NZ on Screen: Five great art docos
NZ On Screen Content Director Irene Gardiner selects five great New Zealand arts documentaries, to mark the start of the 2015 Auckland Arts Festival.
NZ On Screen Content Director Irene Gardiner selects five great New Zealand arts documentaries, to mark the start of the 2015 Auckland Arts Festival.
The artworks of Michael Parekowhai grace many city venues, but their beauties and ironies are silent.
'Oh my God, it's a cock and balls.' A $200,000 public sculpture being installed in Auckland is causing a stir with locals, who say it resembles a penis.
Art causes lurching emotions. "From hateful boredom to supreme enlightenment," as John Radford puts it, raving about regular avant-garde concert series, Vitamin S.
The winning sculpture at a New Zealand outdoor art exhibition is among a number of works vandalised in the opening weekend of the free public event.
This is your star sign as you've never seen it before. Artist and illustrator Damon Hellandbrand has reimagined every sign of the zodiac as a monster.
The first evening concert of Te Uru Waitakere's Black Rainbow festival augured well for the gallery's enterprising cultural mix.
See what happens when the boss turns his back in the fantasy world of BLAM! says Dionne Christian.
The Sculpture on the Gulf art walk returns to Waiheke Island tomorrow for its seventh season.
Andy Warhol was the top-selling artist at auction last year as increased competition for the most-expensive segment of the market drove global art sales higher.
The intricate patterns that trickle down her hands have huge significance to Kiwi singer Aaradhna.
Tattoo you: Well known Kiwis show off their ink. Pua Magasiva and KJ Apa, Shortland St stars. Their on-screen characters on Shortland Street do not have much to do with each other.
Well-known Kiwis show off their ink. Ingrid Hipkiss TV presenter...
Kiwi comic creator Dylan Horrocks' love of the medium was beaten to a pulp by Batgirl, but was sparked back into life through a trip into his own imaginary landscape.
Artistic problems and political bickering are plaguing the $1.5 million "lighthouse" sculpture on Queens Wharf.
Hundreds of toys which generations of pre-video-gaming children would have put high on their Santa lists are being unpacked for a bumper auction in Auckland next week.
A Coatesville villa that may have once been home to artist Charles Frederick Goldie is on the market for nearly $2.7 million.
For some New Zealand celebrities it was a bit of horsing around, but their doodles of horses are helping to raise money for Riding for the Disabled.