Auckland Art Gallery reopens
Six years in the planning, three in the making, the redeveloped Auckland Art Gallery has now been unveiled. [more]
Art
Matisse: Drawing Life review
The largest-ever exhibition of Henri Matisse's graphic art at the Gallery of Modern Art in Brisbane is exhilarating. [more]
Michael Tuffery interview
Michel Tuffery’s art reaches new heights with his transformation of Te Papa for the International Arts... [more]
Vincent Ward: Breath – The Fleeting Intensity of Life review
Openly autobiographical expressionism and sublime romanticism are the keynotes of film-maker Vincent Ward’s exhibition of video, photography and... [more]
This is Not Writing by Julian Dashper review
Despite his writings to the contrary, the sincerity of Julian Dashper’s work always resided less in theory and more in the objects he... [more]
Making Arrangements review
A collaboration between Gretchen Albrecht and Eve Armstrong is a rare moment of art-world bravery, says Anthony Byrt. [more]
Simon Richardson interview
Encouraged by Grahame Sydney, Simon Richardson opted for solid observation over fashionable conceptual art and is now a sought-after portraitist. [more]
Kermadec review
Kermadec brings together the work of John Pule, Robin White, John Reynolds and others inspired by a trip to Raoul Island. [more]
Gymnauseum by Jane Venis
The Dunedin sculptor's exhibition, on now, sends a message about consumption with its customised "gym equipment". [more]
The Artists review
There are not many retailers’ trade catalogues you’d want to add to one’s library. Three that make the grade are the excellently designed and printed publications issued from 2006 by Auckland’s Sanderson Contemporary Art. The latest of these gives brief profiles on 21 artists represented by the crisp Parnell gallery.... [more]
Jan Nigro interview
In a new set of works, Jan Nigro again brings the naked body out of the bedroom and into the lounge. [more]
Fiona Pardington: The Pressure of Sunlight Falling review
Photographer Fiona Pardington’s The Pressure of Sunlight Falling is a mid-career... [more]
Auckland Art Gallery reopens
Six years in the planning, three in the making, the redeveloped Auckland Art Gallery has now been unveiled. [more]
Dazzling the RWC crowd with treasures from Oceania
Dual exhibitions in Wellington run the gamut somewhere between mana and merchandising. [more]
6th Scape Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space
Urban reinvention is a theme close to home in more ways than one for the twice-postponed Scape Christchurch Biennial of Art in Public Space. [more]
Funding the arts
Support for the arts is lacking from a younger generation of collectors, but does the answer lie in newer ways of doing things? [more]
The Queen: Art & Image by Paul Moorhouse review
A book of paintings and photographs of “the most portrayed person in British history” marks the Queen’s forthcoming diamond... [more]
Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams review
Surrealism: The Poetry of Dreams features both well-known names and lesser-known later artists who fell under the movement’s... [more]
Paul McNamara interview
Former GP Paul McNamara’s Whanganui gallery provides a vital gateway for New Zealand... [more]
China’s contemporary art world
Visiting China, Hanna Scott finds a country forging a fresh path through the mores of the contemporary art world. [more]
Fairfield College “artists” had something to say
When the seventh formers of Fairfield College, Hamilton, armed with buckets of weed killer, scampered around their school grounds one weekend in 2009, decorating it with giant phalluses, they had no idea they were adding to a small but select collection of terrestrial glyphs. A passing Google satellite added their... [more]