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Benjamin Akuila’s sculpture Pursezilla opens at Parramatta Lanes Festival

Museums Aotearoa publishes election pack on museum and gallery funding

City Gallery Wellington reopens with major Cornelia Parker survey

Extended Whānau’s Toi Tauranga Art Gallery identity wins gold at Best Design Awards

Graham Tipene’s Waka Moana wins gold at the Best Design Awards

Tjapaltjarri and Eather’s collaborative painting wins Sunshine Coast National Art Prize

Public Record opens new gallery on Great North Road

Ashburton Art Gallery and Museum becomes Rokowhiria Art & Heritage

Elyas Alavi wins inaugural Artbank Prize

Renée Estée wins 2026 MA Art Prize

Emily Hartley-Skudder opens inaugural Fair Trust Art Prize exhibition with CAMEO at Te Manawa

Nathan Beard wins final National Photographic Portrait Prize

Ryan Presley wins $100,000 Telstra Art Award

Karla Marchesi wins Rockhampton Museum of Art’s Gold Award

Richard Lewer wins Archibald Prize for portrait of Iluwanti Ken

George Watson wins inaugural Jann Medlicott Award for Contemporary Art

Exhibition opening diary

The Arts Foundation 2026 Laureate Awards

Kāryn Taylor’s Experimental Physics opens at Sanderson

Sam Loe’s Between Two Lungs opens at Sanderson

Group Admits Mistake opens at Artspace Aotearoa

We attend the opening Jack Valentine’s Fun Bad Time

Public Record opens new gallery on Great North Road

Land / Mark 26 opens at Tim Melville

Inside access to the Arts Gala 2026

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Current videos

Jimmy Ma’ia’i: All Star 1.0

Heidi Brickell: Wā Dividends

John Reynolds on decay, collaboration, and a world gone chemically berserk

Kalisolaite ‘Uhila on subcultures, cultural return and skateboarding as a site of freedom

Mickey Smith on chained libraries and living institutions

Matthew Galloway: Watch History

Gretchen Albrecht: Shadow of Land

Yvonne Todd: Diary of a Carrot

Hendrix Hennessy-Ropiha on unsettling relics from the past

Siobhan Wooding on Māori cosmologies, civic space and the politics of the cabbage tree

Sage Rossie-Tong explores movement, embodiment and temporary landscapes

Brett Graham on Doorway to Night and the architecture of memory

Studio Visit: Christian Dimick

Monica Rani Rudhar on heritage, fragility and the material language of memory

Georgia Boseley at Melbourne Art Fair 2026

Jacqueline Stojanović at Melbourne Art Fair 2026

Elsewhere

Did CNZ silence staff at the Venice Biennale?

In conversation with Shane Cotton

In conversation with Lisa Reihana

In conversation with Steph Arrowsmith and Emma Hercus

Reading

Weathering., an essay on Lisa Benson

Inside Ashleigh Taupaki’s Biennale de Lyon presentation

Julia Holderness recreates the afterlife of Emily Harris

Lucy Meyle and Ziggy Lever on filmic process and the hidden life of animals

Cosmic Attunements

The Ogee & Manaia

Their seeds are winged and borne in pairs

Exhibitions

on view

Heidi Brickell, Māturuturu Trick

6 JUN – 15 NOV 2026

Warwick Freeman, Hook Hand Heart Star

25 JUL – 15 NOV 2026

Jess Dare, I Will Meet You in the Garden

22 AUG 2026 – 7 FEB 2027

The Crackling of the Sun

23 AUG – 1 NOV 2026

Ruth Ige, The Evocation of Worlds

23 AUG – 15 NOV 2026

Kushana Bush, Pobblebonk

19 SEP – 28 MAR 2026

Graham Crow, All Squared

26 SEP 2026 – 14 MAR 2027

Miranda Bellamy & Amanda Fauteux, touchsprings

26 SEP – 12 DEC 2026

Frances Libeau, AS LOYAL KIWIS WE CANNOT DESIRE

26 SEP – 12 DEC 2026

Etanah Lalau-Talapa, Toe Feiloa’i Afea?

10 OCT 2026 – 18 ARP 2027

Group Admits Mistake

10 OCT – 19 DEC 2026

Jan van der Ploeg, New Wall Painting and New Works on Paper

15 OCT – 6 NOV 2026

Ruth Buchanan, Housekeeping

21 OCT – 21 NOV 2026

Lucia Sidonio, Cuevrefeu

21 OCT – 14 NOV 2026

Nadia Marychurch, Āe, Hine

28 OCT – 21 NOV 2026