Arts

PR guru and Fashion Week veteran Paul Blomfield answers the big questions about fashion week in our Art of Etiquette series. Is it all air kisses and “oh darlings”? Can I sit wherever I like? Is it ok… Audio

Tudor Consort’s former Music Director Alastair Carey directs a concert which puts together four remarkable choral works all with the concept of "lux perpetua",  or eternal light at their heart. Audio

Cocktails, decadent canapés and handmade chocolates flowed at the exclusive launch of New Zealand Fashion Week 2016 on Monday night.

Kailey Carruthers and Dan Slevin wrap up this year’s New Zealand International Film Festival and review the new Ghostbusters and Kubo and the Two Strings. Video, Audio

Poet Selina Tusitala Marsh tells Jesse Mulligan what she loves about poetry and shares the poem she performed for the Queen - Unity. Audio

Perhaps best known as Hyacinth Bucket from Keeping Up Appearances, award-winning stage and screen actor Patricia Routledge talks to Nine to Noon about making a comeback to our screens - this time with… Audio

Delvan Lin plays Un Sospiro by Franz Liszt at the Wallace International Piano Festival 2016 at the University of Auckland Music Theatre. Audio

Delvan Lin plays Chopin's Polonaise-Fantaisie in A flat, Op.61 at the Wallace International Piano Festival 2016 at the University of Auckland Music Theatre. Audio

Delvan Lin plays Book 1 of the piano suite Iberia by Isaac Albeniz at the Wallace International Piano Festival 2016 at the University of Auckland Music Theatre. Audio

Delvan Lin plays Beethoven's Piano Sonata No.21 in C, Op.53 "Waldstein" at the Wallace International Piano Festival 2016 at the University of Auckland Music Theatre. Audio

British photography curator, writer and critic Susan Bright is about to give a talk at the Auckland Art Gallery. Lynn Freeman caught up with her to talk about the selfie craze. Audio

Scott Bradlee's Post Modern Jukebox is one of the first examples of a big-time touring and recording act not needing the help of a major record company to get them exposure. Phil O'Brien talks to… Video, Audio

Kim Hill talks to indigenous Australian director Ryan Griffen, creator of the Australia/New Zealand produced television series Cleverman, a futuristic drama with roots in Aboriginal mythology. Double… Audio

The most famous bass-baritone in new music - in the world. He's been right here in New Zealand at the invitation of the NZSM: and in this 2-part series, Charlotte Wilson talks to him about new music… Audio

Australian choreographer Lina Limosani is working with the New Zealand Dance Company on her dance Whispers from Pandora's Box. It’s been described as “ Twisted, perverse, outrageously in your face… Audio

As the Wellington leg of the New Zealand International Film Festival announces another year of record attendances, Dan Slevin limps across the finish line with his final festival diary entry for 2016.