Auckland Arts Festival director Jonathan Bielski's vision for a new precinct that he has dubbed the 'Festival Playground'.

It was perhaps inevitable that Instagram would shake up the art world.

The Underwater Photographer of the Year 2018 has just been announced. Here's a peek at the winning entries. Video / NZME

The recipient of one of Creative NZ's most prestigious visual arts awards is announced.

Save Our Gallery will continue lobbying despite proposed Auckland Art Gallery funds rise.

NZ artist & spatial designer Biljana Popovic is the 2018/2019 recipient of Creative New Zealand's Visual Arts Residency. Her project will involve researching the Berlin underground train network, the U-Bahn, as a unique space for making, displaying and thinking about art. / Brett Phibbs

A life-sized horse sculpture and giant cake will make this year's event a colourful affair

The City of Sails will be awash with colour as the Auckland Pride Festival returns Feb 2.

The 125-year-old institution is set to be included in the council's 10-year budget plan.

The man who brought Banksy's subversive work to Auckland.

Joe Te Wharau uses 3D technology to create Māori art. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Cross-stitchers and craft-makers: are they the new breed of political activists?

Friends made during art trip to NZ will help Cuban artist fundraise for devastated island.

Tech billionaire and surprise Kiwi checks out exhibition detailing his far-out philosophy.

Visitors will become artists themselves as Auckland Art Gallery goes dotty.

Artist Billy Apple has helped to prove that microbes in our faeces are unique identifiers.

Artist Sam Trubridge: "In the sea there's always a sense of something bigger than you."

The Big Hoot is an arts trail that brings artists together with local businesses, schools and community groups to transform over 100 blank owl sculptures into imaginative, individual works of art. The owls will be auctioned to raise money for the Child Cancer Foundation. / Video by Michael Craig

Auckland show for Banksy, the unknown artist whose political street art rules the world.

The British Wildlife Photography Awards, saluting UK photographic talent and the richness of Britain’s natural history, has revealed its 2017 category winners.

Kiwi Arnika Juvalta who bagged two Banksy paintings for only USD$60 each, has sold them to help buy a little slice of New Zealand.

The Art of Banksy exhibition is coming to New Zealand. The exhibition will be displayed at Auckland’s Aotea Centre in Auckland from 5 January to 6 February.

Artist Simon Denny and with his latest exhibition, The Founder's Paradox, in the Michael Lett Gallery.

A high-stakes game of life? Artist Simon Denny's latest exhibition tackles NZ politics.

The sale of Salvator Mundi has smashed old art auction records selling for $656 million.

He has inked almost everyone in Hollywood, from Miley Cyrus to Drake.

As the Portage Ceramic Awards begin, an exhibition honours pioneering NZ female potters.

Botanic gardens prepare for thousands of extra visitors as Sculpture in the Gardens opens.

Pascal Atiga-Bridger returns to school to serve now for a better tomorrow.

Exclusive: Patron says the Auckland Art Galleries operating budget is a 'disgrace'.