Arts

Return to Gandhi Road is a New Zealand-made film about an extraordinary Buddhist teacher and the efforts he made to rescue texts from Tibet during the cultural revolution of the Sixties. Video, Audio

Tom Savini is the legendary special effects make-up artist behind movies like the original Dawn of the Dead, Friday the 13th and Texas Chain Saw Massacre 2. Audio, Gallery

Kahu Kutia from Nga Taonga pays tribute to one of Aotearoa's profilic pioneer filmmakers - Ramai Hayward. Ramai Hayward was probably the first Māori woman to work as a professional film maker. Audio

Kathryn is joined by Auckland Art Gallery director Kirsten Lacy to talk about how the arts sector can survive and thrive in a Covid world. The Gallery has had to adapt, with the postponement of… Audio

Music 101 host Charlotte Ryan looks at 'I'm Your Man - Portrait of Leonard Cohen' on at the Auckland Art Gallery right now, and Deva Mahal's new single 'Stand In'. Audio

If you've taken up writing a diary during the Covid-19 pandemic, you're not alone.

Australian researchers from RMIT University in Melbourne have found diary-keeping is having a resurgence.

Dr Peta… Audio

Jesse speaks to Augusta Xu-Holland from the blockbuster film The Eight Hundred. Audio, Gallery

The creative endeavours of artistic south Auckland couple, sculptor Rudi Robinson and designer artist Lissy Robinson Cole include exploring crochet through a Te Ao Maori lens. They incorporate… Audio, Gallery

A pelt of a Tasmanian Tiger that for decades languished in a Wairarapa taxidermy museum is giving the scientific world new insights into the extinct Australian marsupial.

The New Zealand pelt has… Audio

The 2020 World of Wearable Art show was cancelled due to Covid-19 but will instead be held as an exhibition in Wellington.

From abandoned tents transformed into avant-garde works of art, to a… Audio

Portraiture is one of the trickiest artforms - to get beyond the surface of a face into the soul. Photographer Marti Friedlander was an expert, and many of her black and white images - especially of… Audio, Gallery

Rejection is never easy to take - but sadly, it's the rule not the exception in so many aspects of the arts. There are simply too many applicants for too few jobs. And this is particularly true for… Audio

As live performance spaces grapple with the unpredictability of life under Covid-19, a UK company is bringing a performance to your kitchen table. Audio, Gallery

This has been a strong year for New Zealand's screen sector - despite the global pandemic. 2020 opened with an Oscar for Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit, and a major international TV series - the… Audio, Gallery

Encouraging musicians who play traditional Maori instruments (taonga puoro) to be braver, more experimental - that's the goal of Horomona Horo. Horomona has just been appointed as both a researcher… Audio

Two years after Invercargill's two main cultural institutions were forced to close due to seismic concerns, a transitional Art and Museum space is about to open its doors. Audio, Gallery