Since this is the first time New York dance company Cedar Lake Contemporary Ballet has come to New Zealand, members can be forgiven for not being sunsmart.

An Auckland Arts Festival show doesn't just blow things up, blow things over, and blow people's minds, it proves that science isn't just for boys.

Mirrored towers make up the art installation Field, by Angus Muir and Alexandra Heaney, on display in Wynyard Quarter this month as part of the Auckland Arts Festival.

A Kiwi student has come up with an innovative way to show off her artistic photography - by using traditional Pacific tapa cloth.

Activism through art specialist Lemi Ponifasio and Mau take Colin McCahon's iconic painting as a huge and architectural backdrop to their spellbinding tribute to the fallen of World War I - and take....

For the next two weeks, across Auckland, more than 100 world class shows - local and international - will astound and entertain.

"It's going to be a family reunion mixed with work." Since his sister moved to the North Shore in 1999, David Shrigley has been a frequent visitor to New Zealand.

Elisabeth Easther takes a look at the Auckland Arts Festival’s crowd-pleasers and finds plenty to both amuse and delight.

"Hold on," says the woman on the end of the line. "He is in rehearsal right now. I'll just go and grab him."

All artists take risks. Elliot Stewart once faced an oncoming train as he painted the inside of a tunnel.

I have always thought of Mere Boynton as one of Wellington's musical taonga; she trained as a singer at Victoria University and, in the 1990s, was a spellbinding performer at one of the city's....

NZ On Screen Content Director Irene Gardiner selects five great New Zealand arts documentaries, to mark the start of the 2015 Auckland Arts Festival.

Nestled in beautiful Tapapakanga Park Splore festival became annual for the first time this year, and it seems the move was a very successful one, write Lydia Jenkins and Rachel Bache.

A gallery has grown in the heart of Coromandel Town. In a purpose-built space designed by Ron Sang, Barry Brickell's Driving Creek Art Gallery is hosting its sixth exhibition Using Paint and Clay Expressively.

"I don't make lollies!" Lemi Ponifasio is talking about the often-extreme reaction to his latest production, I AM, from which many audience members walked out when it was staged at last year's Edinburgh International Festival.

Mother/Jaw is a youthful, passionate and promising exploration of being and identity. It emphasises "otherness" - arising from ethnicity, on one hand, and states of mind on the other - and takes a significant stance in the Fringe Festival dance programme.