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Our “ixceent” has been a source of cringing and mockery for decades but is now celebrated.
NZ Music Hall of Fame: Hinewehi Mohi honoured for dedication to waiata
Mohi's waiata at the 1999 Rugby World Cup has changed the country's music trajectory.
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Remembering Vincent O’Sullivan: A life of literary luminescence and endless conversation
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The Bigger Picture: Hear them roar
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Stephen Fry uncovers WWII tale of bravery beyond words
Art as resistance: How a gay Dutch painter and cellist fought the Nazis.
Māori melodies meet Welsh song in a unique music collaboration
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Taking an old painting from its frame can reveal hidden clues to its creation and history.
NZSO top brass heads to Dunedin for Strauss concerto
The dream Strauss concerto that gives horn players nightmares.
How great our art: The surprising art choices of 10 NZ artists
Kiwi artists on the works they love.
If you were going to turn Jane Austen into an opera, why would you pick Mansfield Park?
Inside NZ Opera's novel approach to Austen's most demanding book.
Heart of Gold intact: Music’s artistic worth outlives market fluctuations
Song investment giant Hipgnosis's market downgrade can't diminish the power of a song.
Aotearoa’s earliest photos rediscovered: Our people and places as you’ve never seen them before
Early photos provide an evocative snapshot of NZ's past.
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Toi love: NZ's new Māori and Pasifika art movement - and the gallery leading the charge
Māori and Pasifika artists are at heart of a new movement that is "having a moment".
Short Arms, Big Dreams: How classical musician dodged a trombone bullet to find harmony with the French horn
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Reimagining Aotearoa's artistic landscape: Marilynn Webb's legacy explored in major retrospective
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US percussion powerhouse Jacob Nissly rattled by big news but ready for NZSO appearances
A musical Savile Row suit has been tailored to show off US percussionist’s best features.
Cross purposes: Church stoush keeps art by one of NZ’s most highly regarded artists under wraps
An early commission by one of NZ's most highly regarded artists lies hidden in obscurity.
Flautist’s flight:“I like uniting different cultures, places. It’s almost like I’m uniting parts of myself”
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Highly strung and ropeable: Our female rugby greats bound together
Top rugby players to be tied together in living sculpture performance.
Battleground bylines: Kiwi women war reporters remembered
Forget images of tough-guy male war writers; two of our best were women.
Artist Sandro Kopp: “I have no idea how people who don’t paint deal with difficult situations in life”
Sandro Kopp opens his first solo exhibition at home in NZ in more than a decade.
Why I made: I went to buy wool for a hat and ended up knitting a human skeleton
Sculptor Michele Beevors makes life-sized sculptures of skeletal animals knitted in yarn.
Classical: Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater retains its magic
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The Bigger Picture: Dame Kiri on the cusp of stardom
Dame Kiri Te Kanawa has turned 80, but in 1966 she was beginning her international career.
World-renowned quartet: "It just seems natural that we're coming to your country so we should play your music"
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