Arts
Taylor Swift rereleases Red album to huge success
That's Taylor Swift singing "All Too Well," It's been a busy few days for Swift fans across the world - with the megastar re-releasing her Red album on Friday night. On music streaming service… Audio
Parekōwhai work sets NZ art auction record
'A Peak in Darien' sold for a record $2.05 million and two McCahon works fetched in excess of $1m each at Art + Object's weekend auction.
Maria Dronke: Glimpses of an Acting Life
Dr Monica Tempian has written the biography Maria Dronke: Glimpses of an Acting Life about a woman she argues changed the face of New Zealand theatre.Lynn Freeman spoeaks to her, and to Maria's great… Audio
Composer Jenny McLeod on her 80th birthday
This interview marked the 80th birthday of “one of the most naturally gifted of all New Zealand composers”. Jenny McLeod died in November 2022 aged 81. Audio
Sione's Wedding characters go back to their '80s teen years in new TV show
"We were still kind of innocent and hokey [in the '80s]. New Zealand was almost like a teenager, you know?" Award-winning writer Oscar Kightley revisits his '80s childhood in the upcoming TV series Du… Video, Audio
Odd socks a hit in Northland
Jenny Bennett's limited edition socks will be sold at the gift shop of the brand new Hundertwasser Art Centre. Audio
'Trouble in Paradise' - images of the climate crisis
A new exhibition revealing the impacts of climate change on Pacific communities has appeared in New Zealand's National Library this month. Audio
The Eastern Sound Collective
With the world pretty much kept out of Aotearoa New Zealand thanks to a certain pandemic, we have to find the world within our shores. And the surprising thing is how often that seems to be happening… Audio
Wellington crime writer Anne Harré
It's taken a while but finally Wellington joins New York, Los Angeles, New Orleans and Paul Cleave's Christchurch as a cool crime novel city. As Anne Harre described it: "Dig a little deeper and the… Audio
Jane Campion's location manager Sally Sherratt
It's no surprise that the opening movie to launch the New Zealand International Film Festival this year should be the highly-anticipated The Power of the Dog. Starring Benedict Cumberbatch and Kirsten… Video, Audio
Australian indigenous company Bangarra Dance Theatre
One of the notable elements in this year's International Film Festival is the strong representation of Indigenous films and film-makers. One of them is an Australian documentary called Firestarter. In… Audio
'Feminist perspective' promised as author begins new Bond trilogy
Author Kim Sherwood is to write a new trilogy of James Bond books, becoming the first female author in the series of spy novels created by Ian Fleming.
Luit Bieringa: director turns lens on Theo Schoon
Never shy of dealing with controversy, Luit Bieringa has often tackled complex and flawed New Zealand cultural figures in his films. In his new film, Signed, Theo Schoon, Bieringa turns his attention… Video, Audio
Fran Lebowitz: ‘I've always been old at heart’
Quintessential cantankerous New Yorker Fran Lebowitz is finding fame with a new generation of fans thanks to Scorsese-directed docu-series Pretend It's A City. Lebowitz, who was drawn to the Big Apple… Video, Audio
She's a Killer: Imagining an Aotearoa overrun by 'wealthugees'
In the near future, the climate emergency has forced the wealthy to seek refuge in Aotearoa. Water is rationed, and things like coffee and beer are now luxury items - prohibitively expensive for most… Audio
South African author Damon Galgut wins Booker Prize
Damon Galgut has won the Booker Prize for his portrait of a white South African family "navigating the end of apartheid".
Bruce Hunt captures Aotearoa's timeless tussock grasslands
The tussock grassland is a landscape unique to Aotearoa, once covering over 30 percent of the mainland about the time of European settlement. It's been used in innumerous paintings by Dunedin-based… Audio, Gallery
The majesty of museums
Architectural historian Owen Hopkins book The Museum takes the reader on a tour of the world's most celebrated cultural institutions and museums, from origins to the 21st century. Audio, Gallery
The changing face of New Zealand libraries
The country's librarians are about to meet to discuss how libraries have moved with the times, but why there's a lot more moving to do. Their association LIANZA has organised a three-day conference… Audio
Whiti Hereaka gives bird-woman Kurangaituku a voice
For almost a decade writer Whiti Hereaka has been fleshing out the mythical story of a monster bird woman. The novel is called Kurangaituku - a name and story Whiti's known since childhood. But that… Audio
