My happy place is kapa haka. I've grown up in kapa haka, so it's defined my life.

'I liberate photographic fragments from their original snap-and-capture setting and reposition them in the space of art," is Peter Madden's description of how he arrives at his fascinating collages at the Ivan Anthony Gallery.

Having never before met a polluter of the moral innocence of youth, I have no idea whether the author Ted Dawe is an unusually engaging example of one.

Elisabeth Easther has found some stellar ways to observe Matariki this year.

Funded by the European Union to the tune of $140 million, a deft bit of reinvention has turned France's drug and crime epicentre into the nation's Capital of Culture. Jenna Hand goes along for the ride.

Tauranga Art Gallery has come under fire for displaying two photos that feature coarsely worded messages scrawled in ballpoint beside images of a 1974 gay liberation dance.

The memories have come flooding back for three Korean War veterans before the opening of a special photo exhibition that features 150 images taken by Kiwi soldiers.

My happy place is out in the wilderness taking photos. I find it completely engrossing.

The layered, colourful and feminine works of artist Emma Wright represent the "unpredictability" of life.

Bill Culbert, New Zealand's artist for the 2013 Venice Biennale.

A spiritual home is slowly taking shape on a Northland coastal block in the hands of a Maori sculptor and his wife.

My happy place is my conservation studio at the Auckland Art Gallery.