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3:05 PM.What has been described of the arts this week on RNZ Audio

2:35 PM.RNZ’s Simon Morris was listening to one of the most popular series in the UK - Sherlock & Co - when he recognised the voice of Dr Watson’s girlfriend and later his good lady wife, Mary Morstan.  It… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.White footed ants made from freshwater pearls, a scorpion's sting carved out of ebony, and an orangutan and a gibbon in yew wood and hollywood, respectively. What about a giant petrel beak in… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Oriwa Morgan Ward joins Culture 101 to share her passion for promoting of Māori art and Te Reo Māori through creative activity. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.If there’s an aspect of the arts Cadence Chung isn’t involved in, you sense it won’t be long before she tackles it. Encounter is a narrative-led audio walk in Pōneke that follows the stories of early… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.The Te Tai Tokerau screen producer joins Culture 101 to talk about his SPADA Screen Industry Award and why he is passionate about empowering a new generation of storytellers.

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12:30 PM.It’s a roll call of turn-of-the-century Kiwi greats: John Clarke, Neil and Tim Finn, Bic and Boh Runga, Jenny Morris, Chris Knox, The Topp Twins, Che-Fu, Don McGlashan, King Kapisi and Dave Dobbyn… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.2024 has been quite the year for screen actor and filmmaker Chelsie Preston Crayford.

A week ago she finished filming her first feature film Caterpillar, a work she has directed and been writing for… Read more Video, Audio

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

3:07 PM.A roundup of the arts scene. Audio

2:30 PM.Ngatu, siapo, aute, masi, tapa… just some of the names from across the Pacific for barkcloth which reflect the rich variety of bark used and working processes. . 

Tapa is having a moment in the art… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.The Portage Ceramic Awards have long honoured the dynamic world of contemporary ceramics within Aotearoa New Zealand.

The 2024 Premier Award winner and three Merit Award winners were announced at a… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.This week on Regional Wrap we go to Gisborne where exhibition Wimples, crosses, and lepers Women of Influence has just opened at Tairāwhiti Museum.

Margaret Hansen has also written a book by the same… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Churches big and small throughout Aotearoa New Zealand are vital spaces of culture and community but there are increasing challenges with heritage restoration and their relevance  in today’s world.

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12:30 PM.For almost six decades photographer John Miller has been a protest photographer in Aotearoa New Zealand.

From his first photographs of an anti-Vietnam War protest on Auckland’s Albert Street as a… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.In April 2024, one of our most treasured artists Dame Robin White travelled from her home in Masterton to Aomori north of Honshu in Japan, to be an artist in residence at the Aomori Contemporary Art… Read more Audio

2:35 PM.The sheer diversity and invention of electronic music today in Aotearoa is evident in a list of sounds at the upcoming electronic sonic arts festival Outlier in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Curated… Read more Audio