The highly successful biennial Maori Art Market will be staged in Porirua City next year as a major showcase event for teams and tourists in Wellington for the Rugby World Cup. The event has grown ...

Adam Gifford reviews a survey of Maori art 20 years in the making. A meandering, ever-changing river is the analogy Rangihiroa Panoho uses for his overview of Maori art. The river in question turns ...

Te Kuru Dewes’ new series is not so much a look at Māori art as into tukanga toi, the way the art is made. Nowhere is that ...

Historic Maori carvings are set to return to New Zealand after a 130-year staycation at an English country house. England’s National Trust, which owns Clandon House, has agreed in principle with the ...

Henare (Henry) Brooking is a ta moko artist and teacher at the Eastern Institute of Technologies Toihoukura Maori Visual Arts School in Gisborne, New Zealand. The tattoo artist is one of the many ...

Structural analysis saw myths and art forms as means through which contradictions in social life could be resolved. This article deals with arf forms which address contradiction, but adopts a ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter 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 ...

Foreword / Honorable Mr. Manuera Benjamin Riwai Couch -- He Matakupa ki nga Iwi o te Ao / Archdeacon Kingi M. Ihaka -- Preface / A. Lindsay Fergusson -- Acknowledgments / Wilder Green -- Exhibition ...

Arekatera “Katz” Maihi can vividly recall the sickening stench of smoke and harrowing echo of family members’ cries as his tribal house in Auckland, New Zealand, went up in flames in the middle of the ...

When Hori Parata talks to a dead whale on a New Zealand beach, he welcomes it home. “It is returning to where it was born,” he says. The earliest whales walked on land—evolutionary biologists learned ...