Alabama. Object / Anti-Object is based on scientific speculation about a meteor crater in the USA. Audio

Expat Kiwi artist Tanya Lock who's dominating the BBC Wildlife Artists Award nominations this year with 7 of her paintings of common and endangered species being selected by judges. Audio

Stevan Eldred-Grigg wrote one of New Zealand's most successful novels, 'Oracles and Miracles', drawing on his interest in social and family history. He's just released the fourth book in the series… Audio

What's behind the rebranding of an Auckland based baroque group as NZ Barok, the country's first and only national Baroque Orchestra? Audio

Teresa Patterson is nominated for Music Manager of the Year. Her stable of acts includes Six60, I Am Giant and Iva Lamkum. She talks about the need for a strong online presence for bands and how CDs… Audio

New Zealand has a proud tradition of satire and parody, and people in power have always been popular targets. We all remember fondly the Golden Years of McPhail and Gadsby, Fred Dagg and the many… Audio

Tauranga is now the only main centre that doesn't have a formal art policy. But isn't less bureaucracy and paperwork a good thing for artists? We hear the arguments for the local council to bring in… Audio

Dick Frizzell's landmark Mickey to Tiki Tu Meke painting comes up for sale - why is it still seen as one of this country's most significant images? Audio

Whanganui artist Sue Cooke is going to great lengths to recreate the experience of being in an Antarctic hut. She's installed a replica hut with wrap around visuals at Whanganui's Sarjeant Gallery… Audio

Two young refugees Noella Ishimwe Niyonzima and Giselle Promise Iradukunda whose stories are included in a new book of fiction written from the perspective of recent migrants. It's called Walking with… Audio

Think of Auckland's Waterfront and books aren't the first things that spring to mind. But a little shipping container on Te Wero Island has been turned into a temporary outdoor library, and passersby… Audio

New Zealand premiere of the original play re-enacting one of the great moments in journalism: the David Frost interview of former US president Richard Nixon. Meet the actors from a new Auckland… Audio

Postcards of beautiful dusky maidens helped fuel the tourist trades for the Pacific Islands, but they also cemented these kinds of colonial perspectives in the public imagination for a very long time… Audio

Scott is one of the finalists in the Music Managers Forum NZ Music Manager of the Year, for his work with artists like Mt Eden, Chaos in the CBD and Lorde. Audio

Dunedin artist Jai Hall's new work commemorates the women who worked as Land Girls during World War Two. Audio

David McLeod started out in sculpture then started working on pieces that were much smaller and more intricate. Audio

She's kept us waiting at least a decade between poetry collections, so what can we expect from her third one, Wild Like Me? Audio

If zombies attacked your town, what would you do? That's the question behind Apocalypse Z, an immersive, interactive theatre experience in Auckland's Aotea Square. Audio

Ty King-Wall becomes the Australian Ballet Company's youngest principal artist at 26. He explains why he moved to Australia to train and why he'd like to play the bad guy in some of the classic… Audio

Antoinette Halloran on helping to create a new interpretation of Madame Butterfly for New Zealand Opera, and on being just as happy singing cabaret and musical theatre. Audio

Samin Son bases his art on his experiences in the South Korean army. Audio

We follow Alison Maclean's career path from the landmark short film Kitchen Sink to directing episodes of Sex in the City and The Tudors. Audio