Arts

If you've taken up writing a diary during the Covid-19 pandemic, you're not alone.

Australian researchers from RMIT University in Melbourne have found diary-keeping is having a resurgence.

Dr Peta… Audio

Jesse speaks to Augusta Xu-Holland from the blockbuster film The Eight Hundred. Audio, Gallery

The creative endeavours of artistic south Auckland couple, sculptor Rudi Robinson and designer artist Lissy Robinson Cole include exploring crochet through a Te Ao Maori lens. They incorporate… Audio, Gallery

A pelt of a Tasmanian Tiger that for decades languished in a Wairarapa taxidermy museum is giving the scientific world new insights into the extinct Australian marsupial.

The New Zealand pelt has… Audio

The 2020 World of Wearable Art show was cancelled due to Covid-19 but will instead be held as an exhibition in Wellington.

From abandoned tents transformed into avant-garde works of art, to a… Audio

Portraiture is one of the trickiest artforms - to get beyond the surface of a face into the soul. Photographer Marti Friedlander was an expert, and many of her black and white images - especially of… Audio, Gallery

Rejection is never easy to take - but sadly, it's the rule not the exception in so many aspects of the arts. There are simply too many applicants for too few jobs. And this is particularly true for… Audio

As live performance spaces grapple with the unpredictability of life under Covid-19, a UK company is bringing a performance to your kitchen table. Audio, Gallery

This has been a strong year for New Zealand's screen sector - despite the global pandemic. 2020 opened with an Oscar for Taika Waititi's Jojo Rabbit, and a major international TV series - the… Audio, Gallery

Encouraging musicians who play traditional Maori instruments (taonga puoro) to be braver, more experimental - that's the goal of Horomona Horo. Horomona has just been appointed as both a researcher… Audio

Two years after Invercargill's two main cultural institutions were forced to close due to seismic concerns, a transitional Art and Museum space is about to open its doors. Audio, Gallery

A new digital gallery aims to connect the work of New Zealand artists with young art buyers.  Audio

The life and work of Vincent van Gogh is the subject of a brand new multi-sensory outdoor exhibition opening in Wellington tonight.

 Thousands of his paintings, including "The Starry Night", "Cafe… Video, Audio

New Zealand singers tenor Manase Latu and bass Samson Setu have won places on the New York Metropolitan Opera’s Lindemann Young Artist Development Program; it's the first time singers from Aotearoa… Audio

Film and TV reviewer Chris Schulz joins Kathryn to talk about Dispatches from Elsewhere, created by and starring Jason Segel, the interesting true story behind John was Trying to Contact Aliens and… Audio

The independent American film Never Rarely Sometimes Always is the story of a young woman's efforts to have her pregnancy terminated away from home. Directed by Eliza Hittman (13 Reasons Why). Video, Audio