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2:27 PM.A 600-page new book that took 12 years to create is set to reframe the history of Maori art. Toi Te Mana (Auckland University Press) brings together work from Maori artists and museums from around the… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.Dunedin artist Kari Morseth is weaving harakeke history back into the city's daily life.

The Rope/Walk community art project is centred around the South Dunedin's Rope Walk Building where Morseth has… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Jeff Thomson, one of Aotearoa’s senior professional sculptors, is best known for doing absolutely everything that’s possible with corrugated iron. His corrugated iron Holden sits in the Te Papa… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Suzanne Tamaki has many feathers in her cap.

Of Ngāti Maniapoto, Hikairo, Tūhoe and Te Arawa iwi, Suzanne Tamaki is known for her jewellery and costume design - her work is inspired by Pacific… Read more

12:50 PM.The Pacific Fashion Fusion Show is preparing to run its annual catwalk through downtown Auckland's freshly designated Komititanga.

Komititanga is the area that joins the end of Queen Street with the… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.The front of artist Ann Shelton's award-winning new book worm, root, wort.. & bane bears an image of a small silvered glass flask held in the Pitt Rivers Museum at Oxford University. The flask is said… Read more Audio

12:10 PM.Chef Peter Gordon is a deep lover of the arts and joins Culture 101 to share his fast Favourites.  Read more Audio

3:07 PM.A roundup of the arts scene. Audio

2:30 PM.Ngatu, siapo, aute, masi, tapa… just some of the names from across the Pacific for barkcloth which reflect the rich variety of bark used and working processes. . 

Tapa is having a moment in the art… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.The Portage Ceramic Awards have long honoured the dynamic world of contemporary ceramics within Aotearoa New Zealand.

The 2024 Premier Award winner and three Merit Award winners were announced at a… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.This week on Regional Wrap we go to Gisborne where exhibition Wimples, crosses, and lepers Women of Influence has just opened at Tairāwhiti Museum.

Margaret Hansen has also written a book by the same… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.Churches big and small throughout Aotearoa New Zealand are vital spaces of culture and community but there are increasing challenges with heritage restoration and their relevance  in today’s world.

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12:30 PM.For almost six decades photographer John Miller has been a protest photographer in Aotearoa New Zealand.

From his first photographs of an anti-Vietnam War protest on Auckland’s Albert Street as a… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.In April 2024, one of our most treasured artists Dame Robin White travelled from her home in Masterton to Aomori north of Honshu in Japan, to be an artist in residence at the Aomori Contemporary Art… Read more Audio

2:35 PM.The sheer diversity and invention of electronic music today in Aotearoa is evident in a list of sounds at the upcoming electronic sonic arts festival Outlier in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland. Curated… Read more Audio

2:17 PM.This month Manatū Taonga Ministry for Culture and Heritage released a draft for consultation of Amplify: A Creative and Cultural Strategy for New Zealand. It’s stated as a national strategy that… Read more Audio

2:05 PM.The Ministry for Culture and Heritage has released Amplify: A Creative and Cultural Strategy for New Zealand. It’s a draft open for public consultation described as ‘action-oriented’ outlining how the… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Raimona Inia’s focus with partner Nikora Mihinui has long been the perpetuation of their culture, with a strong focus on storytelling. A new series of six books they are producing in both Te Reo Māori… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.We’re all familiar with the image of the Pacific woman on postcards and in tourism marketing; warm and welcoming, light-skinned, with a slim build and long wavy hair. But what happens for young women… Read more Video, Audio

12:45 PM.In the far north, in Doubtless Bay, Te Tai Tokerau, Rowan Panther makes lace with fine strands of muka from the Harakeke flax bushes on her property. 

Bobbin lace to be precise, which is… Read more Audio

12:30 PM.It was the door slam heard around the world, shocking audiences. Henrik Ibsen’s 1879 play A Doll’s House caused outrage with the central character, Nora Helmer, walking out on her family, leaving… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.Actor, writer, comedian, director and social media star Tom Sainsbury is back with his friends and they’re Camping. Read more Audio

3:45 PM.As a curator at the Sarjeant Gallery Te Whare o Rehua since 2007, Greg Donson has been there for artists over a period of significant change for the gallery and the city. 

Now Senior Curator, he has… Read more Audio