Arts
Google pushing to preserve street art
![WORMHOLE: A mural in Melbourne by Wellington-based street artists BMD depicts a wormhole to Bali.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/4/5/v/b/n/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.145uqa.png/1426809953925.jpg)
Google Art Project's Street Art collection has doubled in size since it launched last June, featuring more than 10,000 images.
The quickfire brushstrokes of a genius
![Max Gimblett Workshops](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/4/0/m/f/b/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.145nnw.png/1426735809578.jpg)
World-renowned Kiwi painter Max Gimblett returns home to run workshops in Auckland.
Showing cheap Ikea art to experts
![ANOTHER REASON TO WANT AN IKEA STORE: Apparently the art is super good.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/4/5/j/h/c/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.145jgc.png/1426727568840.jpg)
Here's another reason to want an Ikea store in NZ - apparently the art is really good.
Street art as fine art?
![TAGS TO RICHES: The Panic Room by French artist Tilt at the YMCA.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/4/5/b/s/y/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.145bru.png/1426639443843.jpg)
OPINION: Relocating an art form from the street to a gallery is problematic.
Fringe festivals are magical things
![Dancer Rosa Strati is one of the performers in Presence, one of 23 arts events that comprise the just-started Hamilton Fringe Festival.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/4/2/o/q/s/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.144xxv.png/1426465389524.jpg)
OPINION: I'm writing this from a high window overlooking the Pacific Ocean, whipped up by a storm.
Artist fights for Aotearoaland
![NOT HAPPY: Northland artist Lester Hall is in a legal spat with surfing clothing giant Billabong over the use of one of his artworks.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/4/4/e/8/q/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.144e5q.png/1426383430199.jpg)
Kiwi artist is accusing surfwear giant Billabong of stealing one of his ideas.
McQueen honoured by London show
![One of the 240 outfits typifying McQueen's distinctive and occasionally bizarre style.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/4/3/h/t/g/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.143h4i.png/1426222588023.jpg)
Stars turned out to honour the late "enfant terrible" of British fashion, Alexander McQueen.
Knitter challenges thinking
![THOUGHT-PROVOKING MESSAGE: Arielle Walker is exhibiting knitted artworks with a social message as part of White Night Remuera.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/4/2/0/h/5/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.141ynx.png/1426191452346.jpg)
Artist's colourful knitted blankets are a comment on the throwaway nature of consumer culture.
Bridge shines a light on Auckland
![There are major traffic delays on Auckland Harbour Bridge.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/2/1/k/z/m/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.141oy3.png/1426150789626.jpg)
Auckland's harbour bridge is lighting up and getting musical in celebration of the city's 175th anniversary.
Fringe offers smorgasbord of arts
![Dancer Rosa Strati is one of the performers in Presence, one of 23 arts events that comprise the just-started Hamilton Fringe Festival.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/4/2/o/q/s/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.142o8i.png/1426149834124.jpg)
Cheap, quality entertainment featuring some of the big names of tomorrow.
Record price for McIntyre painting
![Above expectations: Dunbar Sloane director Helena Walker with Maori Family, East Cape by Peter McIntyre, which sold for $129,000 on Wednesday evening.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/4/2/n/9/6/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.142nay.png/1426146686625.jpg)
A painting by renowned New Zealand artist Peter McIntyre has fetched a record price at auction in Wellington.
Colouring the troops
![INTRICATE: Darcy Perry of the Hamilton Immortals Miniature Wargaming Club paints a tiny Turkish soldier for the Peter Jackson World War 1 Great War Exhibition.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/4/1/k/9/1/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.141jwy.png/1426101196435.jpg)
Blues musician Darcy Perry is helping Sir Peter Jackson recreate a battle scene for a Great War Exhibition.
Revel in remastered Rembrandts
![INSPIRED: Boyd Klap gets ready for the Rembrandt exhibition he is bringing to Wellington.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/4/1/i/u/t/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.141hml.png/1426070230341.jpg)
The passage of a digital Rembrandt exhibition to New Zealand is thanks to the president of the NZ Netherlands Foundation.
Meteor in high demand
![ON THE UP: One Victoria Trust chair Dr William Farrimond.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/3/z/m/j/w/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.13zmdm.png/1425950283913.jpg)
Private ownership of the Meteor Theatre proves to be a commercial blockbuster.
Mob mentality
![FACE OF A KILLER: Shane Harrison, a convicted murderer featured in Rotman's 'Mongrel Mob Portraits'.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/3/y/n/r/n/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.13ymnb.png/1425845700897.jpg)
After creating controversy last year, Jono Rotman is preparing for an even bigger exhibition of photographs of Mongrel Mob members.
Celebrating 40 years of Polyfest
![CELEBRATIONS: Nga Puna o Waiorea from Western Springs College opened the launch of the 40th Polyfest with an explosive performance.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/3/v/i/8/z/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.13vi83.png/1426043589234.jpg)
The largest Maori and Pacific Island festival in the world is getting ready to celebrate 40 years.
Sculpture symposium to close
![NOT THIS TIME: Tirau sculpture Trish Looney works on her creation at last year's Matamata Sculpture Symposium.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/3/u/l/0/u/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.13udzz.png/1425428095870.jpg)
Matamata will not ring to the sound of sculptors' tools this week after it's long-running sculpture symposium was cancelled because of a lack of sculptors.
Len Lye Centre unveiled
![SHINE ON: Workers remove the protective coating from some of the reflective panels on the Len Lye Centre.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/3/t/h/p/3/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.13tavw.png/1425351168217.jpg)
The mirror-like surface on New Plymouth's multi million-dollar Len Lye Centre is being uncovered today.
Auckland celebrates the arts
![SPECTACULAR: Groupe F's new show will open this year;'s Auckland Arts Festival.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/3/t/8/1/m/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.13t805.png/1425325155789.jpg)
The Auckland Arts Festival kicks off this Wednesday. Discover the shows you won't want to miss.
Stolen Picasso found in US mail
![1911 painting La Coiffeuse or The Hairdresser, by Pablo Picasso.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/3/r/n/c/f/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.13rq22.png/1425151540287.jpg)
A Picasso painting missing from Paris for more than a decade resurfaced in the United States mail.
Douglas Wright's grand finale
![DOUGLAS WRIGHT: " I make the work to make myself delighted or horrified or bored in parts."](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/3/q/w/x/j/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.13qk75.png/1425011348537.jpg)
After every work, the acclaimed choreographer tells himself it's the last. This time is different.
The creature creator
!['DINOSAUR NERD’: Sonny Tilders, the creator of the show’s dinosaurs.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/3/q/l/9/c/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.13qkpb.png/1424999484836.jpg)
Sonny Tilders is the creative genius behind the giant dinos that stalk the stage in Walking With Dinosaurs.
'Visionary' founder celebrated
![AGED ENTERTAINERS: Arms waving, legs flailing, the Hip Op-eration Crew shows the New Zealander of the Year audience how to hip hop with attitude.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/3/p/a/0/l/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.13p9v1.png/1424908084320.jpg)
Billie Jordan's vision started as a flash mob of senior citizens and ended up as a world renowned dance crew.
Artist: Offence not intended
![Artist Nigel Brown in his studio at Cosy Nook.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/3/n/x/k/d/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.13nxmw.png/1424867380281.jpg)
Creating art for the sake of shocking conservatives was never the intention of artist Nigel Brown
Takeaway art brings back memories
![MEMORY PALACE:
Kerry Ann Lee hanging her exhibition, at Pataka, which references her parents Gold Coin Cafe in Willis st.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/3/m/t/v/b/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.13mtmb.png/1424721014806.jpg)
The Chinese takeaway cafe of her Wellington childhood came into focus for artist Kerry Ann Lee when she visited China for the first time,
Frizzell's Magpies exhibition
![ARTIST AND WORKS: Dick Frizzell at Waikato Museum.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/3/k/o/f/u/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.13knub.png/1424412949261.jpg)
What might NZ's best-loved poem is the inspiration behind an exhibition by Dick Frizzell.
The man behind the lanterns
![POPULAR RITUALS: A restaurant scene is one of the many installations at Auckland Lantern Festival.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/3/i/y/a/6/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.13ixcu.png/1424303522832.jpg)
There's a moment during the Auckland Lantern Festival when everything just falls into place.
Fringe Festival play is a gas
![PUNGENT COMEDY: Producer Ilai Amir, 28, and director Ella Becroft, 26, are bringing a pungent comedy to the Auckland Fringe Festival.](/web/20150322203848im_/http://www.stuff.co.nz/content/dam/images/1/3/h/p/8/h/image.related.StuffThumbnail.90x60.13ho1t.png/1424208806225.jpg)
A quirky Fringe Festival comedy is tackling the taboo topic of female flatulence.
Tuwhare's legacy comes home
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Hone Tuwhare's legacy arrives home today, with New Zealand's third Koha for the Crib in Dunedin tonight.