Arts

Lexus Song Quest 2018 winner Joel Amosa talks about the importance of his Samoan culture in his ability to perform at the top level. Joel won New Zealand's top singing prize on Saturday night in… Audio

We mark the passing of Polish trumpeter Tomasz Stanko, a prominent figure in avant-garde and free jazz who has died at the age of 76.

Lexus Song Quest winner Joel Amosa talks about singing for his…

From The Beatles to One Direction, millions of young girls and women over the decades have fallen in love with boy bands and some have taken their obsessions to the extreme. Australian film Producer… Video, Audio

Bass baritone singer Joel Amosa won the 2018 Lexus Song Quest grand final on Saturday night. His victory is the fifth time in 10 years that a New Zealander of Samoan heritage has won the competition.

In this episode of Voices, Amelia Langford talks to Chinese New Zealand film director Willie Ying, who is netting international awards with his action-comedy feature film The Final Blade. Audio

For fifty years Auckland-based painter Denys Watkins has produced lushly-coloured abstract paintings often responding to nature, the joy of being part of it and threats to it. Despite being a frequent… Audio

Writer Owen Marshell may have been born in Te Kuiti but in his soul he's a Southern Man, a champion of the people and landscapes of Canterbury and Otago. While best known for his novels and short… Audio

It's the 130th anniversary of writer Katherine Mansfield's birth, and her home town is going all out to celebrate the life of one of its favourite daughters. Wellington Arts Festival KM130 encompasses… Audio

It's a perennial question - particularly on this programme - "How to balance the need to make a living with the desire to be creative?" It's also one of the questions that photographer Jason Naylor is… Audio

A massive tapestry telling the stories of injured First World War New Zealand soldiers and medical staff at the Mount Felix Hospital in the UK, is about to go on display over here. Also making the… Audio

After more than a year in the making, The New Zealand Symphony Orchestra is about to wish popular Wellington band the Phoenix Foundation a happy 20th anniversary with one of the biggest gigs they've… Audio

Hamilton's CBD is in the midst of an art gallery bonanza, with several new galleries opening in just the last six months. So what's behind this show of confidence in the visual art market? And which… Audio

This week sees the grand finals of the Lexus Song Quest, 2018. Over the decades the award has boosted many a young opera singer's career, as well as being a significant confidence booster in this… Audio

Head Judge of the Lexus Song Quest for 2018, Lisa Gasteen talks with Clarissa Dunn about her own career, her experience of competitions and what she is looking for in the Lexus contestants. Audio

In the third part of Venus Envy - made in association with Are We There Yet?, the new women's suffrage and equality exhibition at Auckland Museum - lawyers Zoe Lawton and Hayden Wilson weigh in on… Audio

Debra Granik is a director and screenwriter based in New York. Her past works include her 2004 film Down to the Bone, starring Vera Farmiga, and she directed and co-wrote Winter's Bone in 2010, the… Audio

NZ writer Kirsty Gunn describes her new novel, Caroline's Bikini, as a comedy about the telling of a love story. Gunn's first novel, Rain, was published in 1994, and was made into a successful feature… Audio

Anna Boyiazis is an American documentary photographer based between Southern California - where she was born and raised by her family of Aegean Islanders - and East Africa. She has received several… Audio

Riddle + Squizz is now streaming on HEIHEI – a free website and app for Kiwi kids aged five to nine.  Video, Audio, Gallery