He Toi Whakairo: The Art of Māori Carving is a major new long term exhibition opening at Te Papa on 29 August 2026. It ...

A section of Ayesha Green’s 2020 painting ‘Mum (May 1985)’. The story of Māori art has often been ignored, or historically been told by non-Māori. Illustration: Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous history of ...

Creative energy pushed boundaries at last night’s gala opening of Māori MARKet 2009 at Porirua’s Te Rauparaha Stadium. Georgina te Heuheu, Associate Minister of Māori Affairs and guest speaker, told ...

Wairau Māori Art Gallery trustees, and Māori artists themselves, Benjamin Pittman, Ngahuia Harrison and Nigel Borell say the gallery is the first curated, public art gallery dedicated to Māori art.

Tim Melville with a soon-to-be-auctioned artwork. Photo / Doug Sherring Artists are frequently asked to donate work to help other people's good causes — now 30 of New Zealand's leading artists have ...

An exhibition of artworks that bridge the divide between traditional Māori cultural skills and modern art practice opens at Waikato Museum on Saturday, November 28 and is a North Island exclusive.

Gottfried Lindauer's portraits present a collective history of colonial New Zealand, capturing individual identities in a time of great social change and upheaval. Gottfried Lindauer, “Pare Watene” ...

Identity is a much richer and more nuanced concept than we often admit. In many Western and Westernized countries, finding one’s identity is an independent journey of self-discovery through ...

© All content copyright NBR. Do not reproduce in any form without permission, even if you have a paid subscription. The Aotearoa Art Fair opens today in Auckland ...

The exhibition Toi Tū Toi Ora: Contemporary Māori Art at Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki should be momentous in many ways. With more than 300 works by 112 Māori artists, it will be the largest ...

The fraught, complex relationship between art and politics is forensically dissected in a series of essays written over 25 years by T. J. Clark, the professor emeritus of history of art at the ...