The Auckland Art Gallery is showing a small exhibition of lithographs by Honore Daumier that acts as a lively adjunct to the current Auckland Festival of Photography.

A giant, headless statue of Rihanna has appeared as part of an art series which mixes celebrity culture with mythology.

The handbrake is set to be pulled on the Real Art Roadshow which has visited schools around NZ for 10 years - unless someone new grabs the wheel.

New Zealand artist Maurice Bennett crafted unique portraits of celebrities from pieces of toast.

Abstract art is showing new vitality. It can be Classical or Romantic, poised and precise, or energetic and expressionistic.

Space to Dream: Recent Art from South America includes art from the late 1960s to the present created by artists from eight different countries.

Kiwi artists are flocking to Australia this weekend for the opening of Vivid Sydney, where their work will be on show alongside artists from around the world.

Local photographer Julia Glover has experienced the excitement of Africa without leaving town.

An airbrushed "tattoo" on a five-year-old Tauranga boy has become an internet phenomenon that could bring smiles to the faces of children at Starship Hospital.

A few words with documentary film-maker Justin Webster.

What is it like to live, as many of us in the Southern Hemisphere do, with our eyes forever on a different part of the world?

Five years in the making, Seven Magic Mountains is the work of Swiss artist Ugo Rondinone, inspired by the natural "hoodoo" rock formations in southwestern America.

Stephie Key this week graduates from the exclusive Paris College of Art, and her dad will make a flying visit to be there for the big day.

In a sense, it all began with a question from a small boy: "If we're going to catch the bus into Auckland Library, please can we go to the art gallery, too?"

It is not all abstraction; there is still painting about people.

Auckland Art Fair will show the best in contemporary art from New Zealand and the wider Pacific.

A few words with art curator Beatriz Bustos Oyanedel.

The works, for the most part small statues and ceramics, are displayed on carpet mats on the floor.

Harlem Shine from Ohope Beach carves logs washed ashore during storms. He can spend weeks/months carving a huge log only to have a storm wash it out to sea.

There are two Block Parties happening in Auckland: which is the one for you?

It is astounding to think no art gallery in Australasia has ever generated a comprehensive exhibition of work from South America until now.

Fifteen seconds: according to a number of surveys, that's the amount of time the "average" viewer spends looking at a painting and accompanying text.

Much exciting contemporary art aims not to promote meaning or message but rather to engage the eye with new visual experience.

It used to be that art in hotels was deliberately inoffensive.

One of the most popular exhibitions at the Mairangi Arts Centre, on Auckland's North Shore, is now on.

Animated artistry narrows gap between art and science, writes Nick Atkinson.

Two exhibitions in prominent galleries immediately next to each other show works that are poles apart in concept and execution.

Artists delve in to expression embracing their interpretation of mankind.

Auckland artist Flox speaks to Dionne Christian about her children's book collaboration.