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Dots hit the spot with art lovers
The world's art lovers voted with their feet to make an 86-year-old Japanese woman the most popular artist of last year.
Kiwi artist behind foxy Prodigy album art
The Prodigy's new album comes with a striking cover image of a fox standing over a glowing cityscape.
Tower burns in 'celebration' (+ photos)
The tower was so strikingly beautiful, many visitors expressed disbelief it was to be destroyed. But its designer said that had to be the artwork's destiny.
Tragic stories from kid's art
The school bus lurches to a halt outside a Bekaa Valley primary school in the east of Lebanon.
Art auction raises $22k for children
An auction of Kiwi artists' work has raised $22,000 for a project that uses art to help Syrian kids cope with the trauma of civil war.
Portrait of an artist: Billy Apple
More than 50 years ago an artist from Auckland changed his name to Billy Apple and became a living brand. On the eve of a major retrospective of his life’s work, he talked to Greg Dixon about his past, his present and his future.
Through the looking glass
Mirrored towers make up the art installation Field, by Angus Muir and Alexandra Heaney, on display in Wynyard Quarter this month as part of the Auckland Arts Festival.
Tapa cloth at heart of doctorate in art
A Kiwi student has come up with an innovative way to show off her artistic photography - by using traditional Pacific tapa cloth.
McCahon looms large over WWI tribute
Activism through art specialist Lemi Ponifasio and Mau take Colin McCahon's iconic painting as a huge and architectural backdrop to their spellbinding tribute to the fallen of World War I - and take....
A city blossoms in explosive art
Auckland's Art Festival is filling the streets, parks and theatres for the next two weeks with light, colour and music. Find out what's on this week and our don't miss pics.
David Shrigley: A nice change of scenery
"It's going to be a family reunion mixed with work." Since his sister moved to the North Shore in 1999, David Shrigley has been a frequent visitor to New Zealand.
T.J. McNamara: The husband who became an insect
The Pacific Rim is reflected in the Auckland Arts Festival with art from Japan, New Zealand and Samoa. Six artists from Japan at the St Paul Street Gallery make considerable demands on the viewer. Three long videos are full of angst, examining Japanese so
Patrica Greig: You meet a wall and take it from there
All artists take risks. Elliot Stewart once faced an oncoming train as he painted the inside of a tunnel.
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.
Stephen De Pledge at Te Uru, Titirangi
The artworks of Michael Parekowhai grace many city venues, but their beauties and ironies are silent.
Phallic art stuns residents
'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.
Energetic observer nears end of house project
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 true suffering of war
With the anniversary last year of the beginning of World War I and this year's remembrance of the Gallipoli landings there has been much comment on war and its consequences.