A few words with art curator Beatriz Bustos Oyanedel.

It might more commonly be called the City of Sails, but to sociologist and historian Scott Hamilton Auckland is "a city of text", with multiple stories waiting to be told.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Kanye West had reportedly offered an Australian artist "a pretty decent chunk of money" to remove a street mural of the rapper passionately kissing himself.

About 50 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island artists have travelled to Monaco for the launch of an exhibition of their work highlighting ocean protection.

In the Sacred Blessing Sanctuary on Waiheke Island, among the foliage and the roses and very close to the vegetable garden is a rabbit.

Kerrin Tilley paints using a special mouthpiece, along with his tongue and teeth to guide and control the brush.

Warning: Graphic images. Zoe Armstrong, a 20-year-old theatre student at the University of Otago in New Zealand, shares photos of her gory creations on her Facebook and Instagram pages while working as a freelance special effects make-up artist.

Encounter the sacred beauty of the forests of Fiji, the Solomons, Samoa and Aotearoa at Marama.

The last major painting by New Zealand artist Charles Frederick Goldie described as a "rare national treasure" is expected to sell for more than $1 million.

A new exhibition tells the haunting stories of the foreign children torn from their families and savagely abused in order to turn them into 'perfect Aryans'.