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2:25 PM.Wellington mutlmedia artist Daniel James is the man behind what is being billed as a world-first, an interactive installation work merging dance, film and touchscreen technology. Debuting in… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:50 PM.Art for earth's sake… the antropocene is the name for the current geological age, judged as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on our climate and environment. And… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.Auckland Art Gallery have dubbed it "probably the best-known history painting ever produced in New Zealand". And in the hands of Samoan New Zealand photographer Greg Semu it has had a bold… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:45 PM.Dunedin-based artist Ayesha Green has won the prestigious $25,000 National Contemporary Art Award for 2019 for a painting entitled Nana's Birthday (A Big Breath). New Zealand's National Contemporary… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Who should pay? That's the question that continues to be asked of New Zealand's public museums and galleries, particularly by their councils. Wander in and take shelter with family or friends on a… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:40 PM.This year's Creative New Zealand Composer-in-Residency at Wellington's Victoria University is one of our most gifted young composers Salina Fisher. Salina's just returned to New Zealand this month… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.The Boyfriend is the debut novel of Laura Southgate. It's a book that deals with the confusing, often painful time of finding yourself. It's the story of Erica, moving from her teens into her 20s and… Read more Audio

1:48 PM.He's one of our greatest, most eccentric and best-loved contemporary artists - Canterbury painter Bill Hammond. And he's about to have an exhibition at the Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu… Read more Audio

1:28 PM.Technology, globalisation, legislation... They've all changed when and how we work, putting pressure on the stability of employment and workers' rights. This is the subject of The Future of Work, an… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:38 PM."When I got pregnant a number of writers and painters explained to me that I would no longer paint. That my creativity would now reside in my womb, that only women who didn't have children persisted… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:49 PM.The Modern Maori Quartet is one of three New Zealand acts handpicked for a showcase season in New York early next year at the historic off-Broadway SoHo Playhouse. The other two are the slam poetry… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:40 PM.Weng Wai Chan's debut novel Lizard's Tale is a World War Two spy story with a difference. Set in Singapore in 1940, its heroes are young people, and it's told from a non Western point of view. Read more Audio, Gallery

2:26 PM.On his 50th birthday, Wellington artist Bryce Galloway decided it was high time to have a mid-life crisis. He got his first tattoo, and then posted a "bandmates wanted" flyer, with a view to… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:44 PM.Photographer Peter Peryer has shared his life story, and his wry reflections on his chosen art form with documentary maker Shirley Horrocks. Neither realised that the film that came out of it would be… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:32 PM.If there's one person who doesn't need to be convinced about the importance of sound in films, it's the presenter of a radio programme about movies! Sound and pictures have been two halves of the… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:36 PM.Back in the dawn of New Zealand comedy, say the mid Seventies, very few people were making a living out of it. Fred Dagg, aka John Clarke, was a sensation on TV and as a live act. And Roger Hall had… Read more Audio, Gallery

2:38 PM."The nonbinary individual is biologically nonbinary. The gonad does not determine gender. In the nonbinary individual's personal experience they have a deep hatred for their own body - promoted by the… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.The Australian theatre director in charge of this country's biggest theatrical spectacular - the World of Wearable Art (Wow) - says he's hugely impressed with his Kiwi crew's can-do attitude to any… Read more Audio

1:46 PM.Ceramics is the perfect medium to convey even the most unpalatable truths That's quoting Lyttelton-based master ceramicist and visual artist, Cheryl Lucas, who'll be using her 100-thousand-dollar… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.For seven years, Wellington theatre company Trick of the Light has been touring the world with their whimsical, innovative shows like The Bookbinder and The Road that Wasn't There. These are in such… Read more Audio

12:44 PM.Over the years, thousands of New Zealand women worked in public service typing pools since the 1940s. "Typing pool" is an obsolete term these days, but government departments and private businesses… Read more Audio