Installation artist Maureen Lander will be the next Auckland Regional Council (ARC) Artist in Residence, based in the Waitakere Ranges Regional Park.

The Magma Short Film Festival in Rotorua will cover issues as diverse as immigration, love and divorce, cellular phones, murder and even laundry.

The symphonic haka group will perform at the World Expo opening ceremony in Shanghai next month.

NZ On Air has released its annual Local Content Report measuring the amount of local programming on free to air television.

CoLab’s Becca Woods and James Charlton participated in Electrosmog, 19 – 21 March, a new global festival exploring the concept of “Sustainable Immobility” as a critique of the ecologically unsustainable constant mobility of people and products through travel and transport.

As a head writer and regular panelist of TV3 shows 7Days and @seven, Ben Hurley has become a part of peoples weekly comedy fix.

The latest edition of Best New Zealand Poems, released today by Victoria University’s International Institute of Modern Letters, comes with a skirl of pipes and a Scottish perspective. 

Rangituhia Hollis' video and 3D animated works seem familiar and yet unsettling. They apply and manipulate aspects of gaming culture and virtual reality in a disquieting juxtaposition with documentary style home videos.

InternetNZ will assist the public in voicing its concerns about the controversial international Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement through an open conference to be held next month in Wellington, New Zealand.

Internationally renowned fashion designer Zandra Rhodes said the fashion at iD Fashion Show in Dunedin was of such a standard that the world should sit up and take note.

Brought to you by The Society of Brilliant Ideas art collective - ‘Adopt an Artwork’ is an art exhibition and silent auction to raise funds for local charity The Lonely Miaow.

NZ Equity have expressed their shock and disappointment over the decision to allow a US performer to enter the country and take work away from a New Zealander.