Arts

A row has broken out ahead of the Grammy Awards in April over two nominees in the classical music category. Pianist Jon Batiste is nominated for best contemporary classical composition and violinist… Audio

The floor undulates beneath your feet and on the roof there's a forest - 30 years after the late Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser first sketched his original design, Whangarei's… Audio

Virtual production technologies and digital screens are set to change the way movies are made, but is New Zealand's film industry ready? Audio

Beloved New Zealand actress Melanie Lynskey is arguably in the form of her career at the moment. Lynskey, who is currently filming the TV miniseries Candy, joins the show to discuss her star-studded… Video, Audio

Artist Yona Lee uses hundreds of metres of stainless-steel pipe - the sort more commonly turned into handrails - for her room-sized gallery installations. Then she adds everyday objects like… Audio, Gallery

The past, present and even speculation about the future all find a place in the latest poetry collection Next by Otepoti Dunedin based writer Alan Roddick. It's the octogenarian's third collection… Audio

Aotearoa's latest literary sleuth, D.I. Nyree Bradshaw is faced by a mystifying and culturally challenging case in Catherine Lea's thriller The Water's Dead. The DI and her team are in a race against… Audio

One of the best things about the last couple of weeks on the Laugh Track is that the guests - mostly about to star in the upcoming Fringe Festival - have generally picked other Fringe performers. It… Audio

From dawn 'til dusk, pedestrians walking along Otepoti Dunedin's central George Street, are about to be serenaded by Recordings of Town Belt native manu or birds. Artist Vicki Lenihan made the… Audio

Cigarette filters, rusty chains, old pipes and other urban detritus have found a new life in the hands of Wellington jewellers and collaborators, Caroline Thomas and Fran Carter. It's a project that… Audio, Gallery

A suspense/thriller set in the States but filmed in Tamaki Makaurau last year is about to get an international audience. Australian director Damien Power hadn't originally intended to film No Exit on… Video, Audio

When photographer David Cook started taking pictures of his neighbours in a characterful Hamilton East state housing suburb back in the 1990s, nobody realised that gentrification was about to strike… Audio

New Zealand film-maker Michelle Savill has been hovering in the "Girl most likely" category for a while now, and it looks like that promise is coming true. Her debut feature is called Millie lies low… Audio, Gallery

In a summer of Covid cancellations, Performance Arcade is one of the few festivals still standing. Now in its 11th year, a set of shipping containers on the Wellington waterfront is temporary home to… Video, Audio

Francis McWhannell tells Wallace about new gallery, Season, which is set to open next week in central Auckland. Audio

Thirty years in the making - Whangarei's Hundertwasser Arts Centre opens this Sunday.

The world-famous Austrian artist Friedensreich Hundertwasserspent his final years living in the Bay of Islands… Audio

This is a special episode of the podcast Rancho Notorious  (on a 30-month hiatus) featuring an interview with the writer and director Mike Mills about his wonderful new film C’mon C’mon. Audio