Lynn Freeman

Ali Soltanian Fard Jahromiis a game developer and film maker who's getting international attention, including for his 3D video game Invasion Resistance 2 that's getting great reviews on Steam - the… Audio

Hot off the Press - Black Lives Matter and the Coronavirus both make an appearance in the latest poetry collection from Tusiata Avia - who's also celebrating being named a 2020 Arts Foundation… Audio

An artist who's helping to keep traditional Niuean bark cloth painting, hiapo, alive is one of the recipients of this year's Creative New Zealand Arts Pasifika Awards. Cora-Allan Wickliffe who's of… Audio, Gallery

Foley - creating sound effects for stage and screen - is one of the skills under threat from the digital age, where you can find most sounds you want with a quick search online.  Audio

A sculpture made out of steel girders salvaged from the wrecked World Trade Center and the series of imperceptively moving structures that stand outside the Christchurch Art Gallery, are two of Graham… Audio, Gallery

For 20 years now, locals and visitors to the Kapiti coast north of Wellington have been invited into artists' studios as part of the region's annual Art Trail. Several hundred artists and craftspeople… Audio, Gallery

There's a whole new generation of folk musicians, some who just love the traditional music while others who're talking folk into all kinds of new directions. Both camps will meet up to perform at the… Audio

The prejudice faced by Dunedin's early Lebanese settlers and the skills they brought to their new home are highlighted in a new book Threads of Gold. Author Jude Thomas spoke to descendants of those… Audio

While most Kiwis are now free to mix and mingle at live events around the country, many with disabilities and high health needs are still too vulnerable to join them. So an in-home multi-sensory… Audio, Gallery

While films are tentatively beginning to shoot again around the world, the pipeline of international film continues to deliver for cinema go-ers. Rob Kelly joins Lynn to discuss a light hearted French… Audio

A fascination with historical natural history objects carefully stored in drawers, jars and cabinets in the vaults of Te Papa has led photographer Jane Ussher on a journey of discovery. Her book… Audio, Gallery

While some parts of the world are unused to lockdowns, that isn't the case around the globe. Many cultures hare used to pandemic restrictions and political restrictions of movement and access… Audio

When 18 year old Anthony Walker was killed in an unprovoked racist attack in Liverpool it was big news. It was no doubt in part because of how he was murdered, with an ice axe and that his killers… Video, Audio

From fashion runways and Wellington's cable-car tunnels, to massive public spaces around the world, Angus Muir and his team transform public spaces using lights - hundreds and thousands of them. Angus… Audio, Gallery

A new app about to come online in Tauranga will help to explain and demystify 20 artworks placed around the city centre. The City Art Walk is part of Tauranga's Escape Festival later this month. Audio, Gallery

A determination to change the perception of Whangarei as a city full of empty buildings is behind Hayley Clark's decision to become co-founder of the city's first Fringe Festival. There'll be more… Audio, Gallery

Irish poet William Butler Yeats was a member of a clandestine society where spirits were conjured and magic practised - and by his side was the much younger woman who'd later become his wife, Georgie… Audio

Karen Rankin is a Scratchboard artist who creates thousands of scratches on inked metal boards to create portraits of wildlife. Often they're black and white but she'll also use irridescent inks for… Audio, Gallery

The annual Auckland Art Week has negotiated its way around the changing alert levels so that it can take place this month in locations around the city. Lynn Freeman talks to Tim Melville, director of… Audio

Producing pewter kiwi, stuffed kiwifruit and other nicknacks for overseas tourists - that's no longer an option for the many artists and artisans in those regions who've relied mostly on the… Audio, Gallery