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NewsNew Yorkers are Wading into the East River to Play a Broken Piano
It's time for our favourite guessing game: art, rubbish or marketing stunt?
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NewsThese Dreamy Gold Coast Landscapes Are Actually Finicky Dioramas
The Gold Coast, LA and Las Vegas reimagined.
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NewsYou’ll Be Able to Jump Into Tracey Emin’s Bed (For $2 Million)
One of modern art's most argued-about works is going under the hammer.
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NewsOver 80 Writers and Editors Slam Arts Cuts in Open Letter to the Abbott Government
Christos Tsiolkas, JM Coetzee, Anna Funder and 85 others protest against the 2014 Budget's cuts to arts funding.
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NewsThe Eight Best Films to See at the Architecture and Design Film Festival
The festival tackles all the grittier issues of design: screening informative, challenging and visually beautiful films.
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NewsMichelangelo’s David Is at Risk of Falling Over
A biblical hero and flawless Renaissance man brought down by his Achilles heel.
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NewsThese Artists are Painting an Entire Town in Mexico
'Painting the town red' gets a whole new meaning.
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NewsYour Guide to the 10th Semi-Permanent Design Conference
A creative platform spreading art and design inspiration.
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NewsWin Ten Nights on the Town in Wellington with Concrete Playground
Win this prize and you will be away laughing.
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NewsMarina Abramovic Is Going to Do “Nothing” for Her Next Artwork
"There is not any work. It's just me."
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NewsMelbourne Street Artist Rone Unveils Nine-Storey Mural in CBD
Stunning images of Melbourne's most epic street art.
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NewsMexican Artist Saner Makes His Mark on Auckland
Watch a time-lapse video of the street graffiti installation from Saner at a prominent Newton location.
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NewsArtist Transforms Everyday Wooden Objects into Art
Yes, his name is Maskull Lasserre. What a dude.
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NewsShia LaBeouf’s Performance Art Explained
Shia's artistic collaborators shed some light on the whole weird shabang.
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NewsThe Ten Best Films To See At This Year’s French Film Festival
Concrete Playground makes choosing your Gallic poison easy with a guide to the top ten flick picks of the festival.
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NewsIndigenous Art Takes Centre Stage at Auckland Art Gallery
The exhibitions offer viewers an alternative perspective on the world and a way to deepen understanding around the Aboriginal and Maori cultures.
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NewsPhotographer Recreates Death Row Inmates’ Last Meals in Bittersweet Photo Series
Some food for thought.
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NewsTurning Damaged Christchurch Homes into Art Projects
If you had all the material from one house at your disposal, what would you create?
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NewsSee the Stunning Winners in the 2014 World Press Photo Contest
The world's leading visual journalism contest showcases some serious talent.
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NewsThe Ten Must-Sees of Splore 2014
One part music festival, one part art installation and two parts incredible vibe.
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NewsWanted: The Best Deputy Editor in the Business
Are you an authority on pop culture, music, food, drink, events and city life?
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NewsTen Crazy Things People Have Done in the Name of Live Art
The highs, the lows, and all the wilfully mutilated body parts.
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NewsSend a Little Guerrilla Kindness to Christchurch
Melbourne Sayraphim Lothian's latest project involves Christchurch, kindness and a whole lot of little green birds
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NewsGet paid to live and create in a Regional Park
Express your inner weirdo through a new body of work.
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NewsA Bluffer’s Guide to Street Art with WERT159
A little bit of a how-to guide on the elusive public art form.
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NewsThe Dutch Masters Recreated as Astonishing Entomological Displays
Seventeeth-century portraits get a beautiful and complex 21st-century update.
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NewsConcrete Playground Meets Douglas Moores
With the exhibition now under way, we had the chance to catch up with Douglas and hear a little about the how and why of our Kiwi ingenuity.
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NewsSomething’s Just a Little Off in These Photographs by Patrice Letarnec
Fall head over heels in love with the French artist's quirky photography.
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NewsGiant Rubber Duck Explodes
Yet another chapter in the misadventures of Hofman's oversized plaything.
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NewsJapan’s Sky Sofas Make for a Cosy View
Love seats in the Japanese countryside wouldn’t be a bad place to spend an afternoon.
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NewsSimon Harsent Explores the Effect of the ‘White Cube’ In Playful Photos
Photographer Simon Harsent offers up sparse objects for evaluation.
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NewsThe Strangely Wonderful Worlds of JeeYoung Lee
The artist painstakingly transforms a little studio into the setting for her extraordinary photography.
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NewsArtist Presents 99 Lifelike Animals in Scenes You’re Unlikely to See in Nature
Cai Guo-Qiang's first solo exhibition in Australia is a cross between The Lion King and Noah's Ark.
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NewsMystical Mirror House Appears in the Mojave Desert
Is it a mirage, a vision, a portal to another world?
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NewsTwo Houses in One, Made Entirely of Silk
Silken replicas of the artist's Korean and American homes come with layers of meaning.
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NewsNY Graffiti Landmark 5Pointz Is Dead; Long Live 5Pointz
Long Island's iconic graffiti landmark has had an overnight ninja whitewash.
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NewsPhotographer Turns Most Ridonkulous American Laws into Pictures
Californians can't legally ride bikes in pools, a clever photographer shows.
