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When art and film become entwined: painter Sandro Kopp
10 Mar 2024In 2018, Sandro Kopp was tasked by film director Wes Anderson with creating ten monumental paintings for the film The French Dispatch in less than three months.
Kopp’s works needed to look like the… Read more Audio
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Regional Wrap: Timaru and what’s next for South Canterbury’s arts institutions
10 Mar 2024A well known arts critic, historian and commentator, Andrew Paul Wood in Timaru fills us in on ‘drama’ around the Timaru Theatre Royal redevelopment, which includes a new venue for South Canterbury… Read more Audio
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Reimagining a map from a Tongan perspective: Icao Tiseli
10 Mar 2024What would a map that represents a more distinct lived human cultural perspective look like? That has been the very personal question for Icao Tiseli with her award-winning project Mapping the Wheke.
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Oscars predictions with Gemma Gracewood in Los Angeles
10 Mar 2024It’s the 96th Academy Awards on Monday 11th March - the final ceremony of the awards season which started almost a year ago at the Cannes Film Festival. Read more Audio
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Boy: a tragic and compelling story of gender identity
10 Mar 2024The true story behind theatre show Boy is both controversial and compelling. Appearing at the Auckland Arts Festival theatre and written by Dutch-born, Netherlands-based playwright Carly Wijs (Us/Them… Read more Audio
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Musicians who paint: The Bats’ Robert Scott plays Fast Favourites and remembers Hamish Kilgour
10 Mar 2024Ōtepoti Dunedin’s Robert Scott is best known as a member of seminal New Zealand bands The Bats and The Clean, but more quietly he’s been painting for decades with work appearing in both exhibitions… Read more Audio
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Best of the Fest #3 - Māori cirque theatre, exploring fa’a Sāmoa, iconic waiata and Gravity & Grace
8 Mar 2024Cue the drums - The Auckland Arts Festival kicks off this week!
This is the third episode of Best of the Fest; a brand new RNZ national five-week lively conversation series about a feast of… Read more Audio
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NZ Artist Simon Denny in Berlin and New York on NFTs, meta landscapes and space colonies
3 Mar 2024Berlin-based New Zealand artist Simon Denny’s work has long explored the culture of new technology and the dreams tech entrepreneurs sell us.
Back in 2016, Denny was one of the first artists to… Read more Audio
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Regional wrap: Tauranga arts groups face up to 300% rent increases
3 Mar 2024Artists in Tauranga recently took a creative response to comment on the City Council's Long Term Plan, which proposes steep rental increases for community groups, and a 'user pays' approach to… Read more Audio
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The Waikato Wars: What painter Richard Lewer didn’t learn at school
3 Mar 2024At the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Pōneke hangs an enormous New Zealand flag upon which artist Richard Lewer has painted the words: “To have a future I must reconcile with MY past.”
Lewer’s… Read more Audio
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How to Have Sex: rising British acting star Mia McKenna-Bruce
3 Mar 2024British coming-of-age drama, How to Have Sex has found a new way to tackle the issue of sexual consent. It’s strangely both nostalgic and very uncomfortable - which is perhaps, exactly why you should… Read more Video, Audio
