Arts

Joy Harjo is a critically acclaimed poet and musician and she is the first Native American to be named US poet laureate. Born in Oklahoma, Joy Harjo is of Muscogee Creek heritage, and often draws on… Audio

Setting up a theatre company made up of prisoners and ex prisoners so they can help at-risk communities, is the ultimate goal of Ruth Ratcliffe, who's one of this year's Te Putanga Toi Arts Access… Audio

A year long residency in Berlin in 2015 has turned into a much longer stay for poet, singer-songwriter and editor Hinemoana Baker. The German capital has been a mecca for New Zealand artists for a… Audio

From Maori origin stories to te reo thrash metal - a new exhibition is canvassing Maori performance over the centuries. Pukana: moments in Maori performance at the National Library in Wellington… Audio

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