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 ...

Around 600 people greeted the Maori waka Te Ika a Maui when it arrived into San Francisco Maritime National Historical Park this morning* at the start of a major Maori arts and tourism promotion in ...

Toi whakairo artist Peter Akurangi is showcasing his carving at Ahua art exhibition for Te Wananga o Aotearoa fine arts students. Photo / Ben Fraser Hinemoa St has been the centre of attention this ...

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 ...

The New Zealanders were still jet-lagged from the 17-hour flight, but even after their first meetings at the Field Museum they lingered near Ruatepupuke. Ruatepupuke is the name of the meeting house ...

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 ...

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 ...