South African Stephen Townley Bassett creates detailed replicas of rock art using traditional materials and methods, ...

Traditionally when we think mens' shoes, the image is somewhat dull. Plain black or brown for dress and work wear, standard sneakers or jandals for leisure. But, in recent years there's been a ...

When most people think of Blackpool, iconic images come to mind—fish and chips, the promenade, the illuminations, and hen ...

New Zealand's first Māori wahine professor Ngāhuia te Awekōtuku (Te Arawa, Ngāpuhi, Waikato) has won the General Non-Fiction Award for her memoir Hine Toa: A Story of Bravery at the 2025 Ockham New ...

It is here you can experience and enjoy performing arts, literature, museums and incredible art galleries. More than just Maori culture there is plenty of European heritage to see and experience in ...

The Maori people of New Zealand cherish their kiwi feather cloaks (pictured). An analysis of DNA extracted from the feathers offers clues to the garments' early history. David Lambert at Griffith ...

Te Whare Tiwekaweka was never intended to be a political record, but art has a habit of disobeying its creator. In high school, Williams was forced to choose between learning Te Reo Maori or music ...

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 by renowned New Zealand artist Charles Frederick Goldie set a new benchmark in the country's art history. The portrait, Thoughts of a Tohunga, depicting Maori elder and Ngati ...

He said it was one of the finest portraits Goldie painted and his importance in the history of Maori art could not be over stated. His artistic skill and talent, particularly with Maori elder ...

LACMA’s ‘Mapping the Infinite’ and ‘We Live in Painting’ use art to explain cultural history, rather than the other way around. So asked UC Berkeley art historian Svetlana Alpers in a ...

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 ...