Arts

Doryun Chong is in New Zealand to be part of the judging panel for contemporary art award; the Walters Prize, and was previously Associate Curator of Painting and Sculpture at New York’s Museum of… Audio

Jim Flynn and Wallace Chapman discuss modern Irish literature. Jim rates John Banville's "wonderful style", but is less enamoured with John Boyne's The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas. The sex in Edna… Audio

Kathryn Ryan speaks to British writer, Hugh Aldersey-Williams, about his book Tide: The science and lore of the greatest force on earth. From the earliest musings of what makes tide behave as it does… Audio

Artist and designer, Johnson Witehira, has chosen Unwarranted and Unregistered: Te Ahua O Te Hau Ki Te Papaioea by Terri te Tau. He also has his own exhibition coming up. It's called Half-blood, and… Audio

The Royal Edinburgh Military Tattoo is the famous display of military bands on the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle, that hundreds of thousands of people see come to see every year. In 2016 Charlotte… Audio

Celebrated New Zealand photographer and publisher Craig Potton is chair of the trust behind the $12 million renovation of one of the country's oldest public art galleries, the Suter Art Gallery in… Audio

The sale of ivory is in the spotlight again. James Patterson of Art and Object auction house discusses selling antique ivory. Audio

On Bookmarks today, a woman whose love of art, from a tender age, led her away from a promising career as an architect into the world galleries and exhibitions. Over the last two decades she has… Audio

NZTrio have been up to a lot recently. You might have caught their recent Chinese-inspired concerts in Wellington and Auckland with celebrated guzheng player Xia Jing: they’ve got performances at the… Audio

The various strands of The University of Auckland’s School of Music are coming together to present Cloudburst, a programme that incorporates music from Duke Ellington, Eric Whitacre, Debussy, and… Audio

NZ Opera’s production of Sweeney Todd which is on at the moment. The story was originally published as a penny dreadful in 1846 that morphed over the years into a play and then the Broadway show, that… Audio

Kathryn Ryan talks to Melbourne's Dee Goldberg about her wearable creations which are always colourful, interesting and above all - humorous. She says she came late - in her forties - to the idea of… Audio, Gallery

Home Video  - Teetering between preposterous and plausible, Norway’s most expensive television production ever gripped reviewer Dan Slevin.

There Are No More Four Seasons! That’s the name of a visionary Swedish duo touring New Zealand. Mattias Petersson and George Kentros make amazing music while recomposing the classics.

There Are No… Audio