Arts

This school holidays, the NZ Dance Company is traveling around Auckland to bring young dancers onto the floor with them in the premiere season of Matariki for Tamariki. Audio

Arts commentator Courtney Johnston looks at the 150th anniversary of New Zealand painter Frances Hodgkins' birth, and an exhibition and several publications from the Auckland Art Gallery are the… Audio, Gallery

A study of the moves of a sulphur-crested cockatoo called Snowball is suggesting that dancing to music isn't purely a product of human culture.

The cockatoo has 14 distinct moves - and appears to be… Audio

One of New Zealand's most important and celebrated artist's has had her entire catalogue of work digitised.

The Auckland Art Gallery has made Frances Hodgkins's artwork, letters and photographs… Audio

A design for a new pedestrian bridge in Christchurch is calling into question the respect New Zealand has for its artists, after a design competition was scrapped and the council instead went for a… Audio

Businesswoman, charity campaigner, and former wife of Sir Paul McCartney, Heather Mills, has received an apology and substantial damages after settling her class action case against The News of the… Audio

Walking is one of our great national pastimes. But what do you think about to keep the mind off the hunger and pain - especially when you injure yourself along the way? If you're poet Paula Green it's… Audio, Gallery

KP&WM: The makers behind the artists explores the work of two Christchurch printmakers, and friends, Peter Vangioni of Kowhai Press and Kate Unger of Watermark Printworkshop, at COCA Christchurch.  Audio, Gallery

Ophelia becomes a dramatic heroine rather than a tragic victim in film director Claire McCarthy's re-interpretation of the young woman doomed to die in Shakespeare's Hamlet. Audio

As Wellington debates the future of its earthquake-damaged central library, and Christchurch enjoys its new high tech one, it's the perfect time to really think about libraries of the future.  Audio, Gallery

Artist Donna-Marie Patterson wants New Zealanders to really think about water, how precious it is, how under valued and how at risk.  Audio, Gallery

Pick and Mix with a brass bonanza including: Classical brass from trumpeter Alison Balsom, Bold as Brass by Fanfare Ciocarlia from Romania, Premier trombone quartet BonaNZa and jazz virtuoso Louis… Video

Brett Doar is a contraptionist, kinetic sculptor, and engineer best known for his Rube Goldberg machines, which he has designed and engineered for the likes of Disney, and OK Go's This Too Shall Pass… Video, Audio

Arthur Tompkins is a trustee of the NZ Art Crime Research Trust and a District Court Judge in Wellington. In 2016 he edited Art Crime and Its Prevention (Lund Humphries, London), and the same… Audio, Gallery

Work is already underway in Auckland on "pre-production" of Amazon's billion dollar plus Lord of the Rings television series, but what has changed in the years since Peter Jackson's movies began… Audio

Bruce Mason was widely regarded as New Zealand's best playwright, known mostly for The Pohutukawa Tree and his solo show The End of the Golden Weather Audio

TV reviewer Chris Schulz is out to find the fun on the box, the offerings from which have been a bit grim of late. He'll talk to Kathryn about the 3rd season of Stranger Things, the George… Audio

Us is out on home video today. Dan Slevin looks at some of the critical responses to the ideas behind one of the most creative films of the past ten years.