Arts

Sarah McMullan reviews Deadpool 2, Swagger of Thieves, The Rachel Divide, and 13 Reasons Why Season Two Audio

The problem with Apu in The Simpsons –  which comedian Hari Kondabolu made a documentary about –  is not that a caricature of an Indian immigrant voiced by a white actor is offensive, he says. Video, Audio

Matamata portrait photographer Bianca Duimel is seeking red-heads of all hues and ages. Audio, Gallery

There's Hollywood's typical version of Motherhood; earnest, nurturing, always positive. And then there's The Letdown. Audio

The Australian comic duo The Umbilical Brothers met in miming class but found they preferred making noise. Audio

Music can make you laugh, cry and feel uncomfortable. Comedy can do the same. Comedian Brendon Green picks five classical tunes that have influenced him and his comedy. Video

A new card game designed to help people learn and pronounce te reo place names lands in New Zealand schools and workplaces in the coming weeks.Creator Tommy Kapai Wilson hopes it will help normalise… Audio

As the daughter of the late artist Lucian Freud and great-granddaughter of psychoanalyst Sigmund, Susie Boyt had a remarkable childhood on which to draw for her own career as a novellist and… Audio

The strained relationship between two sisters is explored in Swedish-Kiwi writer Linda Olsson's fifth novel, A Sister In My House. Cynthia Morahan reads from the book. Set in Spain, but moving between… Audio

For some years now New Zealand has sent delegations of experienced and up and coming jewellers to show their work at one of the largest and most influential trade fairs in Germany. Twenty-three of… Audio

Why should New Zealand invest in sending artists to be part of the Venice Art Biennale? It's not an argument you hear too often these days, unlike the early years, with Kiwi artists earning critical… Audio

Repatriation, innovation, virtual reality and other digital opportunities and issues around earthquake strengthening buildings will all come up for debate next weekend at our museums' national… Audio

Dame Gillian Whitehead says receiving the Arts Foundation Arts Icon medallion on Wednesday was truly remarkable. There are only twenty Icons at any one time, and when one dies their medallion is… Audio

This week distinguished New Zealand visual artist Billy Apple was honoured with the NZ Arts Foundation's highest honour, the Icon Award. Billy Apple is regarded as this country's most significant… Audio

Coronation Street fans were shocked at this week's news that next month the soap watched by generations of Kiwis is taking a great leap forward - a leap of 18 months in fact, so viewers in Aotearoa… Audio

Sculptor Fred Graham (Ngati Koroki Kahukura, Tainui), aged 89, has gained another prestigious prize, being named this week as a recipient of an Arts Foundation Icon Award. Many of his works can be… Audio

Emma Jameson is an assistant curator of historic international and New Zealand Art at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She has curated the exhibition 'First Impressions: 19th-century… Audio

Director Håvard Bustnes is a award-winning director and producer. He holds a degree in directing for television from the College of Film and TV at Lillehammer, Norway. His films have been selected to… Audio