Te Papa has paid $2 million for the 1785 painting of Poedua, daughter of Oreo, chief of Ulaietea, one of the Society Isles, by John Webber.

“A woman, a man and a penguin” – the subtitle sounds surreal, but it’s not long before I started believing in Lynda Chanwai-Earle’s tale of heat on the Ross Ice Shelf.

Dunedin Airport will later this year stage a solo art exhibition by Otago artist Kerry Fenton-Johns. It highlights the growing variety of venues for artists - other than galleries.

Christchurch based performing arts collective Pacific Underground brings their newest play 'Rangi and Mau's Amazing Race' to The Edge in Auckland as part of the Pick & Mix programme on Saturday July 17.

KINA Gallery presents new work by Jacqueline Elley on show from July 15. Elley’s artwork explores water and light in varied ways through realist paintings and abstract light boxes.

Media Povera presents a series of artistic investigations into synaesthesic sound-image translation, transmission as a museological space, the afterlife of obsolete formats, and technology as a craft medium.

The recent official reopening of The Theatre Royal in Nelson follows 10 years of fundraising and two and a half years of rebuilding and restoring the heritage theatre to its full glory.

Waitakere’s Craft Out West extravaganza will feature more than 130 stalls of quality, hand-made expertise with all proceeds going to Hospice West Auckland.

headland Sculpture on the Gulf Waiheke Island 2011 is excited to announce a record forty sculptures have been selected for the fifth biennial exhibition.

Russell Museum is delighted to announce a permanent display of Pauline and James Yearbury incised wooden panels is now available for viewing.

Mia Hansen-Love's second feature film is about the reasons we tell lies; and the possibility that even though the lies we tell are cowardly, sometimes love is a cowardly thing.

Good Grief! Ten years later on the Peanuts gang are back… and they’re nuts!

Five NZ short films have been selected for the Melbourne International Film Festival, on from July 22 to August 8.

Chicago based multimedia artist Jacob C. Hammes has been invited to contribute to Te Tuhi’s Drawing Wall this month.

Encountering Mathew McConnell's installation Chapter Three: Sleights of Hand, it is hard not to feel that there's a whole lot of winking and nudging going down and not all of it is in the best of taste. Concepts explored by McConnell include displacement and transformation.

Imagine a varsity lecturer. Remove a few screws, add dishevelment, indignation, and possibly paranoia – and you have Michael Ruppert, the subject of Chris Smith’s new documentary, Collapse.

An old man pulls a rabbit out of a hat.  It is an image so commonplace as to be prosaic, too exhaustedly mundane to catch our attention.  But in Sylvain Chomet’s hand-drawn The Illusionist, it is its very familiarity that captivates.

Metadecorative represents the outcome of an intensive period of research and making from contemporary jeweller Mary Curtis.

Te Tuhi Centre for the Arts presents the first survey exhibition of Wairarapa-based sculptor and painter Brendon Wilkinson.

Manipulated by the Human Hand is an ongoing ecological study of our interaction with and transformation of the natural landscape of New Zealand.

New Zealand's biggest eco-fashion event - the Big Shwop – will be held for fifth time later this month, at Wellington’s St James Theatre.

All Blacks, Dan Carter and other rugby stars will feature in a rugby-themed art exhibition to open in Christchurch later this month.

The film’s title is a bold declaration of unrestrained passion, promising melodrama on an operatic scale - a promise that it sadly does not fulfill.