Culture 101 for Sunday 1 December 2024

2:30 PM.A 600-page new book that took 12 years to create is set to reframe the history of Māori art.

Toi Te Mana (Auckland University Press) brings together work from Māori artists and museums from around… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Dunedin artist Kari Morseth is weaving harakeke history back into the city's daily life.

The Rope/Walk community art project is centred around the South Dunedin's Rope Walk Building where Morseth has… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Jeff Thomson, one of Aotearoa’s senior professional sculptors, is best known for doing absolutely everything that’s possible with corrugated iron. His corrugated iron Holden sits in the Te Papa… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Suzanne Tamaki has many feathers in her cap.

Of Ngāti Maniapoto, Hikairo, Tūhoe and Te Arawa iwi, Suzanne Tamaki is known for her jewellery and costume design - her work is inspired by Pacific… Read more

12:50 PM.The Pacific Fashion Fusion Show is preparing to run its annual catwalk through downtown Auckland's freshly designated Komititanga.

Komititanga is the area that joins the end of Queen Street with the… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.The front of artist Ann Shelton's award-winning new book worm, root, wort.. & bane bears an image of a small silvered glass flask held in the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University. The flask is said… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Chef Peter Gordon is a deep lover of the arts and joins Culture 101 to share his fast Favourites.  Read more Audio