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2:33 PM.A new digital art curation platform is hoping to be bridge the gap between artists and buyers to create personalised, cohesive and curated collections. Read more Audio

2:10 PM.2025 marks the centenary of Radio New Zealand. Yet broadcasting is one thing, the technology to hear it another. And there was once an entirely different company called RNZ - pioneer radio… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.Younger audiences are in for a visual feast at Silo's new show Taniwha opening in time for the school holidays. Featuring puppetry, live videography, narration and live music, Taniwha will also… Read more Audio

12:48 PM.Tessa Mitchell never knew her grandfather but he has cast a long shadow. Her film I Am a Dark River is about Bob Lowry - that creative and some would say sometimes outrageous grandfather. It's been… Read more Video, Audio

12:35 PM.Romance novels are having a moment. England's first ever romance-only bookshop opened this week in Notting Hill, London. Read more Audio

12:16 PM.Gretchen La Roche is a few weeks into the role of CEO of Creative New Zealand, our national arts funding, development and advocacy organisation.  Read more Audio

3:06 PM.Arts news for 15 June 2025. Audio

2:35 PM.Located in the centre of the Pacific, Tahiti's closest large land mass is Aotearoa New Zealand. It is where, from Raiatea, Maori migration canoes left in what is thought to be the late 13th Century or… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Multi-disciplinary artist Julia Holden is better known for her live performance art, clay work and animated paintings so when she started painting pets and animals, it wasn't a turn she saw coming. Read more Audio

1:30 PM.A gateway to Tairawhiti East Cape from the north is the town of Ōpōtiki in the Bay of Plenty. As a creative hub local organisation Ōpōtiki Arts has a new leash of life with this year 95 members in… Read more Audio

1:05 PM.In the new feature film Koka an elder Maori woman, under the celestial guidance of Matariki, makes a long journey home in a car that's seen better days. For Koka's director, Kath Akuhata-Brown of… Read more Video, Audio

12:45 PM.Good Bitches are still baking across the country and the collective has just released its third cookbook Familiar Foods. But it's not the classics you may be imagining but rather family recipes; some… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.Te Ahu a Turanga is a new $824 million 11.5-kilometre four-lane highway connecting the Lower North Island East to West. It opened this week. it is, in effect an enormous sculpture park you can drive… Read more Audio

12:14 PM.To celebrate Matariki, singer-songwriter, TV presenter and political candidate Ria Hall will be on stage with the Auckand Philharmonia to present a night of epic anthems. Her self-titled EP won Best… Read more Audio

3:10 PM.Arts news for 8th June 2025. Audio

2:35 PM.Does an underground still exist? Or is it just one more consumer choice in an ever growing banquet of ticketed events? Testing this may be Tamaki Makarau's biennial Festival of Live Arts (FOLA), at… Read more Audio

2:25 PM.Each week Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different part of the country and we're going a bit more suburban this week to West Auckland - and the suburb of Titirangi. Close to the Waitakere Ranges… Read more Audio

2:07 PM.Award-winning UK festival Focus Wales celebrates emerging talent and artists. The festival which has been running for 15 years saw more than 22 thousand attendees, showcased 250 artists across 20… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.This month welcomes two contemporary indigenous performing arts festivals which have established themselves as cornerstones of the presentation of new work from Aotearoa and across the Pacific.  Read more Audio

12:43 PM.A new digital whodunnit comedy series puts the spotlight on the dangers and growing epidemic of image-based abuse and bullying. Inspired by millennial television shows like Gossip Girl, The Sender is… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.If cities can be lonely places no one told artist Sallie Culy. A familiar face on the streets of inner city Poneke Wellington, Sallie counts many people she has met a friend. Its an approach to life… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.The shortlist for the 2025 New Zealand Book Awards for Children and Young Adults was announced this week and, among the titles, is a story on the theme of Matariki by journalist and broadcaster… Read more Audio

3:06 PM.Arts news for 1 June 2025. Audio

2:35 PM.This next fortnight sees the visit of indigenous performers to Aotearoa from across Te Moana Nui a kiwa -the Pacific Ocean. They are presenting works at two established contemporary festivals -… Read more Audio

2:17 PM.130 years on, Puccini's La Bohème remains an enduring classic and beloved opera. Read more Audio