Art New Zealand

New Zealand’s most respected and widely-read visual arts magazine, Art New Zealand presents an independent quarterly round-up of the visual arts in New Zealand, by the country’s best art writers.

Art New Zealand

Alberto García-Álvarez (1928-2026)

Barry Cleavin (1939-2026)

Christine Hellyar (1947-2026)

Paul Hartigan (1953-2026)

Exhibitions

Star Gossage & Our Collective Imagination

Killing Me Softly • Grahame Sydney’s Close to Home in Queenstown

Layers of Kogachiworld • Claudia Kogachi’s Another Day

Carrying the Story Home • Marcus Hipa’s The Luku and the Lion

Materials & Technique • The Sculpture of Richard Mathieson

Method & Metaphor • E Awa Te Ara in Whakatāne

Birds first. Nature first. • Bird Land: Te Kāhui Manu at Christchurch Art Gallery

Organising Knowledge • Mickey Smith’s Morphologies

Stories, Spheres, Simplicity • Ralph Hotere’s Mural at Waikato’s New Regional Theatre

Connected by a Single Stem • Abigail Legg Photographs Her Aunties

From Westport to the Middle East • The Kitbag Surrealism of James Boswell

Books • Tis the Season

Contributors