OpinionWindbag: Vision for Wellington shows its blind spotsThe political supergroup's event about Wellington's art scene involved lots of CEOs and very few artists.By Joel MacManus | 15th April, 2025Wellington editor
‘We just are’: When can migrant artists stop representing culture and just create art?Representation matters, but the piece of the puzzle that’s missing is the freedom to represent no one but yourself. By Preyanka Gothanayagi | 2nd December, 2024Contributor
Can VR graffiti make the metaverse cool?Graffiti is an art form traditionally anchored in physical, urban space – but does it have to be? By Shanti Mathias | 23rd June, 2022Contributing writer
Lost at the Venice Art BiennaleSharon Lam goes in search of Yuki Kihara’s Paradise Camp, the New Zealand pavilion at the 2022 Venice Biennale.By Sharon Lam | 6th June, 2022Contributing writer
Steel the show: How Yona Lee’s new exhibition is breaking boundariesThis Auckland artist plays with space in her latest exhibition, which uses steel tubing in ways you've never seen it before.By Naomii Seah | 15th May, 2022Contributing writer
Don’t miss Auckland Art Gallery’s breathtaking Pacific feminist exhibitionIt features work from 12 artists – including one stunning piece being performed live one time only.By Tulia Thompson | 6th May, 2022Guest writer
Raroboys are putting young Pasifika artists on the mapArizona Leger meets some of the creatives taking part in the collective's first major exhibition, Raroboys and Friends.By Arizona Leger | 25th March, 2022Contributing writer
Spotted: Giant moa on Waiheke IslandThe treetop-nudging sculpture is part of this year's Sculpture on the Gulf, which makes its welcome return to Waiheke for 2022.By Sela Jane Hopgood | 5th March, 2022Pacific communities editor
It takes a village to build a fortressA new Onehunga art space for Māori, Pasifika and marginalised communities in central Auckland aims to be more than just an art initiative.By Arizona Leger | 4th March, 2022Contributing writer
Takatāpui artists on what it means to be Māori and queer'To look at ourselves as disparate things, we’re then weakening ourselves because we’re not ever broken. We are whole.'By Reweti Kohere | 3rd March, 2022Staff writer
In Wellington, Lisa Reihana’s public art tells stories of the moana that connect us allAnd you might just spot a giant octopus or lizard along the way.By Charlotte Muru-Lanning | 2nd March, 2022Contributing writer
Auckland artist Hazel Zishun is redefining makeupForget soap brows and Euphoria looks, this makeup artist is pushing the definition of makeup itself. By Naomii Seah | 28th February, 2022Contributing writer
Dark dreams and subconscious desires: Surrealist Art at Te Papa, reviewedMegan Dunn and her six year old daughter spend an afternoon with the surrealists at Te Papa's blockbuster exhibition.By Megan Dunn | 20th July, 2021Guest writer
Art makers unite: The advocacy group where artists’ voices matter mostFounded in 2020, Art Makers Aotearoa is a community of makers jointly advocating for the arts. By Kerryanne Nelson | 4th July, 2021Guest writer
Ant art: The exhibition of paintings created entirely by artificial intelligenceNo human made the art hanging on the walls of this Wellington art gallery – it's the creation of the 'mind' of an algorithm. By Mirjam Guesgen | 15th March, 2021Contributing writer
OpinionFalse flag: The Mercy Pictures furore and the dangerous power of artArt writer and former gallerist Sarah Hopkinson attempts to understand the contradictory values that produced the People of Colour exhibition, and what the tumult means for the future of the industry.By Sarah Hopkinson | 2nd December, 2020Guest writer
50 years ago we had some extremely peculiar notions about plantsZina Swanson's paintings are inspired by old, outlandish books about botany.By Chloe Lane | 22nd November, 2020Guest writer
OpinionSwastikas off K Road: How the worst art show in New Zealand came to beThe controversy over the People of Colour exhibition shows how alt-right ideas can thrive in irony-steeped artistic environments.By Amal Samaha | 12th November, 2020Guest writer
Stupendously beautiful new photographs by Jane UssherTe Papa's natural history collection, photographed by a living legend.By Jane Ussher | 14th October, 2020Guest writer
The Intersection: The story of a massacreAt a nondescript rural intersection in Waikato lies the site of a near-forgotten massacre, the subject of a new show by artist and writer Bob Kerr, who tells the story of Rangiaowhia here.By Bob Kerr | 12th October, 2020Guest writer
