Colin Mc Cahon

In private hands, iconic New Zealand treasures can be sold off, hidden away, or even destroyed.  Audio

Going, going and gone to a good cause. BNZ's art collection is about to be sold, to fund a charitable foundation.

The collection includes some of our most well-known artists, like Colin McCahon, Rita… Video, Audio

The country's newest museum is about to open its doors in Otautahi Christchurch, revealling an extensive, previously private art collection that's been gifted to the city. Ravenscar House Museum… Audio, Gallery

A painter, a sculptor and an architect collaborated in the 1960s and 70s to create unique churches, chapels, schools and private houses - all with a distinctive Kiwi character. "Big deal" you might… Audio, Gallery

Auckland Art Gallery guest curator Juliana Engberg joins Kathryn to talk about her travels around the country, and how that's helped her appreciate New Zealand's painted landscapes. Juliana Engberg… Audio

McCahon scholar, writer and curator, Peter Simpson has released the second of a two-volume work chronicling forty-five years of painting by Colin McCahon. Audio, Gallery

Arts correspondent Julia Waite joins Kathryn to talk about how Covid-19 has been an opportunity for galleries have 'leaned in' to their own art collections, and are sharing more of the art here in New… Audio, Gallery

Artist Dick Frizzell has been busy during lockdown putting the finishing touches on his new book Me, According To The History Of Art. The self-described 'habitual isolator' joins the show to discuss… Audio

Anne Hamblett was married to Colin McCahon. But a new exhibition is a reminder that she was also an important artist in her own right, although she gave up painting to raise her family and to support… Audio

Is Colin McCahon our country's most important artist? Justin Paton thinks so. Paton is Head Curator of International Art at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, an active art critic, and author of… Audio, Gallery

The name Colin McCahon for many of us will raise images of huge text over sparse backdrops, but he was an artist of many colours and moods. 2019 is the centenary of the artist's birth and the McCahon… Audio

Finn McCahon-Jones is is the grandson of one of New Zealand's most iconic painters, Colin McCahon. He recently began researching and writing about his grandfather's time as a curator at Auckland City… Audio, Gallery

John Reynolds is one of New Zealand's foremost artists. For several years he has been working on a body of work that examines the real-life disappearance of Colin McCahon on the eve of the exhibition… Audio, Gallery

Peter Simpson is a writer, editor and curator. He was honoured for his work as a literary historian and fine arts writer with the 2017 Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement.  Audio

We are a creative nation. No one knows that better than art historian and contemporary-art curator Ngahiraka Mason. The former Indigenous Curator Māori Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki is now… Audio

The first Colin McCahon show in 15 years is currently on at City Gallery in Wellington. The exhibition Colin McCahon: On Going Out with Tide was curated by poet and critic Wystan Curnow and features… Audio

This month's record-breaking sale of the Colin McCahon painting The Canoe Tainui for $1.35 million dollars is a reminder of what an important artist McCahon was. Kathryn Ryan speaks to Thomas Crow… Audio