Pasifika artists off to Guam
Creative New Zealand spent $650,000 to ensure the country is well-represented.
Creative New Zealand spent $650,000 to ensure the country is well-represented.
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.
Auckland pianist Ben Fernandez and drummer Stephen Thomas have been roped in for the one-off performance.
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.
Artists delve in to expression embracing their interpretation of mankind.
Auckland artist Flox speaks to Dionne Christian about her children's book collaboration.
Ghislaine Kenyon tells Craig Sisterson about why she felt compelled to write a book about Sir Quentin Blake, the most renowned illustrator of our time.
The 400-year-old picture had been left for more than 150 years in a property in the outskirts of Toulouse.
Australian artist Scott Marsh has painted over his Kanye Loves Kanye mural for $100,000 after it created an international stir.
Works of two established artists and a newcomer grace Auckland venues this month.
The buyer of a treasured Goldie painting, sold tonight to man from China, will have to ask permission from the Government if he wants to take it out of the country.
Artists take centre stage in Sydney's 20th Biennale, finds Eli Orzessek.
Two Kiwi artists have spent 10 years travelling the world creating stunning, short-lived art, writes Corazon Miller.
There are three strikingly inter-cultural exhibitions in Auckland; two of them at Te Uru Waitakere Art Gallery.
One of the largest cultural hubs to be developed in the world could be influenced by one of Auckland's smallest theatres, The Basement.
COMMENT: Andrew J. Steel has painted the wall of 4 Gundry St in Auckland three times during the past few years.