Visual Art
Playing Favourites with artist Lisa Reihana
Multi-disciplinary artist Lisa Reihana (Ngapuhi - Ngati Hine, Ngai Tu-Te Auru) is the Artist In Focus for the upcoming Aotearoa New Zealand Festival of the Arts, and will be bringing a series of her… Audio
The Artist Will Live Forever: Remembering Billy Apple
Today we learned one of New Zealand's most influential visual artists, Billy Apple, has died. Jesse speaks with Art historian, director of The Adam Art Gallery and Billy Apple biographer, Christina… Audio
Former engineer and territorial soldier returns to Defence with art
Grant Philip was just fresh into his military career, when a diving accident left him a tetraplegic. Now a painter, he's returning to his military roots as part of the Art in Recovery programme. Video, Audio
Kuki Koori - Fat Freddy's Drop keyboardist and an artist VJ
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An audio visual spectacle which combines live digital painting and and improvised electronic musical performance, Kuki Koori is the brainchild of Fat Freddy Drop's Iain Gordon aka Kuki… Video, Audio, Gallery
Art for the Summer
Not too sure what to do to keep your brain stimulated this summer? Suite Gallery’s David Alsop has compiled a list of not-to-be-missed exhibitions on around the country over the warmer months… Audio
The bitter taste of sugar slavery
Imagine being stolen from your homeland and forced to work on a sugar plantation. Many people are unaware of that happening in this part of the world, but it did. Colonial Sugar, the new exhibition at… Audio
Force Multiplier
Indi Force is a music mentor, teaches composition, works at the Christchurch Art Gallery and in her spare time, composes for screen and stage. Audio
Curating a New Zealand legend
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
Joseph Michael - Antarctica in Auckland
For three nights, as the sun sets over the domain, Auckland's War Memorial Museum will become a blank canvas for the 360 degree projection of a life size iceberg. Audio, Gallery
Eye on the Arts
Resident arts critic and Suite Gallery owner David Alsop discusses admission charges; art auctions; the return of the Art Centre Gallery in Christchurch; farewell to Cindy Sherman; and what we have… Audio
Where to after Venice Biennale?
Upbeat’s Melbourne correspondent Vincent O’Donnell visits artist Simon Denny in his Berlin studio to talk about what has happened since he made international news with his Venice Biennale installation… Audio
The art of painting with wine
Many of us may enjoy a tipple or two of our favourite drop. But rather than drink wine, Canadian artist Melissa Proudlock paints with it. But there’s more to painting with wine than just dipping a… Audio
Lee Mingwei: The Art of Participation
Contemporary Taiwanese artist Lee Mingwei hopes gallery-goers won't shy away from getting involved in his exhibition with The Art of Participation at Auckland Art Gallery. Audio
Feminism in art
Leading contemporary art specialist and journalist Australian Julie Ewington is in New Zealand to run an introductory class on feminist artist Cindy Sherman. City Gallery in Wellington has an… Audio
Looking at Lindauer
Auckland Art Gallery is celebrating stories told through Gottfried Lindauer’s brush strokes. Gallery principal conservator Sarah Hillary talks about gathering Lindauer’s works, the techniques that… Audio
Telling history through horse hair
An art work that is a memorial to the thousands of horses that died in WWI, has been selected as one of three finalists in the Regional Art section of the New Zealand Museum Awards. Sarah McClintock… Audio
Alfredo Jaar
New York based artist and film maker Alfredo Jaar has been given space in the Space to Dream: Recent art from South America exhibition on at The Auckland Gallery. His instillation art draws on wars… Audio
Sam Dollimore
Visual artist Sam Dollimore's latest exhibition a/part at Toi Poneke explores the way we look at our own bodies and how our perceptions can become so warped that we don't recognise ourselves. Audio
David Alsop
David Alsop previews several new exhibitions: Frida Kahlo: Her Photos at Te Manawa Museum in Palmerston North; Fiona Pardington: A Beautiful Hesitation; the latest offerings from Wellington artist Rob… Audio
Angela Tiatia - Survey/Fa'aliga
At the heart of a new survey show by artist Angela Tiatia is a video work called Edging and Seaming. On one screen a lone Pasifika woman in Auckland sews baby garments in her garage, while on the… Audio, Gallery