Arts

Recent seasons of already popular shows dominate this week's new-to-streaming listings, writes Dan Slevin. Video

Kim Pieters has been painting most of her life, under the radar, known only to a few dealers and a few galleries. She popped up in a retrospective in Wellington's Adam Art Gallery before suddenly… Audio, Gallery

A big selection of classics from the Australian New Wave of the 70s and 80s is Dan Slevin’s highlight of this week’s new-to-streaming feature films. Video

How much has changed for New Zealand's female composers in the 125 years since women's suffrage? In the 2018 Lilburn Lecture, acclaimed composer Eve de Castro-Robinson reflects on her own journey as a… Audio, Gallery

Most architectural photography presents the building as a showroom, a beautiful object, but one of our leading architectural photographers Simon Devitt has created a series of photographs that portray… Audio, Gallery

Louise Ayling's love of shoes goes further than most. She learnt the traditional technique of making shoes by hand. She was recently a guest speaker at the inaugural Necessary Traditions festival in… Audio, Gallery

Hanelle Harris is the creator of the successful and ground breaking web-series, the Baby Mama's Club. It's ground-breaking because all four lead characters are Maori or Pasifika women which is unusual… Audio

Steve Braunias is an author, journalist, critic and publisher. He has served as the poetry editor for The Spinoff for four years, and is about to step aside from that role. Before doing so, he has… Audio

Back in 2013, Englishman Ben Branson came across a 17th-century book called The Art of Distillation and started playing around with a copper still in his kitchen. Two years later, he launched Seedlip… Audio

Mary Kisler is the senior curator, Mackelvie Collection, International Art, at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. She has spent much of 2018 researching not one but two books on Frances Hodgkins… Audio, Gallery

Sam Moore is better known online as uglyīnk - he's a Christchurch-based artist and illustrator whose People of New Zealand drawings, which satirise familiar Kiwi "templates", are hugely popular online… Audio, Gallery

125 years after women’s suffrage in Aotearoa why does it still take a special  occasion to have female composers works heard?  Young New Zealand conductor Tianyi Lu and the APO's Artistic… Audio

Wellington’s tango group Bravo Ensemble and guest Joel Tortul from Argentina play some tango and samba on Upbeat before their concert tonight at St. Mary of the Angels in Wellington.

Joel Tortul is a… Audio

TV reviewer Lara Strongman has been watching the NZ version of the international hit, Gogglebox on TV3. She's also cast her eye over Netflix shows, The Sinner and Toast of London. Audio

Comedian and writer Sarah Cooper spent years working in the testosterone fueled tech industry for companies like Yahoo and Google. She's just published a tongue in cheek guide to the workplace called… Audio, Gallery

NZSO Concertmaster Vesa-Matti Leppänen is the soloist for the orchestra's performance of Prokofiev's Violin Concerto No 2 in Dunedin on Friday night and in Christchurch on Saturday. Video, Audio

The legendary comic book writer and creator Stan Lee has died aged 95. Stein Dando is an Auckland-based comic book enthusiast and joins us to chat about Stan Lee's life and times. Audio