Arts

American artist and musician Laurie Anderson is one of the curators of this year's NZ Festival of the Arts. Anderson tells Kim Hill she feels unchanged by the decades that've passed since she… Video, Audio

Mark Amery looks at Wellington and Auckland's arts festival seasons. This week he checked out the artist, performance poet and musicians live and installation works at New Zealand Festival in Lower… Audio

Rest home life is at the centre of a performance at the NZ Fringe Festival. It's also performed by the residents of those rest homes. Two of the cast from, 'Dance Me to the End of Time', speak to… Audio

The life and work of unsung literary hero Emilia Bassano has had its international premiere at Auckland's Pop-up Globe. Emilia's author, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm talks about the show and its success to… Audio

Film and TV correspondent Sarah McMullan reviews the Stephen King novel-turned-TV series The Outsider and British comedy Military Wives and takes a look at New Zealand film Births, Deaths and… Audio

Multi-instrumentalists, partners, collaborators and music historians  Rhiannon Giddens and Francesco Turrisi join Kathryn Ryan to discuss the (sometimes fraught) musical connections between race… Audio

Pacific performing artists showcase the richness of Maori and Pacific poetry through theatre for this year's Auckland Arts Festival. Audio

Auckland dancer and performer Vincent Farane is hitting the stage after a stint with one of the biggest dance crews in the world. Audio, Gallery

Finalists for the country's top book prizes are out this morning.

Sixteen works have made it on to the Ockham New Zealand Book Awards finalist list for fiction, poetry, illustrated non-fiction and… Audio

Robert Kelly has some strong feelings about the use of sound and music in new (ish) series hitting our screens and streaming platforms. Robert discusses Sharp Objects, Watchmen and The Brokenwood… Audio

Poetry is alive and well in New Zealand primary schools! Teachers around New Zealand are currently using a famous William Carlos Williams poem to get children to admit their naughtiest deeds. Audio

'Cold Blood' is the latest delightfully absurd offering from partners in art and life choreographer Michèle Anne De Mey and filmmaker Jaco Van Dormael. Featuring tiny props, cinema projection, and a… Video, Audio

You know that summer is over when the film society programme starts up again. Dan Slevin reports on this year’s offers from Auckland and Wellington.

A collection of rare, surrealist artworks are coming to Te Papa Tongarewa - all of which have never before been displayed in New Zealand.

Dalí and the Surrealists: Masterpieces from the Museum… Audio

New Pornographers from Canada, Mad Kings, a Maori bride and Aboriginal groom's chaotic wedding and the late Lou Reed's drones await our New Zealand Festival of the Arts reviewer over the next few… Audio

Since the 1970s film editor Annie Collins has been helping our directors to create, she even salvages their movies when a shoot hasn't gone entirely to plan. Audio

It's one of the Big Three European Film Festivals, along with the fiercely business-like Cannes Festival, and the more high-minded Venice one. Audio

Along the South Island's rugged West Coast live a community of people whose self-sufficent way of life is being captured on film before it passes into history. Audio