Auckland Art News

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Meet Auckland's New Artist-Run Café

Head east for an entirely handcrafted café experience.

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Ten Auckland Art Exhibitions Worth Checking Out This September

It's the perfect season for gallery hopping.

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Ai Weiwei Is Crowdfunding His Latest Security and Immigration-Focused New York Installation

The Chinese artist will set up artworks at more than 300 sites across NYC in his largest and most ambitious public exhibition to date.

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Yayoi Kusama Is Opening Her Own Dot-Filled Tokyo Museum

The permanent five-storey facility will showcase the artist's immersive installations and more.

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Rhythm and Vines Announces First Artist Lineup for 2017

It's shaping up to be another blinder in Gizzy.

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This Dream-Like New York Gallery Installation Changes Colour With the Weather

Turning the courtyard at MoMA PS1 into a environmentally responsive, colour-changing wonderland.

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The 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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Seven 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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Seven 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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Ten 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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Ten 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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The 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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Broad City's Abbi Jacobson to Host New Modern Art Podcast

A WNYC and MoMA collaboration, this ten-episode series will unpack Duchamp, Polloclk et al. with Questlove, Hannibal Buress and RuPaul.

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Artisan Brunch Is the Photo Series Turning Your Favourite Meal Into Famous Works of Art

Giving iconic artworks the food-focused makeover no one ever realised they needed — until now.

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Ten Exhibitions Worth Checking Out in June

It's the perfect season for gallery hopping.

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There's a Poetry Exhibition Happening in Antarctica and Your Work Could Be In It

This is not a drill, people.

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Mixing it Up is Auckland's New Wine and Painting Party

Stay hydrated between brush strokes.

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Sculptureum is Matakana's Extravagant New Gallery-Zoo-Vineyard Hybrid

There's even a live rabbit exhibition called Rabbiton.

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NYC's Metropolitan Museum of Art Has Installed a Surreal Rooftop Dinner Party

Characters and objects from the Met's collection have been digitally scanned, cast as sculptures and spread underneath the Manhattan skyline.

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Andrew J. Steel and BAYNK on Auckland's Creative Scene

Asking two innovative artists for their opinion on a city they know and love.

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Shia LaBeouf's Anti-Trump Project Has Been Shut Down Again

The fourth time wasn't the charm for the actor turned activist's artistic protest piece.

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The Guggenheim Has Just Unveiled Its Stunning Synthetic Desert Installation

Visitors step into a sea of sound-suppressing foam pyramids in an artwork designed to "heighten our understanding of perceptual experience."

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This Art Project Wants to Make Auckland the Safest City in the World For Bees

Exploring what's possible when an entire city is given a framework over a specific period of time.

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Concrete Playground Meets the Designers Behind Minimalist Label Wayward St

Debunking the rules of design with a by-product of New Zealand's dairy industry.

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IF

Thursday, May 16 - Wednesday, June 5, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Instead of aliens in 'A Quiet Place' and its sequel, John Krasinski ponders a world where imaginary friends are real in this warmly whimsical family-friendly fantasy.
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Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

Thursday, May 9 - Wednesday, May 29, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

More than half a century after the first film, Hollywood's paws are still on this sci-fi franchise — and this is a thoughtful and engaging new instalment.
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Boy Kills World

Thursday, May 2 - Wednesday, May 22, 2024
Various cinemas in Auckland, Auckland

Bill Skarsgård makes a mesmerising action star in this cartoonishly OTT revenge flick that's produced by iconic 'Evil Dead' filmmaker Sam Raimi.
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Back 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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Lovers 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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A Bumper Program Has Been Announced For The 2017 Auckland Writers Festival

This year's literary feast promises a master of satire, feminist icons, a 99-year-old theologian, and a Masterchef judge.

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The Ten Best Events to Check Out at the 2017 Auckland Arts Festival

From multi-sensory installations, an off-beat cabaret with flapping appendages, and a Shortland Street musical.

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Banksy Opens Walled Off Hotel in the West Bank

Set up in secret over the last 14 months and set to open on March 11, the Bethlehem guesthouse is expected to run for a year.

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Ten Brilliant Things to See and Do at the Auckland Fringe Festival

Look beyond your average night out at the movies.

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15 Brilliant Things to do This Auckland Anniversary Weekend

You're spoilt for choice this year, folks.

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Shia LaBeouf Has Launched a Four-Year-Long Anti-Trump Live Stream

It's designed to act "as a show of resistance or insistence, opposition or optimism".

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The Best Free Things to Do in Auckland This Week

Dancing in the park, openair cinema and a belated Christmas shindig.

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Nine Things You Probably Didn't Know About Drax Project

Insight into the story behind the band, their goals, sound and why we should head along to their upcoming gig.

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Concrete Playground Meets Diaz Grimm

Off the back of releasing his second album, 2077, we talk the importance of community, Trump, and living in the future with the eternally optimistic Cambridge rapper.

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The Nine Best Free Things You Can Do This Week in Auckland

A drawing club, a particularly lit outdoor theatre show, outdoor yoga and bingo are all yours to enjoy - for free.

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Basement Theatre Unveils a Jam-Packed Program For Auckland Fringe 2017

What's happening within and beyond the fourth wall at next year's artistic throw down.

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Get Your Dog a Canine Glamour Shot This Weekend

Karen Walker and photographer James K Lowe have appropriated glamour shots from their lame background in order to do some good.

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A Massive LEGO Christmas Tree is Coming to Auckland

The tree will stand over 10 metres tall and weigh 3.5 tonnes.

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Against the Grain: The Natural Progression of Artist and Muralist Cinzah Merkens

Follow the journey of Auckland's fearless creatives doing things on their own terms.

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Concrete Playground's Picks For Auckland Artweek

Nine straight days of gallery hopping, innovative live performances, pop-up stalls and much more.

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20 Things to do in Auckland This October for Under $20

Pull out the calendar and pencil in some seriously awesome ways to enjoy our beautiful Tāmaki Makaurau.

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The First Artist Lineup Has Been Announced For Splore 2017

If beachside dancing and mid-ocean listening weren't already enough.

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Meet the Artists Behind Immersive Light Sculpture Affinity

A bold and colourful installation shining a literal light on the effects of Alzheimer's.

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Auckland Live Reveals Its 2016 International Cabaret Season

The more fabulous sibling of boring old theatre comes alive.

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The Eight Best Places to See Art for Free in Auckland

Satisfy your creative itch on the daily commute or a weekend on the cheap.

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London's Latest Interactive Art Exhibition Is Designed Entirely for Dogs

With a dog bowl-shaped ball pit and a meat-scented car window simulator.

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The Six Best Dates In Auckland This September

Some bonding activity ideas for you and your other half this month.

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This Artist Residency Lets You Live and Work Inside a Whiskey Distillery

For THREE months.

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Thousands of Nude People Paint Themselves Blue for Spencer Tunick's Latest Installation

Over 3000 punters "blue" themselves in the name of art.

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