Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchOscars predictions with Gemma Gracewood in Los Angeles
It’s the 96th Academy Awards on Monday 11th March - the final ceremony of the awards season which started almost a year ago at the Cannes Film Festiv…
2 years, 2 months ago
Boy: a tragic and compelling story of gender identity
The true story behind theatre show Boy is both controversial and compelling. Appearing at the Auckland Arts Festival theatre and written by Dutch-bor…
2 years, 2 months ago
Musicians who paint: The Bats’ Robert Scott plays Fast Favourites and remembers Hamish Kilgour
Ōtepoti Dunedin’s Robert Scott is best known as a member of seminal New Zealand bands The Bats and The Clean, but more quietly he’s been painting for…
2 years, 2 months ago
Arts News for Sunday 3 March
News from Aotearoa and abroad
2 years, 3 months ago
NZ Artist Simon Denny in Berlin and New York on NFTs, meta landscapes and space colonies
Berlin-based New Zealand artist Simon Denny’s work has long explored the culture of new technology and the dreams tech entrepreneurs sell us. Back…
2 years, 3 months ago
Regional wrap: Tauranga arts groups face up to 300% rent increases
Artists in Tauranga recently took a creative response to comment on the City Council's Long Term Plan, which proposes steep rental increases for comm…
2 years, 3 months ago
The Waikato Wars: What painter Richard Lewer didn’t learn at school
At the New Zealand Portrait Gallery in Pōneke hangs an enormous New Zealand flag upon which artist Richard Lewer has painted the words: “To have a fu…
2 years, 3 months ago
How to Have Sex: rising British acting star Mia McKenna-Bruce
British coming-of-age drama, How to Have Sex has found a new way to tackle the issue of sexual consent. It’s strangely both nostalgic and very uncomf…
2 years, 3 months ago
Tackling climate change with bonkers creative ideas: inventor artist Steve Mushin
Habitat-printing robot birds, water-filtering sewer submarines, and flying bikes launched on waste heat thermals are just a few of the 100-plus bonke…
2 years, 3 months ago
Fast Favourites: Kiwi Actor Yoson An in modern Aussie rom-com
Yoson An’s career (Mulan, The Luminaries, Dead Lucky, Creamerie) has been steadily on the rise and impressively, he’s played a wide range of charact…
2 years, 3 months ago