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Oct 7, 20215 min read

What's the buzz?

Janet Hughes reviews "Conversātiō – in the company of bees", a bee-utiful new book by photographer Anne Noble.

Sep 9, 20214 min read

Public pots

Janet Hughes checks out Shane Cotton's five-storey-high mural.

Aug 10, 20212 min read

Bikes and blooms

Two new installations in Dunedin offer flowers in bronze tyres and a bike against a bench.

May 21, 20214 min read

All that cannot be seen

Finding inspiration in the invisible.

Apr 21, 20213 min read

There’s more on the back

Janet Hughes reviews "The Back of the Painting", a book that looks at what can be divined from looking behind.

Feb 1, 20213 min read

A show for everybody and nobody

Can history set boundaries? Can an individual artist remove them? Federico Magrin reviews "Containing Multitudes" at City Gallery.

Jan 20, 20213 min read

Rural remedy

Fairooz Samy reviews "Observations of a Rural Nurse" by photographer and nurse Sara McIntyre.

Jan 13, 20214 min read

Ramped up

In New York, Sophie McKinnon visits an exhibition that explores the fundamental tension between autonomy and dependency.

Nov 19, 20203 min read

A friend of a friend

Maeve Hughes reviews "Shining Land," the second book in the kōrero series.

Oct 27, 20203 min read

Old feelings

Ed Atkins mixes the comfortable with the grotesque, survival with entropy, and the literal with the "super-vicious artificial".

Oct 21, 20202 min read

A sense of mounting riches

Janet Hughes reads volume two of Peter Simpson's McCahon series. Does it live up to the praise the first volume received?

Jun 15, 20202 min read

To paint your way across

Maeve Hughes reviews 'High Wire', the first picture book in Massey University Press’ new ‘kōrero’ series.

Mar 6, 20205 min read

Close encounter

Maeve Hughes reviews 'Encounter 1', the first in a series of exhibitions exploring 'encounter' at Wellington's City Gallery.

Mar 3, 20205 min read

Multi McCahon

It's 100 years since the birth of Colin McCahon. In celebration Janet Hughes checks out two new books examining the artist's life and work.

Jan 16, 20203 min read

All the same

Avenal McKinnon considers Yoko Ono's new and recreated works in her Beijing exhibition 'Golden Ladders'.

Jan 12, 20202 min read

Photographer as alchemist

David Eggleton reviews ' A Beautiful Hesitation' which follows the career and photographs of Fiona Pardington.

Jan 8, 20202 min read

Sick art

Anna Jackson-Scott reviews 'Creamy Pyschology', a 260 page accompaniment to Yvonne Todd's photo portraits of constructed female characters.

Jan 6, 20203 min read

Hockney in China

Avenal McKinnon explores 'The Arrival of Spring', a new and innovative exhibition by David Hockney, who chooses an iPad as his medium.

Jan 1, 20203 min read

In the world of nincompoops

Frances Upritchard brings her humorous sculptural figures to a new exhibition in Los Angeles, writes June Fairhead.

Dec 25, 20193 min read

Leader of the pack

American artist, Bill Viola explores questions of existence, life and the forces around us in his recent exhibition 'Transformation'.