From kete and hiapo to MS Paint and neo-pop crocodiles, Tautai Gallery celebrates Pacific art in all its forms.

Novelist Chloe Lane talks to artist Nicola Farquhar about guts and hats, and her fondness for ruining things.

The Creatives in Schools programme just received a $4 million boost, but arts educators say the programme falls far short of creating lasting change.

A collective of four wāhine Māori artists, Mata Aho Collective work together to transform human-scale Māori weaving practices into atua-scale contemporary artworks.

Tulia Thompson talks to Paparoa painter Jack Trolove and considers her new body of work, Mangrove. 

Wrapping everyone in a blanket of love, whakapapa and mauri: the brave, exuberant and generous fabric art of Maungarongo Te Kawa

Artist John Ward Knox introduces his Karitane home and garden, and various projects – bees, pond, a portrait on silk of the prime minister from a live sitting.

An even more substantial investment in the creative arts will help drive our post-Covid recovery.

From a Ronnie Van Hout take on The Breakfast Club to James Oram carving a rendition of his own face out of soap, Christchurch Art Gallery’s show of new video art in response to Covid-19 isolation is worth championing.

New Te Papa CEO Courtney Johnston on her vision for the museum, the impact of the pandemic, the return of taonga and making good on the Treaty. 

There is art at the hospital, even in intensive care – but the price of seeing it is everything.