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‘Oh what a night’ crows the header for the latest Arts Foundation newsletter. Apparently it was not only ‘rich with art’, but also ‘full ...

One artist who’ll be expecting big things from the Trump Presidency is Ralph Wolfe Cowan, the über US celebrity painter.  Cowan’s work is...

When we first entered the world of animals making art it was via Ronnie van Hout. He not only had a healthy respect for animal artists bu...

The American artist Chuck Close once said, ‘Inspiration is for amateurs –the rest of us just show up and get to work’. For most artists t...

TV was finally broadcasting seven nights a week, Ray Columbus & The Invaders' Till we Kissed won the Loxene Golden Disc Award, N...

Unless it’s a statue of a sporting hero or retired politician, putting large sculptures into a public space has always been a high-risk. ...

OK, the ‘news’ is that Te Papa is developing a new space down on level 4. Given that this is Te Papa’s third run at defining space for it...

This morning we’ll be at Te Papa bright and early to hear how it proposes to achieve ‘A bold new direction’ for art. We’ve already posted...

Here at the OTN Educational Foundation we are always on the search for innovative ways to advance the science of art. Over the years the ...

When Picasso famously said, 'It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child’, he obviously didn’t ...

It was a shock to hear that Marti Friedlander has died aged 88. It was a shock not just because such an important contributor to our visu...

We were in Auckland – the place desired by a surprising number of people given where it is – last week. The city may be the worst in the ...

One thing the couple having  sex pressed up against the window of a cheap London hotel probably didn’t think of at the time was how m...