Once dusty dame now tourist temple
Thirty years ago, the Louvre Museum was the Queen Mum of the art world, a genteel, rather fusty storehouse everyone knew was wonderful but few felt compelled to visit.
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Earth, wind, fire and steam
By the end of his career, Turner exhibited less frequently, received fewer commissions, and retreated into his work.
Palm tree v art collection
Phoenix palm is threatening the financial viability of the Pah Homestead in Auckland, the permanent home of Sir James Wallace art collection.
Artist apologises over killer's portrait
An artist has apologised for upsetting the family of a murder victim after the killer's portrait was entered in a national art award.
Mark Sainsbury: Let's leave the election up to Tom
Sainsbury writes: Given all the moaning and wailing about this election and lack of policy and dirty tricks and bias and influence, I've had a brainwave!
Michele Hewitson interview: Roger Mortimer
On Monday night painter Roger Mortimer won this year's Wallace Arts Trust Paramount Award - which means that he gets to go to New York for six months, for a residency, and what's more, he gets money to live on while he's there.
TJ McNamara on art: Threads of rich emotion
The dexterity of an artist's technique means the viewer can often be involved in the action of the moving hand as well as the unspoken thoughts that might underlie a painting.
Demons and dragons clinch art award
A painting of the coastline around Otago Harbour populated by macabre medieval demons and dragons has won the Paramount Award in last night's annual Wallace Art Awards.
Southern exposure at Museum
Danielle Wright visits 'Still Life: Inside the Antarctic Huts of Scott and Shackleton', at the Auckland War Memorial Museum.
Mystery artist finally acknowledged
It didn't take a historian to know the painting was of Gallipoli, but it did take a gallery director turned art detective to work out who painted it.
Kiwis pop up on skateboard art
Portraits of well-known New Zealanders painted on to skateboards are fetching up to $10,000.
Attempt to steal Banksy wall labelled 'inside job'
Thieves have made an audacious attempt to steal a Banksy artwork valued at 1 million ($1.97 million) by removing the bricks it was painted on from the inside of the building.
Office building refit puts art up for sale
Two out of seven floors of Fletcher House have been refitted in open-plan style, partly prompting the sale of 55 works of art in New Zealand's most significant art collection.
Portraits from the female Banksy
She has spent years dodging the police in north London, but now Britain's leading female street artist, known as Bambi, has been propelled into a world of wealth and glamour.
Office refit forces $1m art sell-off
Seventy-seven works in one of New Zealand's most significant art collections are being auctioned next month partly because Fletcher Building's Penrose offices are going open-plan.
UK gallery gives in to cameras
The National Gallery in London is allowing visitors to take photographs of its collection for the first time after staff realised they were fighting a losing battle .
Ratepayers lament state house
Plans to install a state house as a piece of art on Auckland's waterfront have been called a waste of money, offensive and plain stupid.
Is this worth $1.5 million?
Leaked images of the secretive $1.5 million sculpture planned at the end of Queens Wharf show a simple, two-storey weatherboard state house.
Climber's sister takes his artwork to world
The sister of Denali Schmidt, who was killed with his mountaineer father in an avalanche on K2 last year, is fundraising to take her brother's art on a world tour.
Paul Little: Art paints a picture about us
A healthy amount of public art tells you a lot about a community, writes Paul Little.