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12:43 PM.While NZ on Air waits to find out its share of the extra 15-million dollars allocated to Public Broadcasting in the Budget, the agency's new Head of Funding has no shortage of projects to choose from… Read more Audio

12:27 PM.Celebrated photographer Peter Peryer looks back at his archives and a 35 year career capturing some of New Zealand's most iconic images in anticipation of a major auction of his work this week. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:16 PM.A massive rare stone extracted from a South Island mountain and carved by sculptor Gill Gatfield, is attracting intense international interest at the 2018 Venice Architecture Biennale. Gill calls her… Read more Audio

1:48 PM.Projects 2018 is part of the upcoming Auckland Art Fair. Projects 2018 artists, emerging and established - display their work outside the dealer booths at The Cloud. Lynn Freeman talks to this year's… Read more Audio

12:43 PM.Owen Mapp was New Zealand's first professional contemporary artist specialising in bone carving. When he started out five decades ago, bone carving was very much a poor relation to wood and ponoumu… Read more Audio

12:34 PM.Wellington photographer Mary McPherson has spent the past few years documenting Auckland's CBD. She doesn't live there, but she is intrigued by how rapidly it's changing - her large scale images often… Read more Audio

12:17 PM.Painter David Hockney is regarded as Britain's most popular living artist even if he's spent a huge chunk of his long life in America. The 80 year old is still prolific and still experimenting after… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.As the daughter of the late artist Lucian Freud and great-granddaughter of psychoanalyst Sigmund, Susie Boyt had a remarkable childhood on which to draw for her own career as a novellist and… Read more Audio

2:26 PM.The strained relationship between two sisters is explored in Swedish-Kiwi writer Linda Olsson's fifth novel, A Sister In My House. Cynthia Morahan reads from the book. Set in Spain, but moving between… Read more Audio

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For some years now New Zealand has sent delegations of experienced and up and coming jewellers to show their work at one of the largest and most influential trade fairs in Germany. Twenty-three of… Read more Audio

1:28 PM.Why should New Zealand invest in sending artists to be part of the Venice Art Biennale? It's not an argument you hear too often these days, unlike the early years, with Kiwi artists earning critical… Read more Audio

12:49 PM.Repatriation, innovation, virtual reality and other digital opportunities and issues around earthquake strengthening buildings will all come up for debate next weekend at our museums' national… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.Dame Gillian Whitehead says receiving the Arts Foundation Arts Icon medallion on Wednesday was truly remarkable. There are only twenty Icons at any one time, and when one dies their medallion is… Read more Audio

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We continue our investigation into arts reviewing, by looking at the growing importance of reviewing online. You'll hear how website Pantograph Punch is balancing its review output with its desire… Read more Audio

2:35 PM.Samuel Beckett remains one of the most perplexing writers of all time - his play Waiting for Godot is a prime example of a play that keeps people guessing and academics debating. But it's Beckett's… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.We talk live to the just awarded winner of the Tui for Best New Zealand Children's Artist, musician and inventor Levity Beet at the New Zealand Children's Music Awards. Read more Audio

1:45 PM.New Zealand/Balinese artist Sriwhana Spong's new exhibition in New Plymouth explores a unique language used by a medieval female German mystic and abbess, Hildegard von Bingen. Read more Audio, Gallery

1:33 PM.Zinesters from across the country are heading to Hamilton on 12 May for the city's 5th annual Zinefest. Read more Audio, Gallery

12:45 PM.A world premiere, a national tour of another show, and shooting starting on a film version of acclaimed play Krishnan's Dairy - it's a massive year for one of the country's most successful theatre… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:30 PM.It's not just been a bad week for theatre companies in New Zealand this week: on Monday Stuff formerly Fairfax newspapers went tabloid across nine newspapers, including The Press, Waikato Times… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Outrage and tears followed news of the sudden closure of Dunedin's Fortune Theatre last week. Lynn Freeman checks in with a couple of people from the local theatre community. Read more Video, Audio