As the effects of the recession continue to be felt by New Zealand's cultural community, the spotlight is on what role philanthropic giving can have in supporting arts organisations.

The last of the Creative New Zealand and The Big Idea - Te Aria Nui’s online smART talk forums, from 12 - 30 April, is aimed at those who want to learn more about fundraising and philanthropy.

Contemporary abstract artist Lauren McGrath's latest exhibition 'Phantom Flights', at the new Pixel Ink Gallery, explores the displacement of the significance of objects in traditional landscape painting.

Funky Oriental Beats (FOB) started as a platform for Kiwi-Asian performing artists to reach out to the wider community and showcase their unique work. In 2010 FOB is running performing arts workshops, a mini forum for emerging artists and two concerts at the Aotea Centre. 

'Life Journey' at Solander explores how every human existence is made up of the light and the dark, the happy and the sad, the vital and the deadening.

In a first-off for Wellington’s CBD, artists and property developers are working hand in hand to fill empty commercial sites through a new project, Letting Space.

Films and filmmaking flourished in Iran in the 1990s, a time of reform and greater freedom in the Islamic Republic. Iranian Cinema is a series of four films from that era, screening at Auckland Film Society from 12 April.

Two large new art murals to be completed in Whangarei by the end of June will highlight concerns of growing family violence in the district.

Announcing the launch of the new ArtLounge at the Whangarei Library with a small but splendid display of Korean artifacts from the 5th century AD Three Kingdoms Period to the demise of the Chosun Dynasty a century ago in 1910.

Two Auckland bands picked up the major awards in the Port of Tauranga National Youth Jazz Band Competition.

The idea of interconnectedness within the global artistic community is currently being embraced and explored by UK practitioners Iain Robertson and Clare Wardman as the first artists in residence at Wharepuke in Kerikeri.