Meet the Māori people of New Zealand, who are preserving their culture through storytelling, voyaging, and language revival. And learn how you can respectfully engage with their living legacy today as ...

Filmmaker Peter Jackson's fascination with a large extinct New Zealand bird has led to an unusual partnership with a biotech ...

In 2024 an international team announced the discovery of cave paintings in Sulawesi from at least 51,200 years ago, predating ...

Winston Peters described Rawiri Waititi as the one with "scribbles on his face" in Parliament. Here's what an expert says.

But others welcomed it. Nelson's deputy mayor, Rohan O'Neill-Stevens, posted on social media 'in strong defense of artistic expression and the right for us all to be challenged and confronted by art.' ...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) — A New Zealand flag printed with the words “please walk on me” and laid on the floor of an art gallery has once again been packed away following public outcry, 30 years ...

The fraught, complex relationship between art and politics is forensically dissected in a series of essays written over 25 years by T. J. Clark, the professor emeritus of history of art at the ...

An oil painting of a Māori elder by New Zealand painter Charles Frederick Goldie was sold at an auction for a record £1.7m, becoming the most valuable work in New Zealand’s art history.

An oil painting of Maori elder Wharekauri Tahuna by Charles Frederick Goldie sold for a record-breaking $3.75 million, becoming the most valuable Maori portrait in New Zealand art history.

Thoughts of a Tohunga, a portrait of Wharekauri Tahuna, a Ngāti Manawa tohunga or priest, was painted by Goldie in 1938 and sold at the auction at the International Art Centre in Parnell for more than ...

Newsletter New Zealanders in Wellington protest over Maori rights on Nov. 19, 2024 (Image credit: Joe Allison/Getty Images) By Justin Klawans, The Week US published 26 November 2024 ...

Described as a landmark account of Māori art history in words and pictures, a groundbreaking book has just been released. Toi Te Mana: An Indigenous History of Māori Art is a 600-page, 500-image ...