Arts
Rancho Notorious 4/16: International Relations
Kailey is in Vancouver reviewing The Light Between Oceans and Dan is in Silverstream talking to Simon Bunckenburg who is in London. Video, Audio
McCahon painting fetches $1.3m
Zara Stanhope of the Auckland Art Gallery explains what's so great about a whole lot of words painted on eight panels. Audio
Theatre Critic: Adam Dodd
Adam reviews "Fleabag" now playing at Centrepoint. Palmerston North. Audio
Classic Beckett at the Fortune
Dunedin actor Simon O’Connor has the role of a lifetime in his hands - he is Krapp in Samuel Beckett’s favourite play Krapp’s Last Tape. In it a man at the end of his life rekindles his remembered… Audio
Viewing with Tamar Munch
Tamar Munch reviews Amy Street, a new web series about community-based assisted living program in Thames, Coromandel for adults with intellectual disabilities, Norwegian crime series Acquitted on… Audio
McCahon painting sells for record $1.35 million
A painting by Colin McCahon has sold for a record 1.35 million dollars - the highest price ever paid for a painting at an auction in New Zealand. Our reporter Sally Murphy was there. Audio
McCahon attracts record price of $1.35 million
A painting by Colin McCahon has sold for a $1.35 million dollars - the highest price ever paid for a painting at an auction in New Zealand. Audio
$1.35m McCahon breaks NZ art auction record
A painting by one of New Zealand's best-known artists has sold for $1.35 million, breaking the country's record for priciest artwork sold at auction.
No doormat: Labour leader reacts to risqué rug art
Labour leader Andrew Little says he's no doormat after a rug depicting a "flattering" naked version of him was named a finalist at the Wallace Art Awards. Audio
Morning Report to host live Auckland Mayoral debate
Morning Report will host an hour-long Auckland Mayoral debate from AUT's television studio from 8am tomorrow morning. Host Guyon Espiner joins Checkpoint Video, Audio
The best films of the 21st Century (so far)
The BBC asked 177 influential film critics (i.e. not Dan Slevin) to select their favourite films since 2000 and turned those selections into a list of the 100 best of the millennium. Dan assessed the… Video, Audio
21 years of Going West
The Going West Books and Writers Festival celebrates 21 years, with two new people at the helm, including critic and agency creative Mark Easterbrook. He explains how it is important to combine… Audio
Dan Slevin on the 21st Century's greatest films
The BBC asked 177 film critics from around the world to pick the best films since 2000. Dan Slevin dissects their list. Audio
The Art of Etiquette – Book launch
In this week’s episode Upbeat producer Zoë George turns the page on poor etiquette at book launches. Unity Books’ Dylan Sherwood explains whether we have to buy the book that is being launched, what… Audio
McCahon painting could break NZ record at auction
A Colin McCahon painting could fetch a record price as a collection of more than 200 paintings goes under the auctioneer's hammer this week in Auckland.
Legendary art collection to go under the hammer
One of the most important private art collections amassed in this country goes under the auctioneer's hammer tonight and tomorrow in Auckland. More than four hundred paintings, prints and ceramic… Audio
Giant replica of London set ablaze in Great Fire re-enactment
A giant wooden replica of 17th-century London has been set ablaze on the Thames River in a spectacular re-enactment of the Great Fire of London 350 years ago. Audio
Giving hope through movement
Dancer Rodney Bell tells his story through Meremere, an autobiographical piece that spans 20 years of his life. It addresses issues around homelessness – which Bell was for a few years – and… Audio
New Sponsor for University Opera Programme
Gregory Camp, Director of Postgraduate Studies at the University of Auckland's School of Music, announces a major new sponsor for its Opera Teaching Programme. Dr Camp is Director of the… Audio
Poi E tops $1 million at box office
The documentary about the origins of the Māori song Poi E has reached $1 million at the New Zealand box office. Video
