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Framed: A city frozen in time

Alan Perrott looks at the top entries in New Zealand's largest photo competition.

Catherine Field: Underground keeps London art on its toes

TJ McNamara: Memories of past still have plenty of appeal

Taonga's return revives memories of bloody chapter

Street art hopes to capture new recruits

Giant Kiwi icons may soon adorn NY

Kiwi icons such as Billy T James and Sir Edmund Hillary could soon grace the facades of Manhattan high-rises....

Franco learns from unwise photo post

Movie star James Franco upset his big business links when he posted a shot of his hand down the front of his crotch as part of a Twitter-based art project.

TJ McNamara: Dream-like visions that glow in the dark

Glimpses of surrealism and the dark side of Romanticism.

Bathed in ancestral light

A new book and exhibition by photographer Fiona Pardington examines the historic - and now derided - practice of taking casts of people's heads to study their brains. Some were her ancestors.

TJ McNamara: Telling detail puts climate danger in focus

Breaking down, then building up

Those were the days, my friends

Works denounced as forgeries

Paintball monster a big hit

TJ McNamara: Parallel world born of surreal imagination

Academics rally to save Aboriginal art

James Franco delays exhibition opening

Actor James Franco has delayed the opening of his James Dean-inspired art exhibition in Venice, Italy because he needs more time to "fully realise" his vision for the project.

Brian Rudman: Vanishing suffrage mural's trail runs cold