Art
Month-long crisis ends in PNG as top up HIV drugs arrive
A crisis for those with HIV/AIDS in Papua New Guinea appears to have been eased with the arrival of a shipment of much-needed anti-retroviral drugs. Audio
Billy Apple: creativity at his core
This week distinguished New Zealand visual artist Billy Apple was honoured with the NZ Arts Foundation's highest honour, the Icon Award. Billy Apple is regarded as this country's most significant… Audio
NZ artist Luke Willis Thompson nominated for Turner Prize
A New Zealand artist is in the running for one of the British art world's top awards, the Turner Prize. Luke Willis Thompson has been nominated for a film featuring Diamond Reynolds, an American woman… Audio
Anzac family stories kept alive: 'Grandparents are the stuff of legend'
One of the artists behind a Anzac Day light and sound show, and whose grandfather fought at Gallipoli, says the occasion is about keeping family stories alive.
Budget cuts cause of HIV drugs shortage in PNG
The National AIDS Council of Papua New Guinea says budget cuts are behind a critical shortage of anti-retroviral drugs in the country and there is no immediate solution to the problem. Audio
N=1 - an artist's microbiome
A 46-year-old art work has revealed how the gut microbiome of artist Billy Apple has changed during his adult life. Audio
Gunning for Hollywood and #TimesUp for NZ
Following #MeToo and #TimesUp, the NZ film industry is feeling the impact of change and now twenty global female directors have been selected for the Alice Initiative for prestigious studio directing… Video, Audio, Gallery
Nina Tonga - Pacific Sisters: Fashion Activists
Nina Tonga is an art historian and Curator Pacific Art at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongowera. She joins Kim to talk about the exhibition, Pacific Sisters: Fashion Activists, opening this… Audio
Using light to reveal hidden molecular information
Michél Nieuwoudt uses light to uncover hidden information in different kinds of material, from milk to works of art. Audio
Our Changing World for 8 February 2018
Designing and testing concrete 'safe houses' for baby paua, and using light to detect art forgeries and the properties of milk. Audio
Refik Anadol: it's virtual reality but not as you know it
You don't have to pop on a headset to experience the eye popping futuristic artworks created by Refik Anadol. Using data, architecture, projection, light and sound, the Turkish media artist creates… Audio
Artist Dame Robin White: Life and Influences
Artist Dame Robin White recently received a Laureate award from the Arts Foundation. You may know her works - bold crisp, lines and flat blocks of colour, depicting scenes of small-town Kiwi life… Audio, Gallery
Te Papa's new artistic endeavour
Te Papa's new art gallery, Toi Art, will open next March. Two floors of the national museum will be dedicated to four exhibitions that include fashion, jewellery and abstract art. The new gallery will… Audio, Gallery
The gap between New Zealand and Australian writers
Australia may be our nearest neighbour and traditional sporting rival, but while sports teams regularly cross the Tasman, that's less the case with our writers. So why the literary gulf between our… Audio
Jack Trolove: the moment that changed his life
Artist Jack Trolove says his technique of applying paint with a palette knife gives his work two variations - up close it's abstract, and the audience sees the form from a distance.
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Artworks for a home
An art exhibition with a difference opens in Whangarei on October 2. Many of the works have been created by prisoners from the Northland Regional Correction Facility, and the rest by local Whangarei… Audio, Gallery
Hymn to the Sun
Wellington painter Melanie Mills created a stir in the visual arts world when her first show of paintings based on flowers was an immediate sell-out. Melanie Mills and curator Kathlene Fogarty from… Audio, Gallery
Sarah Sentilles: Draw Your Weapons
How to live in the face of so much suffering? It's the question American writer, critical theorist, scholar of religion and author of many books, Sarah Sentilles, aims to answer in her new book, Draw… Audio
Creativity and mental health
"Affirming identity through art" - that's the mission of the gallery directed by my first guest, Deidre Dahlberg. She runs Pablo Art Studios - where art is a form of healing as well as expression. Audio
Jellyfish art with environmental undertones
Kathryn Ryan talks to Australian visual artist Penelope Davis about her use of jellyfish sculptures to examine how marine life is being affected by environmental degradation. Audio