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Local Focus: Bubble Kōrero a success

Conversations aplenty at lockdown exhibition. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

When the walls can talk: Dame Rosie and Michael Horton's intimate art collection

The philanthropist, the businessman and their extraordinary Aboriginal art collection.

William Dart: Grand post-lockdown welcome for APO maestro

William Dart reviews the Auckland Philharmonia Orchestra's latest performance.

Whangārei Fringe Festival: a fantastical journey to tomorrow's social norms

Mary de Ruyter talks to creatives the first Whangārei Fringe Festival.

Ports of Auckland lights up new contemporary art platform

Ports of Auckland says the installation is a "gift to Auckland".

Matt Liggins: 'You can change the path of your life with just one word'

'Art isn't heavily constrained like architecture can be. Art is expression and pure.'

World record for Banksy at Auckland art auction

The Banksy was tipped to fetch $60,000 tops. It went for double.

Afghan brothers win Māori carving awards

Two young former refugees come home to Māori culture through the art of whakairo.

Arts Foundation Laureates on what inspired them growing up

Six laureates on their earliest memory of art.

Top UK novelists miss out on literary shortlist

Americans dominate the latest Booker literature shortlist

Chris Hemsworth's surprise TV appearance

Thor himself made an appearance on Australian TV to read the weather.

The sad reality of the Kardashians' demise

Comment: In 2007 an Armenian-American family hit the small screen with a little show.

National Library midway through cull of overseas books

Titles will be offered to local libraries, prison libraries and community groups.

'I Hate Men' sales boom in France after calls for ban

Book explores whether women "have good reason to detest men".

Who will you sing to tomorrow? The Leonard Cohen exhibition bringing grown men to tears

The Leonard Cohen exhibition bringing grown men to tears at Auckland Art Gallery.

Quarantine tinfoil art

A kind gesture left staff at a Christchurch managed isolation facility 'delighted '

The "illiterate strumpet" who married the bard

Maggie O'Farrell's Shakespearean 'Hamnet' wins Women's Prize

Whitcoulls Top 100: Ten Kiwi authors make list as Harry Potter series rules the charts

Ten New Zealand authors have made the Whitcoulls Top 100 list this year.