Arts

Film director and producer Dame Gaylene Preston has been an inspirational and groundbreaking force in New Zealand culture for more than four decades. Dame Gaylene joins us to play some favourite… Audio

Songwriter Bill Callahan – aka "the deep voice of American solitude" – writes melancholy country-inspired songs that often sound like poems set to music. He talks to Kim Hill about purpose… Video, Audio

A trip back in time is on display at the Village Arts Gallery in Kohukohu, the exhibition is called Common Ground. It's a series of photos from a project which started in 1984 and was meant to take 6… Audio, Gallery

Journalist and director David Farrier, the man behind the documentary Tickled and Netflix series Dark Tourist, returns to New Zealand's silver screen this Thursday with his latest work, Mister Organ… Audio

For the first time since the pandemic hit, Cirque Du Soleil is coming back to New Zealand with a new show next year. Crystal is the Canadian circus company's 42nd creation and its first one set on… Audio

For today's Bookmarks New Zealand fashion designer Kate Sylvester is the studio with Jesse. As well as talking about world famous iconic brand she shares with Jesse what she likes to watch, read and… Audio

There are lots of ways to look at art...but it unless you're an art buff it can be quite hard to know what you're looking Today's expert is renowned art curator and author Mary Kisler - curator… Audio

"Smashing theatre and literature together" is poet, producer and MC Freya Daly Sadgrove's mantra for Show Ponies, the hit revue that sees Aotearoa poets perform their work like pop stars: outrageous… Video, Audio

It’s a cliché to describe a life portrayed in film as a rollercoaster. Yet, while we know the highest highs of Dame Valerie Adams' career - five-time Olympian, two-time gold medallist, easily one of… Video, Audio

The younger twin siblings of well known singer Jenny Mitchell have today released their own debut single, Find A River. Audio

Film and TV reviewer Chris Schulz joins Kathryn to talk about the second season of The White Lotus (Neon), new Netflix series The Watcher - which is based on a creepy true story, and The Stranger… Audio

Another round of Come Together concerts kick off in Wellington tomorrow night. This time it's a super group of New Zealand rock musicians playing Tom Petty's Damn The Torpedoes. Audio

Auckland Art Gallery's Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera Art and Life in Modern Mexico exhibition saw the highest visitation numbers on record for a ticketed exhibition's opening weekend since… Audio, Gallery

Live music lovers were stoked to welcome Laneway Festival back to Auckland after an almost three-year long Covid-19 hiatus.

So stoked that tickets sold out in just 90 minutes, a first in the… Audio