Multimedia artist and activist Yoko Ono presents new and recreated works in her exhibition Golden Ladders in Beijing. Avenal McKinnon considers the poetic an...

British artist David Hockney is proving as innovative and open to new technologies as ever. Former director of the New Zealand Portrait Gallery Avenal McKinn...

Francis Upritchard has long since earned her stripes as a leading New Zealand contemporary artist. Based in England almost since graduation from the Universi...

American artist, Bill Viola has led video art and installation for more than 40 years. His video The Messenger was shown here at the Dowse Art Museum in 2010...

Two Wanaka-based artists want to draw attention to environmental degradation in isolated landscapes. Avernal McKinnon looked at their work, on show in Beijin...

A year ago Emily Hartley-Skudder had just arrived in Xiamen, South China for a three month artist residency. She was dealing with language barriers, culture ...

A poem in 41 verses across 41 works sounds suspiciously like a curatorial contrivance to shoehorn an odd number of pieces into one place, but in the case of ...

An NYC choreographer uses an evolving dance residency to challenge our notions of stasis. Sophie McKinnon reports. Line Death Dance 2017-2019 New York City O...

In Carlos Sandoval de León’s exhibition at Cindy Rucker Gallery on the Lower East Side in New York, a conscious system of change is operating in situ. Sophie...

Yayoi Kusama’s work has wide audience appeal. An exhibition at Auckland Art Gallery last year and a 2009 exhibition at City Art Gallery in Wellington both at...

In a small room on the edge of Bortolami’s substantial Tribeca gallery space hang six works by New York artist Brook Hsu, which form an ecosystem unto themse...

Otobong Nkanga explores the contested social and political histories of colonialism through performance, drawing, photography, and installation. Sophie McKin...

Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats cover more than 30,000 acres. The unique natural feature is perfectly flat with a thick crust of salty soil. The area is so barr...

We revisit CONDO, an international gallery exchange. This year features a collaboration with New Zealand gallery Hopkinson Mossman. Isabella Howard explains....

Artist Emily Hartley-Skudder has just arrived in Xiamen, South China for a three month artist residency. We asked her how she’s settling in. When did you arr...

New Zealand artist Sam Trubridge finds an unexpected oasis at the Utah Museum of Fine Arts. Modern and Contemporary Art: A Fuller Picture Utah Museum of Fine...

Mexican artist, writer, cultural critic and educator Eduardo Abaroa is in Wellington as the latest Te Whare Hēra international artist in residence. One of hi...

What began as a way to open up her world has turned agoraphobic Jacqui Kenny into an artist who’s begun exhibiting internationally. She talks to Sarah Lang. ...

A group of men convene in the desert at an oblong table with a pink tablecloth. They sit side on or backs to us, in conversation but static. The shape is so ...

Sophie McKinnon reviews the first retrospective of Grant Wood's work, in 35 years, at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Grant Wood: American Goth...