Arts

Two New Zealand tours by the famous Ballets Russes company in the late 1930s, had a profound influence on this country's ballet history. And beyond including on artists like Rita Angus. That's the… Audio, Gallery

New Zealand poet and Landfall editor Charles Brasch and the Kapiti Expressway, there is a connection for Kapiti Coast poet Lynn Jenner in the new poetry and essay collection she's working on called… Audio

The world's longest running photography exhibition this year features the work of Auckland based photographer Wara Bullôt - one of 54 invited international photographers in the Royal Photographic… Audio, Gallery

A cast of beautiful young people with time on their hands, on a Marlborough vineyard what could happen? It's the premise of New Zealand's latest independent feature film Hang Time inspired by Ernest… Video, Audio, Gallery

Exploring issues around protests and riots, Germany based New Zealand painter Lisa Chandler's latest canvases portray anonymous people photographing slumped bodies, and others in gas masks.She's spent… Audio, Gallery

Both new feature Vai and Merata: How Mum Decolonised the Screen have just screened at the Berlin International Film Festival - two of a record number of women-directed New Zealand films selected for… Video, Audio

Moe Laga is a performance artist from South Auckland. She is the head of COVEN an arts collective which specialises in voguing and performance art. Her practice includes a large number of stage (Neon… Audio

Emergency Poet was conceived by poet and writer Deborah Alma as a fun way of bringing poetry to people. After six years of dispensing poems as cures from the back of an old ambulance, Alma is… Audio

Scottish born James Crabb is widely regarded as one of the world's leading ambassadors of the classical accordion. Crabb was professor of classical accordion at the Royal Danish Academy of Music… Audio

Can a beautiful water colour, stand on its own terms if it was painted by a person responsible for acts of utter evil ? Audio

Imagine if the Spice Girls was actually a karaoke band set up in the heart of Waikato by a Kiwi bloke named Wayne... Audio

If you're a Beatles fan, Dunedin is the place to be this weekend. Some of the country's best musicians are covering songs from The Beatles and Paul McCartney in a concert, raising money for the Blind… Audio

Smokefree Rockquest winner Georgia Lines, aka George, has just released her debut single Vacant Cities. She tells Jesse Mulligan that since winning the school music competition back in 2014, she's… Audio

Film and TV reviewer Sarah McMullan looks at all the places you can watch films in New Zealand - it's more than just the cinema, Netflix and Lightbox. Plus, we all know what Liam Neeson said on his… Audio

Being interested in art is one thing - but getting your head around what's on and what might most interest you when there are 100s of galleries of all sorts of different stripes in New Zealand - often… Audio

Barrie Kosky is the intendant and chefregisseur (artistic director) of the Komische Oper Berlin. Acclaimed for his work in opera directing, one of his most recent works at the Komische Oper Berlin is… Audio