Mark Amery
When art and film become entwined: painter Sandro Kopp
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… Audio
Arts Festival report with Culture 101's Mark Amery
We're in the thick of arts festival season in Aotearoa with the Auckland Arts festival next week joining Poneke's Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts and Hamilton Arts Festival, alongside… Audio
Exciting time for arts and culture lovers with festivals across the motu
It's a time of year to relish for lovers of art and culture.
Friday sees the opening of both the Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts in Wellington and the Hamilton Arts Festival.
And numerous… Audio
The future of arts funding with Creative New Zealand boss Stephen Wainwright
Aotearoa’s central arts funding body, Creative New Zealand, is majorly overhauling its funding structure, with eight new funds to open between March and August. The change follows the arts council’s… Audio
Arranging 110 chairs from 170 years: Objectspace's Kim Paton
What can chairs reveal to us about our history?
There are sure to be seats in the new Objectspace exhibition and book The Chair: A story of design and making in Aotearoa that’ll cause you warm bodily… Audio
When does protest become art? Defacing an English version of the Treaty of Waitangi
The activists who defaced an English version of Ti Tiriti o Waitangi at Te Papa last year planned their actions very carefully, says Cally O’Neill from the social justice action group Te Waka… Audio
Pump up a 1990 jam with playwright Albert Belz
It may be 2024, but playwright Albert Belz (Ngati Porou, Ngā Puhi, Ngati Pokai) wants you to stretch like it's 1990. Dedicated to the pump of aerobics, Belz’s new play Hyperspace is an unapologetic… Audio
Witi Ihimaera on the massive rise to come of Māori culture in 2024
Witi Ihimaera joins Mark Amery on Culture 101 to play ‘Fast Favourites’ - sharing some of his favourite current Aotearoa artists and cultural moments.
“We’re international now. It’s fantastic when… Audio
Paekākāriki: 'It feels good not to cross the tracks'
Paekākāriki has long been a staging post along the coast, a place of refuge for dreamers, poets, artists, environmentalists and RNZ's own Mark Amery.
Sweeping up the road tacks: cycling performance artist Marcus McShane
Marcus McShane’s latest experiment is to employ his cargo bike as a mobile video projection unit, screening commissioned audiovisual animation onto the upper floors of Cuba Street buildings as he… Video, Audio
Fast Favourites with Raised by Refugees creator Pax Assadi
From the opening scenes of the second series of Raised by Refugees - the comedy sitcom created by award winning comedian Pax Assadi - monocultural views of New Zealand society are challenged with… Audio
Reclaiming Crip Culture
Just released, Henrietta Bollinger’s debut essay collection, Articulations published by Tender Press speaks to their experiences as queer, disabled and as a twin.. Audio
Carcass: picking over 2023 cultural policy with Jason (Political Cutz) Muir and Jane Yonge
In a 2023 election campaign special, panel series ‘Carcass’ brings you lively banter on where culture and politics did and didn’t meet on the hustings. Video, Audio
Regional Wrap: culture news from Te Tai Poutini
Is there more to Te Tai Poutini than wild foods, pounamu and driftwood? Audio
Shock of the news - and the state of the arts
A new report says the arts and culture get just half of the space in our media that's devoted to sport. Mediawatch asks a leading local culture critic if the arts are just a 'nice to have' for our… Audio
Sir James Wallace convicted of indecent assault
One of New Zealand's best-known art collectors, businessmen, and philanthropists, Sir James Wallace, has been named as the "prominent businessman" jailed for indecently assaulting three young men.
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Regions leading the artworld from the edge
Arts commentator Mark Amery talks with Kathryn about examples of regional galleries leading the artworld from the edge. He's been at the Taupo Museum for an exhibition of abstract work by Sophie… Audio, Gallery
Art and heritage in small-town New Zealand
Mark Amery heads to Gore, Foxton and Whanganui to consider how visionary individuals in some of our smaller but rich historical centres are bringing art and heritage together to maintain their towns'… Audio