Super-sized owls swoop into Auckland for our biggest mass participation public art event.

A 21-year-old Auckland artist is the youngest to win NZ's premier portrait painting award.

Acclaimed artist Michael Smither is the subject of a unique NZ documentary series.

New shows by three veterans of the arts, all still at the peak of their powers.

Mercury Bay, on the Coromandel, is noted for its beaches but its art makes a splash, too,

Petra Patterson and Sally Zhang are co-project managers of the Bayleys Foundation New Zealand Secondary School Photography Competition. / Video by Greg Bowker

Auckland Arts Festival director Jonathan Bielski's vision for a new precinct that he has dubbed the 'Festival Playground'.

It was perhaps inevitable that Instagram would shake up the art world.

The Underwater Photographer of the Year 2018 has just been announced. Here's a peek at the winning entries. Video / NZME

Save Our Gallery will continue lobbying despite proposed Auckland Art Gallery funds rise.

A life-sized horse sculpture and giant cake will make this year's event a colourful affair

The City of Sails will be awash with colour as the Auckland Pride Festival returns Feb 2.

The 125-year-old institution is set to be included in the council's 10-year budget plan.

As Auckland Art Gallery struggles with funding, high-profile campaign starts to save it.

A century-old autograph book has inspired a unique handmade NZ children's book.

The man who brought Banksy's subversive work to Auckland.

Joe Te Wharau uses 3D technology to create Māori art. Made with funding from NZ On Air.

Cross-stitchers and craft-makers: are they the new breed of political activists?

Visitors will become artists themselves as Auckland Art Gallery goes dotty.

Artist Billy Apple has helped to prove that microbes in our faeces are unique identifiers.

Artist Sam Trubridge: "In the sea there's always a sense of something bigger than you."

The Big Hoot is an arts trail that brings artists together with local businesses, schools and community groups to transform over 100 blank owl sculptures into imaginative, individual works of art. The owls will be auctioned to raise money for the Child Cancer Foundation. / Video by Michael Craig

Giant owls to swoop on Auckland early next year, but there's no cause for alarm.

A Taranaki couple are living the dream - and they owe much of it to a famous artist.

Auckland show for Banksy, the unknown artist whose political street art rules the world.

The British Wildlife Photography Awards, saluting UK photographic talent and the richness of Britain’s natural history, has revealed its 2017 category winners.

Kiwi Arnika Juvalta who bagged two Banksy paintings for only USD$60 each, has sold them to help buy a little slice of New Zealand.

The Art of Banksy exhibition is coming to New Zealand. The exhibition will be displayed at Auckland’s Aotea Centre in Auckland from 5 January to 6 February.

Artist Simon Denny and with his latest exhibition, The Founder's Paradox, in the Michael Lett Gallery.

A high-stakes game of life? Artist Simon Denny's latest exhibition tackles NZ politics.