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Perlina Lau and Mark Amery host a weekly show about creativity and culture in Aotearoa.
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Just opened at New Plymouth's Govett Brewster Gallery is a major survey exhibition of one of Vietnam's leading - but at home most controversial - artists, Tran Luong . Entitled T m Tã - Soaked in the Long Rain, this large exhibition debuted in Dubai and will travel on to Perth.
On Thursday evening, poet Dinah Hawken was one of three recipients of a Prime Minister's Award for Literary Achievement. The others were, for fiction, Barbara Else and non fiction, Ross Calman. The awards have been made annually since 2003. They are managed by Creative New Zealand and decided by its governing Arts Council following public nominations and recommendations from an external panel. Dinah Hawken will publish her 11th book of poetry in 2026, Peace and Quiet. Her debut collection, It Has No Sound and is Blue won the Commonwealth Poetry Prize for Best First Time Published Poet back in 1987. Across those 48 years she has been published by Te Herenga Waka Press. In 2007 Dinah received the Lauris Edmond Award for Distinguished Contribution to Poetry. As a poet Dinah Hawken has a remarkable ability to situate herself and us in nature and history. To connect us to these bigger things, while - gently yet pointedly - make us ask questions of ourselves. Dinah joined Culture 101 in the Poneke Wellington studio on Friday, and we started with her reading a poem she read at the awards ceremony.
Local artist David Gunson joins us to talk about the arts scene there and the town's new art gallery.
Authors David O'Donnell and Hilary Halba join Culture 101 to discuss their new book.
City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi have announced that they will return to Te Ngākau Civic Square next October 2026 with a major new exhibition from, who they describe, as "one of the most significant artists of the 21st century": Cornelia Parker.
A just released book, An Eccentric History in Batik shares the story of the art and love of Dinah Priestley and Tony Burton.
Born in beautiful Te Anau, since age 5 tennis star today Lulu Sun has lived around the world. Formerly representing Switzerland, since 2024 she has again called New Zealand home.
Arts News for 2 November 2025.
All art is politics: Acclaimed Australian artist Mike Parr's controversial performance.
Regional Wrap: working with kelp in the Waitaki.
Award-winning actor Alison Bruce is one of the country’s most versatile and experienced stage and screen actors.
Tauranga Art Gallery reopens in $306 million redevelopment of city's cultural heart.
Fast Favourites: TV presenter and journalist Laura Tupou.
In 2023 Aotearoa lost one of its most beloved curators and supporters of contemporary photography, and Maori and Pacific art and artists, Ron Brownson. When he died Brownson was Senior Curator New Zealand and Pacific Art at the Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tamaki. He had been at the gallery since becoming a research librarian there in 1978.
Stage and screen veteran Fiona Samuel has been awarded this year's Katherine Mansfield Menton Fellowship by the Arts Foundation.
Each week Culture 101 puts the spotlight on a different part of Aotearoa for our regional wrap. KOAST Arts Trail has been taking place this Labour Weekend in the Bay of Islands and the Far North. The region is home to many artists, visitors and art collectors. Over the four days, an art trail including Russell, Doubtless Bay and Kaitaia gives an opportunity to enjoy the area and visit different artists and galleries. In Kerikeri, the Turner Centre is taking part in KOAST. Joan Honeyfield is both an artist and a trustee of the Bay of Islands Creative Charitable Trust and is organising one of the collective art hubs this year.
Last month, a century-old Maori carving was restored and gifted to the British people. Carved originally in 1910, by master carver Tene Waitere, the pou was completed by his great-great-great grandson, Robert Schuster Rika, to honour the legacy of the first indigenous woman to study at Oxford University.
For their latest installation Elisapeta Heta and Raukura Turei have designed a space inspired by the special space Kohanga Reo plays in their lives.
This year's Arts Laureates have been announced with eight new artists being honoured and recognised for their exceptional work and their contribution to Aotearoa's cultural landscape and communities.
Every week on our Regional Wrap we travel to a different place around the country and, today, nestled in the Waikato below the Kaimai Ranges it's the historic town of Te Aroha.
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