Art & Culture

Hollywood's Oscar-winning director James Cameron has arrived in New Zealand to start shooting scenes for his new movie 'Avatar'.

A catchy classic tune is back in the charts – and Kiwis up and down the country are singing along – after a boost from film-maker Taika Waititi’s latest film and his own video remake of the eighties hit.

A travelling exhibition that explores Māori moko or facial tattoo and takes it beyond face value is touring New Zealand promoting a better understanding of the traditional art form.

Māori artists will be under the spotlight this weekend at San Francisco’s de Young museum in a living exhibition of traditional and contemporary Māori art and culture.

While Alice in Wonderland fans are flocking to cinemas to relive Lewis Carroll’s literary classic, a New Zealand tourist attraction has put a new twist on the legendary tale.

A major photographic exhibition featuring more than 100 images of the All Blacks opens in New Zealand next week (14.05.2010) ahead of a nationwide tour.

Te Ana Ngāi Tahu Rock Art Centre – an important new cultural tourism attraction housing a significant Māori art collection – will open in Timaru, New Zealand next week.

New Zealand’s Art Deco capital of Napier, in Hawke’s Bay, celebrates its annual festival of origin in style in February with an event calendar that features boas and balls, picnics and parades.

The vintage cars are cranked and the feather boas dusted off as one of the world’s most unique Art Deco cities – Napier, in New Zealand’s Hawkes Bay region – prepares to celebrate its claim to fame.

Leading New Zealand sculptors will showcase their work in an iconic setting on the headlands of Waiheke Island in Auckland’s Hauraki Gulf this summer.