Arts

There are only a few days left in the 2016 Auckland Arts Festival. Justin Gregory talks Big Mouth, the Atamira Dance Company and New Zealand opera Brass Poppies. Audio

Tobias Jundt and Steven Templar are among the hundreds performing at CubaDupa. We find out what Wellington's answer to Mardi Gras will pan out like this weekend. Audio

Sophocles' Greek tragedy Oedipus Rex is being reinterpreted by a contemporary South Korean theatre company. Juliette Sivertsen goes behind the scenes to meet those responsible for The Chorus, Oedipus… Audio

In the south island town of Oamaru, Sue and Rod McLean run a business weaving short runs of traditionally inspired fabric with their 100 year old weaving system - the Hattersley Domestic, circa 1918.

Auckland City Limits music festival is on this weekend with a big line up of bands and performers at Western Springs. For the first time there'll be a mini-festival called Kiddie Limits for young… Audio

Here's one for the kids of all ages. Disney has just announced it's to make a fifth epic adventure in the Indiana Jones series. Audio

The Modern Maori Quartet, work by a dance legend, small metal objects and a booze soaked rock 'n' roll cabaret are all coming up in the third and final week of the New Zealand Festival in Wellington… Audio

A lifetime of prose by New Zealand writer James K. Baxter covering over a million words and four hefty hardback books is being released free on the internet by Victoria University. Fergus Barrowman… Audio

From overblown rhetoric to subtle discourse, Belgium's Valentijn Dhaenens uses his Big Mouth to explore the manipulative power of words.

His one-man show BigMouth makes its New Zealand debut at this… Audio

'Winston's Birthday' on at the Fortune Theatre in Dunedin. Audio

Deirdre Tarrant reviews Australian dance company Chunky Move's Complexity of Belonging, running as part of the New Zealand Festival in Wellington Complexity of Belonging is a collaboration between… Audio

Australian Brett Patman launched his Lost Collective website last year. It features stunning pictures of predominantly Sydney buildings, no longer in use, we also have a gallery of his pictures on our… Audio, Gallery

The 2016 Auckland Arts Festival is in its last week and Justin Gregory is here to give his take on it. Audio

Arts critics Lynn Freeman and Justin Gregory discuss the content so far of our two major festivals - the New Zealand Festival in Wellington, and the Auckland Arts Festival. Audio

For most of his adult life Kiwi poet Andrew Johnston has lived in Paris, working first in newspapers and now as a consultant for organisations like the United Nations. But he keeps a strong connection… Audio

It's generally accepted that we're in the middle of a golden age of television - particularly television drama. While feature films - particularly in America - are leaning to the conservative and… Audio