arts-and-culture

A strong South Island thread runs through TVNZ’s Dunedin-based reporter Sam Olley’s summer choices for beaches, music and…

This story was one of the most read on 1News.co.nz in 2025. It was first published on June…

With heavy traffic expected over the New Year period – much of it driven by people unfamiliar with…

Media company NZME has apologised after several of its regional newspapers published a Kiwi children’s book list recommending…

After more than two decades, Splore Festival has confirmed its 2026 event will be its last, becoming one…

Acclaimed Kiwi actor Jennifer Ward-Lealand is at the forefront of a global effort to protect artists from the…

One of the world’s biggest electronic dance music festivals coming to New Zealand for the first time has…

Elusive street artist Banksy appeared to confirm today that a new mural in London, depicting two children lying…

Best-selling children’s author David Walliams has been dropped by his publisher, following a British newspaper report of an…

Next year’s edition of Splore will be the final one, the music and art festival’s owner has announced,…

British writer Joanna Trollope, whose bestselling novels charted domestic and romantic travails in well-heeled rural England, has died,…

The painting that introduced Star Wars to the world nearly 50 years ago – and was reproduced in…

Sam Olley’s pick of the perfect NZ beach is in the deep south