Kitty Wasasala explores the interlinked threads across Moana hair in urban and diaspora spaces, in Good Hair Day at Tautai Pacific Arts Trust, Tāmaki Makaurau.
Brook Konia on the exhibition Unhinged: Opening the Door to the Dowse Collection, which features and celebrates the diverse range of art pieces in The Dowse Art Museum collection.
Mya Morrison-Middleton meets up with ringatoi Aidan Taira Geraghty and Moewai Marsh to kōrero about their current exhibition 'Ka kore, Kua kore' at Blue Oyster Art Project Space in Ōtepoti.
Brook Konia on Hemi Macgregor’s Waiora, which presented artworks that discuss the interplay between the environment and our relationship to it as humans.
Curated by Serenity Wise, Rituals: Healing Through the Black Imagination was an immersive exhibition that celebrated Black artistry and power. Jennifer Onyeiwu responds to this exhibition, which was brought together by Black Creatives Aotearoa.
Sita Narsai walks through Aisha Khalid’s exhibition I Am And I Am Not at New Plymouth’s Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, and reflects on its relationship to colonial histories, migration and being in the South Asian diaspora.
Turumeke Harrington is a refreshing force in Aotearoa and Te Waipounamu. This Kāi Tahu artist makes the type of big-picture, approachable art that plays in the background of people’s minds as they are falling asleep, dreaming big. Mya Morrison-Middleton sits down to interview Turumeke about her career so far.
The teine of Malae/Co are back with their exhibition switch, code, reverse at The Magic Queen Fiapoto Bus. Breanna Tugaga-Rogers learns the beginnings of the collective and walks us through the opening night.
Jessica Lim responds to artworks in the Redbase Gallery booth at Aotearoa Art Fair, an exploration of formless forms, water, art, violence, and capturing the uncapturable.
Poet-turned-critic Joanna Cho 조은선 responds to Suji Park’s exhibition Noise Collector at the Dowse Art Museum. Feat. playful ceramics, interwoven connections, and the clamour of kids.
We are all a part of the water’s legacy. Ashleigh Taupaki responds to Te Au: Liquid Constituencies at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
Emmy Rākete talks about the tensions of creating art from trash and the dump underworld, at Auckland Community Recycling Centres Art Residency
And what if colonisation never happened? Sinead Overbye on the bold fresh perspectives from contemporary Indigenous artists in Whetūrangitia/Made as Stars, at The Dowse.
Mya Morrison-Middleton visits Aotearoa’s largest contemporary art showcase, wrestles with the tension of art as money-making, and recaps her faves.
Haupapa: The Chilled Breath of Rakamaomao combines pūtaiao, art and storytelling to draw urgent attention to the global climate emergency and our duty of care for Te Taiao.
Rangimārie Sophie Jolley explores Te Toi o te Ātetenga: The Art of Resistance, to understand wāhine activist art as a platform to protest and highlight Tino Rangatiratanga.
Delilah Pārore Southon on the Artistic Essence and Wairua of Emily Karaka, in response to Matariki Ring of Fire.
Jahra Wasasala responds to the exhibition Lisa Reihana: Nomads of the Sea, through woven experiences of movement, non-linear time and a collection of collisions.
Brook Konia on Russ Flatt's new moving image, Te ahua, te wa, te atea, which depicts the transformation of the whenua in Heretaunga, and ruminates on the broad history of land sales in the area.
Many seeds were planted at Hongoeka Marae by illustrator and designer Brian Gunson, whose memory and works were honoured in the exhibition Brian at Pātaka Art + Museum. Arihia Latham revisits his legacy.
On half-forgotten histories, kinship and the paradoxes of homeland. Divyaa Kumar on the strikingly impactful works in There Is No Other Home But This at Govett-Brewster Art Gallery telling stories of resilience and triumph.
You can whittle the best collectives, galleries, events, whatever, down to a cute art friendship at the core. Faith Wilson with Francis McWhannell and Jade Townsend on the partnership that led to their new gallery Season.
Qianye and AL Lin remake cultural myths into personal narratives, reckoning with migranthood, Queerness and translation in a new, super-sized work, writes Gabi Lardies.
Taualofa Totua on activist artist Kahu Kutia, and the whakapapa of her work Te Pō in Te Tīmatanga Auckland Pride art trail.
Puhi Ariki, the inaugural show at Wairau Māori Art Gallery, recognises the whenua on which it stands and asserts the strength of Ngāpuhi-nui-tonu. Jade Kake reviews.
The exhibition Raroboys and Friends celebrates the agency of youth at South Auckland’s Māngere Arts Centre.
Queer makers Āhua Collective welcome Pride month with their hopeful second exhibition. Taualofa Totua shares her thoughts.
The trickster tales of Māui the atua defiantly question our country's historical past in Mischief Makers.
The PP crew gives you 7 art moments in 2021: the really high, the fairly low and the unforgettable.
The best art on show in the dealer galleries of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in December 2021.
The best art on show online this month from artists and galleries in Aotearoa.
Khali Philip-Barbara, Tāmihana Kātene and Hinewirangi Kohu-Morgan with curator Isaac Te Awa on the making of taonga pūoro.
Grace Lai on the multi-hyphenate bag and a kōrero with designer–maker Vita Cochran.
Ronia Ibrahim responds to Bling Ring, Vanessa Mei Crofskey’s first curatorial offering at Enjoy Contemporary Art Space.
The best art on show online this month from artists and galleries in Aotearoa.
Kerry Ann Lee sees the joy of everyday life and mother–daughter relationships in Claudia Kogachi’s exhibition There’s No I in Team at The Dowse.
On bringing more of ourselves into our art spaces, curator and artist Siân Torrington in conversation with Maungarongo Te Kawa and Zoe Thompson-Moore.
Hollie Tawhiao is the new gallery curator at Ramp in Kirikiriroa. Ashleigh Taupaki and Hollie wānanga on storytelling, accessibility and diversity, and future dreaming.
The best art on show online this month from artists and galleries in Aotearoa.
The best art on show online this month from artists and galleries in Aotearoa.
On the exhibition reprogramming the way we encounter and value contemporary art. Sinead Overbye reviews The Most Dedicated: An Aotearoa Graffiti Story.
Nigel Borell’s mic-drop curatorship of Toi Tū Toi Ora and resignation from Auckland Art Gallery was the hottest topic in the art world. Artist and activist Cat Ruka with Borell on power sharing, cultural autonomy and relationships.
Milly Mitchell-Anyon synthesises the threads that weave together Whanganui’s community of makers and arts leaders, today and in the past.
A dream was the beginning of the exhibition 'Stars start falling', and a moment shared is where it ends.
The best art on show in the dealer galleries of Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland in July 2021.
Sinead Overbye weaves her whānau stories and poetry together in response to video work He Waiata Aroha.
In Among All These Tundras at Pātaka, the voices of Indigenous artists form a chorus that sings of their experiences of identity, language and home.
The crowd at the opening event of Āhua Collective’s 2021 exhibition was gloriously queer and BBIPOC. Ana McAllister reviews.