Press Release – Ocula Black
Dick Frizzell’s iconic painting “Mickey to Tiki Tu Meke” has sold in a record sale at online art auction site Ocula Black. Read more »

Press Release – Regional Facilities Auckland
Regional Facilities Auckland (RFA), the body that oversees Auckland’s arts, culture, heritage, leisure, sports and entertainment venues, has appointed Rhana Devenport as the new Director of Auckland Art Gallery. Read more »

Press Release – Semi-Permanent

Photos by Olivia Laita
Auckland artists Askew One and Auckland Print Studio are collaborating to create a lithographic studio and print workshop at Aotea Centre. Read more »

Press Release – Auckland Triennial

Anri Sala
3-2-1 2011
Live performance featuring saxophone player responding to the film Long Sorrow (still)
Photo by Sylvain Deleu
Gus Fisher Gallery

Tomorrow (10 May) Auckland’s art scene bursts to life for the opening of the 5th Auckland Triennial, New Zealand’s largest contemporary visual art festival. Read more »

Press Release – Auckland Art Gallery
Auckland Art Gallery will get a slice of sunny California style when it hosts the exhibition California Design, 1930–1965: Living in a Modern Way opening from 6 July. Read more »

Press Release – Michael Lett
Michael Lett and Portikus Cordially Invite You to Join Us For the New Zealand Launch of the New Publication
Michael Stevenson: An Introduction

Saturday 11 May, 4-6pm
Michael Lett, 285/2 Great North Road, Auckland
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Press Release – Qiane Matata Sipu
Photojournalist Qiane Matata-Sipu opens her first solo exhibition, IHUMATAO, taku tangata-taku whenua, Friday 3 May at the Mangere Arts Centre – Nga Tohu o Uenuku. Read more »

Press Release – Corban Estate Arts Centre
Corban Estate Arts Centre’s latest exhibitions bring Antarctica to Auckland through sculptural installation, moving image and photography on display in two exhibitions that open on Thursday 16 May, 6pm; on show from 17 May until 16 June 2013. Read more »

Press Release – Student Art Guide

Visited by over thirty thousand people per month, the Student Art Guide website, launched one month ago by Auckland couple Amiria and Jason Robinson, is becoming a leading online destination for art students and teachers worldwide. The website features exceptional student art projects – including Top in New Zealand NCEA Painting projects and Top in the World CIE Art and Design projects. The site provides free resources, articles and a moderated forum to help high school art students excel. Read more »

Press Release – Pierre Peeters Gallery

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Paul Hartigan (b. 1953)

Contemporary artist Paul Hartigan is recognized for his arresting large-scale public neon commissions. His dramatic orange monochrome Colony at the Faculty of Engineering on Symonds St won Best Public Sculpture Metro Awards in 2006. He attended Elam School of fine Art 1971-73 with teachers Colin McCahon, Robert Ellis and Garth Tapper. Read more »

Press Release – Kirsty Nixon
Kirsty Nixon, one of New Zealand’s finest contemporary artists who portrays the finest iconic Kiwi scenes, has produced a new native bush series. Read more »

Press Release – Auckland Festival of Photography
The Auckland Festival of Photography celebrates its 10th birthday in style in June, with its 2013 festival programme featuring in more than 75 Auckland venues and boasting the most impressive line-up yet of New Zealand-based and international photographers. Read more »

Press Release – Wallace Arts Trust

Colin McCahon, Necessary Protection: Muriwai (blue and brown), 1971, watercolour pastel and acrylic (with light impasto) on untextured ragpaper, 1085 x 725mm. The Rutherford Trust Collection.

Exhibition Dates: 16 April – 23 June 2013
The Rutherford Trustees and the Trustees of the James Wallace Arts Trust are pleased to announce an exhibition of important artworks selected from The Rutherford Trust Collection. Read more »

Press Release – Artweek
ARTWEEK Auckland is delighted to announce the appointment of Justin Morgan as the 2013 programme facilitator. Read more »

Press Release – Auckland Council
Twenty-three talented New Zealand sculptors have been selected to take part in the fourth biennial Sculpture in the Gardens exhibition at the Auckland Botanic Gardens. Read more »

Press Release – Corban Estate Arts Centre
Wellington installation artist Gabby O’Connor reconstructs the science and history of Antarctica through art. The artist is seeking support for exhibition costs to install her newest work, some time at Corban Estate Arts Centre, Auckland in May. Read more »

Press Release – NZTA
A disused motorway off-ramp in central Auckland is getting a cultural makeover – and a temporary new lease of life as the concrete canvas for an art exhibition. Read more »

Press Release – Mairangi Arts Centre

Mairangi Arts Centre has just opened InsideOut, a beautiful display of paintings, drawings, carvings, quilting and prints produced by prisoners through the ‘Art in Prisons Programme’. Artists from Auckland Prison and the Northern Region Corrections Facility and, for the first time, from Auckland Region Women’s Corrections Facility have artwork featured in the exhibition. Read more »

Press Release – Depot Artspace
As part of the Auckland Arts Festival, the Depot Artspace, Museum of the Vernacular and various galleries around Devonport are participating in Read more »

Press Release – Upstairs Gallery
Diversity:Occasion – Opens Thursday 14th March
Be among the first to view our latest exhibition of our members’ art. Read more »