Arts

This year a project was initiated by NZ On Air, the Film Commission and Script to Screen to sell on-screen New Zealand drama to the world. These days, many of the best examples aren't on linear TV, or… Audio

The star of New Zealand stage, screen and song, Rima Te Wiata is currently starring in the highly-coveted role of The Player in Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead. She joins Jim in the Musical… Audio

Acclaimed Irish comedian Dara O'Briain will perform in New Zealand for the first time when he appears in his Voice of Reason show in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch next week. . Audio

Julie Sperring looks at the ways a variety of composers have represented the balance between the opposing forces of day and night. Audio

An incredible book is out today showcasing the story of Tahitian priest Tupaia, who was crucial to Captain Cook's early contact with indigenous communities around the pacific. Illustrator Mat Tait… Audio

Taika Waititi has been the talk of the Toronto International Film Festival for his film Jojo Rabbit - a controversial passion project that's being both lauded and slated.   Audio

For the first time ever, the solo work of a New Zealand artist is to be exhibited at London's Royal Academy of Arts. Seventy works by the modernist painter Rita Angus have been chosen for the… Audio, Gallery

Political adverts have seeped into Kiwi culture and become part of daily life for generations. Who can forget the Dancing Cossacks, Kiwi/Iwi and the rowing ad that drew the National Party into a legal… Audio

Photographer Jon Lowenstein started taking pictures of migrants who cross the US/Mexico border illegally in search of better lives 19 years ago. He's put used that work for a documentary project… Audio, Gallery

Nathan Pohio, artist and assistant curator at Te Puna o Waiwhetu - The Christchurch Art Gallery - talks about two exhibitions currently on display -The Maori Moving Image and Tributes of Aroha. Audio, Gallery

Thirty five years ago this week, an exhibition opened at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, so the sound archives of Ngā Taonga Sound & Vision, Sarah Johnston re-visits the phenomenon that… Audio

The Arts Foundation wants to mark Arts Month in September by starting a conversation around the country about what art means to people. Central to getting communities to engage is Kolokesa Uafa… Audio

Classy French act Ébène Quartet make their NZ debut, our picks for the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards, highlights from The Southern Fork Americana Fest  and a new release from local duo Tom Ludvigson and… Video