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1:30 PM.Regional Wrap: Te Whare Taonga o Kāwhia - Kāwhia Museum. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.One of New Zealand's leading photographers and artists, Yvonne Todd has announced she is now only working in AI. We believe as a professional in Aotearoa, she may be among the first. Read more Audio

12:30 PM.A year ago, on Culture 101 we played a recording of Tusiata Avia reading a commissioned poem for the 2024 Arts Foundation's Laureate Awards. It was entitled 'I'm writing you a poem about art'. In it… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Jackie van Beek joins us on Culture 101 to talk about season four of Educators and share some her cultural favourites. Read more Audio

2:30 PM.Just opened at New Plymouth's Govett Brewster Gallery is a major survey exhibition of one of Vietnam's leading - but at home most controversial - artists, Tran Luong . Entitled T m Tã - Soaked in the… Read more Video, Audio

2:07 PM.On Thursday evening, poet Dinah Hawken was one of three recipients of a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement. The others were, for fiction, Barbara Else and non fiction, Ross Calman. The… Read more Audio

1:26 PM.Local artist David Gunson joins us to talk about the arts scene there and the town's new art gallery. Read more Audio

1:08 PM.Authors David O'Donnell and Hilary Halba join Culture 101 to discuss their new book. Read more Audio

12:50 PM.City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi have announced that they will return to Te Ngākau Civic Square next October 2026 with a major new exhibition from, who they describe, as "one of the most… Read more Audio

12:33 PM.A just released book, An Eccentric History in Batik shares the story of the art and love of Dinah Priestley and Tony Burton. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Born in beautiful Te Anau, since age 5 tennis star today Lulu Sun has lived around the world. Formerly representing Switzerland, since 2024 she has again called New Zealand home. Read more Audio

3:05 PM.Arts News for 2 November 2025. Audio

2:33 PM.All art is politics: Acclaimed Australian artist Mike Parr's controversial performance. Read more Audio

2:06 PM.A leap of faith: 25th anniversary of The White Stripes remarkable debut in NZ. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Regional Wrap: working with kelp in the Waitaki. Read more Audio

1:07 PM.The stories of Roald Dahl have been hugely popular on stage and screen, and now, The Enormous Crocodile has been turned into a musical. Read more Audio

12:45 PM.Award-winning actor Alison Bruce is one of the country’s most versatile and experienced stage and screen actors. 
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12:30 PM.Tauranga Art Gallery reopens in $306 million redevelopment of city's cultural heart. Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Fast Favourites: TV presenter and journalist Laura Tupou. Read more Audio

2:45 PM.In 2023 Aotearoa lost one of its most beloved curators and supporters of contemporary photography, and Maori and Pacific art and artists, Ron Brownson. When he died Brownson was Senior Curator New… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Stage and screen veteran Fiona Samuel has been awarded this year's Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship by the Arts Foundation. Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Each week Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different part of Aotearoa for our regional wrap. KOAST Arts Trail has been taking place this Labour Weekend in the Bay of Islands and the Far North. The… Read more Audio

1:10 PM.The Lion King, Matilda, Wicked... big musical theatre shows no signs of dying. In Aotearoa we may not have a West End, Broadway or the long runs of the likes of some megashows in Melbourne, but local… Read more Audio

12:40 PM.Last month, a century-old Maori carving was restored and gifted to the British people. Carved originally in 1910, by master carver Tene Waitere, the pou was completed by his great-great-great… Read more Audio

12:17 PM."Anchor me, in the middle of your deep blue sea," sings Don McGlashan in one of his most beloved songs. McGlashan has, as a songwriter and sailor, been deeply influenced by bodies of water - rivers… Read more Audio