Shapeshifter tour New Zealand
Rave and dance to drum and bass with these Kiwi legends who have made it big at festivals around the world. Shapeshifter are touring New ...
Arts & Culture
Canterbury Museum exhibition highlights the diversity of Islamic culture
A new exhibition – Mosque: Faith, Culture, Community – which aims to demystify Islam for non-Muslim New Zealanders opened December 12 at ...
Q&A: Dcypher
A mainstay of the DTR street art crew, Dcypher cut his teeth in Canterbury before spending a decade in Los Angeles working as a freelance artist ...
Filmmaker Gerard Smyth on When a City Rises and the rebuild of Christchurch
Gerard Smyth has become a chronicler of the earthquake recovery, recording hundreds of hours of historical footage and releasing two ...
Anthony Wright: Museums, masterpieces & matagouri
Anthony Wright and his partner Selene Manning recently completed the stunning home-cum-art collection Wrightmann House. All the interior walls of ...
Q&A: Wongi 'Freak' Wilson
Wongi Wilson is a street artist with a reputation for high-quality, large-scale works in prominent positions around Christchurch. What motivates ...
Q&A: Joel Hart
Joel is a Christchurch graphic designer and urban artist with a proclivity for creating art around the themes of beauty and decay. What are the ...
The Wrightmann Collection: A short history of Canterbury contemporary art
Spanning almost three decades, The Wrightmann Collection comprises nearly 1000 works of art and objects by Aotearoa New Zealand artists, ...
Q&A: Jacob Root
A relative newcomer to the Christchurch street art scene, Jacob Root uses stencils, screens, acrylic and aerosols to create works scaling from ...
Q&A: Nomi Cohen
For everyone who’s ever sat bored through the sports or ancient history part of a pub quiz, Nomi Cohen is bringing us a thigh-slapping, ...
Q&A: Jacob Yikes
Christchurch-based illustrator Jacob Yikes is a staple of the city’s street art scene, and also illustrates and paints in his home studio. He’s ...
Q&A: Rone
Melbourne artist Rone’s Worcester Street artwork on the side of Cathedral Junction is one of our faves. Can you tell about how the Worcester ...
Q&A: Visionary artist Gill Gatfield
Artist Gill Gatfield’s works are exhibited around Aotearoa and the world, including her work Suffragette on display in Christchurch at SCAPE’s ...
Q&A: Chimp
Organic Matters, the work of Wellington-based artist Chimp, is one of the most striking features of Christchurch’s Justice and Emergency ...
Van Gogh's art is coming to New Zealand in a massive interactive event
After wowing punters on Wellington’s waterfront in August 2020, the wildly popular Van Gogh Alive exhibition is returning to Wellington, Auckland ...
Q&A: Magician Jarred Fell
Witty, naughty and razor-sharp, Jarred Fell is coming to Christchurch to premiere his new show, Again. He talks street magic and sleight of hand ...
Getting up: Street art in Christchurch
The depictions on Christchurch’s exterior walls are a massive part of the city’s post-quake identity. What's Hot New Zealand talks to a few of ...
Q&A: George Shaw
What has Oi YOU! been up to in the last few years? We organised Rise in 2014 and Spectrum in 2015 and 2016. They were absolutely huge festivals, ...
Entertain me - Summer 2020/21
We round up great films, reads, shows to bingewatch, new albums to treat your ears to and a couple of decent podcasts to ...
New Zealand Opera’s 2021 season announcement brings The Marriage of Figaro and more on the road
Appropriately themed ‘navigating love’, NZ Opera’s 2021 season is set to make us fall in love with opera all over again with a variety of operas ...
Celebrating 150 years of Canterbury Museum: House of taonga
Canterbury Museum’s doors first opened on October 1, 1870, and over the past 150 years its collection has swelled from 25,000 items to more than ...
Auckland Arts Festival has unveiled its full programme and it is all-Kiwi awesome
Packing over 70 shows into 18 days in March, the Auckland Arts Festival Te Ahurei Toi o Tāmaki is bringing a mixture of free and premium events ...
All the winners from the 2020 Aotearoa Music Awards
Benee and The Beths were the big winners on Sunday night, between them taking home the top prizes for Single of the Year, Best Solo Artist, ...
New and classic ballets incoming in Royal New Zealand Ballet's 2021 season
With The Sleeping Beauty arriving in Christchurch next week, we're amped on ballet and already looking forward to what next year will bring us. ...
Review: Synthony 2020
It’s the biggest, most epic dance club you’ve ever been to, and more. A thrill of anticipation and excitement rippled through the packed floor ...
Kiwi Concert Party: Tim Finn, Bic Runga and the Topp Twins in one showstopping evening
Bic Runga, Tim Finn and The Topp Twins will perform a two hour variety concert, together with the Hātea Kapa Haka group at Villa Maria, one of ...
Review: New Zealand Opera's The Human Voice
It's a short, one-woman performance that packs a palette of emotions into a small space. What's Hot New Zealand reviews the Christchurch ...
Q&A: Artist Heather Straka on women in power
Heather Straka’s art series Dissected Parlour is not in a gallery, but rather on the walls at Mod’s Hair in Merivale, Christchurch. She talks to ...
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