Arts
Live: Blair Latham and The Noveltones at 2020 Wellington Jazz Festival
Blair Latham and The Noveltones - Karla and the Divide, recorded at 2020 Wellington Jazz Festival. Video, Audio
Life and art writ large: The Painter and the Thief
Czech artist Barbora Kysilkova shares her unbelievable true story of meeting, painting, and helping the thief who stole two of her artworks. It turns out to be an unexpected tale of redemption for… Video, Audio
Someday Stories 2020: Waitress
A waitress finds herself unable to speak up when put in a harmful situation by a customer in a position of power. Video
The Outliers | Episode 22: Mo Muse
Mo Muse is a Somali-born hip hop artist from Auckland who tells his story through his music. He was brought up in Mt Roskill, and fell in love with rapping at university in Otago. Video
The Outliers | Episode 23: Huriana Kopeke - Te Aho
Huriana Kopeke - Te Aho is an activist and artist based in Auckland. They are passionate about social justice and making the world a fairer and more equitable place. Video
Simon Ingram - painting with brainwaves
We like to think that art is a seamless connection between the mind or heart of the artists and their audience or public. But of course it's not. The writer has a pen or a keyboard, the actor has a… Audio, Gallery
Julia Parnell director Six60: Til The Lights Go Out
Julia Parnell is the director of Six60: Till The Lights Go Out, a documentary that charts the band's meteoric rise. Six60 are the biggest local band ever - even if they're yet to crack it overseas… Audio
Gavin Rutherford: Pantomime in 2020
There's nothing quite like a Christmas pantomime - England's major contribution to the holiday season. But we seem to like it in New Zealand too, especially at Wellington's Circa Theatre. There's… Audio
From Family Lockdown boogie to panto Prince Charming
Most people know Jack Buchanan from the viral videos he has produced this year. But he's also an accomplished stage actor who last night made his pantomime debut as Prince Charming in Cinderella at… Audio
BLKCITY: Aotearoa's Black rap pioneers
JessB, Raiza Biza, Abdul Kay, Blaze the Emperor and Mo Muse are determined to make their mark on Black New Zealand culture as hip-hop supergroup BLKCITY. Video
Being a Pyrotechnician
Michelle Harris stumbled in to a career working with fireworks after a chance meeting several years ago. Audio
New Sculpture Festival gets underway in Christchurch
There isn't a particular theme to the festival, but the brief was for something to lift people's spirits given the strange times we're in.
Railways, billboards and halcyon days
The centenary of one of our most influential design and advertising studios is being celebrated in a very beautiful new book from Te Papa. Railways Studios: How a Government Design Studio Helped Build… Audio, Gallery
Materials: Fact of Fiction - The Philosopher's Stone
Dr Erin Leitao, MacDiarmid Institute Associate Investigator and Senior Lecturer in Chemistry at the University of Auckland gives us her scientific take on The Philosopher's Stone from Harry Potter. Audio
Someday Stories 2020: Serving
A young lawyer is asked to serve legal documents in a case she knows nothing about, and realises she might be more culpable than she hoped. Video
Colin McCahon tribute with forged signature sells in London for $13,000
A Dunedin artist is puzzled and indignant at how one of his paintings ended up at auction in London, supposedly signed by the late Colin McCahon.
Fake Colin McCahon painting sells for thousands in London
A painting that's a tribute to Colin McCahon has been doctored and sold at auction in London as one of the celebrated New Zealand artist's own.
The painting by Dunedin artist John Z Robinson sold in… Audio
Tribute McCahon painting sells for thousands in London
A painting by celebrated Dunedin artist John Z Robinson has been sold in London, but with a forged inscription from the artist it was meant as a tribute to. Mr Robinson painted a series in honour of… Audio
From memes to tweets, NZ's online Covid-19 response archived
Millions of online digital communications are being preserved to create a snapshot of Aotearoa's response to Covid-19.
The National Library and the Alexander Turnbull Library collection includes… Video, Audio
Remembering Bill Gosden
Dan Slevin remembers the late Bill Gosden, former director of the New Zealand International Film Festival, who passed away on Friday. Video, Audio
