Mark Amery

60% of the money arts development agency Creative New Zealand puts into the arts goes to long term funding for the running of arts organisations. Audio

This week on Standing Room Only 12.30-4pm Sunday: discussion about long term funding investment in arts organisations in the wake of big recent Creative New Zealand funding news with CNZ's Cath…

Among the most beautiful and distinctive aspects of New Zealand culture are kakahu, Maori cloaks. They're created not only to adorn people, but to provide shelter and warmth, and to acknowledge their… Audio, Gallery

Craig Cliff is our writer and the inspiration for our musical theme - levitation. In Nailing Down the Saint, he asks, can people fly? His protagonist, kiwi film-maker Duncan Blake, is following the… Audio

If he was alive today Colin McCahon would be 100. We get on the McCahon bus - literally. As well as discussing the many events and exhibitions which form part of the McCahon100 celebrations and the… Audio, Gallery

An opera about rugby sounds about as probable as, a Samoan performance group based in London. But they both together are true. R'Otello is part of London's new Opera in the City Festival and the work… Audio, Gallery

Arts patron, philanthropist and entrepeneur Chris Parkin, the man behind the $20,000 Parkin Drawing Prize (just announced) and a fabulous hotel art collection, who has just donated $1 million towards… Audio

Problematic. Controversial. Difficult. Racist. Words even the curators of the first substantial exhibition in decades of the late artist Theo Schoon use to describe his character. So why, in the face… Audio, Gallery

This Sunday's art, culture and heritage radio show 12.30-4pm RNZ National

Auckland Art Gallery have dubbed it "probably the best-known history painting ever produced in New Zealand". And in the hands of Samoan New Zealand photographer Greg Semu it has had a bold… Audio, Gallery

This Sunday for your arts and culture fix on Standing Room Only 12.30-4pm.

Perhaps it shouldn't be unusual but it's certainly rare for a major arts organisation in New Zealand to be run by a couple - let alone two parents with a very young child. Meet Aileen Burns and Johan… Audio, Gallery

Like music, poetry can be a conduit between our feelings and the world. It's an active in-between space, a space within which to let words dance between our internal world and the world outside. This… Audio

Wine, cheese, hobnobbing... Openings are major networking grounds, where hopefully a taste for the work of an artist is attained with some alcoholic encouragement. Audio, Gallery

In Cambodia in the mid 1970s, the Khmer Rouge - under the leadership of Pol Pot - abolished money, schools and private property and evacuated towns and cities. About 1.7 million Cambodians died in the… Audio, Gallery

Rako Pasefika is a performing arts group, based in Fiji, representing the small Pacific island of Rotuma. They're currently Artists in Residence in Auckland as part of the Pacific Dance Festival. Audio, Gallery

And then we meet "art detective" Bronwyn Holloway Smith, one of the three artists commissioned by Artspace to respond to Guy's exhibition there. But her particular interest is the recovery of Guy Ngan… Audio

"Sculpture is not a static thing, it should not be isolated, but take part in life." So said Wellington artist and designer Guy Ngan. Audio, Gallery