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Gang photos pull in crowds
A controversial photographic exhibition of gang members - including one accused of murder - has proved popular with the public.

Janet McAllister: A neo liberal businessman, and philanthropist
"Kiwi philanthropist to get honorary doctorate." Was it Sir Stephen Tindall or Sir Owen Glenn? Or the arts' very own Sir James Wallace? No, all wrong, writes Janet McAllister.

Art or insult? Accused killer in show
The family of a young father are disgusted his alleged killer will be "immortalised" in a photo exhibition at an upmarket Auckland art gallery.

Mystery of Gallipoli painting
The rugged, scrub-covered hills are unmistakably those of Gallipoli's Anzac Cove. But who depicted them in an extremely rare, nearly century-old painting is a tantalising mystery that an Auckland art gallery director is battling to solve.

Alarm at humans in zoo show
In 1914, Norway celebrated the 100-year anniversary of its constitution by establishing a human zoo in which a Congolese village was recreated.

Laurence Aberhart's Anzac photographs
"Memorials became increasingly ignored and forgotten objects, presences in the landscapes that were taken for granted and just passed by. It is this period of slow loss of community consciousness that Aberhart's photographs capture so superbly." - Jock Phillips, Anzac: Photographs by Laurence Aberhart

Goldie chief sells for $352k
A painting by one of the country's most acclaimed artists has been sold to a private collector in Auckland.

Photos mock beauty standards
Duirng the lead up to summer, women are expected to wax, primp and polish their bodies to beach-ready perfection - a set of beauty standards that photographer Jessica Ledwidch finds 'absurd'.

Bush's portraits 'copied off Google'?
As a former leader of the free world George W Bush had significantly greater access to world leaders than other budding artists. Which is why his art is so, er, surprising.

Monstrous Feminine by Jessica Ledwich
In her surreal photo series, Monstrous Feminine, the Melbourne-based artist, Jessica Ledwich, aims to show the number of ways women are conditioned to treat themselves, often using physical harm or pain, in order to appear 'beautiful'.

'Baristart' puts a celebrity in your cappuccino
His 'medium' is coffee, his palette is espresso and steamed milk and his only tool is a cocktail skewer.

Giant wave of Barbie dolls wins people's choice
A giant wave of Barbie dolls has won the people's choice award at Sculpture by the Sea at Perth's Cottesloe Beach.