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.

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.

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.

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.

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'.

You couldn't get further away from an artist's studio or concert auditorium than the Laboratory for Animate Technologies at the University of Auckland's Bioengineering Institute.

The winner of a prestigious art award spotted his subject dining in a cafe.

Are we in danger of kicking creativity out of the classroom? Dionne Christian looks at what the arts can teach our children.

In part 3 of our Arts in Auckland coverage, Dionne Christian looks at how you try to include everyone.

With high-profile regional facilities in central Auckland - not to mention the lion's share of festivals - is there arts and cultural life in the 'burbs?

Is Auckland now the city of arts? Dionne Christian investigates in a five part series that starts today by looking at arts & the economy.