Arts

Dan Buckingham has been coming up with ingenious ways to film vulnerable people with disabilities while adhering to social distancing. While most other film companies were closed during levels 3 and 4… Audio

New Zealand's national museum, Te Papa Tongarewa, is preparing to reopen this Thursday after a two month closure due to Covid-19. Audio

A lot of hope is being placed on New Zealand's screen industry to help the country out of its financial mire. It's too soon to know if overseas filmmakers will see Aotearoa as a safe haven in the… Audio

One of the biggest Covid-19 casualties in the art world is the postponement of the Venice Art Biennale from 2021 until 2022. Italy has been one of the country's hardest hit by the pandemic, forcing it… Audio

The Royal New Zealand Ballet Company is determined to begin touring the country again in just a few months. What's especially inspiring is that it's been planning for a return to live performance… Audio

Musicians have been getting super productive during the worldwide shutdown: we have new releases by local artists Aja Ropata, Reb Fountain and Fiona Pears, plus US artists Wu Fei & Abigail Washburn… Video

Irish photojournalist Cathal McNaughton gave up the 'best job in the world' for a quieter life in a cottage in the Glens of Antrim after winning a Pulitzer Prize. Audio, Gallery

Since 2011, Australian poet, writer and photographer Judith Nangala Crispin has spent part of each year living and working with Warlpiri people in the Northern Australian Tanami desert. Her work… Audio, Gallery

Stage combat, lockdown diaries, apocalypse fashion montages, juggling - the result of young creatives in lockdown. About 15 young people in the Manawatu filmed their experiences of isolation in a… Audio

Film and TV reviewer James Croot looks at the TVNZ-BBC production of Eleanor Catton's award-winning novel The Luminaries, a hilarious new look at Catherine the Great from the co-writer of The… Audio

A collection of work put to together by the son of humanist photographer Werner Bischof will be exhibited in Auckland, featuring ironic images of the twentieth century. Audio

Each Wednesday Wallace reads out poetry from the audience, for the "Midweek Poem" feature. Audio

Producer Robert Kelly has a new segment on Afternoons with his book quiz. Audio

Jessica Helfand is a designer, artist, and author of "Face: A Visual Odyssey", an elaborately illustrated A to Z showing how our faces have been perceived, represented and judged over time from… Video, Audio

The Auckland Arts Festival is excited to hear from artists, designers and creative thinkers for its next festival and beyond. It's calling for proposals from established or emerging artists and is… Audio

The six best secondary school chamber groups from around New Zealand compete for the top prizes and the winners are announced Audio

Alan Zweibel was a writer in the early days of Saturday Night Live, It's Garry Shandling's Show and Curb Your Enthusiasm. He details a life in comedy in his new memoir, Laugh Lines: My Life Helping… Audio