• News

    Yayoi Kusama Is Opening Her Own Dot-Filled Tokyo Museum

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

  • News

    Rhythm and Vines Announces First Artist Lineup for 2017

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

  • News

    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.

  • News

    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.

  • Guide

    Six Ways to Mark Midwinter Matariki

    Celebrate the Maori New Year with indigenous cuisine, spine-tingling kapa haka and stories around a fire.

Latest Guides
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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.

  • News

    The Five Best Things to See at LUX Light Festival 2017

    The kaleidoscopic festival is back and ready to glow.

  • News

    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.

  • News

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

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

  • News

    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.

  • News

    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."

  • News

    The Five Best Things to See at CubaDupa

    The best street festival this side of the Pacific.

  • News

    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.

  • News

    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.

  • News

    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".

  • News

    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.

Latest Events
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    IF

    Thursday, May 16 - Wednesday, June 5, 2024

    Various cinemas in Wellington, Wellington

    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.

  • Event

    Kingdom of the Planet of the Apes

    Thursday, May 9 - Wednesday, May 29, 2024

    Various cinemas in Wellington, Wellington

    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.

  • Event

    Boy Kills World

    Thursday, May 2 - Wednesday, May 22, 2024

    Various cinemas in Wellington, Wellington

    Bill Skarsgård makes a mesmerising action star in this cartoonishly OTT revenge flick that's produced by iconic 'Evil Dead' filmmaker Sam Raimi.

  • Event

    Back to Black

    Thursday, May 2 - Wednesday, May 22, 2024

    Various cinemas in Wellington, Wellington

    Amy Winehouse was anything but formulaic, but the same can't be said about this by-the-numbers biopic about the British singer.

  • Event

    Ahsin Ahsin: Turbo Croc 2.0

    Saturday, February 3 - Sunday, May 19, 2024

    City Gallery Wellington, Wellington

    Prepare to step into an alternative world at this mind-bending exhibition.

  • Guide

    Your Guide to Getting Ink'd in Wellington

    A collection of studios for your next piece of art.

  • News

    Cindy Sherman is Taking Over the City Gallery

    Contemporary photography confronting stereotypes and cultural clichés, with an eye to society's representation of women and the cult of celebrity.

  • Guide

    Your Socialiser Guide to the Weekend in Wellington

    Weekends are precious. Just over two and a quarter glorious days devoid of responsibility and overflowing with possibility.

  • News

    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.

  • Guide

    Your Guide to Wellington's Freshest Exhibitions in October

    October sees a flood of students dotting Wellington with new exhibitions.

  • News

    The First Artist Lineup Has Been Announced For Splore 2017

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

  • News

    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.

  • News

    This New App Is the Tinder of Art

    Swipe right on the perfect painting.

  • News

    This New App Lets You Hear the Stars Sing

    A Galaxy of Suns translates constellations into beautiful musical scores.

  • News

    This Incredible Public Installation Lets You Walk on Water Across an Italian Lake

    After 50 years of planning, Christo's The Floating Piers are open to the public.

  • News

    The BFG Is Leaving Giant Dream Jars at Landmarks Around London

    See the dreams of famous artists brought to life in front of your schnozzles.

  • News

    An Interactive 'Fake Food Park' Is Coming to Melbourne

    Martí Guixé, the brains behind edible stamps and 3D printed food, is coming to NGV International.

  • News

    This New York Artist Leaves Piles of His Books in the Busiest Spots Around the City

    Shaheryar Malik has passed on his unwanted paperbacks in probably the best way possible.

  • News

    See the Incredible Winning Pictures from the 2016 World Press Photo Contest

    See the heartbreaking year that was through the lenses of the world's best photojournalists.

  • News

    Van Gogh Has Listed His 'Bedroom' on Airbnb, and You Can Stay in It

    Spend a night in a replica of the post-impressionist's The Bedroom.

  • News

    Concrete Playground Meets Andrew J. Steel

    Changing the way we think about street art.

  • News

    You Can't Swim in Artist Leandro Erlich's Pool (But You Can Walk Along the Bottom)

    One of our favourite, most Instagrammable optical illusions to date.

  • News

    Buy an Original Banksy and Get This Free House Thrown in

    Three bedrooms, a patio and a mural by the world's most famous street artist.

  • News

    Ai Weiwei Sets Up Studio in Lesbos to Draw Attention to Refugee Crisis

    Plans include a memorial for refugees who lost their lives at sea.

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