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Stupendously beautiful new photographs by Jane Ussher
Te Papa's natural history collection, photographed by a living legend.
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Te Papa's natural history collection, photographed by a living legend.
From a Ronnie Van Hout take on The Breakfast Club to James Oram carving a rendition of his own face out of soap, Christchurch Art Gallery’s show of new video art in response to Covid-19 isolation is worth championing.
New Te Papa CEO Courtney Johnston on her vision for the museum, the impact of the pandemic, the return of taonga and making good on the Treaty.
There is art at the hospital, even in intensive care – but the price of seeing it is everything.
What makes Zoom so exhausting? And where to for art? For Auckland artist Cushla Donaldson it’s about work that embraces the social and physical in new ways. Increasingly in Zoom meetings, …
Mark Amery shares words and images with Auckland artist Meg Porteous across bubbles, via screens.
Questions are being asked about the judging process for New Zealand’s most prestigious art prize, the Walters Prize.
Today, the best art is coming not from our museums or galleries, but from bedrooms, garages and kitchen tables.
Nirin, the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, remained open in March while many other exhibitions closed. Now one of Australasia’s most important art events is going online.
Writer Samuel Te Kani tracks the issues and digs into the complications below the surface of the erasures of a queer NZ art history.
Go on, imagine your lockdown without art. Just try.
'It seems like someone else’s dream of my past.' For Emma Neale, the painting ‘Wanderlust’ by Dunedin artist Sharon Singer stirs memories of her childhood.
New Zealand's museums and galleries are still open, despite similar spaces closing in cities across the world.
Imogen Taylor's sumptuous exhibition Sapphic Fragments is informed by art historical understandings of queer pleasure, and in particular, women’s love for women.
An extract from West Coast photographer Julia Johnston’s upcoming book Coast Roaders with an introduction by her for Spinoff readers.
Visiting the Audio Foundation and the Michael Lett Gallery, both just off Auckland’s K' Road, Tulia Thompson finds herself considering the galaxy and what it means to be human.
Former student Anna McAllister recounts her fraught journey through art school.
