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1:45 PM.He came here to make a documentary about New Zealand's street artists and was so impressed, now Perth street artist Handbrake is returning to stamp his own mark on a wall himself as part of the eighth… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:30 PM.New Zealand art history in 2018 - what's included and what's excluded? Photography is now in it seems, but ceramics not; Contemporary Maori art - in - but traditional Maori arts? Still out. That's at… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:45 PM.Texan filmmaker David Lowery, who filmed the updated Pete's Dragon in New Zealand a few years ago, has now directed Robert Redford in the 82-year-old actor's last starring role in a movie, The Old Man… Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.Marks of Mana is the first feature film dedicated to the practice of female tattooing (tatau or ta moko) in the Pacific. From Samoa to Aotearoa, and on to Papua New Guinea and Tahiti we learn about… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:15 PM.Over the last few weeks we've been looking at initiatives the two main TV channels are trialing to entice audiences who want more than just seeing programmes on demand. TVNZ has Alibi, a police drama… Read more Audio

2:49 PM.Auckland's about to experience it's nineteenth Art Ache, which brings together emerging artists and potential buyers, but not in the traditional dealer gallery setting. Design creative and curator… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Hip-hop, Dancehall, Afro-fusion and Ugandan dance - they're all in the repertoire of visiting Ugandan dance artist Antonio Bukhar and he's offering to share his moves with young Auckland dancers. The… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:50 PM.The Canterbury earthquakes have provided the opportunity to reconsider the Christchurch CBD - and arts and culture have often led the discussion. No more so than during the bold biennial weekend… Read more Audio, Gallery

1:33 PM.In the 1990s, revered abstract painter Gordon Walters befriended a young Christchurch artist, Chris Heaphy. The friendship led to collaboration on some artworks and they even got to the point where… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:40 PM.One of the masterminds behind the interactive theatrical genius of Apollo 13: Mission Control designer Brad Knewstubb is one of three recipients of $50,000 of funding announced this week by… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Actor George Henare - an Arts Foundation Laureate as it happens - is finding his 70s one of the busiest decades in his long stage career. He's just picked up the Actors Equity Lifetime Achievement… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.What should arts philanthrophy in NZ look like today? Lynn talks to philanthropist and digital marketing consultant Anna Connell and Arts Foundation Director Simon Bowden. Lynn also finds out why the… Read more Audio

1:45 PM.Palmerston North-based photographer Tony Reddrop spent every weekend for a year, in the same spot, asking passersby to pose for a portrait. Now he's about to reveal his Random Portraits, printed to… Read more Audio

1:33 PM.He's spent much of his life tramping and climbing the Southern Alps and the past four years researching their history, and now Nic Lowe is chronicling the story of the formidable mountain range... Audio

12:45 PM.A recent survey in the United states revealed that nearly 95% of male ballet dancers faced physical or verbal attacks because they dance. Danseur, a film documenting the toll this takes on the… Read more Audio

12:38 PM.Palmerston North's newly rennovated art gallery has just reopened, about seven months earlier than expected. Te Manawa houses an outstanding New Zealand art collection and when it closed in June… Read more Audio

12:18 PM.An exhibition co-inciding with the 50th anniversary of Wellington's McLeavey Gallery opening, offers us an insight gallerist Peter McLeavey's extensive and significant private collection of… Read more Audio