Arts

A collection of rare, surrealist artworks are coming to Te Papa Tongarewa - all of which have never before been displayed in New Zealand.

Dalí and the Surrealists: Masterpieces from the Museum… Audio

New Pornographers from Canada, Mad Kings, a Maori bride and Aboriginal groom's chaotic wedding and the late Lou Reed's drones await our New Zealand Festival of the Arts reviewer over the next few… Audio

Since the 1970s film editor Annie Collins has been helping our directors to create, she even salvages their movies when a shoot hasn't gone entirely to plan. Audio

It's one of the Big Three European Film Festivals, along with the fiercely business-like Cannes Festival, and the more high-minded Venice one. Audio

Along the South Island's rugged West Coast live a community of people whose self-sufficent way of life is being captured on film before it passes into history. Audio

Peter Sellars is an American theatre director, noted for his unique contemporary stagings of classical and contemporary operas and plays. Sellars is professor at UCLA, where he teaches Art as Social… Audio

The acclaimed novel, Essays in Love, written by Swiss philosopher Alain de Botton, has been adapted into a stage play by two New Zealand writers, Oliver Driver and Eli Kent. Eli talks to Jesse about… Audio

Our comedians Te Radar and Melanie Bracewell with a feast of funnies, including why the World Taekwondo Federation is changing its name because of the negative connotations of its initials. Audio

Film and TV reviewer James Croot looks at the movie Dark Waters, based on a decades-long legal battle between lawyer Rob Bilott, who Nine to Noon interviewed late last year, and DuPont Chemicals… Audio

Two hard hitting topics in the Pacific, climate change and the 2006 riots in Tonga, are the subjects of two theatre shows in Auckland's Fringe Town festival. Audio

In the first of a series of reports from the festival front, Mark Amery is in Wellington considering the radical game changing curation of the first week of New Zealand Festival by artist Lemi… Audio

Auckland teenager Cruz Erdmann was named Young Wildlife Photographer of the year in 2019, his photo is in a collection on loan to  Auckland Museum. Cruz Erdmann talks to Jesse about winning the… Audio, Gallery

Rhiannon Giddens is on her way to Wellington with partner Francesco Turrisi to perform at New Zealand Festival on 4^th March. The singer, banjo player and violinist talks to Eva Radich about  recording… Video, Audio

American photographer and film maker Ben Moon was diagnosed with colorectal cancer aged twenty-nine. But his dog Denali helped him pull through. Ben is an adventure, lifestyle and portrait… Video, Audio

Dan Slevin relished the time he spent with these two old geezers who are the subject of The Two Popes. Video