Arts

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

Designer Raymond Boyce made a huge contribution to ballet, opera, puppetry and straight drama after he first came to New Zealand in 1953. In 2015, Peter Mechen talked to Raymond and others who worked… Audio

Director and actor Sima Urale has just been announced as a 2019 Arts Foundation Laureate. Her work combines Samoan and urban New Zealand perspectives to tell Pacific stories. As the first female… Audio

Steve Braunias makes his annual announcement of the winners of his Surrey Hotel Steve Braunias Memorial Writers Residency Award. Audio

Knitted golliwogs are dividing the New Zealand crafting community, with calls for images of them to be banned from crafting facebook groups and websites Audio

A group of women in Hawke's Bay takes unwanted woollen blankets and cuts them down to baby-size, so premature and sick babies have a nice snuggly warm blanket to keep them warm as they recover in the… Audio

Film reviewer Tamar Munch looks at seasons 1 - 5 of 'The Wire' streaming on Neon, it's an oldie but a goodie and its themes still resonate. She'll also look at the K'Rd Chronicles streaming on Stuff… Audio

Works by the feminist, pacifist and modernist painter Rita Angus are destined for a world first exhibition at London's Royal Academy of Arts next year. Hers will be the first solo show of a New… Video, Audio

Something very cool is happening this Friday in West Auckland ... music will fill the air! And the soaring voices of some of our wisest, cleverest, most insightful and inventive writers. Audio

Move over "dadcore", "Granpa dressing" is the new hit fashion trend. Ali Ventura explains. Audio

The boom times for the controversial swamp kauri trade appear to be declining - just as a Northland environmental group wins a David and Goliath battle to stop the region being pillaged.  Audio

She can capture detailed photographs of native birds in a split second, but Wellington illustrator Melissa Boardman then spends hours drawing and painting the birds on canvas, using those images as… Audio