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NewsHistory’s Most Famous Photo Hoaxes
Long before Photoshop became widely available photo hoaxes were much more noteworthy and had larger repercussions for contriving fake events.
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NewsIncredible Maps Depicting Human Activity
Modern digital technology allows us to produce and manipulate visual representations of geography in simply astounding ways.
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NewsVintage Postcards Using Google Maps
Resembling vintage photos from a bygone era, these time-aged Postcards from Above are actually aerial images taken from Google Maps.
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NewsAwesome Underwater Photographs
A Canadian artist shows that the world is at its most bizarre and beautiful when viewed through water.
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NewsTen Images That Stopped The World
In the wake of the 11th anniversary of 9/11 here are ten more images that have stopped the world and ten stories that have shaped the course of history
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NewsBird’s Eye View of TV Show Apartments
Artist Inaki Aliste Lizarralde has transformed her TV fixation into beautiful hand-drawn blueprints of some of television's most beloved apartments.
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GuideThe Best Things to Do Around Auckland in January
Take advantage of the quiet city and long summer days to enjoy events, exhibitions, theatre, markets and some great films.
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GuideSeven Immersive and Impressive Art Exhibitions to Visit Around New Zealand This Autumn
From immersive moving Van Gogh artworks to two-storey labyrinths of black wool, here's where you can get your art fix around the country.
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GuideSeven Exciting and Powerful Auckland Art Exhibitions to Step Into This Spring
From tumultuous and unsettling photography to immersive moving image projects, here's where you can get your art fix around the city.
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GuideTen Must-See Events at Auckland Arts Festival 2019
Auckland Arts Festival launches into its 11th year with multidimensional dance, critically acclaimed dream pop and a free sing-along waiata.
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GuideTen Shows, Installations and Parties to Get Amongst at Auckland Fringe Festival 2019
Auckland's favourite independent open-access arts festival is back for another year.
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GuideThe Ten Best Things to do This Labour Weekend
A much-adored folk songwriter, the largest screening of Russian films outside of the motherland, an annual geek-gathering, a Sunday session to rule them all, and the man responsible for 2013’s most ...
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NewsPsychedelic Photographs From Burning Man 2012
Radical, revolutionary and just downright ridiculous, this is the annual Burning Man festival in Nevada's Black Rock Desert.
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NewsAmazing Aerial Images of Earth
The contours, shapes and colours that the topography the Earth's surface forms are breathtaking marvels.
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NewsCamouflaged Bodyscape Photography
Jean-Paul Bourdier's breathtaking photos seamlessly integrate painted bodies into the background of wondrous natural topography.
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News14 Brilliant Business Card Designs
With designs that range from a balloon to a fortune cookie to a lego piece, here are some of our favourite creative business cards.
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NewsPositive Posters Use Design to Highlight Global issues
This creative initiative is a competition and exhibition asking designers worldwide what they think the most pressing global issues are.
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NewsA Short Film Made Using Musical Bicycle Parts
Brooklyn artist Stephen Meierding has pulled bicycles apart in order to make his short film 'Bicycle Sounds'.
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RestaurantThis That
57 Lorne St , Auckland City
A glimmer of hope for what the rest of Lorne Street could soon become.
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NewsGiant LEGO Structures Around the World
To celebrate LEGO's 50th Anniversary in Australia, take a look at the most spectacular giant LEGO structures from around the world.
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NewsBeautiful Bird’s-Eye View Room Portraits
German photographer Menno Aden transforms everyday rooms into fascinating works of art that make you want to sprout wings.
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NewsA Bluffer’s Guide to Art Parties
There are two widely-held assumptions about exhibition openings. Firstly, that you have to know a lot about art to go to them. Secondly, that you need an invitation.
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NewsInfamous Dictators Get Hipster Makeovers
Ronallman's illustrations prove that hipster wardrobes might be better suited to conservative nutjobs.
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NewsSneak Preview into The Paper Pirates
Those cheeky Shutter Pirates are at it again. Here is a sneak preview of ten submissions for the first ever Paper Pirates Exhibition.
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NewsReviving Dead Words with Beautiful Typography
A blog called The Dead Words is using thematically appropriate typography to breathe new life into, well, dead words.
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EventThe Fall Guy
Wednesday, April 24 - Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland
Ryan Gosling is at his most charming — including while batting around screwball banter with Emily Blunt — in this dynamic action/rom-com ode to stunt performers.
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EventChallengers
Thursday, April 18 - Wednesday, May 8, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland
For 'Call Me By Your Name' director Luca Guadagnino, Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist star in a smash of a tennis- and love triangle-fuelled drama.
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EventBack to Black
Thursday, May 2 - Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland
Amy Winehouse was anything but formulaic, but the same can't be said about this by-the-numbers biopic about the British singer.
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EventRobot Dreams
Thursday, April 25 - Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland
This Oscar-nominated animated gem explores love, loneliness, finding a connection and facing fate's chaos through the friendship of a dog and a robot.
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EventLovers and Castaways
Wednesday, March 6 - Sunday, June 9, 2024
The Pah Homestead, Auckland
This exhibition allows visitors to experience 1980s Aotearoa through the eyes of some of New Zealand's most treasured artists.
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EventThe Effect — Auckland Theatre Company
Tuesday, April 16 - Saturday, May 11, 2024
ASB Waterfront Theatre, Auckland
This ethically ambiguous, toxic love story is the work of Lucy Prebble, one of the brains behind HBO’s ‘Succession’.
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EventAotearoa High Tea in The Libraries at The Hotel Britomart
Saturday, March 16, 2024, Saturday, April 13, 2024 and Sunday, May 12, 2024
The Hotel Britomart, Auckland
Enjoy some of Aotearoa's best food in the elegant, heritage spaces of The Libraries.
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NewsSpiderbots At Semi-Permanent
Twitter; the one social platform that seems to cause a lot of confusion, particularly among those who've never had a go at it. If that's you and you'd like to cement that confusion, get a load of this.
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NewsTurn Your GPS Bicycle Routes Into Artworks
Michael J. Wallace has found a neat way of combining both of these talents, all while getting the daily dose of fresh air and outdoor exercise that we so dearly need.
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NewsThe 10 Best-Attended Art Exhibits of 2011
The Art Newspaper compiled the 10 best-attended art exhibits of 2011.
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NewsArtist Creates Immense Art with Fingerprints
Zhang Yu meditatively presses his right thumb into ink, creating infinitive patterns with the prints.
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NewsLightScythe Reveals Floating Images of Light
By capturing the movement of a LED-covered stick, the Mechatronics Guy reveals beautiful text and images.
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News5 DIY Ways to Transform Your Walls
Easy enough for the craft beginner, these wall art DIY projects could fool anyone into thinking you're an interior designer.
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NewsThe Nerdy Girl Gets the Jock and Other Love Stories from the Voices Project
The Voices Project is brings together young people from different backgrounds and disciplines, and makes writers and viewers think about how storytelling changes from medium to medium.
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NewsArtist Creates Large-Scale Sand Art
California artist Andreas Amador covers his local beaches in beautifully organic sand carvings.
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NewsThe Creators Project Blends Art and Tech in San Francisco
The Creators Project provides techie-minded artists with the means and exposure to commune and create.
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NewsBloom: 28,000 Flowers Fill A Disused Mental Institution
A disused mental institution in Massachusetts becomes public art as it's filled with 28,000 flowers.
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NewsTheatres To Usher In Live Tweeting
The last bastion of the phone-free two hours, the theatre, might be about to crumble.
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NewsVivid Ideas 2012 Program Announced
Vivid Ideas is the creative part of the extravaganza that is Vivid Sydney, and this year it's bigger than ever before.
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NewsBerndaut Smilde Conjures Clouds Indoors
In a seemingly magical act, Smilde produces and photographs his indoor clouds to explore the concept of transition and physical presence in his latest collection.
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NewsMakoto Tojiki Brings the Intangible World of Holograms into Reality
Utilising thousands of LED lights and optical fibres, the Japanese artist creates futuristic celestial-like sculptures.
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NewsNew York’s Iconic Water Tanks To Become Public Art
The Water Tank Project aims to raise awareness about water sustainability in a whimsical urban makeover.
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NewsVisualising Art For The Visually Impaired
Against most gallery conventions, there are no "Do Not Touch" signs to be seen, or felt for that matter, at this exhibition. Touching the artworks is most definitely required here.
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News365 Charming Everyday Things
I really love things like this. Interesting art installations that make you stop momentarily and take note of stuff you'd probably never give much thought to. And I don't use the word 'stuff' for any other reason than that is exactly what is on display.
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NewsEvery World Press Photo Winner From 1955 to 2011
They say a picture tells a thousand words, and this old statement is strikingly appropriate for what's displayed here.
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NewsWhat Music Looks Like as an Object
German artist Martin Klimas endeavours to answer the question: 'what does music look like?'
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NewsStuart Ringholt’s Naked Art Tours Come to Sydney
An art tour where all participants must turn up in the flesh, literally.
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NewsHow Happy is Your City?
A giant emoticon erected above this Bavarian city is set to measure the general mood of the people below.
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NewsFireworks by Day
A Chinese artist takes modern art to the sky with his daytime fireworks exhibition.
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NewsPlease, Steal Our Banksy
A Melbourne hotel issues an open invitation to steal their artwork straight off the walls.
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NewsConcrete Playground Talks to Artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer
Lozano-Hemmer is famous for art that lurks in public spaces, galleries and even beaches, amplifying passers-by into new creatures with a city-sized will.
