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Three Picks from New Zealand Art at Te Papa
Art historian and editor of New Zealand Art at Te Papa Mark Stocker shares his favourites from this impressive new collection.
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2019 Arts Radar: The Friends Edition
New Zealand Festival friends share their cultural picks.
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Best of the Summer Music Fests
Kirsten Johnstone, RNZ Music producer shares her pick of the Summer music festival season line-up, with plenty to recommend.
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Jonathan Lemalu: You Wouldn't Expect This of Me, But ...
Grammy Award-winning opera singer Jonathan Lemalu enjoys watching high-flying dunks as much as he enjoys singing sonorous low-lying notes.
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The next gen: Te Auaha graduate shows
In an exclusive preview of two upcoming Te Auaha graduate exhibitions, Aotearoa's emerging artists and designers share insights into their work and creative practice.
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This Reading Life: Kaveh Akbar
By his books we will know Iranian-American poet, Kaveh Akbar.
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A Study in Drama
In this extract from Creative Victoria, author Rachel Barrowman retraces the creative beginnings of some of Victoria University of Wellington's most well-known students — including Taika Waititi and Bret McKenzie
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Terracotta Warriors and Me
Dr Rebecca Rice, curator of Te Papa's upcoming Terracotta Warriors: Guardians of Immortality exhibition, shares a personal account of the journey to bring some of China's greatest treasures to New Zealand.
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Double Saw Final at the Canterbury A&P Show
Queen Mob’s Teahouse poetry editor Erik Kennedy shares the origins of his "Pindaric victory ode" to New Zealand's saw racers, part of his recently published, first full-length collection.
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