Art
The Mixtape: Kate Sylvester
Our guest on the Mixtape this week is Fashion designer and music lover Kate Sylvester. Audio
AI's new frontier: Works of art and human-like chatbots
Artificial intelligence continues to seep into our daily lives, but what are the ethical implications of it? Audio
'Design is political' - looking beyond Frida Kahlo's pop icon status
In Part 1 of 2 episodes on design, decoloniality and culturally safe practices, Kadambari Raghukumar speaks to Dr Diana Albarran Gonzalez on Mexican design and textiles that became trendy in recent… Audio
Lindauers returned after 2017 robbery, but where have they been?
If only they could they talk. Two valuable Lindauer paintings stolen in a violent heist five years ago have been returned out of the blue, by a mystery go-between.
The works were painted in 1884 by… Video, Audio
The Mixtape: Best of 2022 Part 1
We here at Music 101 are beginning to wrap up the year, and so today we are celebrating some of our favorite Mixtapes of this year. Audio
The Week in Detail: Vietnam, entrenching law, Covid summer
The Detail podcast brings you the issues behind the news every weekday. Here's what we covered this week. Audio
Do prized artworks need more protection?
In private hands, iconic New Zealand treasures can be sold off, hidden away, or even destroyed. Audio
Massive Anzac carving stands tall in Rissington
Two First World War soldiers have emerged from the remnants of a dying redwood at a fork in the road in rural Hawkes Bay. The massive sculpture is a tribute not just to those who went to war from… Audio
Po' Boys and Oysters - a hearty serving of Afro-queer in Aotearoa
Caribbean-Kiwi playwright Estelle Chout's confronting and comedic new play Po' Boys and Oysters wrapped on a high last week. Kadambari Raghukumar speaks to the cast about what it means to be black… Video, Audio
'You need a hundred eyes to see it' - International winner WOW 2022
The WOW Awards are back this year in Wellington - so what's it been like for the host of international designers who finally got to attend and show their designs after a two-year wait in limbo? Video, Audio
Ulumate - revitalizing a Fijian tradition
Daren Kamali's hair over a period of 25 years has now been woven into a traditional Ulumate, to be preserved for many years to come.Voices talks to the artist about the revitalizing of this ancient… Audio
The 'every-single-street' movement
No one has completed all 39,137 streets of Greater London, but in 2014, Noelle Poulson walked every street within London's congestion zone. She joins the show to discuss why she did it and what she… Audio
Aussie artist makes enormous sunflower quilt to lift Ukrainian spirits
An Aussie artist has started a project to lift the spirits of Ukrainians living in bomb-scarred cities.
Janno McLaughlin is making an enormous sunflower quilt, and wants to drape it over bombed out… Video, Audio
NZ-designed whale tails up for auction at Auckland Viaduct
Now an auction that's bound to make a splash, the last of 80 NZ-designed whale tales are about to go under the hammer at Auckland's viaduct.
The colourful creations have been dotted around Tāmaki… Video, Audio
BNZ art collection for sale, expected to go for more than $10m
Going, going and gone to a good cause. BNZ's art collection is about to be sold, to fund a charitable foundation.
The collection includes some of our most well-known artists, like Colin McCahon, Rita… Video, Audio
Gone at high tide - an art installation on a beach
Gisborne's Kaiti beach beach has been the giant canvas of local artist Adel Salmanzadeh and his whanau this week, in a work created for the Auckland Art Festival. The Iranian-born refugee came to… Audio
The poetry and art-work of Gregory O'Brien
A picture might be worth a thousand words, but Gregory O'Brien has made a name for himself by offering paintings as well as poems in his collections. The Wellington writer, painter and art curator has… Audio
Richard Smart: the labour of love that is the Hundertwasser
When celebrated and rather unconventional Austrian artist, philosopher and architect Friedensreich Hundertwasser died in the Bay of Islands in 2000 part of his legacy were designs for an arts centre… Audio, Gallery
Te Taunga - a hub at Auckland Museum
Auckland's diversity found a new space in the Tāmaki Paenga Hira Auckland Museum this year. Kadambari chats to the people involved in making this a dynamic, community-driven space. Audio
Dick Frizzell on his love of the cosmos and new book
Renowned Kiwi painter Dick Frizzell's new book 'The Sun is a Star' celebrates his passion for cosmology. Audio