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

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

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

Finding inspiration in the invisible.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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