Arts

'Romeo & Juliet' with music by Prokofiev is performed by Royal New Zealand Ballet.

Good literature retains a magical quality that is both enlightening and subversive, offering an authentic inner experience of life, English Booker Prize-winning novelist Graham Swift says. Audio

Gao Ping's classical work 'Bitter Cold Night' for violin and piano, is a poetic acknowledgement of the pandemic sweeping the earth in 2020. It is also a celebration of music responding to the world… Video

The biggest public art exhibition ever seen in Aotearoa in now showing on digital billboards in five of our biggest cities. In Isolation focuses on art produced by local artists during the current…

From ballet to karate to singing - it is not just school that has gone online - after-school activities have too.

And many are realising the potential of virtual lessons.

Lydia Batham reports. Audio

We speak to TV sitcom creator, writer and director Michael Schur.  Audio

New Zealand composer Nigel Keay is keeping busy under strict quarantine in Paris. He's been working with saxophonist Daniel Kientzy who has his own internet radio outlet. By sheer coincidence their… Video

Tom Sainsbury has kept us entertained in Lockdown with characters who have had Zoom calls, given themselves disastrous Lockdown haircuts, given covid swabs and been Lockdown snitches. He's very kindly… Video, Audio

The world as we know it might have turned upside down but artists are still being artists… they're just delivering their art slightly differently. At 9:30 Lynn Freeman from RNZ's art programme… Audio, Gallery

What do you do when all your gigs get cancelled? You make your own.

Lyttelton violinist Fiona Pears and her long time hero Roby Lakatos have made a second recording from twelve thousand miles apart… Video

Latin music from the stars of the Buena Vista Social Club, romantic ballads from Cuba, Argentine tangos and Afro-Peruvian songs. Video

Join us at 10.30am for a special video presentation for Anzac Day, presented by the Royal New Zealand Ballet.

An Italian backpacker has struck a deal with the owner of Globe House Hostel in Dunedin. Audio

Australian photographer Ray Collins is known around the world for his stunning images of waves as they complete their journeys to shore, capturing the power and essence of the ocean. He grew up in… Video, Audio, Gallery

If Her Majesty the Queen was a feathered creature, which one would she be?

Royal Photographer Arthur Edwards knows.

With the Queen and her family in lockdown for the past three weeks, the 40-year… Video, Audio

Created by former Art teacher Lily Emo, The Covid 19 Portrait Project captures the stories and faces of New Zealand's essential workers. Audio

Whether you're a consumer or producer of fashion - everyone should consider the impact on our environment and on people's lives says Amy Conlon, Country coordinator for New Zealand. Audio