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3:05 PM.The latest arts news from around the motu. Read more Audio

2:05 PM.83-year-old poet and songwriter Tucker Zimmerman has had something of a cultural Forrest Gump of a career, and 2024 has found him gaining new-found fame.

Acclaimed album Dance of Love, out on 4AD… Read more Audio

1:35 PM.Culture 101 speaks to the artist from Berlin about his first solo show in New Zealand and is innovative approach to art. Read more Audio

Our Regional Wrap takes us to somewhere named after the Christmas city itself. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Since winning the coveted Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, Anora has spent the past six months taking the movie world by storm. It finally arrives in New Zealand cinemas on Boxing Day.  

Anora… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.It’s a 2024 thriller concerned with race, podcast-making and the criminal justice system high on a fair few 2024 best-of lists.

17 Years Later is Melbourne-based bestselling New Zealand writer JP… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.She joins Culture 101 to talk about her time in the South of France for the 2024 Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship, her new novel and her highlights of 2024. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.The Pōhutukawa - our Christmas tree - once bountifully fringed the West Coast north of Taranaki, and the East Coast north of Tairāwhiti Gisborne. While now found even further south, these trees with… Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Renowned Māori actor and filmmaker Cliff Curtis has been honoured with the prestigious International Federation of Film Producers Associations Award at the Asia Pacific Screen Awards.

The event, held… Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Dean Roberts, aka The Moth, was an experimental composer and multi-instrumentalist who lived in Auckland, New York, Bologna and Berlin. A student of the sound artist Phil Dadson, he went on to lecture… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.A survey of recent film work by Jon Rafman Oh, the humanity! opens at Whangārei Art  Museum on December 20. It is, the gallery say “a harrowing meditation on the digital era’s fraught promises, and… Read more Video, Audio

1:25 PM.For the regional wrap we head to Raglan Wharf to speak with Tony Sly of Tony Sly Pottery where the scenic views inspire his work.  Among his Raglan cultural highlights Tony Sly mentions artists Chris… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Tāmaki Makaurau's eclectic Karangahape Road is known as a creative hub for alternative arts and events, unique hospitality and independent retailers. Now it can add a new fine arts gallery to its… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.The Indian cinema scene is thriving in Aotearoa with nearly 300 Indian movies screened in New Zealand over just the past two years. Pritesh Raniga is the proprietor of Indian distribution company… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Joar Nango is one of only a few practicing Sámi architects in the world. He has travelled to Aotearoa New Zealand to present, with collaborators, the exhibition Building an archive of Indigenous… Read more Audio, Gallery

12:10 PM.Izzy joins Culture 101 to share her Fast Favourite choices, and why she is passionate about continuing the legacy of her father.

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3:05 PM.What has been described of the arts this week on RNZ Audio