1st March 2024 Art / Tracks & TrailsThe Kapiti Coast Art Trail is on the hunt for local artists who would like to feature in this year’s event in November.
16th February 2024 Art / CultureNew art tours are now on offer for visitors to explore the parliamentary collection in Wellington.
7th December 2023 Art / VenuesThe New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts is selling The Academy Galleries in Wellington to NZPS Property Management.
29th November 2023 Art / MuseumsA wharenui made of 5,000 balls of yarn will be on show at Waikato Museum Te Whare Taonga o Waikato in Hamilton from December.
23rd November 2023 ArtMore than 21,000 people have attended the return of the country’s largest outdoor art event in Auckland this month.
15th November 2023 Art / HamiltonStreets around Hamilton’s city centre will be transformed with colour and sculptures as part of a new trail event taking place over summer.
3rd November 2023 Art / EventsNew Zealand’s largest outdoor art event is returning to Auckland’s Fort Takapuna this weekend.
3rd November 2023 Art / CultureWellington remains New Zealand’s most creative city according to the latest Infometrics Creativity Index for 2022.
2nd November 2023 Art / GalleryThe Toi MAHARA art gallery on the Kāpiti Coast has attracted more than 5,000 people in its opening weekend.
19th October 2023 Art / EventsThe Raglan Arts Weekend is returning to the beachside town for its 13th year over Labour Weekend.
10th October 2023 Art / ConservationA message of Kiwi conservation is now around the streets of Auckland in the form of a new art trail dotted around the city’s downtown.
11th September 2023 Art / DigitalVisitors to Wellington can experience extended reality through their mobile devices and see a new virtual sculpture hovering above the harbour.
4th September 2023 Art / Kapiti IslandThe Waiorua Gallery has joined the annual Kāpiti Coast Art Trail for the first time this year.
31st August 2023 Art / QT HotelsQT Queenstown has opened an art gallery on the sixth floor of its hotel.
5th July 2023 Art / EventsHokitika’s Junk2Funk wearable arts event is going national, with registration open to people all over the country and a month-long exhibition at the Hokitika Heritage Park.
12th June 2023 Art / HeritageKāpiti Coast District Council’s new Arts Sustainability and the Museum and Heritage Development Funds will support eight arts and heritage initiatives.
7th June 2023 ArtMore than 10,000 people have visited the annual New Zealand Art Show in Wellington on Sunday, generating more than $1.6m from 1,600 artworks sold.
21st April 2023 Art / AttractionsThe final touches will soon be put on the new purpose-built art centre at Mahara Gallery in Waikanae.
14th April 2023 Art / CharityPrivately-owned sculpture park Gibbs Farm will open to celebrate a special charity event this month with the Child Cancer Foundation.
28th March 2023 Art / Auckland Council / FundingAuckland Mayor Wayne Brown is citing a lack of clear and streamlined funding for the city’s arts and culture sector as one of the reasons why cuts in the 2023/24 annual budget are on the table this year.
23rd March 2023 Art / CultureA new art exhibition in Foxton encourages visitors to follow their nose and indulge in the sensory experiences of olfactory art.
21st February 2023 Art / HundertwasserAfter an eventful first year, the attraction is ready to take the next step in its growth plans.
9th December 2022 Art / Te PaeWork to install the last artwork in Te Pae Christchurch Convention Centre is now complete with Moment of Movement ready to experience on Colombo Street.
11th November 2022 ArtTauranga’s waterfront is awash with lights and colour as part of a new art and sculpture installation in the city centre.
28th October 2022 Art / Kāpiti CoastThe Kāpiti Coast Art Trail is back this November, with works from more than 125 local artists on display and many more at local galleries and creative spaces.
4th October 2022 Art / CultureThe projects include a digital storytelling app for the Russell Museum, e-commerce functionality for local art galleries, and a 3D virtual exhibition for the Tairawhiti Arts Festival.
3rd October 2022 Art / WOWMore than 60,000 people, including 35,000 from out of town, are expected to attend the event, which runs until 16 October.
19th September 2022 Art / Te PapaTe Papa has spent $627,000 on the acquisition of two paintings by New Zealand artists from the Bank of New Zealand’s art collection.
12th August 2022 Art / MuseumsWhanganui Regional Museum is partnering with the Blumhardt Foundation in an effort to support public art galleries and museums in their acquisition of work by contemporary New Zealand craft practitioners.
10th August 2022 Art / CultureA new kiosk and etching in Tauranga’s Wharf Street Upgrade in Te Papa will showcase the history of the city as part of an interactive audio and video experience.
3rd August 2022 Art / CampervanA campervan has been transformed into a fully-curated art gallery featuring 26 New Zealand artists and 50 works.
29th June 2022 ArtA “smuggled” tapestry exhibition attracted around 21,800 visitors to New Plymouth, with 16,000 people coming from outside the region.
9th June 2022 Art / WIALFive award-winning entries from the World of Wearable Art collection are now on show at Wellington Airport until September.
5th May 2022 ArtSome 10,000 people came to the final farewell weekend of the Whale Tales public art trail at Silo Park in Auckland on 29 April.
22nd April 2022 Art / ToursTravel agents gathered in Auckland’s Queen’s Wharf to farewell the ‘Whale Spirit’ Whale Tale art sculpture located on Auckland’s waterfront.
4th March 2022 Art / CultureTwenty-seven arts, culture and heritage projects across the Taranaki, Bay of Plenty and Manawatū regions will benefit from the latest round of Te Urungi: Innovating Aotearoa culture sector funding, says Arts, Culture and Heritage Minister Carmel Sepuloni.
2nd March 2022 Art / ChristchurchNZSeven major murals are being created across central Christchurch as part of the Flare Street Art Festival.
22nd February 2022 Art / MarineThe Whale Tales 2022 public art trail has launched in Auckland both in public spaces and as a virtual, interactive trail.
15th February 2022 Art / EventsThe Aotearoa Art Fair at The Cloud in Auckland has been moved to a new date, 16-20 November 2022.
21st January 2022 Art / TAUThe Whale Tales 2022 public art trail will launch in Auckland next week, partly to publicise endangered Bryde’s whales in the Hauraki Gulf.
20th January 2022 Art / WellingtonNZA new sculpture commissioned by WellingtonNZ for the waterfront will pose a new photo opportunity to attract visitors to the city.
2nd August 2021 Art / RTOWhanganui, Taranaki and the Manawatū are jointly launching a pan-region arts trail to showcase works and entice visitors to the lower west coast of the North Island.
24th June 2021 Airports / ArtArt and music events proving popular among out-of-towners.
23rd June 2021 Art / EventsSeries of two-metre tall cubes to depict Ngāi Tahu stories about stars in Victoria Square.
28th May 2021 Art / EventsSeven Queenstown art galleries will come alive for a late-night special every Thursday as part of a new weekly initiative to kickstart the town’s art sector.
27th April 2021 Art / MāoriFunding to be used for 14 sites at Opihi, South Canterbury.
6th April 2021 Art / FundingFunds provided over three years as part of wider arts and culture Covid-19 recovery programme.
11th March 2021 Art / EventsThe Van Gogh Alive immersive exhibition has extended its shows in Christchurch and will be opening ahead of time in Auckland to serve demand.
1st March 2021 Art / GalleryTimaru’s Aigantighe Art Gallery is exhibiting its most popular works from its permanent collection of 1,800 pieces.
20th August 2020 Art / FundingA new series of art awards has been created for the West Coast after more than $40,000 of funding from Creative New Zealand.
