Arts

Serenity has a reputation as cinema’s biggest disaster of 2019. Dan Slevin investigates. Video

Film and TV reviewer Tamar Munch looks at new gritty British drama The Virtues on Rialto, Two Sketches which is streaming on The Spinoff platforms and My Māori Midwife, which is on TVNZ on Demand. Audio

Kalyani Nagarajan is one of the rising stars of Kiwi acting talent, and joins us to talk about the hustle of building an acting career, and her favourite books, music and movies. Audio

Jennifer Stumm is a viola virtuoso with a career to prove it. She's also committed to breaking down barriers to classical music. Jennifer runs a Latin American festival which gives young… Audio

Jacqueline Fahey's survey 'Suburbanites' at the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Wellington; Rembrandt's famous painting 'The Night Watch' is undergoing restoration in the Rijksmuseum; and a new study… Audio

Dan Slevin on the best (or most interesting) recent feature film additions to our streamers. Video

Vinnies Re Sew have set up The Suffrage in Stitches exhibition on this month at Wellington Museum and project coordinator Caroline O'Reilly tells us what it is and the how it came about Audio

APO soloist and Pip virtuoso Wu Man talks about and plays her instrument which dates back more than 2,000 years. She's been its biggest advocate for several decades, helping the pipa find a place in… Audio

Thirty years on, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing is as urgent as ever, says Dan Slevin. Video

Netflix documentary The Great Hack is information dense but doesn't go far enough, argues Dan Slevin. Video

Dunedin singers soprano Clare Barton and tenor James Adams talk about the fun of performing Gilbert and Sullivan’s satiric opera The Mikado.  Audio

Widescreen - Dan Slevin searches for films by the late, great, documentarian D.A. Pennebaker who died last week aged 94. Video

Pick and Mix focuses on strings in their many forms – electric and acoustic; from the unadorned banjo and violin to the experimental electronics used today. Video

The glamorous and ever-dazzling Dita von Teese is heading to New Zealand for the first time in December with her Glamonatrix revue tour. She talks to Jim about the tour and what got her interested in… Audio

Elric Hooper & Des Wilson look at gambling as a theatrical device in opera and musical theatre. Audio

A group of students is calling for people to boycott a Theo Schoon exhibition in Wellington, saying the artist is a racist and appropriated Maori culture for his own benefit. Dr Ngarino Ellis joins us… Audio

Ocean Waves is a delight for Studio Ghibli anime completists, says Dan Slevin. Video

Mark Carter is well-known as sub-principal trumpet in the NZSO, and now he’s also Music Director of the Wellington Youth Orchestra. He talks about his plans for developing the young players.  Audio