Arts

Each week we get a well known guest on the show to nominate what they consider to be a masterpiece in their field. This week that masterpiece is a person, who has been nominated by Vincent Ward, the… Audio

After an intensive fundraising effort - the Winn-Manson Menton Trust, and the Arts Foundation have managed to raise 800 thousand dollars, which means the Katherine Mansfield Menton fellowship has been… Audio

Nicolette Fraillon is the only woman to hold the job of chief conductor and musical director of a professional ballet company. She busted the glass ceiling years ago as top dog of The Australian… Audio

Otago polytechnic and the Fortune Theatre have joined forces to work together on internationally successful play Grounded, written by American playwright George Brant. Starring well known kiwi actor… Video, Audio

“An artist is a person who materialises ideas”: that definition comes from New Zealand born artist Christina Conrad. The feminist artist was long before her time in her exposure of convention… Video, Audio

Upbeat producer Zoë George asks Suite Gallery owner David Alsop how to build an art collection, where to buy art, who to buy it from and whether you should by from the head or the heart? Audio

Jennifer Shennan reviews the return of the Royal New Zealand Ballet's Giselle. It's touring the country. Is it en pointe with purists and is it better the second time around? Audio

Australian artist Michael Leunig is coming to New Zealand for the Dunedin Arts Festival. The well-known cartoonist, poet, painter, writer and philosopher discusses the New Zealand psyche, his trade… Audio

Read Gainsford introduces Book 2 of Preludes by Claude Debussy at the Wallace International Piano Festival 2016 in the University of Auckland Music Theatre. Audio

Read Gainsford plays Mozart's Rondo in A minor and Scriabin's Piano Sonata No.3 in F sharp minor at the Wallace International Piano Festival 2016 at the University of Auckland Music Theatre. Audio

Cleo Wade is an American artist and poet who's been known to write her poetry on the sides of multi-storey buildings. Just last year she installed an 8-metre-high love-poem called Respect in her… Audio

Behind every great singer is a great vocal coach, and Frances Wilson has been that coach for hundreds of singers over a long international career. She's currently the director of Auckland Opera Studio… Audio

Kim Hill talks to renowned historian, critic, and exhibition curator Leonard Marcus, one of the children's book world's liveliest writers and speakers. His books about children's literature and its… Audio

Kim Hill talks to neuroscientist Dr Stuart Firestein, Chair of Columbia University's Department of Biological Sciences, whose lab studies the vertebrate olfactory system, seeking answers to the… Audio