Art

Nina Tonga is an art historian and Curator Pacific Art at the Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongowera. She joins Kim to talk about the exhibition, Pacific Sisters: Fashion Activists, opening this… Audio

Michél Nieuwoudt uses light to uncover hidden information in different kinds of material, from milk to works of art. Audio

You don't have to pop on a headset to experience the eye popping futuristic artworks created by Refik Anadol. Using data, architecture, projection, light and sound, the Turkish media artist creates… Audio

Artist Dame Robin White recently received a Laureate award from the Arts Foundation. You may know her works - bold crisp, lines and flat blocks of colour, depicting scenes of small-town Kiwi life… Audio, Gallery

Te Papa's new art gallery, Toi Art, will open next March. Two floors of the national museum will be dedicated to four exhibitions that include fashion, jewellery and abstract art. The new gallery will… Audio, Gallery

Artist Jack Trolove says his technique of applying paint with a palette knife gives his work two variations - up close it's abstract, and the audience sees the form from a distance.

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An art exhibition with a difference opens in Whangarei on October 2. Many of the works have been created by prisoners from the Northland Regional Correction Facility, and the rest by local Whangarei… Audio, Gallery

Wellington painter Melanie Mills created a stir in the visual arts world when her first show of paintings based on flowers was an immediate sell-out. Melanie Mills and curator Kathlene Fogarty from… Audio, Gallery

How to live in the face of so much suffering? It's the question American writer, critical theorist, scholar of religion and author of many books, Sarah Sentilles, aims to answer in her new book, Draw… Audio

Kathryn Ryan talks to Australian visual artist Penelope Davis about her use of jellyfish sculptures to examine how marine life is being affected by environmental degradation. Audio

Since the 1890s we have been the land of frozen meat. The Sunday roast, the barbecue steak, spring lamb are traditions. How do we think about it in the 21st century?  Audio

Lisanne Skyler is the writer and director of documentary Brillo Box (3¢ off), that follows an iconic Andy Warhol Brillo Box, once owned by her family, as it makes its way from her family living room… Audio

If the Venice Biennale is the Olympic Games of contemporary art, Lisa Reihana should receive a gold medal, writes Lynn Freeman.

Kathryn Ryan talks to Warwick Brown about why after 50 years of collecting New Zealand art, his collection is going under the hammer. He is an author of several books on contemporary art, an arts… Audio, Gallery

An auction house specialist spills the beans on the tactics and the secrets of the people who sell us art.  Audio, Gallery