Culture 101 for Sunday 3 March 2024

3:00 PM.News from Aotearoa and abroad Read more Audio

2:00 PM.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 in 2016, Denny was one of the first artists to… Read more Audio

1:25 PM.Artists in Tauranga recently took a creative response to comment on the City Council's Long Term Plan, which proposes steep rental increases for community groups, and a 'user pays' approach to… Read more Audio

1:07 PM.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 future I must reconcile with MY past.” 

Lewer’s… Read more Audio

12:45 PM.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 uncomfortable - which is perhaps, exactly why you should… Read more Video, Audio

12:30 PM.Habitat-printing robot birds, water-filtering sewer submarines, and flying bikes launched on waste heat thermals are just a few of the 100-plus bonkers ideas artist and industrial designer Steve… Read more Audio

12:15 PM.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 characters. But until now he’s never been a rom-com lead.

12:00 PM.What is it with tall people up the front at gigs? Should morning raves replace gym sessions? Joining us this week on Best of the Fest are writers Emily Perkins and Arihia Latham, artist Suzanne Tamaki… Read more Audio