Arts

Google pushing to preserve street art

WORMHOLE: A mural in Melbourne by Wellington-based street artists BMD depicts a wormhole to Bali.

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 video

Max Gimblett Workshops

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Artist's colourful knitted blankets are a comment on the throwaway nature of consumer culture.

Bridge shines a light on Auckland video

There are major traffic delays on Auckland Harbour Bridge.

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.

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.

A painting by renowned New Zealand artist Peter McIntyre has fetched a record price at auction in Wellington.

Colouring the troops video

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.

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.

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.

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'.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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."

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.

Sonny Tilders is the creative genius behind the giant dinos that stalk the stage in Walking With Dinosaurs.

City needs to 'step up'

AND STILL THEY CAME: The Trust Waikato Sunset Symphony was one of the very few Hamilton Garden Arts Festival shows affected by inclement weather, yet even it was well attended.

It's the flagship arts event in Hamilton and it is simply not sustainable.

'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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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