Glen Innes art gallery director Gary Silipa led a double life as a computer network engineer during the day and illegal graffiti artist at night until his addictions got the better of him.

Art critic and writer Anthony Byrt explains his passion for contemporary art.

At the galleries with TJ McNamara

Wellington artist Shannon Te Ao has won this year's Walters Prize, taking home a $50,000 cheque.

More than 1000 artists, in 100 venues across Auckland, want you to join them for Artweek.

Whanganui District Council opened New Zealand Glassworks to bring together professional glass artists and the community.

The man who will decide the winner of New Zealand's richest contemporary art award says deciding the victor is a tough task.

Street Art - Now and Then reveals the true-life story behind the development of graffiti art in Auckland.

In Viky Garden's largest work, the face emerges proudly from a passage of light.

A residency at the Smithsonian in Washington DC or one on Waiheke at the island's community art gallery?

A Judy Millar retrospective shows the visceral strength of the artist's works.

TJ McNamara's weekly round-up of the latest art gallery shows.

Tim and Sherrah Francis amassed the greatest names in New Zealand art for more than 50 years. Kim Knight talks to their son about the sale of his parents' unique collection.

Work by contemporary Maori and Pacific photographers travels across the ocean to join 10,000 images from all over the world at the Pingyao International Photography Festival.

Works selected for the Walters Prize, now on show at Auckland Art Gallery and to be announced later this month, are three video works and a billboard display representing each artist's body of work.

Every job has its challenges and there's many an adman (and, increasingly, woman) looking to escape; now 10 creatives are showing off what they do when they spring free.

They're the ideas men behind some of our most iconic advertising campaigns and images, working in an industry regarded as one of the

Kanye West's Famous sculpture has a $5.49 million price tag.

Auckland's Aotea Square is to be illuminated by large sculpture highlighting dementia.

John Reynolds is tackling one of the big mysteries of New Zealand art. What happened when Colin McCahon disappeared from the Sydney

What: Resident by James Cousins Where and when: Gow Langsford Gallery, 26 Lorne St, to August 27 TJ says: Luminous, near abstract

In the 3D animation class at Manurewa High School, Year 12 and 13 students are thinking about the future. How might houses inspired

Award-winning NZ Herald editorial cartoonist Rod Emmerson explains the thinking and process behind his Donald Trump illustration that appears in the world section of today’s paper.

The Richard Deacon sculpture Nobody Here But Us has the highest insurance value of any work in Auckland Council's art collection.

Exhibition pays homage to genius, writes Dionne Christian.

The fine city of Toulouse, on the river Garonne, has an air of Italy about it. It is immensely proud of its Capitole, the long neo-classical

A Grahame Sydney painting delivered 19 years after it was commissioned is expected to reward its owner's patience by fetching more than $100,000 .

Naked and in a revealing stars and stripes one piece, Melania and Hillary have been emblazoned on the walls of Melbourne's streets.

Inhotim is an open-air art gallery in the midst of about 2000ha of botanic gardens, a two-hour drive from Belo Horizonte, a two-hour flight from Rio.

The world of author and illustrator Dr Seuss is one in which nothing and everything makes sense.