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The Sydney Biennale is a significant international contemporary art event, important for New Zealand artists selected to represent us - they can open doors to other arts events as well as dealers.

The producers of the new Dame Anne Salmond hosted Maori TV series Artefact were offered unprecedented access to collections and taonga here and overseas.

Curator Ben James is working on the exhibition called Burning Up Years: Aotearoa Music History at the Wellington Museum.

Robbie Ellis made his name in New Zealand as a serious composer, including time as the University of Otago's Mozart Fellow - but his latest work shows he's just as adept at writing comedic tongue twisters matched with pretty much every musical genre you can think of.

Three decades of art ranging from pop and underground street culture to his more recent interest in typography are canvassed in Christchurch artist Tony de Lautour's first major retrospective.

By setting her new crime novel in 1960s New Zealand, writer Jen Shieff reminds us of the distant past where lesbians were forced to keep their sexuality secret.

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For more than 30 years senior Maori clay artist Wi Taepa has loved getting his hands dirty. His approach is determinedly low-tech. He builds his vessels by hand, fires them in sawdust, and uses oxides and other clay slips that have served him well during his long career.

Documenting the reality and impact of climate change around the globe in his bleakly beautiful images, is the all consuming project of expat photographer Michael Hall.

A temporary photo studio in the Broad Bay community hall is capturing the "little intimacies" between local pets and their owners.

Privately run art galleries outside the main centres have an important role to play - for the artists who show there, for the people who love art, and for their communities.