Mirrored towers make up the art installation Field, by Angus Muir and Alexandra Heaney, on display in Wynyard Quarter this month as part of the Auckland Arts Festival.

A Kiwi student has come up with an innovative way to show off her artistic photography - by using traditional Pacific tapa cloth.

Activism through art specialist Lemi Ponifasio and Mau take Colin McCahon's iconic painting as a huge and architectural backdrop to their spellbinding tribute to the fallen of World War I - and take....

For the next two weeks, across Auckland, more than 100 world class shows - local and international - will astound and entertain.

"It's going to be a family reunion mixed with work." Since his sister moved to the North Shore in 1999, David Shrigley has been a frequent visitor to New Zealand.

The Pacific Rim is reflected in the Auckland Arts Festival with art from Japan, New Zealand and Samoa. Six artists from Japan at the St Paul Street Gallery make considerable demands on the viewer. Three long videos are full of angst, examining Japanese so

I have always thought of Mere Boynton as one of Wellington's musical taonga; she trained as a singer at Victoria University and, in the 1990s, was a spellbinding performer at one of the city's....

"Hold on," says the woman on the end of the line. "He is in rehearsal right now. I'll just go and grab him."

NZ On Screen Content Director Irene Gardiner selects five great New Zealand arts documentaries, to mark the start of the 2015 Auckland Arts Festival.

Danik Abishev was born in the circus "I really didn't have a choice about becoming a performer," he says.

Nestled in beautiful Tapapakanga Park Splore festival became annual for the first time this year, and it seems the move was a very successful one, write Lydia Jenkins and Rachel Bache.

A gallery has grown in the heart of Coromandel Town. In a purpose-built space designed by Ron Sang, Barry Brickell's Driving Creek Art Gallery is hosting its sixth exhibition Using Paint and Clay Expressively.

Mother/Jaw is a youthful, passionate and promising exploration of being and identity. It emphasises "otherness" - arising from ethnicity, on one hand, and states of mind on the other - and takes a significant stance in the Fringe Festival dance programme.

"I don't make lollies!" Lemi Ponifasio is talking about the often-extreme reaction to his latest production, I AM, from which many audience members walked out when it was staged at last year's Edinburgh International Festival.

In painting, even at its most abstract, a strong horizontal across a work is inescapably read as a horizon.

On Thursday, Kathryn Stott caps off her first visit to our coundty playing Shostakovich with the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra.