Mark Amery

In this week's art festival review Mark Amery considers the Auckland Wellington festival relationship. 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

In the first of a series of reports from the festival front, Mark Amery is in Wellington considering the radical game changing curation of the first week of New Zealand Festival by artist Lemi… Audio

Since 1996 Christchurch's The Physics Room has been one of our most significant incubators for contemporary artists, yet for two years it's been without a secure home. In that time it has run a bold… Audio, Gallery

Standing Room Only's first arts and culture show for 2020. 12.30-4pm Sunday Audio

Has 2019 been a good year in the performing arts? Te Matatini, the national Maori performing arts festival inspired kapa haka themed pedestrian crossing lights in Wellington, new festivals popped up… Audio

The Booker, The Ockham, Atwood, Knox, The closure of the New Zealand Review of Books, covering up white suprematist posters in Newmarket with Hone Tuwahre's poem 'Rain', and Lloyd Jones' proclaiming… Audio

Looking back across the cultural landscape of Aotearoa New Zealand in 2019 some words and catchphrases pop up: encounters, call-out culture, Ihumatao, climate emergency, allyship and, the phrase just… Audio

A giant hand called Quasi made world headlines. Dane Mitchell's fake transmitting trees at the Venice Biennale were joined by a real fallen tree during flooding. Giant woven works by the Mata Aho… Audio

Mark reviews the New Zealand-composed Hansel and Gretel from the Royal New Zealand Ballet currently touring the country. Audio, Gallery

A 1943 modern-dressed wartime production of Shakespeare's Hamlet was Dame Ngaio Marsh's first of many productions for the Canterbury University Drama Society. The director and crime writer's script… Audio, Gallery

Where are the female philosophers? Why are women silenced? Who can tell us how to live? These are three questions on the back cover of poet and publisher Helen Rickerby's fourth book of poems How to… Audio

Ben Crowder and Carl Bland are the duo behind one of New Zealand's most innovative theatre companies, Nightsong. Carl writes and then helps Ben direct, supported by leading designers and actors. This… Audio, Gallery

This weekend marks the beginning of celebrations of the 50th anniversary of Aratoi, the Wairarapa's Museum for Art and History in Masterton. Dame Robin White, Aratoi's patron calls the museum it the… Audio, Gallery

Antifashion is a term that's been used to describe design that is explicitly contrary to the fashion of the day. It's Alternative. And it's inherently political. Grunge fashion reacted against punk… Audio, Gallery

60% of the money arts development agency Creative New Zealand puts into the arts goes to long term funding for the running of arts organisations. Audio

This week on Standing Room Only 12.30-4pm Sunday: discussion about long term funding investment in arts organisations in the wake of big recent Creative New Zealand funding news with CNZ's Cath…

Among the most beautiful and distinctive aspects of New Zealand culture are kakahu, Maori cloaks. They're created not only to adorn people, but to provide shelter and warmth, and to acknowledge their… Audio, Gallery